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Know what AI costs. See what you get back.

Understand spending, share budgets and connect AI use to the work it supports.

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Plan AI and people together. Give your team more capacity with AI taking on routine work.

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The impossibility of measuring AI productivity

I wanted a way to tell whether AI was making work better. I ended up arguing with ticket counts, cost accounting and my own assumptions. This is the method I would test, and the long list of reasons to be careful with it.

Buy tokens, rent GPUs, or own the rack?

Open-weight models are now good enough to make self-hosting a financial question rather than a capability one. I modelled four options, an office rack, colocation, rented GPUs and per-token APIs, to find where each one actually wins. The answer turns on utilisation, and it isn't the one the internet keeps giving.

Start with the work All use cases

Understand AI spending and value

See where the budget goes and what the business gets back.

Share one AI budget across your tools

Fund people, teams and projects across connected services.

Give your team more capacity

Reduce the preparation, checking and follow-up around recurring work.

Connect AI use to delivered work

Follow AI activity into projects, code and business results.
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Will Hackett

About me

I’m Will, co-founder and CTO of flowstate (we’re hiring). Mostly software, AI and economics. Occasionally a minor inconvenience becomes an essay with sources.

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