Cost Intelligence

Where the AI budget is going, what's anomalous, and the highest-leverage changes to make. You're trending $25,130 over budget this month — we found $12,790 in recommended savings below.

SPEND MTD
$138,420
$6,591/day · +25.8% vs last month at this point
FORECAST EOM
$209,130
$25,130 over · 13.7% over budget
BUDGET
$184,000
$5,935/day pace
RECOMMENDED SAVINGS
$12,790
across 8 insights · $15,990 current cost

Daily spend vs. budget pace

All AI spend
ActualForecastBudget pace

Spend explorer

Slice MTD spend by department, team, individual, agent, or model. Use this to pick the right place to dig in.

DepartmentHeadcountAvg/person$/moShareTrend
Engineering184$3,293$605,912
69.1%
-6.8%
Product62$1,596$98,952
11.3%
+28%
Legal16$1,119$17,904
2%
+5.6%
Marketing54$739$39,906
4.5%
+38%
Sales96$428$41,088
4.7%
+13%
Operations142$424$60,208
6.9%
+9.4%
Finance38$221$8,398
1%
-3.2%
People28$179$5,012
0.6%
+15%

Command center

Track AI app usage, agents, models, and cost across the organization. Use the overview to find the department or owner that needs the next drill-in.

All AI appsEveryoneLast 90 daysCompare by department
All app typesAll categoriesAll usage statusesAll cost statesAll app ownersRenewal dateAll labelsShadow AI

Overview

$138K
AI spending
+26% vs prior period
$209K
Forecast end of month
+14% vs budget
$12.8K
Potential savings
-6% of forecast spend
224
Active agents
10 high-spend agents tracked
14
Needs attention
3 critical anomalies4 high-impact savings5 teams over $10K MTD
$120K
AI spend by vendor
Anthropic
$120K
OpenAI
$11.4K
Meta
$3.6K
Embeddings
$1.6K
36.1
Agents per 100 employees
Product
67.7
Legal
50.0
Finance
47.4
People
42.9
$223
Avg cost per employee
Engineering
$3,293
Product
$1,596
Legal
$1,119
Marketing
$739
All apps 12
ApplicationCategoryActive employeesEngagementLicenses% License usageAnnual costPotential savingsApp OwnerRenewal dueLabels
ChatGPT Enterprise3 agentsAI assistant700
47%
1,000
70%
$144K$43.3Ksean.west@initech.comDec 15, 2026
Engineering
Claude Team3 agentsAI assistant130
7%
245
53%
Est. $58.8K$9.2Keng.tools@initech.comFeb 2, 2027
Microsoft Copilot2 agentsAI assistant860
62%
1,200
72%
$360K$41.8Kit.admin@initech.comMar 1, 2027
Sales
Gemini for Workspace1 agentAI assistant540
44%
780
69%
$187K$26.6Kit.admin@initech.comJan 20, 2027
Perplexity EnterpriseDiscoveredAI research260
39%
420
62%
$50.4K$8.8Kstrategy@initech.comAug 12, 2026
Shadow AI
Cursor Business2 agentsAI coding184
78%
260
71%
$99.8K$12.4Keng.tools@initech.comNov 5, 2026
Engineering
GitHub Copilot1 agentAI coding210
83%
285
74%
$68.4K$7.9Keng.ops@initech.comOct 1, 2026
Engineering
Glean1 agentAI search445
58%
620
72%
Est. $149K$18.1Kknowledge.ops@initech.comApr 12, 2027
WriterAI writing120
31%
220
55%
$52.8K$14.5Kmarketing@initech.comMay 20, 2027
Marketing
MidjourneyDiscoveredAI image64
22%
120
53%
$14.4K$4.2Kdesign.lead@initech.comJul 1, 2026
Design
Fireflies.aiDiscoveredAI meeting notes340
21%
520
65%
Est. $62.4K$11.2Ksales.admin@initech.comSep 30, 2026
Sales
HarveyLegal AI28
36%
44
64%
Est. $132KN/Alegal.ops@initech.comJun 15, 2027
Legal

Recommended actions

Each card is one specific change that reduces spend. Sorted by impact. Click to drill in — most are one-click apply.

HIGH IMPACTProduct · Discovery
$3,420
Saved / mo

Right-size auto-tags-issues-97 from Opus 4.7 → Haiku 4.5

94% of outputs would pass eval on Haiku 4.5, based on a 2,000-call shadow run. Latency would drop 41%, accuracy holds within 1.2pp.

  • ·2,000-call shadow eval · 1,873 (93.7%) bit-equivalent or higher
  • ·P50 latency: 412ms → 244ms (−41%)
  • ·Cost/call: $0.024 → $0.0028 (−88%)
auto-tags-issues-97opus-4.7haiku-4.5EFFORT: LOW
HIGH IMPACTData Platform
$2,300
Saved / mo

Route shadow_query simple SELECTs to SQL-tier model

70% of queries are single-table SELECTs that don't need a frontier model. A SQL-specialized router saves ~$2.3k/mo.

