FAQ
Questions a careful buyer asks
What Oabo does, how it differs from a cost dashboard, and what it takes to get to a number you can defend to the board.
What does Oabo actually do?
Oabo records every AI agent in your organization, measures the spend and the return, and produces a single defensible number that ties back to your general ledger. The number is recomputable from inputs your auditor can verify independently.
How is this different from a cost dashboard?
A cost dashboard tells you what you spent. Oabo tells you what you got — and whether the number holds up. Spend is one input; the headline is the cost-versus-return story your CFO needs to defend.
Do I have to talk to sales to start?
No. Open the sandbox with example data, then register your own agents — each one enrolls itself with a single telemetry event. You can reach a first usable number the same day.
Is it safe for regulated data?
Oabo is built for finance and healthcare teams: access is governed by nine roles with segregation of duties and business-unit scoping, every mutation lands in an immutable hash-chained audit trail you can inspect on the audit-log page, and rates are signed by your finance team. Every reporting period exports as a signed JSON audit pack an auditor can verify independently. Single sign-on is on the roadmap.
How long until we have something to show the board?
You can reach a first defensible figure in your first week. Point your top agents at the telemetry endpoint — one HTTP event each and they register themselves — add your finance-signed rates, and the headline writes itself.
What is the sandbox?
The sandbox is a fully populated Oabo workspace running on synthetic data. You can walk the whole value → governance → performance loop — agents, the cash ledger, baselines, rate cards, evaluation results, and the audit pack — before registering an agent of your own. Everything backed by demo data is labeled "Sample data" so you always know what is real.
Which systems can Oabo connect to?
Today the contract is one telemetry event: an agent registers itself over HTTP with a stable fingerprint, and spend is recorded against that identity through the same ingest endpoint — whichever provider the agent runs on (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Bedrock, Vertex, or self-hosted). Automatic ingestion from provider billing accounts and finance and people systems is on the roadmap. Oabo never writes back to your source systems.
How are roles and access handled?
Oabo is multi-tenant and org-scoped: your data is isolated to your organization, and access is governed by nine roles with segregation of duties and business-unit scoping, so a finance approver, an AI lead, and an auditor each see the slice appropriate to them. Sign-in today is email and password over standard OAuth2 token auth; single sign-on is on the roadmap.
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