Every budget has its own narrative. By recognizing the details early on, we can transform a variance into an informed decision rather than an unexpected surprise.

The budget detail page has been rebuilt from a simple status check into a full analytical workspace. 

Where you once saw three charts, you now get a complete view built for real financial review:

• Spend vs. budget analysis - See performance against budget with the depth needed to explain variance, not just flag it.
• Projections - Forward-looking spend trajectory using the latest AI/ML models, so you know where a budget is heading before period close, not after.
• Variance drivers - Surface the specific changes in spend responsible for variance, down to the cause.
• Linked reports and materials - Attach reports from the Ternary Reporting Engine and outside materials directly to a budget, so context lives where the review happens.
• Configuration, visible in place - Review how a budget is built without leaving the page, giving all users the context of the budget.
• Flexible time horizons - Filter the entire view across any time period your review cycle requires.

This extends across the hierarchy: search finds any sub-budget instantly, and both budgets and sub-budgets can be renamed to match how Finance actually talks about the business.

Alerts now go deeper, too. Users can now subscribe to sub-budgets directly, and see every subscriber and threshold set across a budget and its sub-budgets in one place.

This is judgment infrastructure for technology investment. A budget page designed to meet the level of scrutiny your business needs to make informed decisions.

To access the new view, select Budgets from the left-hand navigation, then select any budget to explore the new detail view.

Every report contains signal and noise. The ability to separate them quickly is what turns a data table into a decision.

Limit Displayed Results brings a new level of precision to the Ternary Reporting Engine. Now available directly in the filter bar, you can limit displayed results to exactly the rows that matter. You can now filter on any measure in your query, not just the top one.

• Show Top N - surface the highest or lowest contributors across any measure
• Greater than, less than, or equal to - zero in on rows with totals that meet a specific threshold, filtering out everything that doesn't

Whether you're isolating the ten most expensive AI models, finding every product line where unit cost exceeds a target, or stripping out negligible spend to focus a board presentation, the Limit Displayed Results filter puts that control directly in the report, without post-processing in a spreadsheet.

Limit Displayed Results is available now in the filter bar of any report.

AI spend is not a single line item. It's Anthropic models running via AWS Bedrock. It's Azure OpenAI alongside direct OpenAI API calls. It's Gemini, Grok, Qwen, and a dozen other models procured through different channels, billed in different formats, and invisible to any single reporting surface.

AI Observatory is Ternary's global dashboard for AI spend and token usage. A single, governed view across every AI provider, vendor, model family, and version in your technology portfolio. This dashboard will be consistently updated to reflect the latest models.

Unified AI Schema Powering Observatory is a provider-agnostic framework that normalizes AI-specific data from every source into a standardized schema. This enables consistent querying, reporting, and analysis regardless of where the spend originates. Every record is attributed by provider, publisher, modality, input/output tokens, model, and version. Claude, ChatGPT, OpenAI's reasoning models and Whisper, Moonshot Kimi, xAI Grok, Alibaba Qwen, Zhihu GLM, MiniMax, Amazon Nova and Titan are all in one place and in the same format.

What you can do with it

• Cloud Provider AI Analysis - Break down AI spend procured via GCP, AWS, and Azure, with vendor and model-level attribution across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and more.
• AI Guardrails - Create budgets and alerts around token usage and cost by model, provider, or any dimension. Control what happens at the point of consumption, not after the invoice arrives.
• Allocate, Showback, and Chargeback - Use Ternary's Billing Rules Engine to attribute AI spend directly to the teams, products, and cost centers that incurred it.
• Custom Labels - Existing label rules apply to AI spend automatically. Create new labels to organize AI investment in ways that map to your business.

A Starting Point, Not a Ceiling. Ternary's AI Observatory is designed as a launchpad. Every report underlying the dashboard is available in the Ternary Reporting Engine, ready to be filtered, grouped, and customized to reflect the specific dimensions, models, and cost structures that matter to your business.

AI Observatory is available now. Navigate to AI Observatory in the left-hand navigation to get started.

Ternary surfaces data for Finance leaders, FinOps practitioners, and Engineering teams alike. Each reads numbers differently. Date formats, shortening conventions, negative notation, fiscal calendars: the details that make data immediately legible to one person can create friction for another.

Every user can now configure exactly how data is displayed across the platform, so the numbers you see always reflect the conventions you work in.

Data & Regional Preferences

• Date format - choose from regional formats including DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY, and more
• First day of week - align weekly views to your organizational standard
• Region preset - apply a regional default in one selection
• Fiscal calendar - toggle to use your organization's fiscal calendar instead of the standard calendar year

Number & Currency Preferences

• Convention preset - apply Finance, European, or other standard number formatting conventions in one click
• Decimal and thousands separators - configure to match your regional or organizational standard
• Shortening style - choose between K, M, MM, or full numbers depending on your preference
• Negative notation - display negatives as parentheses (1,234) or with a minus sign, consistent with how you present numbers

Every preference is set per user. To configure yours, open the menu under your name and avatar in the top right and make Ternary speak your language.

