“Tokenmaxxing” was the buzzword of the year . . . until it wasn’t. The term described employees racing to maximize their AI tool usage, sometimes using AI to do meaningless tasks, just to look productive. But then Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI budget by April. Amazon staff were reportedly spinning up AI agents to inflate their usage stats. One organization racked up half a billion dollars in a single month. As it turned out, ungoverned AI adoption wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
The real story was never about runaway spending at tech giants. The real story is that organizations of every size are adopting AI tools with no guardrails, or even awareness, about who uses them, on what data, or at what cost. Risks can compound quietly until a regulator, an auditor, or a breach forces them into the open.
In our latest article for CIO TechWorld, our CEO Chris Moschovitis explores what ungoverned AI adoption means for small and mid-sized businesses and introduces TMG’s practical governance framework and free toolkit for getting ahead of the problem.
👉 Read the full article: The Risk You Don’t See: Ungoverned AI Adoption in Organizations