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In our latest blog post, we look at a problem many AI service companies run into at the end of the month – customer billing and vendor costs that don’t really connect.

One set of invoices shows what customers were charged. Another shows what the company owes for LLM tokens, speech APIs, and carrier minutes. Both are technically accurate, but usually live in completely separate systems.

So even with clear visibility into total revenue and total vendor spend, it’s still difficult to answer one basic question: did a specific customer actually generate a profit last month?

That disconnect is where money starts slipping away. Unbilled usage, pricing mistakes, and missed contract updates can quietly eat into margins simply because usage and cost data are disconnected.

Telecom companies dealt with this same multi-vendor billing problem years ago. AI service companies are now running into the exact same challenge.

Read the full breakdown to see why AI profitability depends on connecting customer usage with vendor costs before the month closes: https://blog.portaone.com/ai-cost-billing-infrastructure-margin-visibility/

Your AI Cost Problem: AI Margins Live Between Two Invoices At the end of each month, AI service companies face a glaring structural gap between customer invoices and vendor bills that rarely meet at the account level. While finance can see total revenue and overall costs, they often remain blind to per-customer profitability. Modern AI billing infrastructur...

Gain more control over service configuration and automation with the latest PortaSwitch MR126–MR129 updates. This release introduces multiple bundle usage notifications, custom service features with external provisioning, extended SIP over TLS support for secure communication across PBXs, vendors, and call flows, simplified forwarding management, extension self-care portal, and emergency calling integration via Bandwidth with address validation and compliant routing.

You’ll also see major improvements across the platform UI, including redesigned Phones/CPEs, Custom Data and Services, Service Policy, Audit Log, SIM Cards, DID/MSISDN Inventory, and Log Viewer pages.

Watch the full webinar recording to explore how these updates improve operational efficiency, flexibility, and service control: https://youtu.be/u2sZ9yFq99o

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