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Know what AI costs. See what you get back.

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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The Request centre lists the AI tools Flowstate knows about and shows where you stand on each. Use it when you need a tool you don’t have yet.

You need Agents & copilots switched on for your organisation — ask your Flowstate contact.

Ask for a seat

  1. In the sidebar, select My AI agents, then Request centre.
  2. Find the tool with Search providers, or browse its category.
  3. Select Request seat.
  4. Under Why do you need this?, add a sentence or two if you like.
  5. Select Send request.

The tool now shows Pending manager.

What each tool shows

LabelWhat it means
You have itFlowstate has seen you use this tool in the last 30 days
Pending managerYou’ve already asked for a seat
Request seatYou can ask for a seat
NothingSeats for this tool aren’t handed out by the provider. Ask your Flowstate admin how to get access.