Infrastructure for AI Work

AI tools are becoming
contributors to your business.

Is your company ready to manage them?

AI tools, copilots, and agents now work alongside your team — generating code, closing deals, running processes. But unlike human contributors, they have no operating system managing their cost, output, or governance.

AI Governance Dashboard
Live
AI Governance Score
81
/ 100 ▲ +4 this week
Moderate governance · improving
Leakage 37% Policy: Emerging
Attribution
63%
Focus
100%
Policy
78%
Vendor
88%
Attributed
$0.049
Unattributed
$0.028
Total
$0.077

The Canister extension is the telemetry layer. It captures AI activity and spending signals across every tool your team uses. The platform turns those signals into governance — attribution, budgets, policies, and ROI measurement.

The shift

From cost lines to contributors

Where we are
AI as a cost line
Subscription fees. API invoices. A growing number on the CFO's report with no attribution, no ROI, no governance.
The transition
AI as a managed contributor
AI tools attributed to projects, measured by output, governed by policy — treated like the high-value contributors they're becoming.
Where we're going
AI as investable capital
AI spend allocated like investment — with measurable returns, efficient deployment, and capital flowing to what works.
3.2×
Enterprise AI spend growth in 2025 — from $11.5B to $37B in one year
Menlo Ventures, 2025
80%+
of workers use unapproved AI tools, including nearly 90% of security professionals
UpGuard, Nov 2025 · 1,500 respondents
30%
of enterprise leaders say they're wasting money on redundant AI software
Zapier/Centiment, Oct 2025 · 550 execs
7 hrs
lost per team member per week to AI-related inefficiencies
GitLab DevSecOps Report, 2025 · 3,266 respondents
Who this is for

Built for the teams accountable for AI work.

Finance and Engineering see the same AI contributors through different lenses. Canister speaks to both.

Finance Teams
Govern AI spend across the organization.
Track AI vendor spending across every team and department.
Implement governance policies and budget controls for AI tools.
Understand how AI tools impact operational costs and ROI.
Answer the board's AI investment questions with real data.
Engineering Leaders
Understand how AI contributes across every workflow.
See how teams use AI tools across projects and workflows.
Identify tool fragmentation and AI adoption patterns by team.
Ensure AI resources are attributed correctly and used effectively.
Set spending limits and allowlists for agents and workflows.
The problem

AI work has no operating system.
Every other contributor does.

Human labor has Workday. Software has Vendr. Real estate has a facilities team. AI contributors have nothing — yet they're your fastest-growing cost line.

01
No cost attribution

AI spend happens across dozens of tools, teams, and projects simultaneously. Many companies discover significant AI spend that is unattributed or unmanaged — with no project link and no explanation for the finance team.

Critical
02
No output measurement

Spend goes in. Work comes out. Nobody connects them. Attributing AI work to projects and workflows is currently a manual, inconsistent process — which means ROI is a guess, not a number.

Critical
03
No policy enforcement

Only 35% of AI tool adoptions go through proper approval channels. Without the ability to enforce policies for AI tools and agents, your organization is running contributors you've never hired and can't govern.

Critical
04
No agent governance

AI agents and autonomous workflows increasingly consume company resources — compute, API calls, third-party services. As agent usage grows, this becomes your largest ungoverned contributor with no existing controls.

Emerging
How it works

Capture. Attribute. Govern.

Capture AI activity and spending signals. Attribute AI usage to projects and workflows. Enforce policies and allocate AI capital intelligently.

1
Capture
AI activity and spending signals

The Chrome extension detects every AI tool session and captures usage signals — time, cost, tool, user. Shadow AI surfaces automatically. Two minutes to install, zero config.

Chrome Extension Virtual Cards Agent Cards
2
Attribute
AI usage to projects and workflows

Connect your work systems. Canister attributes AI spend to the right project, team, and cost center — and correlates it with what was actually produced. Cost per PR. Cost per deal closed.

GitHub Linear Jira Salesforce
3
Govern
Enforce policies and allocate AI capital

Set vendor allowlists, project attribution requirements, and AI resource budgets by team. Connect your financial systems. The CFO gets the first honest view of AI ROI — and the data to invest more in what works.

QuickBooks Xero NetSuite Payroll
Virtual Cards

Controls for every
AI contributor.

Governance without enforcement is just a dashboard. Virtual cards make policies real — for employees and for agents.

Employee Cards
One card per employee. Full attribution, automatic.

Every employee gets a Canister virtual card for AI tool purchases. Spend is attributed to projects automatically. No manual categorization. No end-of-month reconciliation. Finance has a clean line of sight from day one.

Per-employee cards Auto-attribution Team budgets Vendor allowlists
Agent Cards
One card per agent. Spending limits that actually work.

