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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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Give your team less timesheet work.

We build an application that prepares effort records from your project and delivery systems. People confirm the records, correct mistakes and resolve gaps in one place.

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Prepare records from the work.

Bring together project activity to prepare a record for review. Keep the supporting links close so people can check the proposed allocation.

Connect AI use to work and projects ↗
Weekly effort · Draft allocation
Customer portal 60%
Service reliability 30%
Unassigned 10%
Draft from project records · Confirmation needed

Make corrections quick.

Let people or team leads correct the project and resolve missing information. Activity is evidence to review, not a substitute for confirmation.

Build views for your team ↗
Record review
ItemAction
Support investigation Choose a project
Portal delivery Confirm allocation
Team meeting Confirm category
2 confirmed · 1 needs information

Close the period with confirmed records.

See which records still need attention and export the approved allocation for finance or project reporting.

Explore agents, data stores and views ↗
September · Confirmation progress
42 / 48

Records confirmed

StatusRecords
Confirmed 42
Awaiting confirmation 4
Needs correction 2
Only confirmed records enter the final report

Measure what changes.

Compare time spent completing and chasing records, correction rates and the share confirmed before the reporting deadline.

We agree the baseline with you, build around your systems and keep improving the application as your work changes.

More work we can help with.

Finance reporting

More accurate reports. More time for your finance team.

 Deal approvals

Get complete deals to the right approver.

 Workforce planning

Turn the company budget into a workforce plan.

Start with the work you want to improve.

Show us the process, the systems and where your team loses time.

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Practical questions

What to know before you start.

Should inferred effort records be treated as approved timesheets?

No. Activity can help prepare a draft allocation, but people need a way to review and correct it. Keep inferred, corrected and confirmed records distinct.

Can AI and human effort be connected to the same project?

They can be linked where the source records support attribution. Keep measured AI usage separate from human time estimates and preserve unallocated records.