See You in Philadelphia: Why NASCIO Midyear Is the Right Time for This Conversation 

Two Problems That Cannot Wait

The first is the billing burden facing state Cloud Centers of Excellence. States have built impressive shared services infrastructure. Cloud consolidation is working. Agencies are onboarding. But the financial back office behind it, the process that turns variable cloud usage into accurate agency chargebacks, is still largely manual in most states. Spreadsheets. Custom scripts. Staff spending days every month on reconciliation work that should take minutes. And as cloud usage grows, the manual process gets harder, not easier.

The second is the AI funding gap. Enterprise AI is the number one state IT priority for 2026, but the cost recovery model for AI token usage does not exist yet in most states. Central IT is absorbing token costs during the adoption phase without tracking usage by agency. When the chargeback eventually comes, it will land on agencies that have never seen their consumption data and have no baseline to understand what they are being asked to pay. The risk of Shadow AI buying, budget drain, and agency pushback is real and growing every month.

Both problems have the same solution: an automated financial sub-ledger that connects operational platforms to the state ERP, tracks cloud and AI costs by agency in real time, delivers transparent billing that agencies can trust, and scales with the infrastructure roadmap that is already in motion.

What SOFTRAX and BluLogix Bring to Philadelphia

We are not coming to NASCIO Midyear with a product pitch. We are coming with a track record.

One state Office of the CIO came to BluLogix with aging invoice software, unreliable in-house tools, and a fully manual billing process that could not scale. After implementing the BluIQ Public Sector Bill-back and Chargeback solution, they recovered thousands of man-hours annually, eliminated invoice errors, accelerated agency billing cycles, and dramatically improved their ability to validate and pay vendors on time.

That outcome is repeatable. And with AI token costs now entering the picture, the states that build the automated billing infrastructure now will be the ones that handle the transition to chargeback smoothly, without surprises, and without the political friction that comes from billing agencies for costs they never saw coming.

Let Us Find 20 Minutes in Philadelphia

David Mink will be at NASCIO Midyear from April 26-29. If you are a confirmed attendee and your state is navigating either of these challenges, or if you are simply asking the right questions about whether your billing infrastructure is ready for where your cloud and AI roadmap is heading, Let’s connect.

No generic demo. A real conversation about your state, your situation, and what automated billing infrastructure would change for you.

Reach out before the conference and we will get something on the calendar in Philadelphia.