# Monetizing the Agentic Era: Turning AI Consumption into Capital with Kong Konnect

As enterprises move past the "experimentation" phase of AI, the challenge is no longer just managing spend—it’s capturing value. To truly raise the ceiling on AI ROI, organizations must transition from basic cost-tracking to sophisticated, revenue-driven monetization strategies. In this webinar, you’ll learn how Kong Konnect Metering & Billing provides a centralized metering and billing layer for AI and APIs—so teams can accurately track usage, control spend, and allocate costs with confidence to the correct business unit or customer.

By leveraging billing-grade metering, natively integrated across your Kong dataplanes, you can move beyond gross margin protection to active revenue optimization. We'll show you how to empower your product teams to adjust pricing in minutes not weeks and move from defensive "cost-governance" to offensive, outcome-aligned monetization.

What you’ll learn:

• - Click to enable metering against all Kong Konnect managed AI and API Gateways. 
• - Design a practical AI API features model to track usage and total cost aligned to the business value aligned metrics
• - Use a no-code product catalog to launch multi-service products with hybrid pricing
• - Create service tiers and bundle functional add-ons allowing to support upselling premium capabilities.
• - Leverage real-time billing data and invoice generation to automate chargebacks and prepare your AI infrastructure for external commercialization.

Walk away with practical strategies to implement no-code metering & billing, tapping into new revenue streams without sacrificing performance, and ensure AI investments deliver measurable ROI.