Records needed for this question
Provider invoices, available usage exports and workload ownership.
How to investigate
Reconcile measured units to charges and identify unattributed usage before proposing a budget change.
An illustrative review decision
Shared API keys can obscure which team initiated an expense. Where workload-level evidence is absent, report unattributed usage and assign an investigation owner rather than guess the responsible department.
What can lead to the wrong conclusion?
A high token count alone does not show that the workload lacks business value.
The result to retain
A workload-attribution review; it does not assume a connected provider feed.
Apply the review in context
Technology Spend currently provides an evidence-first demo workspace with synthetic demonstration records. Production sources, tenant integrations and external actions remain disabled until explicitly connected and validated. Keep identified, reviewed, approved, implemented and confirmed savings distinct. Capability overlap is a review signal, not an automatic removal recommendation. Production evidence must remain separate from synthetic/demo records.
This guide describes a human review method, not a claim that every scenario is automatically detected or executed. Explore AuditRes Technology Spend.