Resolve every dollar
of software spend.

Axiom Layer reconciles software, device, contract, license, and AI usage evidence across finance, identity, cloud, DevOps, and RouteShift data — then turns each mismatch into an owned workflow.

Composite scenario. Names changed.

v 1.0 · Reconciliation ledger

Scope · identity, finance, usage

00The premiseWhy this exists

Every organization runs on software it has forgotten about.

Layer starts where procurement, SSO, expense data, and usage logs disagree. It maps OAuth grants, licensed seats, corp-card charges, hardware assignments, contract renewals, and RouteShift AI usage back to the owner who can act on them.

Axiom Layer is the instrument that resolves them. It connects to your SSO, finance system, billing tools, SaaS APIs, and asset records — then reconciles every charge against a real person, a real team, and a real pattern of use. If it survives reconciliation, it is owned. If it does not, it is drift.

Act I·The discovery

One employee. Three evidence trails. One owner that did not exist.

RouteShift's first scan with Layer surfaced the mismatch that finance, identity, and usage logs could not explain alone. The headline was not the count — it was the unresolved owner. Scroll the story.

01 / Subject

Meet Sarah Chen.

Software Engineer II at RouteShift. 18 months in. EMP-3318. Layer connects Brex, Okta, GitHub, RouteShift, and the connector catalog — then rebuilds her spend profile from evidence, not survey data.

02 / SaaS ledger

Her SaaS bill looked fine.

The known tools were on corporate workspaces, under existing owners, and tied to expected teams. Finance had charges. IT had SSO. Nothing looked urgent until usage entered the ledger.

03 / AI · the gap

Then Layer looked at her AI usage.

A model vendor was being reimbursed through receipts, but the workspace did not exist in SSO. No owner, no contract, no RouteShift budget policy, and no audit trail.

04 / Outlier

One vendor jumped out.

Layer matched the vendor charge to API activity and routed it as an outlier. The issue was not the tool; it was that spend, identity, and policy were split across three systems.

05 / Drilldown

Layer attributed every token.

Layer attributed billed requests, input, output, cache reads, project tags, and RouteShift policy context back to a single team. The vendor moved from "miscellaneous expense" to eng/ai.

06 / Signal

The owner was missing.

The workflow was legitimate, but the approval chain was not. Layer created the ownership trail finance, security, and engineering needed before the next billing cycle.

07 / Reconciled

All before standup.

Scan complete. The flag landed with the engineering manager, finance owner, and IT admin. By the next review, the workspace had SSO, budget policy, and a real cost center.

01020304050607scan · 04:18 UTC

RouteShift · Employee spend

Sarah Chen

Software Eng II·EMP-3318·resolved owner

Known SaaSOK

Owned

finance + SSO

AI · usageGap

Unowned

policy missing

1 · SaaS line itemsMonthly $

Notion·Business

$15.00

Linear·Standard

$14.00

Figma·Professional

$15.00

1Password·Business

$8.00

GitHub·Enterprise seat

$21.00

2 · AI · model usageMetered · 30d

Model vendor·API workspace

receipt

OpenAI·workspace

owned

Google·AI Studio

owned

Anthropic·Claude

review

Act II·The pattern

What looked like one outlier was the leading edge of a curve.

Layer rolled Sarah's drilldown up. The chart below is a sample of what came back: approved usage stayed visible, while unmanaged usage sat outside the policy lane. The coral line is where Layer raised a flag. The cyan line is what SSO would have caught — except SSO is not always where AI tools log in.

Engineering · AI spend · 6 mo

engineering · sample roll-up

Approved usage stayed flat while unmanaged usage escaped policy.

sample outlier · unmanaged

approved baseline

actual · all sourcesapproved · SSO + finance

Signals · what Layer saw

signals · ranked

The signals that proved it.

Mar 14

AI coding tool activated on engineering laptops via personal expense

MDM + finance evidence

Mar 22

Model API workspace billed to corp cards · no SSO link

expense receipt + identity gap

Apr 02

Usage spike tied to one project, owner unresolved

API metering + RouteShift policy

Apr 18

Rate-limit warnings appeared outside the approved workspace

usage webhook · team review

May 04

Unowned AI spend routed to finance, IT, and engineering

Layer reconciliation · finance ↔ usage

The pattern Layer found

Engineering AI spend wasn't growing linearly. It was growing in step functions — every time a new model dropped, one engineer would adopt it on their personal card, then twenty. SSO never saw it. Finance saw aggregate spend but couldn't attribute it. Layer joined the two.

The pattern you have

Probably the same. some engineering AI spend is unattributed until finance, identity, and usage are reconciled. Layer surfaces it in your first scan — and keeps surfacing it as new tools land. The instrument doesn't care whether it's AI, design tools, or productivity. It cares whether it survives reconciliation.

Act III·The reconciliation

Three sources of truth. One ledger. One action.

Layer's job isn't to flag — every dashboard flags. Layer's job is to resolve. Each vendor gets matched against the finance ledger, the identity provider, and the SaaS itself. The axiom is whatever all three agree on.

Source · finance

Brex · vendor ledger

Anthropic, Inc.$1,846.70

CardholderSarah Chen

Card··3318

Charge date04 May 26

GL code6020 · SaaS

Verified · 1 / 3

Source · identity

Okta · sign-in log

Anthropic consolenot configured

Workspace—

SSO domainmissing

Last sign-in—

Coverage0%

Missing · 0 / 3

Source · vendor

Model vendor · usage API

Accountsarah.chen@…

PlanAPI workspace

Spend, 30dmatched

Requestsmetered

Usagetracked

Verified · 2 / 3

↳ Result

Vendor confirmed. Spend matches between finance and vendor. Identity is missing — Anthropic is paid for but not under SSO. Layer's recommended action: enroll Anthropic in Okta, convert the personal-card subscription to a workspace plan, and reclassify $1,846.70 from Sarah's expense to Eng AI tools.

