Informational Fresh portal_guide: PRD-113
The AI Tutor will answer grounded in this lesson's cited source (portal_guide: PRD-113) and key concepts — authority Informational. Not yet enabled.
AI FinOps
What it is. The AI cost plane: what your AI actually costs, per tenant and over time, surfaced in the workspace's FinOps section — so governance and spend are read off the same estate instead of different spreadsheets.
Who it's for. Whoever gets asked "what is AI costing us?" — and the governance lead who wants cost next to risk when priorities are set.
Features and what they mean
| Feature | What it means |
|---|---|
| Cost read-model | AI spend composed per tenant, feeding the workspace tiles (AI Spend, Audit Savings) and the FinOps section. |
| Tenant-scoped reads | Cost queries run per tenant — there is no global-bypass view for customers. |
| Audit-savings framing | Cost is shown next to what governance saves — audit preparation is where the money usually hides. |
What you put in, what you get out
| You put in | You get out |
|---|---|
| Cost/usage feeds (connected via Integrations) | Per-tenant AI spend with trend |
| Nothing else — it composes | The FinOps section and the Home spend tiles |
Your first session
- Open FinOps in your workspace's Operations group.
- If it shows an honest connection notice instead of numbers, that is your to-do: connect a source in Integrations.
- Once fed, read spend next to your Risk section — that juxtaposition is the product's argument.
Honest limits
FinOps reports what its connected sources report — no source, no numbers, and it says so rather than estimating.
Access: part of the platform; the FinOps backing service runs internal-only in production.