kaal:position:2026-07-31-7189

The Economics of Agentic AI: Runtime Governance as a Distinct Determinant of Enterprise AI Cost presents the following source proposition: Per-token inference prices are falling, while agentic workflows increase the number of model interactions, tool calls, and downstream actions required to complete a task. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Under a deflationary token issuance model, which caps the number of tokens ever issued, prices are expected to increase because of the fundamental scarcity of token supply. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.

• The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
• External evidence level: abstract indexed.
• Mapping review tier: moderate-confidence claim review.
• Primary mapping confidence: 0.3541.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

The Economics of Agentic AI: Runtime Governance as a Distinct Determinant of Enterprise AI Cost

kaal:claim:4033886-037
Wulf A. Kaal, Samuel Evans, Hayley Howe, Digital Asset Valuation (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4033886
Source PDF sha256: 52ba05b1292b1be4bfaf1ee5cf56b14fea9c196d870603e794d7ee316df129bd

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3541
Mapping ambiguous: true

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Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0008 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

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