AI Spend & Ownership Audit

Every AI tool you pay for, with an owner in every row.

Two weeks to a complete register of your AI spend — licences, API bills, subscriptions, and the tools people use that nobody bought — with an owner for each and a consolidation plan you can take to finance.

Fixed length, fixed price, delivered end to end by the same senior person. No fee on savings, so the advice stays clean.

Who it's for

For anywhere AI arrived team by team.

The organisation

Any size. The register just gets longer.

A COO, CFO, CIO or IT lead who suspects duplication, shadow use, or contracts nobody owns. Usually the first thing a new owner of "AI" asks for.

What it sounds like

"AI is spreading across teams and no one really owns it."

Also: "We're paying for three AI stacks and using one and a half." "Two teams built the same agent and didn't know about each other." "Which of these contracts can we even cancel?"

Not for

A legal opinion.

We flag the obligations that apply to you as a deployer, plainly, and the data exposures we find. We don't give legal advice, and we'll say when you need it.

What happens

Two weeks, from inventory to decisions.

Six to eight hours of your people's time across IT, procurement and finance, and a ten-minute anonymous survey for staff. We do the rest.

Week 1

Inventory.

Licences, API spend and subscriptions pulled together. Contracts and data-processing agreements collected. A short anonymous survey on the tools people actually use. Interviews with IT, procurement and two or three heavy-user teams.

Week 2

Analysis and decisions.

Consolidation options costed. An owner proposed for every tool. Deployer obligations and data exposures flagged. The savings estimate. A ninety-minute playback with the sponsor, ending in decisions rather than a report.

What you keep

Six things, all yours.

A register your finance team can reconcile and your IT team can maintain.

1

AI spend register

Every tool, licence and API line, with its annual cost.

2

Ownership map

Tool → owner → data → contract. One row per tool, an owner in every row.

3

Shadow-AI picture

What people use that nobody bought, and why they reached for it.

4

Consolidation & savings plan

With the estimated annual saving, written for finance.

5

Risk flags

Deployer obligations and data exposures, plainly named. Not legal advice.

6

30-day actions

The five things to do first, each with an owner and a date.

In plain terms

What we promise. What we don't.

We promise

A complete register, an owner for every tool, a number for finance.

Fixed price only. We don't take a share of the savings, so nothing we recommend is suspected of chasing its own reward.

We don't promise

Legal advice, or savings that appear on their own.

The plan names the decisions. The savings follow the decisions, and those are yours to take.

What comes next: usually the Programme, because the ownership gaps the Audit names need someone to close them. Sometimes a Scan, when the spend turns out to be the smaller problem.

Request information

Ask for the Audit pack.

What happens in the two weeks, what you keep, the price, and whether the Audit is your door. Within two working days.

What comes back
1

The Audit pack

Three pages: the two weeks, the six artifacts, the price.

2

The survey, previewed

The ten questions your staff will see, so you can clear them internally first.

3

A proposed start date

Audits run in fixed two-week windows.