Sample report. Halden is a fictional company and every figure here is illustrative. It shows the kind of weekly report Braid prepares; no real customer data is behind it.
Week of Sep 21–27, 2026
Spend rose 12% to 4,198. Document Intake drove most of it.
Document Intake ran at about 2.6× its usual volume on Monday and Tuesday. Braid emailed its owner, Dana Ortiz, on Tuesday morning, and it was back to normal by Wednesday. Support Copilot and Code Review Bot also grew, both for known reasons, while tracked requests rose 2%. At this pace, September ends at about 16,200, under its 20,000 budget.
Action needed A new OpenAI key has spent 156 since Fri, Sep 18 and isn't mapped to an Implementation. A Halden admin can map it in Braid. View issueThis week at a glance
What changed
vs Sep 14–20- Provider
- OpenAI
- Project
- Default project
- First used
- Fri, Sep 18
- Spent since Sep 18
- 156
- Owner
- None yet
A Halden admin can map this key to an Implementation in Braid. Until then, its spend counts as unmapped.
- Owner
- Dana Ortiz
- Provider
- Anthropic
- Model
- claude-sonnet-5
- Key
- …4f2a
- Extra spend, Mon–Tue
- about $340
- Mon, Sep 21Spend rose above its usual range
- Tue, Sep 22, 9:04 AMBraid emailed Dana Ortiz
- Wed, Sep 23, 2:15 PMDana Ortiz marked it resolved
A retry loop in the PDF parser. Fixed and deployed.
- Owner
- Alex Morgan
- Providers
- OpenAI, Anthropic
- Tracked requests
- 438K 6%
- Wed, Sep 23Alex Morgan marked this as expected
The new help center sends more chats our way. This is the new normal.
- Owner
- Jamie Park
- Provider
- Anthropic
- Tracked requests
- 46K 16%
- Mon, Sep 21Jamie Park marked this as expected
Added the billing-service repository.
- Call Summaries · Revenue281−31
- Internal Search · Engineering362−24
- OpenAI key …e7b0 · Unmapped43−19
- Sales Draft Assistant · Revenue500−17
- Ticket Triage · Support155−9
- Invoice Matching · Operations87−1
Daily spend
Choose a day for its detailTuesday, Sep 22
Busiest dayMain contributors
- Document Intake301+$191 vs usual
- Support Copilot222+$8 vs usual
- Sales Draft Assistant93about usual
- 6 others247+$10 vs usual
19:04 AM · Braid alerted Dana Ortiz about Document Intake
| Day | Support Copilot | Document Intake | Sales Draft Assistant | Everything else | Total | Usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, Sep 21 | $205 | $256 | $85 | $241 | $787 | $615 |
| Tuesday, Sep 22 | $222 | $301 | $93 | $247 | $863 | $653 |
| Wednesday, Sep 23 | $231 | $114 | $91 | $252 | $688 | $660 |
| Thursday, Sep 24 | $226 | $117 | $83 | $245 | $671 | $649 |
| Friday, Sep 25 | $219 | $110 | $83 | $236 | $648 | $608 |
| Saturday, Sep 26 | $90 | $42 | $33 | $112 | $277 | $251 |
| Sunday, Sep 27 | $86 | $39 | $32 | $107 | $264 | $237 |
Spend by Implementation
- Support Copilot1,27930%
- Document Intake97923%
- Sales Draft Assistant50012%
- Code Review Bot3949%
- Internal Search3629%
- Call Summaries2817%
- Ticket Triage1554%
- Invoice Matching872%
- Unmapped usage1614%
Spend by team
- Support2 Implementations1,43434%
- Operations2 Implementations1,06625%
- Revenue2 Implementations78119%
- Engineering2 Implementations75618%
- Unmapped usage2 keys1614%
Requests
Through Sun, Sep 27Braid adds the last seven days' average for each day left in September.
