Allocation by business unit, team, product, or customer
Every dollar of cloud, data, and AI spend mapped
North allocates cloud, data, and AI costs across business units, teams, products, and customers, even when the underlying tagging is incomplete. Close the books faster, charge back accurately, and answer the question every leader gets asked: who spent what.
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Cost
allocation and chargeback
Allocation that closes the books
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100%
of cloud, AI, and data spend allocated (no untagged buckets)
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Hours
to close, not weeks (automated allocation)
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Any dimension
business unit, team, product, customer (your structure, not the provider's)
Stop fighting your tags to get clean allocation
Tagging never matches the way finance actually thinks about cost. Untagged resources land in a black hole. Shared services get split arbitrarily. New accounts spin up faster than the tagging policy can catch up. North allocates spend the way your business is organized, not the way your tags happen to be written, so teams get clean numbers without having to fix every resource first.
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Use Cases
One rule, any dimension
Allocate by any dimension
Map cloud, AI, and data spend to the business units, teams, products, customers, or any custom dimension your team already uses. North applies allocation rules across every provider. That includes every cloud, and other data and AI integrations. A business unit will always roll up the same way, regardless of which account or provider the spend came from.
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Your structure
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Set once
Custom dimensions defined once, applied everywhere
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Tags optional
Rules-based allocation that handles missing or inconsistent tags
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Use Cases
No manual math
Split shared costs without manual math
Shared services, common infrastructure, and platform costs get distributed across consumers using the logic your team chooses. Set the logic once, usage, headcount, revenue, or a formula of your own, and let North recalculate as the inputs change.
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One logic
Custom splits for shared cloud, data, and AI services and platform costs
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Your formula
Allocation logic by usage, headcount, revenue, or custom formula
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Stays current
Automatic recalculation as usage and inputs change
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Reports both sides trust
Chargeback and showback your team can trust
Send each team a monthly view of their cloud, data, and AI spend, broken down the way they care about it. North produces chargeback reports finance can defend and showback views engineering can act on, all from the same allocation logic.
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For finance
Monthly chargeback reports ready for finance review
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For engineering
Showback views built for engineering and product teams
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One source
Same allocation logic across every report and dashboard
One strategy, every team
For Engineering
See exactly what your team spent and why, down to the service and account. Catch unexpected inference or workload charges before they hit the chargeback report.
For Finance
Close the books on infrastructure spend without chasing engineering for tag fixes. Every dollar is allocated, defensible, and ready for the board deck.
For resellers
Allocate client spend cleanly across accounts and services. Monthly chargeback reports go to clients without manual reconciliation.
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Just try it, it's easy to adopt and the value is immediate. You will regret not using it sooner.”
North took 5 minutes to setup and showed me we could save 40%. To this day, it's the fastest & clearest demo of ROI I have ever seen in business.”
The flexibility and ease of integration really stood out. If someone told me from the start it would be this easy to try, use, and save, I wouldn’t have believed them. But it is. And the savings are real.”
Allocate every dollar across your cloud, AI, and data spend
FAQs
Frequently asked questions about cost allocation and chargeback.
How do you optimize cloud resource allocation?
Consistent rules and a shared allocation model across tools matter more than any single tagging fix. North.cloud applies one allocation logic across every cloud and every connected platform, so a business unit rolls up the same way no matter where the cost came from.
Is there a way to do chargeback and showback without perfect tags?
Yes. Chargeback usually breaks down wherever tagging is incomplete, since untagged spend has nowhere to go. North.cloud's allocation rules handle missing or inconsistent tags directly, so a chargeback or showback report doesn't depend on every resource being tagged first.
How do you track AI token spend across providers?
AI spend usually sits in a separate bill from the cloud it runs on, which makes it hard to allocate the same way. North.cloud's integrations library brings Anthropic and OpenAI usage into the same views and allocation rules as cloud spend.
Can I split a shared AI or data platform account across multiple teams?
Yes. North.cloud supports integrations for Snowflake, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Datadog, which can be split by usage, headcount, revenue, or a custom formula.
Can I allocate and chargeback cloud spend for multiple clients?
Yes. North.cloud rolls each client's cloud, AI, and data spend into its own group with its own allocation logic, so one client's setup never affects another's, whether the spend is infrastructure, AI, or data. Customers can also get a branded statement for each client, with their logo in place of yours, so the report looks like it's theirs.