  • ·8,200 calls/day; 5,740 are single-SELECT (70%)
  • ·sqlcoder-7b passes 96% of those on benchmark
  • ·Latency: 380ms → 110ms for routed calls
shadow_querysonnet-4.5Mixed: sqlcoder-7b (70%) + sonnet (30%)EFFORT: MEDIUM
HIGH IMPACTSales · West
$1,840
Saved / mo

Tighten output format on drafts_personalized_outbound_emails

P50 useful content is 800 tokens but agent averages 6.2k tokens out — verbose JSON wrapping + repeated metadata.

  • ·Output: avg 6,200 tokens · P50 useful: 820 tokens
  • ·84% of bytes are repeated wrapper JSON
  • ·No downstream consumer reads beyond `body` field
drafts_personalized_outbound_emailssonnet-4.5EFFORT: LOW
HIGH IMPACTProduct · Discovery
$1,180
Saved / mo

Enable prompt caching on builds-decks-15

Sends 18.2k tokens of system prompt every turn. ~9.4k bytes are stable across calls — eligible for prompt caching with no behavior change.

  • ·9,400 stable system tokens identified across 1,000 calls
  • ·Cache hit forecast: 87% (5min TTL)
  • ·Token-in cost: $4.20/day → $0.55/day after warm
builds-decks-15sonnet-4.5sonnet-4.5 + prompt cacheEFFORT: LOW
MEDIUMMultiple owners
$2,100
Saved / mo

Decommission 12 idle agents

12 agents haven't been invoked in 90+ days but remain warm. Combined idle cost is from health-check pings + reserved capacity.

  • ·12 agents · 0 invocations in last 90 days
  • ·~$70/agent/mo in reserved capacity + pings
  • ·Includes legacy onboarding-flow-v1 series
EFFORT: LOW
MEDIUMCross-functional
$890
Saved / mo

Consolidate 3 near-duplicate skills

summarize_email, draft_summary, and email_recap do nearly identical work — Marketing, Sales, and Customer Ops each maintain their own copy.

  • ·Embedding similarity 0.94 across all three
  • ·12 agents call them today (4/4/4)
  • ·Avg call cost varies 3.2× — drift in prompt quality
EFFORT: HIGH
MEDIUMCustomer Ops · Tier-2
$640
Saved / mo

Fix retry storm in process_refund

Retries 4.2× on average due to upstream Stripe schema mismatch on `metadata.order_id`. Each retry is a full LLM call.

  • ·Avg 4.2 retries/call (industry baseline: 1.1)
  • ·Root cause: schema field renamed in Stripe API v3
  • ·740 wasted LLM calls/day
process_refundsonnet-4.5EFFORT: MEDIUM
LOWOperations · IT
$420
Saved / mo

Add business-hours schedule to scrape_pdf

Runs 24/7 but 92% of consumers are 9–5 ET. Off-hours runs aren't read until next business day.

  • ·92% of downstream reads happen 9am-5pm ET
  • ·Off-hours runs: 2,180/day · cost $14/day
  • ·No SLA impact — outputs are async
scrape_pdfEFFORT: LOW

Anomalies

Sudden cost changes that warrant a look. Detected by comparing each agent / tool against its 14-day baseline.

CRITICALToday · 15:08 UTC+$16.8k forecast
Marketing Operations is pacing 64% above monthly AI budget

Marketing Operations has already spent $18.7k against a $28k monthly budget and is running at $1.5k/day vs. the planned $920/day pace. If this continues, the team will exceed budget by $16.8k before month-end.

Marketing Operations
CRITICALToday · 14:32 UTC+$1,820/mo
discord_post cost jumped 4.2× yesterday

Switched from Haiku 4.5 → Sonnet 4.5 on deploy at 14:32 UTC. Previous behavior: $94/day. Now: $396/day. No corresponding increase in invocations.

discord_post
CRITICALToday · 09:14 UTC+$224 (1h)
query_warehouse called 11k extra times in 1 hour

Caller `lead-scorer-42` retried tool 11,420 times between 09:14–10:14 UTC. Probable retry loop on schema mismatch. Charged $238 for the hour vs. $14 baseline.

lead-scorer-42
WARNYesterday · 22:08 UTC+$340 one-off
New unregistered agent burned $340 in 3 hours

Agent ID `agt_8f2_88af` appeared, ran 4,200 invocations against Opus 4.7, and stopped. Owner: ad-hoc deploy by @diego.v. Not in inventory.

agt_8f2_88af
WARN2 days ago+$1,140 WoW
Marketing dept burn rate up 38% week-over-week

No new agents added. Existing `drafts_blog_posts` switched from caching enabled → disabled in deploy fbc23. Avg cost/call up from $0.014 to $0.052.

drafts_blog_posts
INFO3 days ago+$76/wk
Off-hours spike on scrape_pdf (recurring)

Detected for the 4th week running — Saturday 02:00–05:00 UTC sees 3.2× normal load. Likely an external scheduled trigger nobody owns.

scrape_pdf

Forecast & budget

At current burn rate, you'll exceed the March 2026 budget by $25,130. Apply the recommendations above to cut $12,790 recurring — that brings forecast EOM to $196,340, back inside budget.

CURRENT TRAJECTORY
$209,130
$25,130 OVER (13.7%)
IF ALL HIGH-IMPACT APPLIED
$200,390
SAVES $8,740 / MO
IF ALL APPLIED
$196,340
UNDER BUDGET BY $-12,340
RUNWAY AT CURRENT BURN
47 days
UNTIL FY26 BUDGET EXHAUSTED