Control comes before visibility
A dashboard tells you that a workload was expensive, slow, or carbon heavy. An operator needs to decide before that workload starts.
The commercial value is not the chart. It is the ability to bind the workload to a decision before the runtime spends money or emits impact.
Evidence closes the deal
Procurement and platform teams want a clear answer to one question: what proof exists for each decision?
That proof has to stay connected to the decision frame. Otherwise the system becomes a narrative layer instead of a control layer.