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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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Connect GitLab

Connect GitLab to see merge requests and repositories in Flowstate, alongside what they cost and how much AI helped. It works with GitLab.com and with a self-managed GitLab that’s reachable from the internet. Flowstate only reads from GitLab.

You need access to integrations. Ask your Flowstate admin.

Before you start

  • In GitLab: someone who can see the groups and projects you want in Flowstate.
  • In Flowstate: your people added with their work email addresses. See People and teams.
  • For self-managed GitLab: your GitLab address, such as https://gitlab.yourcompany.com.

Connect GitLab

GitLab connects in one click. You sign in to GitLab and approve, with no key or token to copy.

  1. Go to Settings → Integrations, select Browse catalog and open GitLab.
  2. Select Connect. For self-managed GitLab, enter your GitLab address first.
  3. Sign in to GitLab and approve Flowstate’s read access. You come back to Flowstate.
  4. Match each GitLab account to a person. See Match people and teams from your tools.

What syncs

  • Repositories, merge requests, who opened and reviewed them, and when they merged.
  • Nothing goes back to GitLab.

Merge requests show in Workforce’s Engineering insights and in Flowstate Helm’s Engineering. See Engineering insights and See what AI is used for.

If something’s not right

  • Self-managed GitLab won’t connect. Check the address, and that your GitLab is reachable from the internet over HTTPS.
  • Some projects are missing. Flowstate reads what the person who connected can see. Connect again as someone who can see them.