Your AI agents are spending like a department
Govern them like one

Per token prices keep falling, and your agent bill keeps climbing. We find where the spend is going and put the right controls in place to keep your margins intact, without freezing the experimentation that keeps you competitive.

Sandton AI: agent spend governance panelA governance dashboard showing per-agent budget bars. Three agents run governed under budget in blue. One runaway agent is capped at the guardrail in coral, with a dashed projection of what it would have spent and the amount recovered.Agent Spend GovernanceGuardrails activeRECOVERED THIS CYCLE$89.4KSPEND VS BUDGET71%AGENTS GOVERNED4 of 12Showing 4 of 12 agentsSupport triage agentCode review agentResearch agentInvoice matching agent62%48%CappedRecovered $89.4K this cycle35%Governed spendCapped at guardrailProjected without governanceGuardrail

The cost doesn't show up
where you're looking

Cheaper tokens don't shrink the bill; they multiply agent volume. A single always on agent can quietly run a six figure rate rereading the same context thousands of times. The spend builds inside engineering budgets, then arrives all at once as margin compression in the financials.

98%

of FinOps teams now manage AI spend, up from 31% two years ago. (State of FinOps 2026)

74%

of companies plan agent deployments in the next two years; only 21% have a governance model. (MIT Tech Review / Deloitte, 2026)

$500K+

annual run rate a single always-on agent can reach before anyone approves the spend.

"By the time finance sees it, it's a variance to defend, and the usual reaction, a blanket budget freeze, just trades one mistake for another. We get to it first, and turn it into a number you've already managed."

Executive Summary

How we think about it

Your AI spend isn't one number

You'd never manage all of payroll as a single figure. Agent spend is the same: govern it by the outcome each agent drives, not as one bucket to maximize or freeze.

Stop the bleed, not the experiments

The panic reaction to a shock bill is a blanket freeze, and it quietly kills the experimentation that keeps you ahead. We cut what's wasteful and protect what's worth learning.

Govern where it's fragile

We put the guardrails exactly where hard won enterprise experience says systems actually break, and never automate against a process we don't truly understand.

Independent by design

We don't sell you a model or take a cut of your tokens. We're paid to lower your cost per outcome, which means our incentives point the same way yours do.

FinOps teams read a bill. AI shops build an agent
We've done both, inside real enterprises

Governing agent spend takes someone who can stop a runaway loop, put a cost-per-outcome number in front of a CFO, and knows from delivering real enterprise transformations exactly where things break. The whole industry has now spent billions relearning the oldest lesson in enterprise software: no technology transforms a company on its own. Trusted people using it well do. We're the independent ones doing the governing, not the ones paid to sell you more.

Who we work with

Engineering & platform leaders

Holding back an agent cost overrun before it ever reaches the board.

Finance leaders

Turning agent spend into a managed, predictable cost, not a surprise or a panic freeze.

Private Equity backed & scaling teams

Proving AI value under pressure without letting the burn rate spiral.

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what we're building?

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