The Unit Economics of AI Agents - From Token to Margin
The Unit Economics of AI in Production
From token to margin
When: Tuesday 6th October 2026, 9:00 PM-10:00 PM IST
About the talk:
The Unit Economics of AI in Production explores what it really costs to run AI at scale, moving beyond token pricing to cost per correct output.
Samir Shah shares real production lessons on model changes, observability, evaluation, reliability, and the economics of API versus self-hosted models.
The talk connects AI inference costs to COGS, gross margins, pricing, and business decisions, giving leaders a practical framework for managing AI economics.
About the speaker:
Samir Shah is a technology and AI leader with 25+ years of experience building scalable technology and AI platforms across retail and SaaS. He is currently the CTO of SolidHealth.AI and previously led AI/ML engineering and AI foundations at Target, where his teams-built personalization and forecasting platforms at enterprise scale. At Target, he led the development of a personalization platform generating $3B+ in revenue and built a global AI engineering organization of 75+ ML engineers.