SignalCost · AI spend controlCloud + Beacon One

You can’t run a business by counting tokens.

Manage AI spend by business value.

See what AI spend is for. Fund what works. Prove what paid off.

Create workspace See the product

First useful signal in minutes.

Live captureAI activity as it happensSample workspace

Requests18last 15 minutes

Topics4classified work

Decisions3allowed, routed, blocked

Request activity

What is happening right now?

Requests Blocked

Latest requests

See the work behind the spend.

Summarize renewal risk from support notesCustomer support

AllowedOpenAI · GPT-4.1

$0.07

Draft release notes from merged pull requestsEngineering

Routed localDGX · Qwen3 Coder

$0.01

Plan a personal weekend itineraryPersonal use

BlockedStopped before provider

Stopped before provider

Purpose connects each request to business workDecision shows what SignalCost did before spendCost makes the next operating choice visible

Operating modelNo provider keys to beginPrivacy-aware captureOIDC-ready workspace accessValue and ROI reportingSee how rollout works

Connect and govern leading AI providers

OpenAI

ANTHROPIC

Azure OpenAI

amazon bedrock

Gemini

GitHub Copilot

RUNWAY

Bloomberg AI

Adobe Firefly

Databricks

THE SIGNALCOST DECISION LOOP

From captured signal to accountable AI economics.

See the operating system at work: the same evidence moves from capture to context, authorization, and a receipt your teams can explain.

6 capture paths

AI work enters as private proof.

Browser, Beacon, endpoint, MCP, SDK, and OpenTelemetry sources send one minimized evidence contract.

SourceBeacon One

ProviderIdentity inferred

PayloadMinimized evidence

SignalCost proof stream01 / 04

THE NEXT MOVE

Move from usage totals to business value.

Token counts show volume. SignalCost shows what the spend was for, what should happen next, and whether it paid off.

See the work

Capture AI activity and connect it to the people, tools, and business purpose behind it.

Decide what deserves budget

Apply policy, budget, privacy, and quality rules before spend compounds.

Prove what paid off

Reconcile cost with outcome evidence before expanding to more teams, tools, or locations.

Capture coverage

Discovery comes first. Credentials are optional.

Every provider moves through a clear state so teams know what SignalCost can prove now and what an integration would add later.

Detected provider

Discovered automatically from captured traffic.

No credentials required.

Observed provider

Usage, source, employee, model, and estimated cost are visible.

Enough evidence to report.

Connected integration

Optional credentials are added for billing, routing, or enrichment.

Account access stays separate.

Manual setup is a secondary action.

Choose Add billing or routing integration only when the workspace needs invoices, exact account reconciliation, provider routing, model catalogs, or enrichment.

See provider coverage

One capture layer

Start with the path your team already uses.

One privacy-aware capture layer spans browser, desktop, agents, applications, and Beacon. SignalCost keeps the request subject, requested action or intent, and exact tenant-owned business context as separate dimensions before Company policies and cost decisions apply.

Guided browser deployment

Stage one pilot with the signed helper or prepare a validated browser-policy preview for an IT-managed fleet. SignalCost shows store, activation, and external prerequisites before rollout.

Beacon One and Cloud

Capture local or routed inference traffic, then send minimized evidence for coverage, policy, and cost reporting.

Endpoint source

Bring configured AI apps, IDEs, CLIs, and local model activity into the same coverage view.

MCP, SDK, and OTel

Bring structured agent actions and instrumented application events into the same canonical capture contract.

Review captured work in time order or by topic.

Capture Activity is the chronological record. Activity Map is a separate view of the maintained topic hierarchy. Its prompt drilldown shows linked context and activity facts permitted by the privacy mode, while bounded IDs can remain in PrivateProof when readable prompt text stays local.

See the capture walkthrough

Built for the work behind the spend

Manage AI in the language your business already uses.

Choose from 13 ready-made playbooks: Professional Services and Accounting, Legal, Finance, Real Estate, Engineering and Software, Manufacturing, Insurance, Education, Healthcare Delivery, Life Sciences, Media, Advertising and Communications, Public Sector, and Energy and Utilities. Each starts with familiar work areas, then syncs customer-owned records and uses the tenant-owned clients, matters, policies, claims, courses, encounters, studies, campaigns, programs, assets, exact tags, mappings, and corrections your company provides to organize matching AI activity.

Client → engagement → project or deliverable → review

Professional Services, Consulting and Accounting

Connect advisory, accounting, and consulting AI work to registered client and engagement context plus captured project, workstream, and deliverable evidence.

Policy: Protect confidential client work and require the engagement owner to review client-facing deliverables.
Quota + spend: Set quotas and group spend by client, engagement, project, employee, or department.
Report: Compare AI spend, time avoided, billable-value evidence, and engagement margin by client or engagement.

Accountable professionals and source systems retain billability, accounting conclusions, and client commitments.

