How to Track AI Usage Without Losing Revenue (Complete Guide)

Most AI products eventually run into the same problem: Tracking usage sounds simple. Until it isn't. At first, all you need is a counter. A request comes in. You decrement a credit. You process the request. Done. Or at least that's what most teams think. As usage grows, things start breaking: duplicate requests retries race conditions timeout failures inconsistent balances billing mismatches And suddenly a simple counter becomes a revenue problem. The Naive Implementati...