Spend under management
Spend under management is the portion of total AI spend covered by reliable metering, an accountable owner, and active financial controls. Merely seeing a vendor total does not place that spend under management.
A useful measure distinguishes attributed and controlled spend from costs that remain unknown, unowned, or outside policy.
Related terms
- Agent spend attribution
- Agent FinOps vs. TokenOps
- Settlement vs. billing vs. attribution
- System of record for AI labor
- Agent FinOps
- AI labor
- Attribution readiness
- Cost per outcome
- AI spend assessment
- Unattributed spend
- Agent inventory
- Chargeback in an AI context
- Zero-Access assessment
- FOCUS
- BilledCost
- EffectiveCost
- ChargeCategory
- ChargePeriod
- ServiceCategory
- Provider, Publisher, ServiceProvider, and HostProvider
- Contract Commitment dataset
- Invoice Detail dataset
- Virtual currency and token columns
- Journal entry
- Suspense account
- Accrual
- Chargeback vs. showback
- Subledger
- Tie-out and reconciliation
- Trial balance
- Dimensions and worktags
- OASA specification
- The Missing Ledger