AI Spend Audit

Every AI bill has a gap.
We find it in 48 hours.

Rush of Read calculates your recoverable AI spend from invoices and workflow descriptions — no code access, no infrastructure review. The report your CFO and investors can read without a translator.

No finding. No fee. · 48-hour turnaround · Seed to Series A
Current AI spend
$7,520
/month · confirmed invoices
Implied cost ~$2,100
Recoverable $4,100
Per year $49,200
The gap no one has calculated

AI spend grew fast. The financial discipline that should have grown alongside it did not.

The invoice tells you what you spent. It does not tell you what you should have spent, where that spend belongs in your accounts, or what it is doing to your gross margin.

Most companies have never calculated those numbers. The gap is already in your financials. It just hasn't been found yet.

84%
of companies report AI costs cutting gross margin by more than 6 points
AI Cost Governance Report, 2025
16x
difference in cost between the most and least efficient model choices for identical tasks
Redis LLM Token Report, 2026
15%
of growing companies can forecast AI costs within 10% accuracy
Benchmarkit / Mavvrik, 2025
The bleeding budget

At $10,000/month, roughly $3,000–$4,000 is recoverable. That is 30–40% of your AI bill not generating proportionate output.

Output-generating calls — 52%
Redundant or over-batched — 18%
Idle / overprovisioned — 20%
Misclassified in accounts — 10%
$10k–$30k/month — typical range for growing VC-backed companies
What the engagement produces

One document. Every finding in monthly dollars and gross margin impact.

01

Recoverable cost

Every potential gap identified is stated as a monthly cost, an annual total, and a payback period.

02

A gross margin figure worth holding

Where your AI costs sit in your accounts determines the number. We calculate what it actually is and document it.

03

Your AI spend, accounted for

What belongs in cost of goods, what belongs in operating expense, and what is generating no output. The foundation both findings sit on.

04

An investor section, ready to use

A section of the report drafted for the due diligence conversation, covering gross margin, cost structure, and trajectory. Yours to use as you see fit.

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Who engages Rush of Read
01

Founders heading into a raise

Investors will ask about gross margin and AI cost classification. Arrive with a clean, tested answer.

02

Founders who need a number, not advice

You know the AI landscape. What you need is the financial calculation your CFO can sign off on.

03

Anyone watching the bill grow

AI spend scales with your product. Know what proportion is generating output before the next raise surfaces the question.

Three steps. Forty-eight hours.

From first contact to final report

15 minutes

The Diagnostic Call

A structured conversation about your spend and what is worrying you most financially. No preparation needed.

~10 minutes

The Intake Form

Spend figures by category, the workflows you run, and the tools you use. No code access. No system credentials.

48 hours

The Report

A financial document in your inbox. Every finding in monthly dollars and gross margin impact. No finding, no fee.

15-min diagnostic call · free
No code access · no system credentials required
Confirmation within one business day
The founder's edge
Years working inside early-stage ventures, guiding founders through due diligence, preparing investor-facing materials, and supporting companies from first cheque to seed round, made one pattern impossible to ignore.

AI spend was scaling fast across every company in the portfolio. The financial discipline around it was not. Founders heading into raises could tell investors what they paid. Almost none had calculated what they should have paid, or what the gap was doing to their gross margin.

Rush of Read exists to calculate that number before the conversation happens. Before it compounds.

The gap between what you pay and what you should is already in your numbers. We'll find it.

No finding. No fee.

The diagnostic call is free. The Read fee applies only if we find something material — a recoverable cost, a misclassified expense, or a gap in your cost model. If the engagement finds nothing worth paying for, you pay nothing.