Engineering Manager

AI That Stays Inside Budget. Always.

FORG gives engineering managers real-time visibility, hard budget caps, and a tamper-proof audit trail — for every AI tool across every squad.

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1,200+
engineering teams
$47K
avg monthly savings
< 5 min
setup time
Zero
config drift

The problem

The cost sprawl problem

💸

Runaway model spend

Claude Opus quietly racked up $25K in a single sprint. Nobody noticed until the AWS bill arrived. No alerts, no visibility, no one accountable.

📊

No per-team visibility

Finance asks for an AI spend breakdown. You open six dashboards, export three CSVs, and guess. It takes a day — and the numbers still don't match.

🔒

Compliance gaps

Audit season hits. Lawyers ask for a log of every AI session and which data left the org. You have nothing. GDPR risk is real and growing.

Setup

How FORG works for EMs

01

Connect adapters

Drop one line into your Claude Code settings. Works with Cursor and VS Code too. Takes 5 minutes.

# In ~/.claude/settings.json
{
  "proxy": "https://forg.pro/engine/v1",
  "apiKeyHelper": "forg auth token"
}
02

Set team budgets

Define hard caps per team, per model, and per engineer in a single config file.

{
  "teams": {
    "platform":  { "monthly_usd": 4000 },
    "growth":    { "monthly_usd": 2500 },
    "infra":     { "monthly_usd": 1500 }
  }
}
03

Watch the dashboard

Real-time spend, budget utilisation, and flagged sessions — no extra tooling needed.

Dashboard preview

What you'll see in FORG

Monthly Spend
$18,420
↓ 14% vs last month
Budget Utilisation
73%
On track · 9 days left
Active Engineers
24
Across 4 teams
Flagged Sessions
3
Require review
Recent sessionslast 24h
UserModelTokensCostStatus
alex.chenclaude-opus-4148K$2.22Flagged
priya.nairclaude-sonnet-489K$0.45OK
tom.walshgpt-4o212K$1.27OK
sara.leeclaude-opus-4305K$4.58Blocked
dev.kumarclaude-haiku-367K$0.03OK

Before FORG vs. After FORG

Before
After
Manual Slack polls for cost data
Real-time spend dashboard
No budget alerts
Instant budget breach alerts
Audit logs in spreadsheets
Tamper-proof audit log
Different rules per team
Policy-as-code enforcement
Weekly fire-drills at month-end
Zero surprises at month-end

What's included

Built for engineering orgs

🛑

Budget Enforcement

Hard stops at team and individual level. When the cap is hit, the request is blocked — not just logged. No exceptions unless you explicitly allow them.

🔌

Adapter-First Install

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code out of the box. One config change per developer. No proxies to self-host, no infra to maintain.

📋

Audit Trail

Every session, every token, every model — logged immutably. SOC 2 ready. Export to your SIEM or compliance tool in one click.

FORG cut our AI overspend by around 60% in the first month. I finally have visibility across 8 squads without pestering anyone.
Sarah K. — Engineering Manager, Series B fintechIllustrative example. Results vary by team and workflow.

Start enforcing budgets today

Most engineering managers see their first org-level insight within 5 minutes of install. No infra required.

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