Interactive Product Tour · example data

Take the Outlay Product Tour.

Five steps, on an example ~75-engineer team — connect your sources, then watch AI spend get mapped, forecast the quarter, estimate planned work before it's built, and hold it to budget. Click through at your own pace. No prompts ever leave the box.

  1. 1Connect
  2. 2Attribute
  3. 3Forecast
  4. 4Estimate
  5. 5Budget
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 · Estimate

Price planned work before you build it.

Hand Outlay a planned backlog — epics and tickets with their requirements and design docs — and it prices each against the cost-per-work-type model learned from your delivered work, with a confidence range you can budget against. Roadmap planning with numbers, not vibes.

  • Per-item estimate with a low–high band, priced from your own history.
  • More scope in — requirements, design docs, story points — a tighter range out.
  • Under-specified items are flagged to tighten, never silently guessed.
Planned next-quarter backlog · estimated
SSO — SAML + SCIM · requirements + design doc$3,800
Billing v2 migration · large · thin scope$9,400
Flaky-test cleanup · well-specified$1,200
$14,400total estimate
low · $9.9khigh · $19.9k
Priced from your own history. Each item costed against your per-work-type model; thin-scope items get a wider band and a "tighten" flag — never a false-precise number.
Step 5 · 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.

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.