Most tools report the bill.CapHound decides it.
Knowing a number isn't the same as controlling it. When AI usage outgrows your budgets and approvals, another dashboard doesn't help — the control has to happen before the spend, and leave a record you own.
Observability vs. control
A dashboard reads the invoice. CapHound makes the call.
Cost tools read the bill after the provider sends it — by then the spend already happened. CapHound makes the call while it's still a decision: at the request, not the report.
The dashboard approach
- Tells you what you already spent
- Alerts fire after the threshold is crossed
- Numbers reconciled, and estimated, at month-end
- Costs trapped inside one more dashboard
CapHound
- Decides what you spend, request by request
- Spending stops at the limit — no overrun to alert on
- Every figure is a recorded event, never an estimate
- Records flow to your warehouse, Slack, and audit trail
gpt-4o · contract-analysis
budget-limit · legal-tech monthly
gpt-4o → 4o-mini · support
downgrade-rule · non-critical
claude-sonnet · doc-extract
routing-pref · EU residency
o1-preview · eng-sandbox
model-restriction · approved
batch-embed · growth
rate-limit · 20/min non-prod
Every request, evaluated against your policies
$2,144 never spent · MTD
Your data, not our dashboard
Every decision becomes a record you own.
The records CapHound writes don't live behind one more login. They land in your warehouse in FOCUS 1.0 format, in your team's Slack and Jira, in your Datadog and audit trail — and your AI agents can read them directly. The dashboard is where you configure; the records are the product.
- Every dollar attributed to a feature, team, and named owner
- Warehouse push is FOCUS 1.0 conformant — loads into your FinOps pipeline unmodified
- Records flow to Slack, Jira, Datadog, the audit trail, and your AI agents
rag-search
Platform · owner J. Okafor
contract-analysis
Legal-Tech · owner S. Chen
support-copilot
CX · owner M. Patel
doc-extract
Ops · owner L. Reyes
NEW · FinOps AI agent
Not just a record. A teammate that drafts the call.
The other tools hand you a chart and leave the work to you. CapHound's agent watches your AI spend the way a FinOps analyst would — spotting waste, drafting the exact change, and bringing it to you. It proposes. You approve. Nothing moves without a human, and every proposal is on the record.
- Finds savings you'd have missed — and shows its reasoning
- Proposes the exact change, with the dollars it holds
- You approve or reject in one tap, right where you work
- Strict human-in-the-loop — it never spends or changes on its own
Support traffic is running on gpt-4o. I can cap it to gpt-4o-mini on non-critical requests.
holds
~$1,800 / mo
quality risk
low · reversible
Nothing changes until you approve — and every proposal is recorded.
Seats
The AI spend the other tools can't even see.
Cost dashboards watch the apps you build. They miss the per-seat AI tools your people sign up for. CapHound consolidates Copilot, Cursor, and ChatGPT spend by employee, finds the paid seats sitting idle, and revokes them on your approval.
- Every employee's AI tool spend in one place — not six dashboards
- Idle paid seats surfaced automatically (paid, zero activity)
- Revoke with two-person approval — audited, reversible, on the record
j.okafor@
GitHub Copilot · idle 41d
m.patel@
Cursor · idle 33d
l.reyes@
ChatGPT Enterprise · idle 38d
What changes once it's on
Four outcomes — every one backed by a record.
An owner on every dollar
Cost attributed by feature, team, and customer — each budget carrying a named owner and an approval path. Nobody’s spend is anonymous.
Spending stops at the limit
Your policies are evaluated on every request, before the bill — the overrun doesn’t get flagged, it doesn’t happen.
Decisions in minutes
Increases and exceptions approved with one tap in Slack or one click in email. Rejections ask for a reason. Exceptions revert themselves.
A receipt, not a report
Each month: what was prevented, what was decided, who decided it — every figure a recorded event you can forward upward without a meeting.
Control AI spendbefore the bill arrives.
We map CapHound to your AI usage, ownership, and reporting requirements — then the records start flowing the same hour.