Documentation
Product documentation
How CapHound helps you see, attribute, govern, and enforce AI spend. This is the product-level reference; detailed implementation, integration setup, and API/SDK guides are provided to customers during onboarding.
Cost visibility & attribution
Every AI dollar is attributed to an owner — team, product feature, customer, and environment — using tags applied to each request. Consolidated across your business applications and per-employee AI tools, so you see all AI spend in one place instead of six.
Budgets & caps
Set budgets and hard caps at the workspace, team, feature, customer, or per-key level. Choose the action when a limit is approached or hit: warn, block, or pace. Budgets are evaluated continuously so spend stops at the limit you set — before the bill.
Policy enforcement
Five policy types are enforced on every request: budget limits, model restrictions, downgrade rules, routing preferences, and rate limits. Each decision is recorded with the policy that made it and the reason — not just blocked or allowed, but the full position (downgraded, rerouted, paced, stopped).
Approvals in your tools
Budget increases, exceptions, and seat revocations route to the right approver as one-tap actions in Slack, tokenized act-links in email, and annotations in Jira. A requester can never approve their own request, and every decision is recorded with who decided it and through which channel.
Per-seat AI spend & idle-seat reclaim
See per-employee spend on AI productivity tools (Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT), identify paid-but-idle seats, and reclaim them — with a two-person approval before any vendor-side revocation. Per-owner idle digests and manager drill-downs make ownership clear.
Records, receipts & reports
The records are the product: spend, decision, approval, and control records flow to your warehouse (FOCUS 1.0), plus chargeback/show-back reports and a monthly forwardable receipt of what was prevented, decided, and reverted. Receipts from recorded events — never estimates.
Integrations
Connect Slack, Jira, PagerDuty, Datadog/Grafana, and a scheduled BI/warehouse export. Approvals and alerts meet your team where they already work; spend records land in the tools you already use.
Security & data handling
CapHound governs spend on metadata alone — it never stores AI prompt or response content. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, tenant-isolated, and access-controlled. Full detail on the security page.
Learn moreImplementation guides live inside onboarding.
Integration setup, tagging, connectors, and reference documentation are provided to customers — you won’t be implementing this alone. Already a customer? Your onboarding contact has everything.