AI Builder Credits used across 2 or more businesses scenario

[Klifthor]

Hello to the Community!

I'm fairly new to the Power Platform and I've been looking at the pricing/credits model for the AI Builder. Considering the amount of credits, I would like to ask about a scenario that  has probably been answered here. If that is the case, please accept my apologies. The scenario is as follows.

Let's say my company provides automation solutions for other companies. Now these companies ask for a flow that will extract the data from their invoices and receipts (AI Builder to the rescue!). For this case, let's say the a company needs 5000 invoices/month to be processed, another one 10000/month, etc. Assuming that they upload their invoices on their One Drive or SharePoint, we then build a flow for each company, that extracts invoice data on an xlsx file and then we sent this file back to them. 

The question is: If my company buys capacity packs according to the volume of the companies' invoices (pages) needed, is it possible/legal to run these flows on their behalf? For example I have 5.000.000 credits, I use an amount for company 1, I extract for them an excel file with their invoices data and send it back to them, repeat for company 2, 3 etc.

All answers or other suggestions about how to handle this scenario, are more than welcome!

Thank you!

[Antoine2F]

Hi,

The issue I see in your scenario is to access companies' invoices from your centralized flow, as files will be on their own sharepoint.

Outside of this point - to resolve it, invoices could be forwarded to your company using emails - I believe it's feasible.

Antoine2F

[barret]

As Antoine2F mentions, this is feasible. AI Builder credits are tied to either a specific environment or a host tenant. You could certainly provide a third-party service where you process the files on behalf of a client. All you would need to do is come up with a solution for ingesting their files and providing them with the results of the processing. Thankfully, Power Automate provides more than a thousand ways of getting data and files in and out. You would have to figure out all the logistics, especially figuring out how to track usage if you want to bill per use, for example, and everything else that would come with providing a service to a client. But it's certainly achievable and well within the allowed usage.

[Klifthor]

Thank you @barret &@Antoine2F for your valuable contributions! Much appreciated!