The Planning Tax: Why Your AI Agent Feature Might Be Your Worst Investment

Your best feature may be destroying your margins, and your engineering team has no idea. This article isn’t about AI as a productivity tool. It’s about AI as a cost structure, embedded in your product, triggered by your users, and scaling with your revenue. The AI agents embedded in your product are generating a cost structure your pricing model probably didn’t account for. Not a server bill. Not a licensing fee. A variable, compounding AI infrastructure cost that grows with engagement, spikes w