Idea 03 · AI Budgeting, a working name
Budgets, projections and model choices for AI work, in a tool a finance lead and a junior can both read.
Reconcile the month's invoices
A scripted demo with illustrative numbers. Pick a task and the verdict changes; sometimes the person is cheaper, and knowing when is the point.
Nobody can say what a task costs when an agent does it, or when a person should do it instead.
Model choice is folklore. Why the expensive model here, the cheap one there?
AI budgets get approved without projections, and reviewed without accountability.
Tasks, volumes and the quality bar. Plain inputs a finance lead and a junior can both fill in.
Human cost, AI cost per model mix, and where each one wins.
A budget, a model policy and a monthly variance view anyone can read.
The uncomfortable truth the tool is built on.
A cheap model for retrieval, an expensive one for synthesis. Today that decision is made by vibes.
One model does the work, another checks it, quality and cost on the same dashboard.
Team subscription, priced to scale with the AI spend under management. A plain B2B tool.
Every major provider, plus your own rates for people.
It projects before you spend, not just reports after.
Both. That is the gap it closes.
Humans are often cheaper. Knowing when is the product.
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