Why it matters
Only 9% of Australian organisations cap agent token or API use at all, per Elastic’s ANZ manager Jeremy Pell. A PureProfile poll of 500 senior staff found 80% worry heavy AI usage is simply being read as productivity.
Tokenmaxxing read
A wallet is a budget with a kill switch, not a leaderboard. Gartner’s Arun Chandrasekaran notes falling per-token prices are swamped by agents that spawn sub-agents and write their own prompts, so the durable control is a ceiling on the person, not the model.
Source takeaway
Primary reporting built on an internal memo plus named analysts. The $500 to $2,000 band covers R&D staff only, so read it as one company’s policy rather than an industry benchmark; Atlassian never ran a tokenmaxxing programme to begin with.
