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Understand spending, share budgets and connect AI use to the work it supports.

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Buy tokens, rent GPUs, or own the rack?

Open-weight models are now good enough to make self-hosting a financial question rather than a capability one. I modelled four options, an office rack, colocation, rented GPUs and per-token APIs, to find where each one actually wins. The answer turns on utilisation, and it isn't the one the internet keeps giving.

Turn a $3m AI bill into $1.9m

Most teams overpay for AI twice without noticing: they run everything through the default flagship model, and they buy the tokens on a metered plan they can't see into. An intelligent proxy fixes both. Here is the maths, a calculator you can drag, and where Flowstate fits.

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Understand AI spending and value

See where the budget goes and what the business gets back.

Share one AI budget across your tools

Fund people, teams and projects across connected services.

Give your team more capacity

Reduce the preparation, checking and follow-up around recurring work.

Connect AI use to delivered work

Follow AI activity into projects, code and business results.
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Understand what your AI investment delivers. Fund the work that matters and give your people more time to do it.

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AI spending & value

AI spending and value

See where the budget goes, which projects use it and how people interact with AI. Connect the cost to the business activity and results it supports.

 AI spending & value

Share one AI budget across your tools

Fund people, teams and projects across connected services. Draw from a project budget first, share allowances and choose how costs use the available funding.

 AI spending & value

AI use and business activity

Follow AI usage into projects, tasks and delivery. Connect provider records with your work systems, including tracing generated code into GitHub changes.

 People & operations

More capacity for your team

Reduce recurring preparation, checking and handoffs. Build workflows that give your team more time for decisions, customers and the work that needs their judgement.

 People & operations

AI adoption and unused access

See who uses AI, who needs support and which tools people rely on. Find overlapping subscriptions and reclaim the cost of unused seats.

 People & operations

Accurate financial reporting

Bring budgets and actuals together, reconcile the numbers and prepare reports for review. Improve reporting accuracy and release capacity in your finance team.

 People & operations

Intelligent workforce planning

Turn a company-wide spreadsheet exercise into a connected plan for people, skills and cost. See what upcoming work needs and when you’ll need to hire.

 Investment & asset value

The true cost of intangible assets

Connect people, AI and external costs to the assets your business is creating. Give finance the full cost and evidence behind valuation and capitalization decisions.
Financial evidence Intangible asset costs ↗ R&D evidence ↗
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between your systems.

Your team shouldn’t have to carry information from one system to the next. We connect the records, build the workflow and put checks and approvals where they’re needed.

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Control AI costs. Connect your business processes. Put your information to use and assess how well AI is working.

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