Guides
How to see, attribute, and cut AI spend
Answer-first guides to auditing your company's AI spend. Each one opens with the short answer, then the steps to run it on your own data.
AI spend management: the complete guide
The pillar overview — how to see cross-vendor AI cost, find idle seats and extra usage charges, tie spend to output, and recover10 to 15% of seat and subscription spend.
Read the complete guide →AI cost management: the complete guide
AI cost management is the practice of pulling every AI cost into one cross-vendor view and matching each dollar to usage and output. What it covers, where the waste hides, and how to run it.
Read the guide →How to audit your company's AI spend
A step-by-step guide to auditing AI spend across seats, API tokens, and infrastructure. Connect your sources read-only, get dollar-priced findings, and recover 10 to 15% within 30 days.
Read the guide →How to Track AI Spend Across Teams
A step-by-step guide to tracking AI spend across engineering teams: connect your spend and usage sources, review dollar-priced findings by team, and recover waste with step-by-step instructions.
Read the guide →How to find and govern shadow AI
Find unsanctioned AI tools from SSO grants and card spend, price the waste by proof level, and govern it with step-by-step instructions your admins execute.
Read the guide →How to attribute AI costs to teams (chargeback and showback)
Attribute AI spend to teams with Spendassay. Connect a spend source and a usage source, get a team-level AI cost report, price the waste, and run showback or chargeback.
Read the guide →How to cut wasted AI seats and reduce AI cost
A step-by-step guide to finding, pricing, and reclaiming wasted AI seats. Connect a spend source and a usage source, review dollar-priced findings, and act through step-by-step instructions your admins run.
Read the guide →How to Set AI Budgets and Alerts
Set AI budget targets and alerts with Spendassay's read-only audit. Connect a spend source and a usage source, get dollar-priced findings, and act through step-by-step instructions.
Read the guide →How to forecast AI spend
Build a defensible AI spend forecast: connect a spend and usage source, price the waste as findings, subtract the recoverable 10 to 15%, and track actuals.
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Skip ahead — audit your own AI spend
Connect read-only sources and get a CFO-credible AI cost report. Free to start, about 10 minutes to connect.