AI Spend Console by Rippling - Track your AI spend and connect it to business outcomes
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AI Spend Console gives Finance and Engineering leaders one place to track AI spend across tools (such as Claude and Cursor) and connect it to business outcomes. Break costs down by vendor, model, or employee, then connect spend to GitHub output data like pull request volume and the # of code revisions. You can get started for free–no Rippling subscription required.
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I've been tracking AI spend manually in a shared doc and it's already out of date by the time I update it. Automated syncing with GitHub data sounds like exactly the fix my team needs, assuming the integration is reliable.
@thomas_jack3I'd love to know what you think of the product!
Its interesting bcz managing HR, payroll and IT in separate systems can get messy quickly. What was the biggest challenge you wanted to solve when building this platform?
Congrats @kevinmason and team!
@kevinmason @hamza_afzal_butt The biggest challenge was ensuring users have a magical onboarding experience and can get value from the tool. For example, we spent a lot of time testing and tuning our recommended prompts so the platform surfaces interesting AI spend and usage patterns. For example, you can see which engineers spend the most on AI but have the highest number of code revisions.
@hamza_afzal_butt "Managing HR, payroll, and IT in separate systems can get messy quickly" is basically the Rippling mantra 🙂 The goal is always giving people tools to spend less time on manual reconciliation and more time on hard problems. AI Spend Console extends that same idea, giving you one view of your costs and a clearer path to making that spend more efficient.
@kevinmason We've gotten good at buying AI. We're still figuring out how to manage it. Timely launch.
@joseph_walker2 The journey is new for all of us -- first tokenmaxxing to boost AI adoption, then shifting to analyze how much AI is really costing us after blowing over budgets, to now finding new tools to control AI costs.
It's a delicate balance -- what's enough AI spend so people can be wildly productive, but not so much that people are using it to generate expensive daily briefs that summarize their slack messages every morning running on Opus 4.7?
I'm excited to hear what you think of the AI Spend Console!
@joseph_walker2 @kevinmason Thanks for the support, Joseph! Excited to hear what you think.
I like that this doesn't require a Rippling subscription to try. Too many finance tools lock the useful features behind a bigger platform commitment before you even know if it fits.
@ramish_saje We'd love for you to try it out and share your feedback!
@rukhsar_amjad For companies who are already Rippling users, their org data already lives in Rippling. If you're new to Rippling, you'll need to bring in that data (employees, teams, departments) via CSV. Once you do that, Rippling will do all the data mapping.
@odeth_negapatan1 Thanks for the support!
@odeth_negapatan1 Invest smarter, not harder, that's the goal!
Can the dashboard compare spending trends over time, so teams can whether new workflows are actually becoming more efficient?
@kate_sleeman Yes! It can show you spending trends over time. For example, you could see AI spend over time by department or AI spend over time by model.
@kate_sleeman This is a great use case! You can also pair those spend trends with GitHub output data so you can see whether it's translating into more or better output over that same period.
@kate_sleeman Yes! Your dashboards will go back to the beginning of your usage, and you can filter to a specific date range. It will also point out how you're trending for the time being so you can see if there's an outlier that you need to take action on.
What use case are you most excited about so far?!
@olyvia_ruhlmann I'm super excited for the GitHub use cases! For example, you could ask Rippling AI to build you a spend and usage dashboard that shows PRs across the team against individual usage.
This is huge for finance leaders who are trying to wrangle in AI usage at their companies.
@sander_buitelaar The control is back in your hands! Let us know what you think!
Congratulations on the new launch, so exciting to see! Do you integrate with Claude? This is what we use internally.
@stephen_gomes1 Thanks for the support! Yes, we integrate with Claude. We also connect to OpenAI and Cursor.
@stephen_gomes1 Yes! You can connect Claude Code or Claude Enterprise!