As AI agents consume API credits, compute, and third-party services autonomously, Canister issues per-agent virtual cards with hard spending limits. Agents that exceed budgets stop — automatically. No runaway costs.

Per-agent cards Hard limits Real-time alerts Workflow caps
What we measure

The signals that belong
in a CFO report.

Not activity metrics. The financial and governance signals that answer the board's questions about AI investment.

MetricValueStatusWhat it tells you
Efficiency Leakage
37%
Critical
Share of AI spend with no attributable output — shadow tools, idle sessions, unassigned usage. Canister-observed across early customers.
AI Governance Score
81
Good
Composite score across vendor discipline, attribution rate, policy compliance, and focus. Your single AI health number.
Cost Per Output
$0.34
Track
AI spend per unit of work produced — per PR merged, ticket closed, deal influenced. The number that replaces cost-per-seat.
Shadow AI Rate
22%
Critical
Sessions on unapproved tools using company data. Shadow AI breaches cost on average $670K more than sanctioned AI incidents. (IBM, 2025)
Vendor Sprawl
14
Watch
Distinct AI tools detected across the org. 28% of enterprises now use more than 10 AI apps. Most companies are surprised by this number. (Zapier, 2025)
Policy Maturity
Emerging
Watch
How close your org is to enforceable AI contributor policies — not just visibility, but actual control over who works and how much they cost.
AI Capital Management

Stop managing AI spend.
Start investing it.

Budgets and policies are the floor. AI capital management is the ceiling — allocating AI investment to the contributors that generate the best return.

Eliminate AI waste

Identify idle tools, redundant subscriptions, and unattributed spend before it compounds. Most companies find significant savings in the first 30 days.

Redundant vendor detection
Idle session identification
Unattributed spend recovery
Allocate AI investment intelligently

Know which AI tools generate the best cost-per-output. Shift budget toward contributors that work. Build the data foundation for every future AI investment decision.

Cost-per-output by tool and team
ROI comparison across vendors
Investment reallocation recommendations
Enforce governance as AI scales

Set vendor allowlists, attribution requirements, and agent spending limits. Governance that scales with your AI contributor count — not just a policy document.

Vendor allowlists by team
Per-agent and per-workflow limits
Programmable policy enforcement
Build readiness for more AI capital

Companies that can demonstrate AI ROI attract more investment in AI — from boards, from leadership, and eventually from capital markets. Canister builds that data foundation from day one.

Board-ready AI ROI reporting
12-month efficiency benchmarks
Capital allocation case-building
Programmable Governance

Infrastructure, not a dashboard.

Canister exposes a programmable interface so internal systems and AI agents can query governance signals directly — before they spend.

Internal tools, CI pipelines, and AI agents can query Canister's governance API to check budget status, enforce policy constraints, and retrieve spend attribution — before making decisions that cost money.

Available signals: AI spend by project and team · Vendor usage breakdown · AI Governance Score · Budget policy enforcement · Shadow AI detection · Agent cost attribution

Canister Governance API MCP Compatible
// Check budget before agent runs
POST /v1/policy/enforce
 
// Response
{
  "governance_score": 81,
  "budget_remaining": "$2,400",
  "policy_status": "compliant",
  "leakage_rate": 0.37,
  "shadow_ai_detected": false
}
The roadmap

Governance today.
Capital allocation
tomorrow.

Once you have 12 months of AI efficiency data, you can make capital allocation decisions nobody else can. Which tools generate the best return. Which teams deploy AI most effectively. Where to invest more — and where to stop.

Canister builds that data foundation from day one. The governance infrastructure today becomes the investment intelligence tomorrow.

Canister Platform Roadmap
AI Spend Governance
Capture, attribute, and govern AI activity
Now
Virtual Cards for AI
Per-employee and per-agent spending controls
Now
AI Capital Management
ROI measurement and investment reallocation
Capital Readiness Reports
Board-ready AI investment benchmarking
AI Resource Financing
Capital for AI infrastructure based on efficiency data
Future
Our thesis
Every company will need this.
Nobody has built it yet.

Every other material contributor to your business has management infrastructure. Human labor has Workday. Software has Vendr. AI contributors have nothing — yet they're growing faster than any of them.

The infrastructure doesn't exist. We're building the category.

Why now
Enterprise AI spend grew 3.2× in 2025 alone. Boards are asking for ROI. CFOs have no answer. The window is open — and closing.
Why us
We started with the telemetry layer — the extension that sees every AI session in real time. That data moat is something no one else has.
Roadmap
Governance today. Virtual cards now. AI capital allocation and financing once we have 12 months of efficiency data nobody else owns.
For whom
CFOs at companies where AI contributors are material and growing — and where nobody has answered the ROI question yet.
See what Canister finds
in your environment.

We'll show you what's actually happening with AI work in your org — attribution gaps, shadow tools, waste — in 20 minutes. No pitch deck. No sales cycle.

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