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.
Department
Headcount
Avg/person
$/mo
Share
Trend
Engineering
184
$3,293
$605,912
69.1%
-6.8%
Product
62
$1,596
$98,952
11.3%
+28%
Legal
16
$1,119
$17,904
2%
+5.6%
Marketing
54
$739
$39,906
4.5%
+38%
Sales
96
$428
$41,088
4.7%
+13%
Operations
142
$424
$60,208
6.9%
+9.4%
Finance
38
$221
$8,398
1%
-3.2%
People
28
$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 apps▾Everyone▾Last 90 days▾Compare by department▾
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
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
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
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
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
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.