Jim Larrison

AI spend is exploding inside every company, but almost no one can see where the money’s going or whether it’s working. Employees get handed ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude Code, and dozens of other tools, and what typically happens is a small slice of the workforce becomes wildly effective with them while the vast majority never gets past surface-level use. Meanwhile, engineering teams are burning through tokens at a rate that can exceed salary costs, and there’s no way for a CFO or CTO to know if that spend is justified, wasteful, or should be reallocated. Our bet at Larridin is drawn from our experience building comScore, is that whenever a large wave of spending moves into a new category, a third-party measurement and audit layer inevitably gets built around it — and no one has built that layer for AI yet.…