The One Employee Who Believed the Slide

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404 Media reports that Accenture, the consultancy that has urged clients to invest heavily in AI, will now spend only $29 a month per person on Claude for many employees. One employee said their usage costs over $500, and had for months. Another said their access was revoked altogether.

Somewhere in that company is a person who read the strategy and believed it. They used the assistant as much as the strategy told them to, and the bill passed $500. The people who took the advice are the ones the limit is written for. Advice, it turns out, is a product a firm sells rather than a habit it keeps.

The internal announcement says all costs are "consumption-based". That is a sales phrase. It is supposed to mean you pay for what you use and you use what you need. Here it means $29.

A spokesperson says "we make AI available to all our people". Available, certainly. The part about using a lot of it was for the clients.