{"type":"project","slug":"ai-spend-calculator","title":"AI Spend Calculator","status":"building","tagline":"A dashboard for making AI subscription and service spend visible.","summary":"A product experiment for tracking AI tool spend across services, categories, and time.","canonicalUrl":"https://jonathantipper.com/projects/ai-spend-calculator","markdownUrl":"https://jonathantipper.com/projects/ai-spend-calculator.md","jsonUrl":"https://jonathantipper.com/projects/ai-spend-calculator.json","launchUrl":"https://ai-spend-calculator-app.vercel.app/","launchLabel":"Open app","launchNote":"Prototype hosted on Vercel.","started":"2026","tags":["ai","dashboard","finance","tools"],"links":[{"label":"Open app","url":"https://ai-spend-calculator-app.vercel.app/"}],"image":{"src":"https://jonathantipper.com/images/projects/ai-spend-calculator.png","alt":"AI Spend dashboard with monthly spend cards, line chart, category breakdown, and top services list","mode":"screenshot"},"content":"## What it is\n\nAI Spend Calculator is a dashboard concept for making AI subscription and service costs visible in one place. It tracks spend across services, categories, and time so tool costs are easier to inspect.\n\nThe underlying problem is simple: AI spend can become invisible quickly as tools, subscriptions, and API usage spread across accounts.\n\n## What it shows\n\nThe calculator turns a vague sense of subscription creep into a pattern you can inspect by month, category, and service.\n\n## Current status\n\nBuilding. The prototype shows the core dashboard model: monthly spend, category breakdowns, service comparisons, and trends over time."}