Get a clear view of your AI spend
AI is the fastest-growing line on the IT bill – and often the least visible. It hides in three places: per-user licences that renew whether or not anyone uses them; consumption contracts where the bill follows behaviour rather than a fixed price; and tools bought outside IT. Most organisations can quote their Microsoft bill to the penny, but few can say what they spend on AI in total — or what they get back for it. Trigger signals: an AI bill climbing faster than expected; Copilot rolled out at scale with no utilisation data; a Microsoft EA or hyperscaler renewal approaching; a request for AI ROI you can’t yet answer with a defensible number.
A complete AI tool and licence inventory — procured, departmental and shadow.
A consumption baseline and forward forecast you can budget against.
An entitlement-versus-deployment reconciliation, and the exposure it reveals.
A shadow-AI register — risk-rated, and read as a demand signal, not just a breach.
A quantified opportunity register — each item with saving, effort and owner.
A 7-dimension maturity score and a costed remediation plan.
How it works — We build the picture from three streams of evidence: consumption data (vendor/billing APIs, hyperscaler exports, M365 & Copilot telemetry); shadow-AI discovery (web-proxy, DNS and cloud-app data cross-checked against expense and procurement); and structured interviews scored against published criteria.
CFO / Finance Director · Head of IT Asset Management · Head of Procurement · CIO · FinOps lead.
3–4 weeks
read-only billing, admin and discovery access
a single point of contact
This establishes where the money goes and what it would take to fix
