Product / Controls
Put discipline around every AI dollar.
Set policies and budgets, route approvals, enforce limits, and preserve a ledger of every capital decision across departments, teams, roles, people, and projects.
Control surface
Transform AI governance from a budget problem to a productivity solution.
Budget rules inherit through the organization, can be overridden deliberately, and can apply to projects that span normal team boundaries.
- 01
Policies
Define approved tools, models, spend ranges, exception paths, and governance rules.
- 02
Budgets
Create daily, weekly, or monthly budgets for departments, teams, roles, individuals, and projects.
- 03
Approvals
When a limit is reached, route a fixed top-up request to the right approver with the context needed to decide.
- 04
Ledger
Keep a record of allocations, overrides, requests, approvals, and decision rationale.
Budget ledger
A live view of capital envelopes.
Budgets create the managerial workflow now and the intervention history that later makes stronger outcome measurement possible.
| Owner | Budget | Used | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise sales | $84,000 | 91% | Top-up requested |
| Customer success | $58,000 | 63% | Within policy |
| Marketing | $71,000 | 76% | Within policy |
Approval flow
Keep productive work moving when a limit is reached.
A user requests a fixed amount and says what it is for. Arbitir routes it to the right admin, in Arbitir and in Slack, with the evidence attached.
hey, hit my Claude limit again. any chance you can bump it before my 9?
who owns the OpenAI budget? need a key for the RFP work this week
Fwd: Re: Re: AI budget for the Q4 pilot (14 in thread)
did this get approved? been blocked since yesterday
can we get 3 more Claude seats for the onboarding cohort?
sorry to message late, still stuck on this one
No amount. No use case. No record.
- D. Kessler Enterprise AE+$150 / mo
Account research before the first call
$310 a month, 1.1x the role median. $1,290 of pipeline per AI dollar, 1.1x.
- M. Novak SDR+$80 / mo
RFP drafting
$96 a month, 0.5x the role median. No outcome recorded yet.
- A. Whitfield Enterprise AE+$400 / mo
Multi-threading the top 20 accounts
$610 a month, 2.1x the role median. $1,836 of pipeline per AI dollar, 1.6x.
Budget policy
Rules inherit, and an override is a deliberate act.
A budget flows down until something deliberately changes it. A project budget sits outside the tree, spanning whichever teams the work spans.
- Acmeset here$486,200
- Salesinherited$96,240
- Enterprise AEinherited$34,600
- D. Kesslerinherited$3,180
- A. WhitfieldApproved by Finance, 30 days, reverts Oct 17override$7,320
- 13 more Enterprise AEs$24,100
- SDRinherited$12,400
- 2 more Sales teams$49,240
- Engineeringset here$142,300
- Platforminherited$61,000
- 3 more Engineering teams$81,300
- 4 more departments$247,660
And across it
Six people across Sales and Engineering. Their team budgets are untouched.
Sales / Enterprise AE
Monthly Claude budget inherited from team policy. Individual overrides require Finance approval.
- Threshold
- 90%
- Top-up request
- +25%
Approved, 30 days, reverts automatically
Enterprise AE · account research · +$150 a month through October 17. The approval sets the budget, writes the ledger row, and, where the provider supports it, sets the member’s limit.
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