CloudZero Research · The AI Spend Exposure Benchmark
Five questions about how you govern AI spend. See exactly where companies like yours land.
These are questions from our June 2026 survey of 260 senior finance leaders. Answer them for your own organization and we’ll show you your cohort, including the peers who avoid the damage, and the one variable that separates them. No score theater, no black box: every number comes with its sample size.
Answer the five core questions to see your benchmark. The optional inputs add your trajectory, dollar exposure, and peer context.
Overrun curve — by AI share · optional
Your counterfactual twin
These are correlations from a single cross-sectional survey, not predictions about your company. Cohorts under n=30 are never shown and every stat displays its base. Full methodology, questionnaire, and topline data are in the report — we’d rather you check our math than take our word for it.
Methodology: “Finding the ROI of AI: The Finance Perspective,” fielded June 2–10, 2026 to a third-party panel of senior finance leaders (52% CFOs; 67% at companies with $250M+ ARR). n = 260 completed responses. Benchmark cohorts are single-dimension cuts of the full sample; all reported cohorts have n ≥ 30. © 2026 CloudZero · Cost intelligence for cloud and AI