Connect your AI vendors read-only in about 10 minutes. Get a line-by-line list of the spend that bought nothing, with the receipt for each line.
Every number says how we know it
Read straight off a bill, a seat list or a usage report. No guessing. Two people pulling the same numbers would get the same answer.
The difference between two similar teams inside your own company, over the same period. Real signal, but a difference is not proof of a cause.
Worked out from assumptions you can see and change. Always shown as a range, never a single number.
Across the public benchmarks and audits we've run, 10 to 15% of seat and subscription spend is typically recoverable within 30 days, neutral across every AI vendor. If most of your bill is API tokens, the lever is routing instead, and we size that separately. Routing and throttling are Control, a separate opt-in plan (private beta) that runs on your own provider keys. The audit never routes anything. Recovery is counted. Productivity is estimated and shown as a range.
The long version: the complete guide to AI cost management, what the published research says about AI and developer speed, and how we grade a number in three proof levels.
Built for the whole buying committee
Each one sees the number that matters to them, with the proof behind it.
The AI spend you can get back — same-day Snapshot, no rollout, no workshop.
See what founders get →An AI cost report you can take to your board — one page showing what your AI tools cost and what you get back. Every line shows its math.
See what finance gets →Walk into the budget talk with proof instead of opinions — which tools earn their seats, which don't. Team level only, no individual rankings, ever.
See what engineering gets →Every renewal, with proof of the seats nobody opens and a specific dollar amount to ask the vendor for.
See what procurement gets →Shadow AI, priced. Tools bought on personal cards, outside of purchasing, found in card and sign-in records. Read-only, metadata-only, no agents on anyone's laptop.
See what IT gets →The strongest single move
Cutting seats reduces the number of licenses. A discount reduces the price of each one. Ask for both at once and the vendor answers the expensive request with the cheap one.
On 100 Cursor seats where only 60 are used, cutting first then negotiating 20% off lands at $1,920/mo — versus $3,200/mofor a blended “20% off.” Same discount, $15,360 a year apart.
The honest answers — the same facts as our security posture.
Yes. Snapshot is a free, one-time AI cost report — read-only, no card, just a free account. You get one page with your top recoverable-spend findings, each carrying its proof level: counted, compared, or estimated. Paid plans add continuous findings, more surfaces, and recovery step-by-step instructions your own admins run.
Read-only connectors to your AI vendors and the systems that record their spend — seat invoices, API token spend, and infra, alongside usage data. Copilot, Cursor, Claude, the API platforms, and the rest. You can also explore the whole product on synthetic demo data before connecting anything.
No. We read metadata and spend — seat rosters, last-activity, token counts, invoices — never the contents of your repositories or prompts. No code, no message bodies. The constraints are the product: they're what let you deploy Spendassay without a six-month security review.
Zylo and Vendr show what you spent. We show which seats nobody opened, which tokens bought nothing, and what to cancel.
10 minutes to connect. Same-day Snapshot. Cash back on the next invoice. Productivity signal after one quarter. Or explore the whole product on demo data first, with no signup.
We never receive code, prompts, or message bodies — only seat lists, timestamps, and invoices. The full data boundary and SOC 2 status are on our security page.
The constraints are the product
Four hard limits, built in underneath the screen — not settings anyone can turn off.
We only ever report on teams of eight people or more. There is no individual view to unlock, and a team smaller than eight rolls up. This is not a policy you have to trust us on. There is nothing to turn on.
We read seat lists, last activity, invoices and token counts — a token is the unit AI vendors bill for, roughly a few characters of text. Never your prompts, your messages or your code.
We cannot merge a PR, cancel a seat or change a license. Recoveries run as step-by-step instructions your own admins carry out. An auditor that can change the books is not an auditor.
When work ships faster, something usually gets worse: rework, bugs per PR, incidents. We show the gain next to what the speed cost you, on the same screen. A speed number without its cost is propaganda.
Free, one-time, no card. Or open the sample report without signing up.