Beware Agentic AI Contract Risks: Case Studies in Caution Storyboard

Author(s): John Donovan

Use this research to understand how agentic AI pricing creates contract, cost, and governance exposure.

  • Decode the agentic pricing model and nonlinear cost drivers, including tasks, tool calls, retries, recursion, and model-tier escalation.
  • Learn from cautionary case studies on hidden AI consumption risk, recursive cost explosion, credit coverage gaps, pricing shock, and multi-vendor billing responsibility gaps.
  • Apply a four-phase framework, pre-signing contract checklist, sample contract language, governance RACI, and dispute playbook to build pre-signing leverage and post-signing control.