THE GRID Grid Intelligence Indices
GII-OR-SPEND-ALL / latest print 2026-09-02

Reference numbers for the intelligence economy.

GII turns public inference activity into a daily, citable market print: routed token volume, spend-weighted model exposure, and unit costs for the emerging market in machine cognition.

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GII-OR-SPEND-ALL ▲ 28.2% WoW

$19.4M

Daily notional spend

USD / UTC day
GII-OR-UNITCOST-ALL ▼ 31.6% WoW

$4.36

Basket unit cost

USD / 1M tokens
GII-OR-VOLUME-ALL ▲ 28.2% WoW

17.43T

Routed token volume

tokens / UTC day
Market print

Five months of public notional spend history.

Observed daily prints since launch, with a fixed-tariff backcast for context and a 90/10 to 50/50 blend band around the headline convention. Every point is recomputable from archived public inputs.

September 2, 2026 90/10 to 50/50 blend band shown around the headline convention
$0.0M $7.4M $15M $22M $30M Jan 27 Mar 3 Apr 15 May 20 Jun 23 Jul 28 Sep 1 Sep 2 fixed-tariff backcast (E1) observed prints (E0) blend convention band (90/10 – 50/50)

Backcast: Fixed-tariff public notional backcast: historical token volumes valued at the 2026-06-07 tariff snapshot. Not realized spend. Matched-token coverage rises toward the snapshot date (survivorship/coverage drift). Coverage rule: Days with >=50% matched token share only.

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