Understand spend, establish ownership, anticipate where spend is heading, govern material decisions and report the AI position from one financial model.
Four outcomes, one financial model.
One financial position across every AI provider, cloud platform and coding assistant — with a named owner behind each euro.
A forecast per initiative with visible assumptions and a confidence interval, set against the budget that was actually approved.
Guardrails, thresholds and approvals bring Finance into the few decisions that matter — and stay quiet on the rest.
A documented value case and value KPI next to every euro — so the next increment of AI investment is a decision Finance can back.
The same model, at three levels of zoom. Most weeks you stop at the first.
Four initiatives, one owner each. Headroom is intact.
Seat rollout from 180 to 265 accounts for €31k of the move. Assumptions visible, open to challenge.
Raise the guardrail to €370k for the remainder of FY26, on the back of a measured value case.
One decision, taken deliberately, six weeks before it would have surfaced as a variance.
Illustrative product example — not customer results
Slice AI and cloud spend by initiative, business unit, model or team, and map it onto a real org hierarchy so every cost has an accountable owner.
Driven almost entirely by one initiative — flagged 6 weeks before it would have shown up as a variance.
Forecast each AI initiative against the approved plan, with the assumptions Finance needs to challenge the number.
Established forecasting methods run in parallel — classical time-series, seasonality-aware, exponential smoothing and a deep-learning multi-horizon model — and the best fit per initiative is scored against your own history. No proprietary black box. You can pin a model per business unit if your team has a preference, and method, historical error and assumptions stay visible on every number.
no data-science team required · method visible on every number · ✓ audit-logged
A guardrail is the room an initiative has to operate in. Set the amount, scope it to an initiative or a business unit, name a finance owner and a business owner, and teams can spend inside it without asking. Finance only hears about it when the position moves toward the edge.
Guardrails can be hard or soft, in any currency, with the total distributed across periods however your planning cycle works. Every guardrail runs a real lifecycle — draft → active → archived — and every transition is audited, so the boundary a team was operating under on any given date can still be reconstructed later.
Raises the annual guardrail from €440k to €610k. Value case validated last quarter.
Everything else is inside its guardrail.
Route material AI spend decisions through explicit policies and delegated approvers, and write every state transition to an append-only trail. Scaling an initiative, raising a guardrail or onboarding a new model becomes a recorded decision with a name, a date and a rationale attached — and everything below the threshold stays quiet.
Each initiative carries an expected outcome, the KPI that would show it, an owner, and an honest evidence status — so an expectation is never read as a result.
| Initiative | Value case | Value KPI | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support AI | Reduce cost per contact 18% | Cost per resolved ticket | Measuring |
| Developer Copilot | Reduce cycle time 12% | Median PR lead time | Instrumented |
| Sales Assistant | +4% conversion | Qualified-to-close | Awaiting baseline |
Every initiative shows where it stands on the ladder, right next to the spend. Reaching the top rung is what turns scaling into a decision Finance can back.
The expected outcome is written down and owned.
A measurable value KPI is defined and being collected.
Enough history exists to compare against the baseline.
The business owner and Finance agree the outcome holds. This is where scaling gets funded.
Initiatives that have not reached step 1 are shown as Awaiting baseline — visible, not hidden.
The Report Builder is a drag-and-drop editor with 15+ building blocks — position cards, forecast vs guardrail, initiative tables, ownership coverage and insight panels. Export to PDF, set a schedule, and the AI financial position lands in the board's inbox automatically.
The built-in assistant has live access to your AI and cloud inventory. Ask why an initiative's forecast moved and get a real answer tied back to the usage that caused it — the explanation you need before you take it into a budget conversation.
Model providers, coding assistants, the infrastructure underneath, and the finance systems it all has to land in. Read-only ingestion, tenant-isolated data and traceability back to source billing.
Nine questions on spend visibility, ownership, forecasting, guardrails and value. No cloud access, no sales call. Or book a 25-minute walkthrough on your own billing exports.