The LLM Cost Attribution Kit splits your Claude, OpenAI, Copilot and Cursor invoices per user and per team, reconciles the totals to the cent, and reports cost per unit of work — in one validated spreadsheet. No platform. No scripts. No API keys.
One number from Anthropic. One from OpenAI. One from GitHub. One from Cursor. Finance asks the only question finance ever asks — who is spending this and what do we get back? — and nobody can answer, because vendors bill at the account level, every billing model is different, and two of them changed their pricing mechanics this year alone.
The result is familiar: AI budget grows quarter over quarter, nobody owns it, and the first cost review threatens every tool indiscriminately — including the ones quietly paying for themselves.
8 tabs, fully formula-driven, preallocated for 200 users × 20 teams × 8 cost components. Seat, usage, and hybrid billing. A 33-check data quality battery gates every number behind an OK status.
8 pages: the three attribution models, the allocation-basis rule that keeps your split economically valid, a vendor billing guide current to August 2026, a 30-day rollout plan, and a copy-paste email to Finance.
The full playbook in plain text — for your internal wiki, your editor, or the part of your team that reads documentation in vim.
CPUW (Cost Per Unit of Work) is a metric that expresses AI spend as the cost of one completed unit of business work — a resolved ticket, a merged pull request, a delivered report — rather than raw tokens or invoice totals. It connects LLM billing data to business output, so AI cost becomes comparable, budgetable, and attributable per team.
Why it works: tokens are not comparable across teams or months; units of work are. "$0.83 per resolved ticket" survives a budget meeting. "41 million tokens" does not. CPUW is comparable within a team over time and, cautiously, across teams that declare the exact same unit — which is why the kit computes it per team only, and shows N/A rather than zero when a team has cost but no declared output.
What CPUW is not: an ROI claim. It states what a unit costs in AI spend; it does not prove AI caused the output. That honesty is deliberate — credibility, once spent, doesn't come back.
How CPUW relates to "cost per task": benchmarks measure the cost for a model to complete a test task — useful for choosing models. CPUW is the operational sibling: the cost of a completed unit of business work, with retries, fallbacks, orchestration and human review included, measured from your own invoices. Benchmarks compare models; CPUW governs spend.
If you administer seats on two or more AI tools, the first reconciled report answers questions your leadership has been asking for months.