AI monitoring
Every surface on this page reads per-organization AI spend and, on the card, per-person attribution. All of it requires a staff claim; none of it is reachable from a customer console.
AI is the one line on the platform whose unit cost is real money paid to a third party every time a customer uses it, and the only one that can outrun what a subscription brings in on its own. This page is where staff watch that happen — per organization, on the page they already open to look at an organization, and across the fleet on the boards that already rank cost.
The AI card
On Staff → Organizations → an organization, between Effective entitlements and Metered usage, the card named after the AI add-on carries everything about that organization's AI in one place. It reads once when the page opens, and opening it writes an access row to the staff audit log — the card shows per-person figures, and a look at those is recorded the same way a look at a customer's email is.
Add-on. Whether the AI add-on is on — bought, and on a subscription that is still paying for it — at what price on this plan, and since when. The date comes from the subscription item in Stripe and is cached for a quarter of an hour, so a purchase can take that long to show its date; when Stripe cannot be asked the card says so rather than showing nothing.
Credit pool. The month's band as its named parts: the plan's own band, or a staff override where one is written in its place, plus the add-on's band when the add-on is on. Under it, what has been drawn in credits and in provider dollars, what is left, and a straight-line projection of where the month ends at the pace so far. The projection over-reads a burst on purpose — it is a monitoring figure, and the direction to err in is the one that gets a second look.
Overage. Credits past the band, what they are sold at on this plan, and the dollars accrued so far. The line beneath names the state: sold with no ceiling, sold up to the ceiling the organization set, stopped because that ceiling is reached, stopped because the organization's own band switch is on, or not sold on this plan at all.
Refusals. How many times the gate said no this month, by reason: the band (a wall the organization chose, or a plan with nothing to sell past it), the organization's own overage ceiling, the message cap, and the operator's spend backstop. A workspace refused at its band forty times is a sales conversation; one refused at the backstop is an incident. The counter is kept on the same monthly document as the spend, so it starts from the month this shipped.
Generation jobs. Counts of queued, running, needs-input and failed jobs this month, and the last ten with their kind, credits used against reserved, status and who started them. An organization that has never run a job reads as having none; a read that failed says so instead.
Tokens. This month's tokens as the provider counts them — sent, read from the prompt cache, written to it, and generated — with the cache hit rate: the share of prompt tokens the cache served, out of everything the prompts were billed as. Cache writes count against it, because a prompt prefix that expires and is written again every other request costs more than one never cached. Below that, one row per kind of request — the assistant, a Besigner copy mode, each generation job kind — with its requests, the provider cost per request, its tokens and its own cache hit rate. A request is one metered model call, so a generation job that plans and then builds counts two, and a question answered from the docs counts none. A month recorded before kinds were kept shows its totals and no rows.
Top users this month. The ten people who drew the most, by credits — named from the roster, with their share of the organization's spend, the dollars behind their credits, requests and refusals beside them. Those dollars are what the credits were charged at, so a person's three figures are one arithmetic; what the month cost the platform is the Margin section below. Each name opens the account's staff page. An organization with nobody attributed reads as exactly that, not as a failed read.
Margin. This month's provider spend against what AI brings in: the add-on's price when it is on, the share of the plan price the band was sized against, and overage priced at the plan's rate. Spend here is what the models actually cost, which on the balanced tier is below what the same tokens drew in credits — the credit rate carries a markup, and reading it as a cost would make a fully-drawn band look like exactly break-even. The section turns red when spend exceeds the add-on plus the plan's assist share — overage is left out of that comparison because it bills at a margin, so an organization deep in overage is not the one losing money. It also names the multiple of the staff review threshold the spend has reached, which is the same figure the margin alert email escalates on.
Actions. Links to the entitlement override editor, where the credit band
and the AI features are overridden per organization, and to Lockdown, where
the ai-assist and ai-generate feature keys pause AI for one organization.
Where else the figures appear
Metered usage. The rollup table on the same page, and the Usage dialog on the Organizations list, carry two more columns: AI credits used and AI overage billed. Both come off the monthly rollup, so they describe closed months; a dash means the rollup predates the credit meter, not that the organization used nothing.
Organizations list. An AI spend (month) column shows this month's live provider spend per organization and sorts on it, unmeasured organizations last. Months closed before provider spend was recorded separately show what they drew, which is at or above what they cost. It is the quickest way to find the one organization spending while the month is still open.
Margin utilization. Each organization's revenue side names the AI add-on's share, and the fleet summary totals it. The add-on was already inside the net revenue figure — this names it, so the assist band's cost reads against what it brings in rather than as pure drag.
One account, across organizations
Staff → Users → an account carries a card named after the AI add-on with the account's credits in every workspace it belongs to, month by month — the same rollup the customer's Team and Usage pages read, kept thirteen months. It is the answer to "is this one person driving the spend in three workspaces". Opening it writes an access row about that person to the staff audit log, which their page's Data access by staff card then shows.
The spend leaderboard
Staff → Assist signal opens with AI spend this month, by workspace: each organization's plan, whether the add-on is on, credits drawn, provider dollars and refusals for the current month, dearest first, above the tier and model splits. It reads the monthly documents rather than the all-time signal corpus the rest of the board mines, which is why it is the board's only panel scoped to a month. The footnote says how many workspaces were ranked and how many are shown; a warning above the table means the scan stopped at its ceiling and the ranking is over a sample.
Alerts
The staff margin alert — one organization's AI spend crossing the review threshold — now says in the email whether that organization's AI add-on is on and what its credit band is, so the reader knows without opening the console whether the figure is a paying customer using what they bought or a cost with nothing against it. The platform-wide free-spend ceiling alert reuses the same sender.
Related
- Assist signal — the docs-gap and cost board the leaderboard sits on.
- Lockdown — the feature keys that pause AI for one organization.
- Billing & plans — what the customer sees of the same credit pool.