Unseen LLM spend & secret risk — runtime meter for AI stacks

Unseen LLM spend & secret risk — runtime meter for AI stacks targets a $12.0B = 2.0M software/AI-using orgs x $6.0K ACV (security/governance + observability spend) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 35%+ (LLM usage and enterprise governance tooling).

Key trends driving demand: AI-usage explosion -- rising LLM call volumes make token spend a material operational cost.; Shift to governance -- enterprises demand audit trails, access controls, and model-level accountability.; Provider telemetry maturity -- LLM vendors expose richer logs and hooks enabling finer attribution and runtime controls.; Composability & infra-as-code -- teams prefer non-invasive, runtime integrations over SDK rewrites, enabling zero-config solutions..