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Downloadable Asset12 May 2026
AI Spend Audit
Map where your AI budget is going — before the invoices tell you.
Most organisations know they're spending on AI. Very few can tell you exactly what that spend is producing.
The AI Spend Audit is a structured framework for Finance and Engineering teams to map AI expenditure to workflows, teams, and outcomes. It surfaces the redundancy that accumulates silently in every enterprise AI deployment: duplicate queries, mismatched model selection, context inefficiency, and spend that sits outside any central budget line.
cortave can automate this audit in real time — attributing every token to the workflow that generated it, continuously, without manual reporting.
What's inside
- A line-by-line audit template for mapping AI spend across cloud providers, SaaS tools, and direct API subscriptions
- How to identify redundant inference — queries answered at full cost that could have been cached
- A model usage breakdown framework: which models are being called, by which teams, for which workflows
- The five questions Finance should be asking Engineering about AI spend today
- A worked example of token attribution — from raw API spend to attributed cost per workflow
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