# Know which team every dollar belongs to.

> Steery’s cost-allocation mission reads your cloud bills, AI model usage and SaaS invoices, and finds every cost that names no team, product or customer. It proposes an owner for each from tags, projects and usage, and splits shared costs by a rule you choose. Tags and billing settings change only after your Go.

- Mission: **Every dollar we spend has an owner** (Steery template `every-dollar-has-an-owner`): Each cloud, AI model and software cost is assigned to the team, product or customer it serves.
- Waitlist: 100 places: https://steery.dev/waitlist
- Page: https://steery.dev/missions/cost-allocation

## How it actually works

Steery is not another AI agent. The person's own Claude Code, Codex or omp does the work, on their machine and plan, with the MCP servers and CLIs they already use: AWS Cost Explorer, Google Cloud billing, Azure Cost Management, OpenAI, Anthropic, Steery usage, Ramp, Brex. Steery is the companion that steers it:

- **The agent** (you): does the work with your own tools.
- **Steery**: one mission table of every item, its owner and its state, shared by the team and its agents; news from their tools wakes you.
- **The person**: approves the calls that matter, signed on their phone. This mission's rules:
  - Read-only in every account; never change tags, labels, budgets or billing settings without your Go on the exact change.
  - Never share one team’s costs outside this workspace.

## Set it up for your person

Steery needs its apps before a mission can start. Do these in order:

1. Ask your person to install the Steery Mac app, https://steery.dev/downloads/Steery.dmg, and open it. It installs the `steery` runtime and connects this harness. If they cannot use the Mac app, read and follow https://steery.dev/install.md instead.
2. Ask them to install the Steery iPhone app, https://testflight.apple.com/join/Px7xdt92, and sign in. That is where they answer the calls that matter.
3. Once both apps are signed in, ask them to open `steery://adopt/every-dollar-has-an-owner`, or to press New mission › "Every dollar we spend has an owner" in the Steery app.
4. Steery starts a session on their Mac that looks at their tools read-only and asks them a few questions, one at a time.

## One item, start to finish

1. **A cost names no owner.** OpenAI usage · project “default” · $3,180 this month. From cloud billing, AI model usage pages and SaaS invoices, read-only.
2. **One row per cost.** OpenAI · project “default” · Unassigned. With its vendor, kind, monthly cost and evidence.
3. **You approve the owner.** Assign these 2 costs? → Assigned both. With the evidence for each proposed owner.
4. **Every dollar has a home.** Search product · $3,180 a month · assigned. Assigned a cost, and unassigned spend drops.

## Steery vs CloudZero, Finout, Vantage or Cloudchipr

| | What it does | Who acts | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steery | Proposes an owner for each cost, tags after your Go | Your own Claude Code, after your Go | [Waitlist: 100 places](https://steery.dev/waitlist) |
| [CloudZero](https://www.cloudzero.com/pricing/) | Cloud cost intelligence and unit costs | You, from its reports | No public price |
| [Finout](https://www.finout.io/pricing) | Cost allocation across cloud, SaaS and AI | Rules you set up | No public dollar price |
| [Vantage](https://www.vantage.sh/pricing) | Cloud cost reports with virtual tagging | Rules you set up | Free to $2,500 of spend, then $30 or $200 a month |
| [Cloudchipr](https://cloudchipr.com/pricing) | Cloud cost visibility and automation | Automations you set up | $49, $189 or $890 a month |

Prices from each vendor's own page, checked 17 October 2026.

## Questions

**Is this an AI agent Steery built?** No. Your own Claude Code, Codex or omp does the work, on your machine and your plan, with the MCP servers and CLIs you already use. Steery is the control plane on top: a mission table your team and agents share, news that wakes your agent, and your Go on the calls that matter. You buy no CloudZero or Finout or any other SaaS for this. It is you, your Claude Code and Steery.

**How do I allocate OpenAI and Anthropic costs by team?** Start this mission and name your AI providers. It reads usage by project and key, proposes the team each belongs to from where the calls come from, and records it after your Go.

**How do I allocate untagged cloud costs?** The mission finds resources with no owner tag, proposes an owner from who launched them and what uses them, and adds the tag only after your Go.

**Is Steery a CloudZero alternative?** For giving every cost an owner, yes, at a public price. CloudZero and Finout go deeper on unit economics and dashboards.

**Does it change tags or budgets?** Only after your Go on the exact change. It is read-only everywhere else.