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The Usage page shows what is happening in the rooms you can reach: how often people and apps ask, what it costs, how answers are backed, and how knowledge develops. Budgets set how much a room may spend on models each month. When a budget runs out, the room’s owner asks for more and a platform admin decides.

Open the Usage page

In the navigation, select Usage. The page opens on the room you are in and covers that room and the rooms below it. To see everything you can reach, pick All rooms in the room picker. Who can do this: everyone with access to at least one room. You only see figures for rooms you can reach. Two controls change the time window of most figures: Select Show values on a figure to read its numbers as a table.

What the page shows

The top row shows Consultations for the period, with a trend line and the change against the previous period of the same length. Beside it are the counts of open high-severity findings and stale or ownerless entries, which link to the screens where you resolve them. The sections below group the figures:
Spend by room shows the total cost recorded so far. It does not follow the Period control. If some rooms could not be read, the figure says how many rooms its sum covers.

How room budgets work

A room can have a monthly budget in USD.
  • The budget counts model costs in the room: chat answers, questions from connected apps, and the small translation call that searches each question in the other language.
  • A budget can be a hard stop. Then nothing more is sent to a model once the month’s budget is spent.
  • A room without a budget of its own is paid by a parent room, and the limit of the room that pays applies.
  • On your own installation, the setup wizard can set a monthly cap for the top room. Every room below inherits it.
To see a room’s budget, open the chat in that room, select Context, and look under What restricts this task. The panel shows how much of the budget is used this month, a meter, and whether a hard stop is set. If a parent room pays, it says so and names that room.

When the budget is reached

When a room’s budget is spent and a hard stop is set:
  • A question in the chat gets no answer. Instead the chat shows a Budget exhausted card that names the room owner.
  • Questions from connected apps in that room are refused the same way.
  • The Context panel says that the budget is spent for this month.
The one-time starter credit on Ainomos cloud is a separate limit for the platform’s models. See The starter credit.

Ask for more budget

A room owner asks for a higher monthly budget with a reason. The person the limit applies to cannot raise it alone: a platform admin decides. Who can do this: room owners, in rooms that have a budget of their own.
1

Open the room's context

In the chat, open the room and select Context.
2

Fill in the request

Under the budget, enter the Requested monthly budget (USD), or pick one of the quick picks from 25 to 10000 USD. Write a Reason: what the budget is needed for. Both are required.
3

Send it

Select Request a raise. The panel now shows the open request, with the amount and who filed it, to everyone in the room.
A room can have only one open request at a time. If someone else already asked, Ainomos says so and shows their request.

Decide a budget request

Who can do this: platform admins. Budget requests arrive in the Inbox as Budget request, titled with the amount per month. The item shows the reason, Requested by, and the current Room budget.
  • Accept: the requested amount becomes the room’s new monthly budget, with a hard stop. It replaces the old amount; it is not added to it.
  • Reject: a reason is required, so the room owner knows why the room stays stopped.
Asking writes no evidence record. The decision does: it records who asked, the amount, who decided, and the budget before and after.