See industry reporting Create Company account

Client → matter → work → billing evidence

Legal

Sync clients and matters from a connected legal system, then automatically organize captured AI work using exact matter metadata, prompt tags, and firm-defined rules. Classify the subject and requested action or intent separately, then connect the work through exact tenant-owned client → matter IDs using supplied matter metadata, exact prompt tags, company mappings, or an exact registered client or matter reference in authorized prompt content—then review anything unallocated.

Policy: Require client and matter context, approved providers, and attorney review before privileged work proceeds.
Quota + spend: Set quotas and allocate spend by client, matter, practice area, or matter phase.
Report: Compare request volume, AI cost, time avoided, and billing evidence by client or matter.

Your timekeeping system and responsible attorney determine billability.

See industry reporting Create Company account

Business unit → account → portfolio or fund → review

Finance

Sync entities, engagements, cost centers, and accounts, then explain where AI spend is going and keep regulated work inside an accountable review path.

Policy: Protect financial data and require review for customer-impacting work.
Quota + spend: Set quotas and group spend by business unit, account, portfolio, fund, or transaction.
Report: Compare cost per analysis, analyst time avoided, exceptions, and review completion.

SignalCost does not execute trades, approve credit, or make adverse financial decisions.

See industry reporting Create Company account

Client → property → operation, review, retrofit, listing, or deal

Real Estate

Sync properties, transactions, agents, and clients, then connect AI-assisted research, property operations, building compliance, sustainability retrofits, and content to the property or deal they support.

Policy: Protect client and property data and require licensed or qualified review for customer-facing, compliance, and retrofit work.
Quota + spend: Set quotas and allocate spend by client, property, listing, deal, transaction, or brokerage.
Report: Compare property and deal cost, operations and retrofit cycle time, listing turnaround, response time, and rework.

Licensed and qualified professionals retain responsibility for representations, fair-housing review, building compliance, and retrofit recommendations.

See industry reporting Create Company account

Product → repository → project → release

Engineering and Software

Connect AI-assisted implementation, review, testing, documentation, and operations work to registered repository and project context.

Policy: Protect source code and secrets and require accountable review for production-affecting changes.
Quota + spend: Set quotas and group spend by product, repository, project, ticket, release, or department.
Report: Compare delivery time avoided, review coverage, change lead time, and AI cost by repository or project.

Accountable engineers and approved delivery systems retain production-change and release decisions.

See industry reporting Create Company account

Plant → line or asset → work order → review

Manufacturing Operations

Connect AI-assisted planning, maintenance, quality, safety, supplier, and improvement work to registered plant, asset, and work-order context.

Policy: Protect production and supplier data and require accountable review before AI-assisted operating changes are used.
Quota + spend: Set quotas and group spend by plant, line, asset, work order, supplier, or department.
Report: Compare downtime avoided, maintenance cycle time, quality rework, and AI cost by plant or work order.

Accountable operators and approved manufacturing systems retain production, maintenance, quality, and safety decisions.

See industry reporting Create Company account

Customer or policyholder → policy → claim + property or address

Insurance

Sync customers, policies, claims, departments, and producers, classify the subject and requested action or intent separately, then resolve exact tenant-owned customer or policyholder → policy → claim context and an exact registered property address from supplied metadata, exact tags, company mappings, or exact registered references in authorized prompt content.

Policy: Use PrivateProof to retain bounded context IDs and apply Company policies with human review for sensitive or customer-impacting work.
Quota + spend: Set quotas and group spend by customer, policy, claim, quote, property, or department.
Report: Compare cost per claim, cycle time, adjuster time avoided, review, and escalation rates.

People and authorized systems retain coverage, pricing, eligibility, fraud, and claim decisions.

See industry reporting Create Company account

Institution → course → assignment or service → review

Education

Organize institutional AI work by course, assignment, student service, research project, and responsible department.

Policy: Protect education records and require educator review for instruction, assessment, admissions, discipline, and accommodations.
Quota + spend: Set quotas and group spend by institution, course, assignment, student service, research project, or department.
Report: Compare educator time avoided, feedback turnaround, review, and cost per course.

Educators and authorized institutional staff retain grading, admissions, discipline, and accommodation decisions.

See industry reporting Create Company account

Facility → service line → encounter → accountable care team

Healthcare Delivery

Connect AI-assisted documentation, care operations, patient communication, revenue-cycle, and records work to tenant-owned encounter context.

Policy: Minimize protected health data and require accountable clinical review for clinical or patient-facing work.
Quota + spend: Set quotas and group spend by facility, service line, encounter, care provider, or department.
Report: Compare documentation turnaround, clinician time avoided, review, redaction, and exception rates.

Qualified people retain diagnosis, prescribing, discharge, care-denial, and patient-communication responsibility.

See industry reporting Create Company account

Development program → study → candidate or submission → review

Life Sciences

Organize discovery, clinical, regulatory, safety, quality, and medical-affairs AI work by its funded program and study.

