The words, defined.
Every term on a screen, in a mail or in an answer, in one place. A word here means one thing everywhere; a word not here is not used.
Glossary
- Estate
- Every AI source, model, agent, seat and workload an organization pays for.
- Ledger
- The reconciled record of every AI dollar, attributed, with what it produced.
- Source
- A connector that reads a vendor: OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, a gateway, a seat tool, a business system.
- Bill
- What the vendor charged, read from the vendor, shown beside the ledger, never used to fill it.
- Reconciled
- The ledger's total for a source against the bill for the same days. Exact, or the difference is shown.
- Unallocated
- Spend no rule, tag or trace has given an owner. A named row on every screen, never hidden.
- Coverage
- The share of spend with an owner. It rises when a rule publishes and never by estimate.
- Finding
- A saving or a risk the detectors found, with its evidence, its cohort, the change to make and its effort class.
- Effort class
- Easy money, engineering, or re-architecture. Easy money needs no code: a rule, a cap, a flag, a seat.
- Realizable now
- The findings that need no code, summed. The one figure Starter shows of the findings.
- Outcome
- The business result a workflow produced, from the system that recorded it, with its evidence class.
- Evidence class
- Observed, declared or unmeasured. Every cost-per-outcome figure says which.
- Cost per successful outcome
- Attributed spend divided by successful outcomes, retry waste kept apart. Never cost per token.
- Value Ledger
- Every decision on a finding: expected on approval, verified after the change, against the same baseline.
- Verified saving
- What the ledger measured after a change, at least seven days on, against the same baseline. Expected is never overwritten.
- Realization rate
- Verified savings over expected savings. The company's own metric.
- Envelope
- An agent's monthly budget, set from its own history.
- Policy
- A rule with a mode: observe, warn, require approval, enforce. Backtested on the window before a mode changes.
- Governed spend
- The share of AI spend under a policy with an owner.
- Alert
- What watches raised: the spike with its cause, an envelope, a policy, the queue, drift. Sent once; open until addressed or ignored.
- Workload
- The class of use: coding assistant, chat assistant, in-product agent, retrieval, speech, image, evaluation, tool calls.
- Metering
- What the vendor priced: tokens, seats, audio seconds, images, or the bill itself.
- Starter · Platform · Enterprise
- Free at any spend; 2 percent of AI spend under management; the Platform tier on an order form above $100,000 a month.
Where to next
- The record
- Every field one usage record holds, and the six things it never holds.
- Connectors
- For each source: what it reads, the access it needs, what it attributes on its own, what it cannot answer.
- The read API
- The same figures the screens show, as JSON, with the key or the sign-in the editor uses.