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How the gate works

AI Spend Runaway & Billing-Safeguard Gate

This tool grades one AI account's spend controls against a runaway bill. Each signal is scored 0–2; the verdict is the weakest one — then a gate that can only make it worse.

The 6 signals

01Hard spend cutofftop trigger
02Spike / anomaly detection
03Key & scope hygiene
04Loop / retry circuit breaker
05Usage attribution & visibility
06Named owner & response path
SAFEGUARDED
every safeguard clean (2)
EXPOSED
weakest safeguard = 1
RUNAWAY RISK
any safeguard 0 - no hard cutoff is dispositive
No-cutoff gate · worsen-only

No hard spend cutoff is dispositive: the account reads RUNAWAY RISK regardless of the other five safeguards, because every other control only tells you after the money is already gone.

RUNAWAY RISK

Why: Five safeguards are in place, but there is no hard spend cutoff - so a leaked key or a retry loop can bill indefinitely and the account reads RUNAWAY RISK. weakest signal 0/2 · 5 of 6 safeguards in place.

Fix firstPut a real hard cutoff on the request path - a budget-enforcing gateway or prepaid credits that block the next call at your ceiling. A dashboard 'budget limit' that only emails you is not a cutoff.

A clean sheet didn’t save it. The verdict is the weakest signal — and a top trigger is dispositive on its own — so it names the one thing to fix first. Grades controls you describe, not people. No benchmark, no bills read, no money moved.