Interactive product tour · example data

Walk through Outlay, step by step.

Five steps, on an example ~75-engineer team — connect your sources, then watch AI spend get mapped, forecast, budgeted, and routed down. Click through at your own pace. No prompts ever leave the box.

  1. 1Connect
  2. 2Attribute
  3. 3Forecast
  4. 4Budget
  5. 5Optimize
Step 1 · Connect

Point Outlay at your sources — read-only.

One tracker and your AI usage. About 30 minutes, no app rewrite, no proxy required to see the picture. Outlay reads metadata, never your prompts.

  • A tracker — GitHub Issues, Jira, or Linear.
  • Your AI usage — Anthropic admin API, Cursor export, or Claude Code transcripts.
  • That's the entire setup.
🧭GitHub Issuestracker · read-onlyconnect
📊Anthropic admin APIusage & costconnect
💻Claude Code transcriptsper-branch usageconnect
Metadata only. Task categories, token counts, ticket IDs. Prompt text, model outputs, and API keys never leave your environment — and our endpoints reject any payload that contains them.
Step 2 · Attribute

Every dollar, mapped to the work that drove it.

Outlay resolves each AI agent's spend back to a ticket → epic → team — via the git branch and PR→issue link, plus an explicit task tag for CI/remote agents. Costs are cache-aware, so cached agentic workloads aren't overstated 5–10×.

  • 87% of spend resolved to a real ticket this window.
  • Each dollar carries a fidelity tier — you know how confident the join is.
  • Unattributable spend is reconciled to the invoice, never dropped.
AI spend · 30 days
$18,420
Mapped to a ticket
87%
$16,025 attributed
Spend by epic
Checkout revamp · growth$4,920
Search infra · platform$3,640
Onboarding v2 · growth$2,870
Billing migration · payments$2,310
Unmapped · reconciled to invoice$2,395
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Step 3 · Forecast

Project the quarter from open scope.

Outlay learns a cost distribution per work-type and costs your open roadmap bottom-up — a realistic range, not last month's bill extrapolated. And it measures its own accuracy with a leave-one-out backtest, instead of asserting it.

  • Expected $52,300 this quarter, likely $44k–$61k.
  • Median estimate lands within ~14% of actual on your history.
  • Items with no history are counted, not guessed.
Quarter forecast · from open work
$52,300expected from open scope
p10 · $44kp90 · $61k
Forecast accuracy (measured): median estimate within ~14% of actual (leave-one-out backtest on closed tickets). Conditioning on work size cut estimate error ~30%. How accurate is this? →
Step 4 · Budget & guardrails

Hold it to budget — and get warned early.

Set budgets by scope (team, epic, cost center). Outlay tracks actuals against them and projects to end-of-period by pace, so a team about to blow its budget is flagged weeks early — not at month-end. Guardrails bind on outliers, never as hard caps that fail you mid-task.

  • Pace projection to end-of-quarter, per scope.
  • Anomaly flags on the ticket burning 10× its class.
  • Alerts before overspend — actionable, not a post-mortem.
Budget burndown · Checkout revamp
$4,920spent · 63% of quarter elapsed
⚠ On pace to land ~$7.8k — 59% over its $4.9k budget · 5 weeks left to act
Budget$4,900
Projected at current pace$7,800
▲ Checkout revamp is over pace — running 2.1× its class median. Flagged now, with time to rescope or reassign — not discovered on the month-end invoice.
Step 5 · Optimize

Route spend down — with proof.

For each work-type, Outlay learns which cheaper model is provably good enough: it scores a candidate in shadow, proves non-inferiority in a quality canary, then enforces the downgrade. You're billed only on realized savings, and it always fails open.

  • ~$5,480/mo in proven, non-inferior savings here.
  • Savings measured against a held-out control arm — audited, not quoted.
  • Unreachable engine → traffic passes straight through. Never your uptime.
Shadowscore candidate Canaryprove quality Enforceroute down
Recommended routing · net of rework
Doc summarization opus-4.8 → sonnet-4.6~$2,100/mo✓ validated
Test generation sonnet-4.6 → haiku-4.5~$1,900/moneeds validation
Bugfix triage opus-4.8 → sonnet-4.6~$1,480/moneeds validation

Illustrative example data for a ~75-engineer team. In a pilot, every number here is yours — read-only, in ~2 weeks.

See it on your own numbers.

Two weeks, read-only, prompts never leave your environment. We'll map your real AI spend to your roadmap and show you where it's about to go over.