AI tool provenance and spend governance
Every prompt, every PR, every dollar.
Ink records every prompt, diff, and dollar from your coding agents, then rolls it up across your team and your org. Install once. AI spend governance based on outcomes. Know what you're getting for your money.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Exceeds-AI/exceeds-ink-downloads/latest/install.sh | shIn the dashboards
The questions Ink lets you ask of your AI engineering.
Conversion funnel
Where does AI work fall off?
Track every generated edit from prompt to merged PR. Spot the stage that loses the most lines.
Model mix
Which models are eating spend?
Share of total AI dollars by model, agent, and provider.
Live totals
What does today look like?
Spend, commits, hours, and turns — pulled from every tool.
Spend allocation
Which features cost the most?
Roll up by feature, repo, or squad. Find the rework hotspots before they compound.
Governance (in beta)
One policy. Every agent obeys.
Admins define the rules in one place. Ink enforces them on every machine, inside every agent, at the moment of use.
Cap spend per engineer, team, or org. Soft warnings before hard stops.
Approve providers and models once. Unapproved ones never run.
Adjust models and allowances based on an engineer's history in orchestration, code quality, and other Exceeds-tracked signals.
Block traffic to endpoints you have not vetted, per repo or org-wide.
Write policies in plain language. Ink turns them into rules and enforces them like any other.
$ claude
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✓policy.checkmodel=claude-fable-5 approved
✓tool.invokeedit app/billing/retry.ts +64 −12
▲budget.noticeteam=platform $412 of $500 weekly cap
✕budget.stopcap reached new sessions paused until Mon
✓session.commitsha=41c9f2 in-flight work lands safely
Getting started
One command and you're live.
Run the install command
Paste it into any terminal. Nothing to configure, no agents to touch.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Exceeds-AI/exceeds-ink-downloads/latest/install.sh | shVerify it anytime with
exceeds-ink verify.Connect your account
The installer opens web.exceeds.ai in your browser to link this machine. No account yet? You create one right there.
Your 7-day org trial begins
Free for the whole org. Data starts flowing within about 15 minutes.
Installing at the org level? Silent install for IT teams ↓
What Ink does
From your terminal to the boardroom. Same data, different lens.
Per-agent capture
Different agents. The same normalized stream.
For the engineer: every prompt, edit, and mode change, tied back to the exact lines that shipped.
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exact capturedeterministicComplete session capture with exact token counts and costs. Every prompt, mode switch, and diff deterministically attributed to the lines it produced.
15 minutes
Install once. Provenance on every commit.
One command. No agents to reconfigure. Ink attributes every AI-written line to its agent, model, and prompt, starting with your next commit.
You
Your sessions. Your skills.
Every line you ship, traced to the prompt that wrote it. A personal record of your sessions, plus a prompting coach that runs in your own agent.
Team
Patterns that move across the team.
See which prompts produce code that survives review. Roll up by team or repo. Transfer skills from your strongest engineers to the rest of the team.
Org
Adoption, cost, and compliance.
Spend per agent, adoption per team, AI-authored percentage per repo. One number for the board. A privacy posture your CISO can verify.
Security, privacy, governance
Code on the machine. Prompts on the laptop. Notes you can verify.
Source code, prompts, and transcripts stay on the developer's machine until you turn on rollups.
When data flows, it carries an HMAC-SHA256 signature using a machine token you can revoke in one click.
Aggregate-only capture, per-repo allowlists, retention windows, server-side prompt redaction. Set once, audit anytime.
Deployment
Local. Self-hosted. Or hosted by Exceeds.
Bring your own Postgres or use ours. Same binary, same Notes, same dashboards — your choice on where they live.
Data points
Hundreds of metrics, pulled from one stream.
Every prompt, diff, mode, model, and cost — joined, normalized, and ready for the question you haven't asked yet.
Engineers see which prompt wrote each line. Managers see which patterns work. Execs see where the AI dollars went.
For IT teams
Rolling out to the whole org?
Deploy silently through Jamf, Intune, or any MDM. Non-interactive install with no user prompts and no reboots. Engineers just see their data show up.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Exceeds-AI/exceeds-ink-downloads/latest/install.sh | sh -s -- --silentRuns unattended on managed machines. SSO, SCIM, and audit controls are covered in the deployment guide.
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Run Ink on your machine in 15 minutes.
One command. No agents to reconfigure. No data leaves your laptop without your say-so.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Exceeds-AI/exceeds-ink-downloads/latest/install.sh | shPrefer a walkthrough first? Request a demo.