As artificial intelligence drives a new wave of token-based spend across cloud and on-premises environments, enterprises are discovering that understanding what they actually owe — and to whom — is harder than ever. The FinOps FOCUS specification is emerging as the open standard that provides practitioners with a shared data language to cut through multi-provider billing chaos.Fragmented cost and usage data across cloud providers have been the quiet tax on FinOps teams for years, forcing practitioners to build bespoke normalization pipelines before any analysis can begin. That pain is familiar ground for Karl Kraft (pictured), senior manager of software engineering at Walmart Inc