How savings are verified

A saving is the gap between your own baseline and your spend on the same work. The baseline is the cost of the route before the change, priced on the same price version. An audit figure is an estimate. It is never verified and never billed.

Prices are never overwritten. A ledger line records the price version used for both sides, so the saving can be checked later when list prices move.

Right-size, cascade, trimming, output control, fine-tune and a cross-provider switch change quality. Those savings are not realised until a shadow test you configured has passed. The test id is stored on the ledger line. A shadow test replays real requests on the candidate model and scores each answer against the original with a judge model on your own key. Human review runs only if you opt in. The replay is priced before it starts and stops at the cap you set, and it goes only to a provider you have connected and left enabled.

Each month the ledger is checked against your provider bill, read from a billing connector or an uploaded bill. A realised saving becomes verified only when the month's ledger cost is within 2% of that bill. Outside that, the month is disputed and is not billed until it is reconciled.

A ledger line is one of these five statuses. Only a verified line can be billed.

• estimated. Projected from a shadow test. Shown, and never billed.
• realised. Measured after the switch, before the provider bill is matched.
• verified. Realised, and the month’s ledger cost is within the bill-match tolerance.
• disputed. The ledger is outside the bill-match tolerance. Shown, and not billed.
• reversed. Shown for the audit trail. Not billed.

Only verified lines are billed. verifiedAt is set only after the bill match, when the ledger cost is within 2% of the provider bill. An open month is not billed, and a disputed month is not billed.

The fee is 15% of verified savings from each switch, for 12 months after it goes live. After that the saving drops off the fee. There is no spend-band platform fee. The fee is capped at 5% of the pre-change AI spend of the workloads we optimise (measured in your savings forecast). If we don't save you more than we charge, you pay nothing that month. That sentence is the monthly savings share only, judged on savings after the cost of quality checks. It does not apply to the usage fee.