Policy: Protect research and safety data and require qualified scientific, medical, quality, or regulatory review.
Quota + spend: Set quotas and group spend by development program, study, product candidate, submission, safety case, or department.
Report: Compare scientist time avoided, study and submission turnaround, review, and rework.

Qualified people and source systems retain subject-safety, product-release, and regulatory decisions.

See industry reporting Create Company account

Publication or brand → story or campaign → asset → channel

Media, Advertising and Communications

Connect AI-assisted newsroom, editorial, campaign, creative, rights, and communications work to stories, brands, campaigns, and assets.

Policy: Protect confidential sources and clients, and require editorial, brand, rights, and provenance review before public use.
Quota + spend: Set quotas and group spend by publication, story, brand, campaign, content asset, or channel.
Report: Compare production time avoided, publishing turnaround, review, reuse, and correction rates.

Accountable people and source systems retain publication, brand, rights, consent, and provenance decisions.

See industry reporting Create Company account

Agency → program → service, public-health, environmental, or case review

Public Sector

Organize policy, constituent services, public-health data, environmental review, procurement, grants, rulemaking, records, enforcement, and emergency work by agency program.

Policy: Minimize protected government, public-health, and environmental-review data and require authorized or qualified review.
Quota + spend: Set quotas and group spend by agency, program, tokenized case, contract, grant, or department.
Report: Compare staff time avoided, public-health analysis time, environmental-review cycle time, case and procurement cycle time, review, and exception rates.

Authorized employees and qualified reviewers retain public-health interpretation, environmental findings, eligibility, enforcement, award, clearance, records, and public-communication decisions.

See industry reporting Create Company account

Utility → site → grid asset or outage → qualified review

Energy and Utilities

Connect AI work in operations, asset management, outage response, markets, compliance, customer service, capital projects, and OT security.

Policy: Protect critical-infrastructure data and require qualified operational, engineering, safety, and compliance review.
Quota + spend: Set quotas and group spend by utility, site, grid asset, outage, customer program, or capital project.
Report: Compare operator time avoided, maintenance cycle time, restoration support, review, and exception rates.

Qualified people and source systems retain grid, plant, pipeline, market, safety, and OT-control decisions.

See industry reporting Create Company account

Your systems supply the business context.

Connected records become tenant-only categories. Administrators review uncertain matches in one queue, correct several at once, and improve future matches for that company only.

See classification in action

Cloud + Beacon One

Start in Cloud. Add local capture where the location needs it.

SignalCost Cloud is the hosted workspace for capture coverage, policy, reporting, quotas, and cost control. Beacon One extends the same capture and decision model into a location when local review, local receipts, or optional enforcement matters.

Who

Show the employee, app, office Beacon, provider, and credential behind the request.

Work

Classify the request into a plain topic such as support, finance, sales, research, or personal use.

Allow

Decide whether the work fits company rules before the provider is called.

Run

Choose the approved service, model, local option, or Beacon path that fits the work.

Cost

Show estimated and actual spend so finance can explain what the AI usage was for.

SignalCost Cloud

One hosted workspace for AI capture, provider coverage, rules, reporting, and cost.

Create a workspace, install capture, review provider coverage, add optional integrations, set business rules, and manage AI spend without requiring Beacon hardware.

Workspace signup, billing, legal acceptance, and guided setup.
Review detected and observed providers, then connect billing, invoice, model, or routing integrations when account enrichment is needed.
Plain-English policies, quotas, Prompt Firewall, agent monitors, and tool governance.
Spend, traffic, forecasts, anomalies, reports, audit, ROI, and Savings Autopilot.

SignalCost Beacon

The small office device that helps you manage employee AI use before it turns into cost, risk, or customer-data exposure.

Reserve Beacon when you want simple local AI controls for an office, branch, or customer site without asking employees to change how they work.

Device identity, activation-code enrollment, and company/site binding.
Native browser capture installer and managed source catalog for endpoint, SDK, MCP, and OpenTelemetry adapters.
Local dashboard for activation, capture coverage, provider evidence, live traffic, health, settings, support, updates, and test decisions.
Local rule checks with optional SignalCost classifier help when more confidence is useful.

Reserve Beacon Explore Beacon

Start without a project

A clear first week, with help when you need it.

Start with Cloud, connect company identity, and stage one managed-device pilot. SignalCost shows directory sync evidence, deployment status, capture confirmation, and rollback without labeling a rollout complete before those checks pass.

See the setup path Visit support

Setup guidanceCompany SSO, directory sync, signed installers, managed pilots, and source checks.

Coverage reviewDetected, observed, and connected states explained.

Operating supportUsage, invoices, industry playbooks, and Beacon support.

Start with SignalCost

See what AI spend is for before it becomes another bill.

Start with Cloud. Add Beacon One when an office needs local control.

Create workspace Explore Beacon