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Lineman and Make

Read spend, savings and alerts from a Make scenario, and use the numbers anywhere Make reaches.

What this gets you

Read your AI-coding spend, savings, allowance and cost alerts from a Make scenario, then send the numbers anywhere Make can reach: a Google Sheet, a Slack digest, a Teams message, an approval. Make's built-in HTTP module calls the Lineman API directly, so there is no app to install and nothing to keep updated. All fourteen reports are read-only, so a scenario can report on cost but never change a budget, dismiss an alert or edit a cost centre. A scenario sees only what the person who created the API key can see.

What people use it for

  • Monthly spend report for finance

    A scheduled scenario reads the spend breakdown and writes it into a Google Sheet, split by developer, repository, branch, ticket, model or cost centre. Spend reports take a window in days, up to 92, so a monthly run asks for 30. Company-wide figures need a key created by an administrator or an auditor. Finance gets the numbers without asking engineering to pull them.

  • Budget alerts where people read them

    Read the alerts report on the schedule you set and route budget breaches and cost spikes into a Slack channel or a Teams message. The alerts report needs an administrator's or an auditor's key: it returns an error to any other key rather than narrowing to one person's figures. A spike is seen when the scenario next runs, not at month end.

  • Warning before the allowance runs out

    The allowance report gives how much of your plan's monthly tokens you have used. A filter in the scenario posts a warning once usage passes the level you set. You find out before the allowance runs out rather than after.

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