I audited an award-winning AI project. The case study left out the cloud bill

An enterprise replaced an eighty-cent manual contract review with an automated pipeline that cost twelve to fourteen dollars per document. Forty percent of transactions failed confidence checks, requiring human staff to spend extra time fixing errors. Finance and technology professionals must audit full cloud consumption and exception labor to verify actual operating margins.

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