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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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Show the work in Workforce

People use an application through its views. A view shows records from a data store as figures, tables and charts, in the Workforce sidebar beside the rest of their work.

What a view can show

  • Figures with their context, such as this month’s total against budget.
  • Tables of records, sorted, grouped and filtered.
  • Charts of figures over time.
  • Forms that collect an answer so the work can carry on.

Let people act on a row

Add a button to a table’s rows to start a workflow for that record, such as re-running a check or sending a deal for approval. Rows that wait on a decision can be answered from the view. See Make a decision a workflow asks for.

Publish a view

  1. Choose the data store the view reads.
  2. Choose its columns, filters and grouping.
  3. Choose the roles that can see it.
  4. Choose where it sits in the Workforce sidebar: its group and its position.
  5. Publish it.

People with those roles see the view in Workforce straight away. Everyone else doesn’t see it at all.

Using a view

In Workforce, open the view from the sidebar. Use the period control and filters like any other Workforce page. Select a record to see where its figures came from, including the run that produced them.