The situation
An agency sells hours. Copy, design, research, and revisions all land on a timesheet, and the timesheet decides whether the account is profitable.
Writers started drafting with AI a year ago. Designers followed. Nobody logged it, because nobody was asked to. The subscriptions come out of three different card statements and the account leads have no idea which of their margins improved.
The question the partners keep asking is simple. We are spending on AI. Which accounts got cheaper to serve, and by how much.
What runs where
Vendor account
The two writing and design subscriptions the studio pays for, including everything the team does in the browser.
Developer machines
The three engineers who build client microsites and run coding sessions on their own laptops.
Managed fleet
Every company laptop reports through one file your fleet manager deploys. Staff cannot switch it off.
What Oabo shows in the first 30 days
- One list of every AI subscription the agency pays for, with the seats that never sign in.
- Cost per account, so a retainer that consumes four times its share of AI spend stops hiding inside the total.
- Hours absorbed by drafting and revision work, kept in their own register and never converted to dollars.
- A quality grade on each claim, so a partner can see which numbers are evidenced and which are still a guess.
What to expect
Two units, two blocks. Cash is money your ledger moved. Capacity is time your people got back. Oabo never adds them together.