# How to Track Digital Labor in Your SaaS P&L

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Podcast: [SaaS Metrics School](https://stenobird.com/podcast/saas-metrics-school-6467825)
Published: 2026-04-09T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.thesaasacademy.com/podcasts/saas-metrics-school/episodes/2149189211
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## Resource

In episode #364, Ben Murray breaks down how SaaS finance teams should structure their chart of accounts to properly track inference costs, productivity AI, and agentic AI spend. As organizations shift from W-2 headcount to token costs and agentic software, your current expense coding may be out-of-date. If you can't see where the AI spend is going, you can't tie it to ROI — and you definitely can't make the case for going fully agentic. Why COGS is the right home for product inference costs (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini) — and why lumping them in with hosting is a mistake The three distinct AI spend buckets every SaaS CFO needs to track: direct COGS delivery costs, general productivity tools, and explicit labor substitution (agentic AI) Why agentic AI spend deserves its own GL account — and how that ties directly into your ROSE metric Where the tracking gets fuzzy: productivity tools vs. true labor displacement, and how to think about cause-and-effect as a CFO How AI spend reshapes the ROSE metric as orgs push toward $5M–$10M ARR per FTE targets Tune in to get the chart of accounts framework SaaS CFOs need before AI spend becomes too big to ignore — and too messy to measure. Resources Mentioned ROSE Metric:  https://www.thesaascfo.com/saas-rose-metric/

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