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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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Use cases

Give your team capacity for the work that needs them.

Find the recurring work that takes up your team’s week. We simplify the process, connect the systems and build workflows that reduce preparation, checking and chasing.

Talk through your process

Find where the time goes.

Walk through a process with the people doing it. Identify the repeated steps, missing information and handoffs that consume time.

Explore agents, data stores and views ↗
Monthly process · Work to improve
StepCurrent work
Gather information Export from three systems
Check records Reconcile totals by hand
Prepare decision Copy findings into a report
Agree the baseline before building

Build the work around your team.

Gather records, prepare outputs and route approvals in one workflow. People stay responsible for the decisions and exceptions that need judgement.

Build views for your team ↗
Reporting workflow
StageOwner
Collect and reconcile Connected workflow
Resolve differences Finance reviewer
Approve report Finance lead
Exceptions go to a named role

Use the capacity you release.

Compare the new process with the baseline. Decide where the time can go, from serving another customer to improving the next process.

Compare cost with measured results ↗
Process trial · Hours per run
WorkBeforeTrial
Preparation 6 2
Review 2 2
Total 8 4
4 hours released per run · Quality review required
Your systems, connected

Use the tools behind this work.

We agree which records, access and controls your workflow needs, then connect the relevant systems.

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Slack Discuss setup Microsoft Teams Discuss setup Asana Discuss setup Notion Discuss setup Google Drive Discuss setup
Colleagues reviewing figures and discussing a plan together.
Time for the work that needs you

Give your team time to think, review and decide.

Let the application handle the preparation. Keep your people involved where their experience and judgement matter.

Measure what changes.

Track preparation and review time, throughput and work completed. Time released creates capacity. Count cash savings only when costs actually fall.

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.

How do you choose the first process to automate?

Start with a repeated task that has clear inputs, an owner and a useful output. Measure the current preparation and review work before choosing the steps an agent should handle.

Does released capacity mean fewer employees are needed?

Not automatically. Released time may support analysis, service or growth. Track how the business uses the capacity before presenting it as a cash saving.