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From Messaging to AI Tokens: Designing Pricing that can Withstand Growth

In this episode, Natalie Louie joins Tim Neil to explore how decades of SMS and voice pricing challenges are resurfacing in today’s AI token economy. From volatile infrastructure costs and foreign exchange swings to unlimited plans that implode under real usage, Natalie shares hard-won lessons from mobile messaging that directly apply to AI companies today. They discuss why cost-plus pricing fails in high-variability environments, how unlimited and flat-rate models collapse under success, the importance of separating hard infrastructure costs from margin, and why transparency and product-level guardrails matter more than ever. If you are building or buying AI products, this conversation will challenge how you think about usage, risk, and pricing that can actually withstand growth.