- Tracked through Sun, Sep 27
- 3.84M
- Average of the last seven days
- 150K a day
- Days left, Sep 28–30
- × 3
- Estimated month end
- about 4.29M
Counted for OpenAI and Anthropic, 91% of this week's spend. Google doesn't report request counts.
| Day | That day | So far |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, Sep 1 | 176,415 | 176,415 |
| Wednesday, Sep 2 | 179,402 | 355,817 |
| Thursday, Sep 3 | 180,678 | 536,495 |
| Friday, Sep 4 | 155,688 | 692,183 |
| Saturday, Sep 5 | 69,194 | 761,377 |
| Sunday, Sep 6 | 63,657 | 825,034 |
| Monday, Sep 7 | 78,610 | 903,644 |
| Tuesday, Sep 8 | 189,717 | 1,093,361 |
| Wednesday, Sep 9 | 186,278 | 1,279,639 |
| Thursday, Sep 10 | 183,767 | 1,463,406 |
| Friday, Sep 11 | 168,135 | 1,631,541 |
| Saturday, Sep 12 | 69,655 | 1,701,196 |
| Sunday, Sep 13 | 67,399 | 1,768,595 |
| Monday, Sep 14 | 177,905 | 1,946,500 |
| Tuesday, Sep 15 | 177,710 | 2,124,210 |
| Wednesday, Sep 16 | 184,313 | 2,308,523 |
| Thursday, Sep 17 | 176,540 | 2,485,063 |
| Friday, Sep 18 | 171,148 | 2,656,211 |
| Saturday, Sep 19 | 70,191 | 2,726,402 |
| Sunday, Sep 20 | 63,780 | 2,790,182 |
| Monday, Sep 21 | 181,940 | 2,972,122 |
| Tuesday, Sep 22 | 193,070 | 3,165,192 |
| Wednesday, Sep 23 | 184,318 | 3,349,510 |
| Thursday, Sep 24 | 175,667 | 3,525,177 |
| Friday, Sep 25 | 171,019 | 3,696,196 |
| Saturday, Sep 26 | 72,229 | 3,768,425 |
| Sunday, Sep 27 | 68,705 | 3,837,130 |
September budget
Through Sun, Sep 27Braid adds the last seven days' average for each day left in September.
- Spent through Sun, Sep 27
- 14,389
- Average of the last seven days
- 600 a day
- Days left, Sep 28–30
- × 3
- Estimated month end
- about 16,200
Those seven days include Document Intake's spike; without it, about $16,000.
The final figure comes from each provider's posted costs.
| Day | That day | So far |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, Sep 1 | $636 | $636 |
| Wednesday, Sep 2 | $649 | $1,285 |
| Thursday, Sep 3 | $645 | $1,930 |
| Friday, Sep 4 | $579 | $2,509 |
| Saturday, Sep 5 | $250 | $2,759 |
| Sunday, Sep 6 | $234 | $2,993 |
| Monday, Sep 7 | $286 | $3,279 |
| Tuesday, Sep 8 | $689 | $3,968 |
| Wednesday, Sep 9 | $675 | $4,643 |
| Thursday, Sep 10 | $678 | $5,321 |
| Friday, Sep 11 | $624 | $5,945 |
| Saturday, Sep 12 | $258 | $6,203 |
| Sunday, Sep 13 | $242 | $6,445 |
| Monday, Sep 14 | $627 | $7,072 |
| Tuesday, Sep 15 | $654 | $7,726 |
| Wednesday, Sep 16 | $671 | $8,397 |
| Thursday, Sep 17 | $651 | $9,048 |
| Friday, Sep 18 | $642 | $9,690 |
| Saturday, Sep 19 | $259 | $9,949 |
| Sunday, Sep 20 | $242 | $10,191 |
| Monday, Sep 21 | $787 | $10,978 |
| Tuesday, Sep 22 | $863 | $11,841 |
| Wednesday, Sep 23 | $688 | $12,529 |
| Thursday, Sep 24 | $671 | $13,200 |
| Friday, Sep 25 | $648 | $13,848 |
| Saturday, Sep 26 | $277 | $14,125 |
| Sunday, Sep 27 | $264 | $14,389 |
Data context
- Reporting period
- Mon, Sep 21 to Sun, Sep 27, 2026 · compared with Sep 14–20
- Data through
- Sample data through Sun, Sep 27, 11:42 PM UTC · OpenAI, Anthropic and Google
- Request coverage
- OpenAI and Anthropic, 91% of this week's spend. Google doesn't report request counts, so its 368 has no requests.
- Estimated amounts
- The month-end figures, about 16,200 in spend and about 4.29M requests. Everything else is as each provider reported it.
- Unmapped spend
- 161 this week from two OpenAI keys that aren't mapped to an Implementation (…9c1e and …e7b0). It's included in every total, as Unmapped usage.
- Sample
- An illustrative report for Halden, a fictional company. It wasn't sent to anyone, and no real customer data or live provider connection is behind it. OpenAI is included in Braid's pilot; Anthropic is planned next, followed by Google Gemini.
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