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“Show me the cost you could not assign, and why.”
Good answer · Lists what is unassigned and the missing detail behind each item.
Bad answer · Claims everything is assigned.
Maximize the value of every dollar spent.
Where is our money going — and is it going to the right places?
Fund & Optimize gives finance, technology and business leaders one shared set of numbers for everything the enterprise spends — people, software, contracts, cloud and AI. Every dollar starts from what finance actually booked and is traced to the teams, applications and business units that use it. The total never changes depending on who is looking, so meetings stop being about whose number is right and start being about what to do next.
Modules in Fund & Optimize
- Cost AllocationIncluded
- Planning, Budget & Forecast
- Cloud Spend Optimization
- AI Token Economics
- Workforce & Labor
- Procurement & Commitments
For CFO, CIO, business unit leaders, IT finance & FinOps
The pressure
Everyone has a number. Nobody has the same one.
Technology cost lives in one tool, the cloud bill in another, contracts with procurement, people costs with HR and AI spend in a spreadsheet. Each is right about its own piece. Put them in one meeting and the argument is about whose number is real, not what to do. Meanwhile the fastest-growing cost — AI — is charged by usage and budgeted as if it were not.
What it looks like today
- Business units dispute the IT charges they receive, line by line
- Costs nobody can assign get quietly spread around or dropped
- Plans are out of date in weeks, and actuals arrive after the month closes
- AI spend with no owner, no price per use and no limit
What changes
What changes when Fund & Optimize runs on one model.
TodayWith Dotwork
A separate tool for every kind of cost
One set of numbers, with each team seeing its own view of it
Reconciling spreadsheets as a standing job
Every dollar traces back to what finance actually booked
Overspend explained after the month closes
Overspend caught while there is still time to act, with a cause and an owner
Cloud and AI bills handled off to the side
Usage-based spend counted in the same total as everything else
One set of numbers, every view
Take any disputed charge and trace it back to where the money was spent.
Start with what finance booked. Follow it through cost categories to the applications, teams and business units that use it. Every column adds up to the same total. Costs that could not be assigned stay visible and labeled, instead of being spread around to make the chart look tidy.
Where other tools stop
Cost tools show where money was allocated, not why. Cloud tools only see the cloud. Neither can prove the total is the same in every view — or show what they could not assign.
Modules
Start where the pressure is highest. Extend without re-platforming.
Cost Allocation is included with every Fund & Optimize module. Each module after it reads the same model — so it adds context, not another silo.
Foundation · included
Cost Allocation
“Where does the money actually go — and can I trust the number?”
Trace what the enterprise spends to the services, teams and business units that use it — with every step explainable and every dollar matching finance’s books.
See the SpendTrust the NumbersBill the BusinessOwn the CostOptimize IT
Explore Cost AllocationPlanning, Budget & Forecast
“Can we still move money before the period closes?”
Budgets, forecasts and actual spend in one continuous plan, on the same numbers as the rest of the enterprise.
Plan the YearTrack the VarianceAct Before Close
Explore Planning, Budget & ForecastCloud Spend Optimization
“What is the cloud bill actually paying for?”
Assign, forecast and reduce cloud costs based on the business value they support — not in a separate cloud-cost console.
See the Cloud BillCheck the InvoiceFind the WasteFix the CommitmentsAct on the Backlog
Explore Cloud Spend OptimizationAI Token Economics
“What does this AI actually cost — and what did it return?”
The real cost of AI models, agents and AI-powered work — measured, assigned to an owner and managed in the same numbers as everything else.
Meter the SpendRun the AgentsGovern the Value
Explore AI Token EconomicsWorkforce & Labor
“Do we have the people for what we just funded?”
Capacity, roles, skills and people costs connected to company priorities and demand — so staffing gaps are priced before you commit.
Cost the LaborPlace the PeopleClose the Gaps
Explore Workforce & LaborProcurement & Commitments
“What did we buy, what have we used, and who owns the renewal?”
Contracts, purchase orders and vendor commitments next to the spend they will become, with renewal decisions made in time.
Track the CommitmentsKnow the SuppliersReconcile the Buy
Explore Procurement & CommitmentsWho it is for
The questions it answers — by the person asking.
CFOCIOBusiness unit leaderFinance and planningCloud cost leadHead of AICOO and HRProcurement
“What does technology cost to support this goal — and do those numbers match our books?
Start in
Cost Allocation
“Where are we wasting money, and what is worth fixing first?
Start in
Cost Allocation
“What am I being charged for, and why is it this number?
Start in
Cost Allocation
“Are we on budget — and can we still change course before the period ends?
Start in
Planning, Budget & Forecast
“What are we paying for and not using?
Start in
Cloud Spend Optimization
“What do our AI tools and agents actually cost — and which ones are worth it?
Start in
AI Token Economics
“Do we have the people for what we just funded?
Start in
Workforce & Labor
“Which contracts need a decision before the cancellation deadline passes?
Start in
Procurement & Commitments
What it delivers
From reporting on the enterprise to steering it.
Insights
What becomes visible
- An itemized IT bill for each business unit, matching the same numbers finance reports
- Costs nobody could assign, listed with the missing detail that would place them
- AI spend by tool, project and team — inside the total, not beside it
- The full cost of each business capability, technology and people together
Decisions
What can be decided — and revisited
- Where to move money during the period, before it closes
- Which savings ideas to act on first, ranked by value against effort
- Which AI tools and agents to expand, fix or stop — based on cost and proven results
- Which contracts to renew, renegotiate or cancel — in time
What it sits on, and what it replaces
Keep what works. Retire the manual reconciliation.
Your systems of record stay authoritative. What goes first is the reconciliation work between them.
You keep
- The cost categories and allocation rules finance already trusts (including TBM)
- Your cloud cost practices (FinOps) and standard cloud billing data (FOCUS)
- Your accounting system, ERP and HR system as the official sources
You retire — on your schedule
- The spreadsheets that reconcile one tool against another
- Standalone cost allocation and cloud cost dashboards — on your schedule
- The quarterly scramble to build a cost picture for the board
Where to land
Licensed by operating scope — not by seat.
Start in IT, one function or a division. Cost Allocation is included automatically with every module.
See how pricing worksBefore you buy
Three questions to ask any platform.
How to get a number instead of a pitch.
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“Trace this charge back to where the money was spent.”
Good answer · Charge, rule, cost category and original transaction — in one view.
Bad answer · An export to Excel.
3
“Put the cloud and AI bills in the same total as people costs.”
Good answer · One total, broken down every way, with nothing counted twice.
Bad answer · Three dashboards and a footnote.
Methods and frameworks
Runs the methods you already use.
Dotwork does not ask you to adopt a new method. The frameworks your teams run become views over the same model.
TBM
Technology Business Management: a standard way to categorize IT spend and who uses it.
FinOps
The practice of making teams accountable for what they spend on cloud.
FOCUS
The industry-standard format for cloud and software billing data.
Tokenomics
What AI actually costs per task, per team and per outcome.
The model underneath
Every module makes the next one smarter.
Steer, Fund & Optimize and Govern & Deliver all read and write the same Enterprise Operating Model. The first module you license builds the model. Every module after it adds context instead of another silo — and Dotwork AI reads all of it, stopping where the decision is yours.
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