Run Cost ControlOperated by Reality Contact, LLC

AI workload cost controls

Connect each model bill to the run that created it.

Request a secure intake for the free one-week replay. You receive a reconciled attribution table and a concrete view of where one known overrun could have warned, paused, or stopped.

Free one-week cost replaySee the paid continuation
Example result

Run 8F2 cost boundary

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  1. Customercust_184Pseudonymous business identifier supplied by the application.
  2. Featurecatalog-enrichmentThe product path that initiated the work.
  3. Current cost$18.42Runtime estimate awaiting provider reconciliation.
  4. ControlPaused at $20The buyer approved a pause before the next model request.
The example shows how one run connects cost, elapsed time, and an approved intervention; a real ledger uses only the buyer's records.

The invoice arrives after the software has already decided to spend.

Provider dashboards can show total usage by project, key, or model, while the application knows which customer, feature, and run initiated each call. When those records never meet, an owner can see that spend increased without seeing which work caused the increase.

An alert alone does not control a loop. The runtime needs approved request, duration, error, and cost boundaries at the point where it can still preserve state and decline the next expensive action.

The free replay follows one week of usage from the record.

After secure intake, the review joins the provider export to the identifiers already present in request logs, reconciles the result to the available cost total, and leaves every unmatched item visible.

One known incident is then replayed against proposed thresholds. The result shows when a warning or stop would have fired, which work would have paused, and what evidence an owner would need before restart.

What comes back from the record

A reviewed table assigns one week of provider usage to the identifiers already present in the logs, reconciles the result to the available cost export, and replays one known overrun to show where a proposed warning or stop would have fired.

Turnaround: The free replay arrives within two business days after a readable export and matching log sample are received.

The installed controls follow the same record.

  1. Attribute

    Provider usage is joined to approved run, customer, feature, model, and job identifiers, with unmatched cost preserved as an exception.

  2. Bound

    Versioned request, duration, error, and spend thresholds are assigned warning, pause, or stop actions at buyer-approved intervention points.

  3. Replay

    A human runs controlled incidents, checks alerts and preserved state, and records the evidence required for an approved restart.

There is already a market for this work.

The links below show existing providers and public reports from people who have dealt with the same problem. A source supports only the statement printed beside it.

SourceOpenAI exposes separate organization usage and cost endpoints and recommends the cost endpoint for reconciliation to billing.SourceAWS Budgets can apply an approved or automatic action when a cost or usage threshold is exceeded.SourceCloudZero sells allocation of AI and cloud costs by customer, feature, team, and other business dimensions.ProviderCloudZero: A custom price quote is available for the subscription.ProviderPortkey: The Production plan is listed at $49 per month, with enterprise pricing available by quote.

Why the check is free

The replay is free because Reality Contact, LLC is testing whether teams with variable AI workloads need attribution and intervention controls rather than another aggregate spending chart.

Free one-week cost replay

A reviewed table assigns one week of provider usage to the identifiers already present in the logs, reconciles the result to the available cost export, and replays one known overrun to show where a proposed warning or stop would have fired. The free replay arrives within two business days after a readable export and matching log sample are received.

Do not send private links or files through this form. If the service fits, a person will reply with a secure intake method and written deletion terms before you share private material.

Operated by Reality Contact, LLC. Prices are in United States dollars, and refund conditions appear beside the paid implementation. The work is technical implementation and operational documentation, and it does not replace financial, tax, legal, or investment advice. Provider exports can arrive late or be revised, so runtime estimates remain estimates until the ledger reconciles to the provider cost record.

Answers for the questions around this decision

Questions before you send anything

What do I send?

Do not send private documents or links through the public form. If the service fits, a person will reply with a secure intake method and written deletion terms before you share any material.

What comes back for free?

A reviewed table assigns one week of provider usage to the identifiers already present in the logs, reconciles the result to the available cost export, and replays one known overrun to show where a proposed warning or stop would have fired. The free replay arrives within two business days after a readable export and matching log sample are received.

Where does the service stop?

Reality Contact, LLC implements measurement and buyer-approved technical controls, but does not choose product budgets, set customer pricing, move money, access production secrets through the public form, or promise a particular savings amount. The buyer approves identifiers, budgets, thresholds, and intervention permissions, then decides when the measured workload can restart under the installed controls. The work is technical implementation and operational documentation, and it does not replace financial, tax, legal, or investment advice.

Will the public form accept billing exports or logs?

No. The public form collects contact information only, and a person sends a secure intake method and written deletion terms after confirming that the service fits.

Can you stop production automatically?

Only an action class that the buyer explicitly approves can stop or pause work, and every control is tested in a replay before production use.

Free one-week cost replay

A reviewed table assigns one week of provider usage to the identifiers already present in the logs, reconciles the result to the available cost export, and replays one known overrun to show where a proposed warning or stop would have fired. The free replay arrives within two business days after a readable export and matching log sample are received.

Do not send private links or files through this form. If the service fits, a person will reply with a secure intake method and written deletion terms before you share private material.

Operated by Reality Contact, LLC. Prices are in United States dollars, and refund conditions appear beside the paid implementation. The work is technical implementation and operational documentation, and it does not replace financial, tax, legal, or investment advice. Provider exports can arrive late or be revised, so runtime estimates remain estimates until the ledger reconciles to the provider cost record.

Operated by Reality Contact, LLC.

The buyer approves every budget, threshold, intervention permission, and restart decision.

Refund conditions are stated beside the paid implementation price.

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