Department Chargebacks

why it matters ai spend only becomes manageable when it is owned without clear allocation, costs disappear into shared overhead, accountability breaks down, and optimization stalls department chargebacks make ai spend visible at the level where decisions are made by allocating costs to business units, you can see exactly who is consuming ai resources, how that spend is changing, and how it accumulates over time this is how ai costs become understandable, defensible, and recoverable across the organization how to use it use the department chargebacks page to understand who is spending ai budget and how that spend evolves over time start with spend by business unit at the top of the page, you see total ai spend broken down by business unit this immediately shows which teams, projects, or cost centers account for the largest share of ai costs, helping you focus attention where it matters most business units are flexible and can represent teams applications projects divisions cost centers you define the structure based on how your organization operates identify the biggest spend changes alongside total spend, the page highlights the business units with the largest spending increases the business units with the largest spending decreases these changes are calculated over the last 30 days and compared to the previous period of the same length this helps you quickly identify rapidly growing ai usage sudden drops that may indicate optimization or failure where follow up investigation is needed review all business units in one place below the summary views, you see a complete list of all business units for each business unit, the table shows current spend for the ongoing billing period a clear, comparable total across units this table acts as the primary navigation surface for cost allocation and review drill into business unit chargebacks clicking into a business unit opens its detailed chargeback view here, you can see an itemized view of spend by billing period totals for the current month historical totals for prior months this creates a clear, invoice style record of ai costs over time, making it easy to review trends, explain charges, or support internal reporting track costs across billing periods chargebacks are maintained across all billing periods in which a business unit has been active this allows you to compare month over month spend understand long term usage trends maintain continuity as teams, projects, or applications evolve how business units enable allocation business units are the foundation of chargebacks they determine where ai costs are allocated how usage is grouped who is responsible for the spend because business units are user defined, you can align chargebacks to your existing financial, organizational, or operational structure without changing how teams work when to use this page use department chargebacks when you need to understand who is responsible for ai spend you are preparing internal billing or cost recovery you want to review historical ai costs by team or project you need a clear, defensible breakdown of ai usage this page turns ai spend from shared overhead into accountable ownership