The independent AI spend & productivity audit

A CFO-credible AI P&L.

Which AI tools pay for themselves, which seats are wasted, and where the next dollar of spend should move. Spendassay connects every dollar a company spends on AI — seats, API tokens, and infra — to what engineering teams actually ship.

North star: identify 10–15% of AI spend as recoverable within 30 days — neutral across Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and every API vendor.

How it works

Three steps from scattered vendor invoices to a defensible AI P&L your finance team can sign.

01

Connect spend + usage

Read-only connectors pull seat invoices, API token spend, and infra alongside usage telemetry from every AI vendor — Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and the rest. Nothing is written back.

02

We audit cross-vendor

Spendassay normalizes every dollar and every signal into one ledger, attributes spend to teams, and reconciles throughput against its quality tax. One neutral P&L, not five vendor dashboards.

03

Act on findings — in dollars

Each finding names the wasted seats, the underused license, or the tool that pays for itself — with the formula, the evidence tier, and the dollars recoverable this quarter.

Built to survive scrutiny

Four principles that make the audit credible to a CFO, a works council, and a security reviewer alike.

Independent auditor

Every AI vendor grades its own homework. Spendassay is the neutral cross-vendor layer — only raw usage and spend facts, never a vendor's value estimate.

Team-level by default

Never individual league tables. Productivity renders at team granularity with a minimum cohort size, so it survives works-council and GDPR review.

Counter-metrics are mandatory

Every throughput gain renders beside its quality cost — rework, churn, unreviewed merges. An audit that hides the tax is not credible.

Formulas visible, assumptions editable

Every dollar claim exposes its formula with editable inputs and sensitivity ranges — the only posture that survives a CFO who has read the METR study.

What we never do

An audit you can hand to legal

The constraints are the product. They are what let you deploy Spendassay without a six-month review.

No individual league tables

We never rank engineers. Productivity is team-level with a minimum cohort size.

No code or content ingestion

We read metadata and spend — never the contents of your repositories or prompts.

Read-only, always

Spendassay observes. It never mutates a seat, a license, or a customer system.

See where 10–15% of your AI spend is hiding.

Explore the full audit on live demo data — every surface, every finding, every formula.