AI Financial Control Check

How much financial control do you have over AI?

Nine questions across the five things that decide whether AI spend stays governable: visibility, ownership, forecast, guardrails and value. Takes about three minutes.

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Question 1
01 Visibility

Can you see total AI spend across every provider and cloud in one place?

Question 2
02 Visibility

How long does it take to answer “what did we spend on AI last month, and on what?”

Question 3
03 Ownership

What share of AI spend has a named owner who is accountable for it?

Question 4
04 Ownership

When AI spend rises, is it clear which initiative caused it?

Question 5
05 Forecast

Do you have a forward view of AI spend for the rest of the financial year?

Question 6
06 Forecast

How often does actual AI spend surprise you against plan?

Question 7
07 Guardrails

Are there budgets or thresholds on AI initiatives that actually trigger something?

Question 8
08 Guardrails

Who approves a material increase in AI spend?

Question 9
09 Value

Can you connect AI spend to what it produces?

Your result

Answer the nine questions to see where control breaks down.

Your score appears here — with the two dimensions where control is thinnest and what usually fixes them first.

Go deeper

Get the full AI Financial Risk Map.

The check gives you a score. The Risk Map gives you the working document behind it — the questions a CFO gets asked as AI moves into the P&L, what a defensible answer looks like, and how to close each gap in the order that matters.

The five control dimensions, with what “good” looks like at each level
A stress test for your FY AI budget — where the forecast moves outside plan
An ownership model you can apply without reorganising anything
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