The escalating, often untraceable costs of artificial intelligence are proving to be a familiar headache for businesses, and StitcherAI is stepping in to solve it. The startup has raised $3.0M in pre-seed funding to bring financial transparency to AI spending, a challenge it compares to the long-unresolved issues of cloud and SaaS cost management.
StitcherAI's platform acts as an embedded IT Finance system, delivering real-time financial context directly into developer workflows within tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Slack, and Jira. This approach aims to empower teams to make cost-aware decisions from the outset, providing leadership with clear answers on technology investments, customer costs, and overall profitability. The founding team includes veterans of IT Finance and creators of the FOCUS open billing standard.
