Cost Center
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The cost page was built before the app knew much about cost, and it answered none of the questions managers, finance and the CFO actually ask.
Not finished yet: a redrawn Cost Center mock answers spend, pace and rate first, with one table that breaks spend down eight ways.
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What changed
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- 1
The cost page is being redrawn to answer three questions first: how much and who, how fast against the limit, and what we pay per unit.
Three answers first · came from Phil Chen, Mark Peterson and othersopen →
- 2
One table breaks spending down eight ways: team, person, repo, model, provider, harness, account or token type.
One table, eight ways · came from Phil Chen and Mark Parsonopen →
- Seat plans are shown as usage at list price, so they aren't mistaken for real bills. In words
- Real data showed most spend is cache, and one model costs far more than its share of tokens. In words
How we got here
Each change, traced back to the conversation it came from. A solid mark means the record names the source; a dashed one was matched by the draft and waits for review.
“If you had a view that would say this user is using these AI tools, these models... that would be great. That would be amazing.”
market-analyst /calls/1668d68e… (local)“Our CFO in terms of, like, you know, tokens cost, like, she's trying to rationalize spend all the time, and actually, cost is attributed to department... it's like, in any way that that if that's represented, that that's a good insight.”
market-analyst /calls/09ecfede… (local)c105-D1 Keep the rate card and all eight lenses for a review round. — Mark Parson
The cost page is being redrawn to answer three questions first: how much and who, how fast against the limit, and what we pay per unit.
“If you had a view that would say this user is using these AI tools, these models... that would be great. That would be amazing.”
market-analyst /calls/1668d68e… (local)“Our CFO in terms of, like, you know, tokens cost, like, she's trying to rationalize spend all the time, and actually, cost is attributed to department... it's like, in any way that that if that's represented, that that's a good insight.”
market-analyst /calls/09ecfede… (local)c105-D1 Keep the rate card and all eight lenses for a review round. — Mark Parson
c105-D4 Remove the team filter from the mock for now; the column picker stays. — Mark Parson
One table breaks spending down eight ways: team, person, repo, model, provider, harness, account or token type.
Thanks to
People outside Qpoint first. Every thank-you points at something they said or made.
The CFO wants cost by department
Said his CFO keeps trying to rationalize AI spend and attribute it to departments, one of the page's three readers.
“Our CFO in terms of, like, you know, tokens cost, like, she's trying to rationalize spend all the time, and actually, cost is attributed to department... it's like, in any way that that if that's represented, that that's a good insight.” first-hand
"We don't know how to budget our AI spend"
Described a top spender with no visible output and asked for a per-person view of tools, models and cost: the manager's "who and why" the page now answers first.
“We don't know how to budget our AI spend right now... he's spending more than our most productive developers... it's this black box for us right now.” first-hand
Kept the lenses and gated the port
Kept the rate card and all eight lenses for review, asked for a seat price on plans, kept ceilings read-only, retired the old unit toggle, and set the app port to wait for the design.
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