AI Audio Budgets Fail When One Run Tests EverythingA strict monthly limit does not prevent poor spending. Write the Review Question Into the Run NameA label such as hook-piano-v1 identifies a file; Q2-clearer-attack identifies the reason it exists. Bottom Line: Fund Answers Not Endless AlternativesA useful AI-audio budget tells the team when another run can answer something and when the brief itself needs work. The displayed credit cost makes the arithmetic visible; a run name, reserve, and stop trigger make the spending understandable. Credits become a learning budget only when the team can explain why the next run exists.