Apply · 1 click

What Layer just did

Joined three independent sources of truth in real time. Confirmed a vendor exists, confirmed how much is being paid, confirmed exactly what is being consumed — and surfaced the one gap that mattered: nobody owns this. A finance dashboard would have shown the charge. An SSO dashboard would have shown nothing. Layer shows both, and what they imply together.

What you'd do next

Click Apply. Layer routes the workflow to IT for SSO enrollment, to the cost center owner for re-classification, and to Sarah for the workspace migration. The audit trail is automatic. The next time the same pattern shows up — and it will — Layer applies the same fix without asking.

Axiom Layer is the system of record for software spend — reconciling finance, identity, and usage into a single ledger you can audit, attribute, and act on.

Evidence surfaces reconciled: finance, identity, usage, contracts, devices, RouteShift

Endpoint agents required for the first SaaS and spend scan

Owner paths: IT, finance, and the accountable team

Connectors across identity, finance, cloud, DevOps, HRIS, and MDM

04The connectors62 sources · 38 one-click

We pull from every source a charge can hide in.

62 integrations across identity, MDM, mail, finance, cloud, DevOps, and HR. The 38 one-click OAuth connectors link in seconds and unlock deeper, write-capable reconciliation — the rest connect by read-only API key. No agents, no service-account sprawl.

One-click OAuth · deeper, write-capable access (38)API key · read-only sync (24)

OAUTHOKOktaIdentity

OAUTHENMicrosoft Entra IDIdentity

OAUTHGWGoogle WorkspaceIdentity

OAUTHOLOneLoginIdentity

OAUTHJCJumpCloudIdentity

OAUTHPIPing IdentityIdentity

OAUTHDUDuoIdentity

OAUTHOSOkta SSOSSO

OAUTHGSGoogle SSOSSO

OAUTHSAGeneric SAMLSSO

OAUTHGMGmailMail

OAUTHM3Microsoft 365 MailMail

OAUTHINMicrosoft IntuneMDM

JFJamfMDM

KJKandjiMDM

MOMosyleMDM

HXHexnodeMDM

ADAddigyMDM

CSCrowdStrikeSecurity

S1SentinelOneSecurity

TNTaniumSecurity

QLQualysSecurity

OAUTH1P1PasswordSecurity

LVLevelEndpoint

OAUTHBXBrexFinance

OAUTHRPRampFinance

OAUTHQBQuickBooksFinance

OAUTHXOXeroFinance

NSNetSuiteFinance

BLBill.comFinance

EXExpensifyFinance

STStripeFinance

OAUTHGCGoogle CloudCloud

OAUTHAZMicrosoft AzureCloud

AWAWSCloud

CFCloudflareCloud

DODigitalOceanCloud

OAUTHGHGitHubDevOps

OAUTHGLGitLabDevOps

OAUTHBBBitbucketDevOps

OAUTHJRJiraDevOps

OAUTHLNLinearDevOps

OAUTHSNSentryDevOps

DDDatadogDevOps

PDPagerDutyDevOps

OAUTHSLSlackCollaboration

OAUTHMTMicrosoft TeamsCollaboration

OAUTHZMZoomCollaboration

OAUTHNONotionCollaboration

OAUTHCNConfluenceCollaboration

OAUTHASAsanaCollaboration

OAUTHFGFigmaCollaboration

OAUTHDBDropboxCollaboration

OAUTHBOBoxCollaboration

OAUTHZDZendeskCollaboration

OAUTHRIRipplingHRIS

OAUTHGUGustoHRIS

WDWorkdayHRIS

BHBambooHRHRIS

DLDeelHRIS

NWNetwork scanNetwork

MECisco MerakiNetwork

Identity (7)SSO (3)MDM (6)Endpoint (1)Security (5)Mail (2)Finance (8)Cloud (5)DevOps (8)Collaboration (10)HRIS (5)Network (2)

05PricingStart free · scale later

Priced per headcount. No per-connector tax.

Every plan reconciles the full stack. You pay for the size of the org Layer keeps honest — not the number of tools you connect.

Free

Start with Google Workspace. No card required.

Up to 25 employees
Google Workspace connector
Asset discovery dashboard
Weekly digest reports

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Starter

$299/mo

For teams getting serious about IT visibility.

Up to 50 employees
All connectors
Full reconciliation suite
Email alerts & CSV export

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Spend control, plus compliance — on the same reconciled data.

Axiom Layer is the system of record. Pair it with Axiom Codex and the connections Layer already maintains auto-evidence SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI DSS controls — no second integration pass.

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Axiom Layer

IT asset & spend reconciliation

SaaS discovery, hardware tracking, license management, contract extraction, shadow-IT detection, and spend attribution — all from read-only OAuth.

Axiom Codex

Compliance automation

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI DSS on autopilot. Uses live data from Layer to satisfy controls and generate audit-ready evidence.

axiomcodex.io →

07QuestionsEverything else

The things people ask before they connect.

Axiom Layer is the system of record for your software stack. It discovers every SaaS subscription, hardware device, OAuth grant, and license, then reconciles each charge against finance, identity, and usage — so you can see exactly what you run, who owns it, and what it costs.

08 · Get started

Run your first reconciliation in five minutes.

Connect Okta, Brex, and one SaaS API. Layer surfaces your version of Sarah Chen on the same day — and the pattern behind her by the end of the week. No procurement. No deployment. No agents.

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