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AI Total Cost of Ownership Governance Standard

This standard governs the full-lifecycle cost of an AI capability as governance evidence. A business case, or a continue-or-retire decision, judged on metered runtime spend alone systematically understates cost, because the costs that make an AI capability's lifecycle total diverge from its provider invoice are the non-metered ones: people, integration, oversight, governance overhead, model succession, and decommission. Recording, owning, and re-forecasting the total lets the cost side of an AI decision be weighed on lifecycle terms.

Type
Standard
Version
0.0.7
Date
2026-10-27
Owner
AI Governance Approver
Approving authority
Governance Library Maintainer
Classification
Public
Confidentiality
Public
Category
AI Governance
Review frequency
Annual and upon material AI portfolio, provider-pricing, or sourcing-model change
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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Outline

  • 1. Purpose
  • 2. Scope
  • 3. Principles
  • 4. TCO cost taxonomy
  • 5. The TCO record
  • 6. Non-metered and internal cost requirements
  • 7. Lifecycle-stage TCO controls
  • 8. TCO in governance decisions
  • 9. Reporting
  • 10. Framework alignment
  • 11. Limitations

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