Design-partner program

Map your AI spend to your roadmap — in two weeks.

A focused, read-only pilot: connect one tracker and your AI tools, and we'll show you exactly what your AI compute costs per ticket, epic, and team — with a budget forecast and guardrails — without a single prompt leaving your environment. Free for design partners.

Read-only · ~2–3 weeks · prompts never leave your environment · no app rewrite
Pilot outcome · your dataexample
87%of AI spend mapped to a ticket
✓ 1 over-pace epic flagged · 1 model-downgrade worth ~$5.5k/mo
Quarter forecast (from open scope)$48k ± $9k
Spend attributed so far$31k
Who it's for

A fit if this sounds like you.

Good fit

You'll get a real answer in two weeks.

  • An eng org of ~20–150 shipping real product.
  • You use Jira, Linear, or GitHub Issues with reasonable PR/ticket hygiene.
  • You run Claude Code and/or Cursor daily — and the AI bill is now finance-visible.
  • Someone — a VP/Director of Eng or a finance/FinOps lead — feels the pain.
Not yet

Probably too early if…

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    You're a solo founder or very small team.
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    You don't track work in a ticketing system.
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    Your AI spend is still trivial — there's nothing to govern yet.

Not sure? Ask us — a 10-minute look at your setup tells us fast.

The pilot

What you connect, what you get back.

Read-only and metadata-only. Outlay runs on categories, token counts, and ticket IDs — prompt content and keys never leave your environment.

You connect (read-only)

~30 minutes of setup.

  • One tracker — GitHub Issues, Jira, or Linear.
  • Your AI usage — Claude Code transcripts, Cursor admin export, and/or the Anthropic admin API.
  • That's it. No app rewrite, no proxy required to see the picture.
You get back

Your spend, on the roadmap.

  • Spend attributed to tickets, epics, and teams — with a coverage number.
  • A quarter forecast from your open scope + a budget burndown.
  • Anomaly flags and a concrete optimization-savings estimate.
How it runs

Two to three weeks, four steps.

1

Kickoff

20-minute call to confirm fit, pick the tracker + usage source, and agree what "good" looks like.

2

Connect

Read-only access; we ingest the metadata and resolve spend to your tickets. ~30 min on your side.

3

Review

We walk you through your real numbers — coverage, forecast, burndown, anomalies, savings.

4

Decide

Keep going (turn on guardrails + the optimization engine) or part as friends. Your data, deleted on request.

What success looks like

We agree the bar up front.

Coverage ≥ 60% — most of your AI spend resolves to a real ticket.
At least one actionable finding — an over-pace epic or a real downgrade opportunity.
A credible forecast your eng lead would actually plan against.
Zero prompts left your environment — verifiable by architecture.
Pilot FAQ

The practical questions.

What does it cost?

Nothing — design-partner pilots are free. In exchange we ask for candid feedback, and (if it lands) a reference. You also get influence over the roadmap and early pricing.

What access do you need?

Read-only: one tracker (GitHub/Jira/Linear) and a way to read your AI usage (Claude Code transcripts, Cursor admin export, or the Anthropic admin API). No write access, no app changes.

Do prompts or customer data leave our environment?

No. Outlay runs on metadata only — task categories, token counts, ticket IDs. Prompt text, model outputs, and API keys never reach us, and our endpoints reject any payload containing them.

What if our branches aren't named after tickets?

Then coverage from branch inference alone is low — which is exactly why Outlay also resolves the ticket from PR→issue links and an explicit one-line task tag (works even for remote/CI agents). We'll tell you your real coverage number in week one either way.

What happens to our data after the pilot?

Deleted on request at the end. Per-deployment isolation throughout; you can leave anytime.

Two weeks to a real number.

Map your AI spend to your roadmap and see exactly where it's going — and where it's about to go over.

Read-only · prompts never leave your environment · free for design partners