Engineering budgets do not blow up at quarter end. They drift quietly for ten weeks while nobody is reading the right numbers. A weekly agent over headcount, contractors, cloud, and tooling catches drift in seven days, not ninety.
AI tools landed as net-new line items. Nobody owns the kill decision. Run the overlap matrix, the 30-day silent run test, the contract clause review, and the procurement reclaim — and bring the CFO a real number.