Unattributed spend
Unattributed spend is a valid AI cost that cannot yet be assigned to an accountable agent, workflow, owner, or department. It remains visible and unresolved instead of being distributed through an arbitrary allocation.
Meridian posts these amounts to suspense until evidence or a reviewed rule supplies the missing attribution.
Related terms
- Agent spend attribution
- Agent FinOps vs. TokenOps
- Settlement vs. billing vs. attribution
- System of record for AI labor
- Agent FinOps
- AI labor
- Spend under management
- Attribution readiness
- Cost per outcome
- AI spend assessment
- 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