When AI agents perform entire roles, companies do not simply replace labor with cheaper automation; they replace one cost behavior with another. Human work absorbs increased work through queues, delays, and service degradation. Agentic work absorbs it through AI consumption, orchestration, retrieval, and compute. This makes pricing, planning, and margin assumptions built for human labor unreliable. Learn how AI changes cost dynamics, pricing, profitability, and what CIOs should do now.