The Agentic Era Intelligence Platform BNP Paribas AI@CIB · Confidential
AI@CIB · Live Simulator
The Token Factory Intelligence OS
How BNP Paribas industrializes intelligence — sovereign governance, elastic supply, falling unit costs.
⬡ The Agentic Era is here — tokens are the new workforce cost
Live Token Pipeline
Consumption Layer
Humans · Agents · Systems
All intelligence consumers unified
👤 Humans
⬡ Agents
⚙ Systems
refined tokens ↑
AI Control Tower · GDC On-Premise
Observability Layer
Govern · Optimize · Scale
Google GDCGemini PlatformBNP Guardrails
Token Routing — Live
CAPEX 70%OPEX 30%
cost/token ↓ over time
raw compute ↑
CAPEX
Sovereign GPU
Mistral · Gemma · GPT-OSS · Qwen
↑ scales with demand
OPEX
GCP Cloud
Gemini · Claude
OPEX
3rd Party
Harvey · Copilot · Rogo…
Key Principle
On OPEX, we rent intelligence — and the landlord can raise the rent overnight.
The Token Factory ensures we own the foundation, govern every token, and shift load intelligently when prices spike.
FinOps Simulator
Configure Your Token Factory
📊 Monthly Token Volume500M
Total tokens consumed across all use cases
🖥 CAPEX GPU Fleet50 GPUs
Each GPU handles ~50M tokens/month · $150/GPU/mo amortized
☁️ OPEX Price per 1M tokens$8.00
Current market: Gemini $7, Claude $15, GPT $10
Monthly Cost
$—
—
Yearly Run Rate
$—
annualized
CAPEX Capacity
—
—% utilized
OPEX Overflow
—
—% of load
Token Routing Split
CAPEX = owned · OPEX = rented
CAPEX Owned
70%
OPEX Rented
30%
CAPEX Cost Advantage Over Time
As GPU utilization grows, amortized cost/token falls. OPEX stays flat until providers raise prices.
OPEX Resilience Simulator
⚠ The Rented Intelligence Risk
On OPEX, we "rent intelligence" from hyperscalers. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google set the price — and they can raise it overnight. In 2024, GPT-4 pricing changed 4× in 12 months. The Token Factory is your shock absorber.
🚨 OPEX Price Shock Simulator
Simulate what happens when your cloud AI provider doubles prices overnight. Watch the routing engine shift load to sovereign CAPEX infrastructure.
Current OPEX price: $8/1M tokens
After shock: $16/1M tokens
🔴 PRICE SHOCK DETECTED
Additional monthly cost if no action:
+$0
The Control Tower auto-reroutes overflow tokens to sovereign CAPEX fleet. Monthly savings vs. absorbing the shock:
Auto-routing saves:
$0/month
CAPEX 70%OPEX 30%
Multi-Provider Failover
The Control Tower can instantly shift between providers. Never held hostage by a single vendor.
Anthropic Claude$15/1M → SHOCKED ↑
⬡ Sovereign GPU$0.40/1M → PREFERRED ✓
Google Gemini$7/1M → fallback
OpenAI GPT$10/1M → paused
Energy & Carbon Dashboard
🌱 Sovereign = More Sustainable
On-premise GDC runs on renewable-energy commitments. Google Cloud is 99% carbon-free. Your token factory is also an ESG story.
Monthly Energy Breakdown
Total Token Volume500M
CAPEX Energy (on-prem)—
OPEX Energy (cloud)—
Total kWh / month—
Energy cost / month—
CO₂ equivalent—
Equivalent to—
Yearly Carbon Footprint
Annual kWh consumed—
Annual CO₂ (tons)—
Sovereign vs. Legacy AI↓ 60% CO₂
Energy per Token Tier
CAPEX Tier-2 (on-prem H100)0.5 Wh/1K tokens
OPEX Tier-1 (Google Cloud)0.3 Wh/1K tokens
Legacy on-prem (diesel)2.1 Wh/1K tokens
Provider Leverage Engine
The Abstraction Advantage
The Control Tower creates a single abstraction layer above all model providers. BNP can play them against each other — choosing on quality, cost, latency, and compliance at the task level.
Auto-Routing Decision Engine
IF complexity < 0.3 → Sovereign Tier-2 (Mistral/Gemma)
IF 0.3 ≤ complexity < 0.7 → Gemini Flash / Claude Haiku
IF complexity ≥ 0.7 → Claude Opus / Gemini Ultra
IF opex_price_spike > 50% → shift to CAPEX tier
IF provider_outage → failover to secondary in 200ms
Live Provider Cost Comparison
Control Tower scores each provider. CAPEX sovereign wins on economics. OPEX wins on complexity.
⬡ Sovereign
$0.40
PREFERRED
Gemini
$7.00
FALLBACK
GPT-5
$10.00
BUFFER
Claude
$15.00
COMPLEX
Leverage Calculus
Every provider knows BNP has a sovereign alternative. That alone creates pricing discipline. When OPEX providers raise prices, BNP routes more to CAPEX — punishing the raise with lost revenue. This is strategic leverage at scale.
BNP's negotiating position:
"We'll shift 60% of tokens to sovereign in 30 days if you raise above $12/1M. Our CAPEX floor is $0.40."
Strategic Narrative
1
Tokens are the new workforce cost
In the Agentic Era, the P&L gains a new line: Token Workforce. Alongside headcount and CAPEX, CFOs will report token run rates. BNP is building the infrastructure to make this manageable, predictable, and sovereign.
2
Sovereignty without stagnation
Google GDC on-premise means data, models, and compliance stay inside BNP walls — satisfying regulators and the Board — while still accessing frontier intelligence via OPEX when needed. No lock-in. No sacrifice.
3
A CAPEX/OPEX dial, not a cliff
The sovereign GPU base starts lean and scales with proven demand. The hyperscaler absorbs peaks. BNP never overbuilds and never gets caught short. Unit economics improve automatically as the factory scales.
4
Resilience against rent hikes
OPEX providers can — and do — raise prices overnight. The Token Factory is the shock absorber: when rents rise, the routing engine shifts load to owned infrastructure within minutes. BNP cannot be held hostage.
5
The agentic workforce multiplier
This isn't just about API calls — it's about managing 10,000 AI agents running 24/7. The Token Factory is the operating system for that workforce: cost visibility, compliance guardrails, quality routing, and scale governance in one platform.
CEO NARRATIVE
"We've industrialized intelligence. We own the foundation, we govern every token, we pay-as-we-grow on the edges — and we get cheaper as we scale. All without leaving sovereign ground."