The metrics your business runs on are more specific than a single line item. A custom KPI tied to a product line. A unit cost tracked against a target. AI token consumption measured against expected usage. These are the numbers that matter, and now you can alert on all of them.

Alerts now support any measure available in a report, including custom measures. If you can report on it in Ternary, you can alert on it.

You can also create multiple alerts on the same report with each watching a different measure, with its own threshold or anomaly detection configuration. A single report can now power an entire layer of monitoring without duplication.

• Custom business KPIs - alert when a measure you've defined crosses a threshold meaningful to your business
• AI token consumption - surface anomalous token usage before it compounds into a cost problem
• Unit economics - monitor cost-per-unit measures and get notified when they drift

To get started, open any saved report in the Reporting Engine, select the Create Alert bell icon, and choose the measure you want to monitor.

Spend moves fast. A service scales unexpectedly. An AI workload runs hot. A cost category that was stable last quarter starts climbing. Alerts surface these movements the moment they happen, not when someone thinks to look.

Ternary supports two modes of alerting, now created directly from any report in the Reporting Engine:

• Anomaly Detection - a machine learning model trains on 90 days of your historical spend and flags deviations the moment daily cost falls outside its expected range. Each service, account, or dimension grouping gets its own independently trained model, so a spike in one area doesn't drown out signal elsewhere.
• Threshold Alerting - set a fixed daily spend limit on any report and get notified the moment it's crossed.

Both deliver notifications via email or Slack, so the right people are informed wherever they work.

Alerts are now created directly from the report they monitor. Open any saved report, select the bell icon at the top, and the filters, groupings, and scope are inherited automatically into your alerts. There is no separate configuration to manage and no ambiguity about what data is being watched. Set multiple alerts at different thresholds to inform the right people at the right time.

To get started, open any saved report in the Reporting Engine or create a new alert from the Alerts page located on the left-hand navigation.

Ternary Dashboards have been redesigned to make building and editing faster, more flexible, and built around a single source of truth.

Any saved report can now be added to a dashboard and configured at the widget level — change the visualization, change the grouping, adjust the date scope — without touching the underlying report or creating duplicates. From there:

• Multi-select reports to add several widgets to a dashboard in a single flow
• Drag to enter edit mode on any widget directly from the dashboard canvas
• Per-widget visualization and grouping — present the same report as a table, bar chart, waterfall, or any other visualization without creating a duplicate report
• Divider widgets to section and structure your dashboard the way a financial review needs to be read
• Updated widget headers and three-dot menu for faster access to edit, clone, and remove actions

One dataset. One source of truth. Built and edited in minutes.

To get started, open any Dashboard and select Add Widget or select Save to Dashboard from a report. All existing dashboards can take advantage of the new features, as well. 

Technology spend is a board-level line item. But until now, analyzing it the way boards expect, year-over-year with full annual context, required exporting data and rebuilding it elsewhere.

Ternary's Reporting Engine now supports viewing your spend at a yearly granularity. View your total technology investment for 2023, 2024, and 2025 in one place, or compare year-to-date figures with past years. Identify changes in spending growth, shifts, or reallocations across your portfolio.Combine it with Custom Labels and your unified technology P&L to provide the annual trend analysis the board requests.

Year-over-year is no longer a spreadsheet exercise.

To use it, open any report in the Ternary Reporting Engine and select Year from time granularity picker.

Ternary surfaces signals that matter to your business. You can be notified of budget variances, anomalies, report updates, and periodic summaries of your technology estate. Managing those signals has required navigating to each feature individually. There was no single place to see what you were subscribed to, what had fired, or what you might have missed.

That changes today.

The Subscriptions and Notification Center gives every user a unified view of their alerts and subscriptions across the entire platform, without leaving the page.

• My Subscriptions - a centralized list of every active subscription across budgets, anomalies, reports, and forecasts, with inline management. Pause, edit, or unsubscribe without hunting through the app.
• Owned Content - the place to track content that you have created throughout Ternary. Now you can see exactly who is subscribed to the content you've built — so you can assess stakeholder impact before making changes.
• Alerts History - a chronological inbox of your recent alerts with deep links directly to the relevant content in Ternary.

Access all of your notifications via the Subscriptions link from the left-hand navigation bar or if you see a notification alert in the top-right of the screen by your avatar.

Ternary pulls together technology spend across cloud providers, SaaS, AI, and custom data sources. That breadth matches the complexity of your business, but it also means a lot of dimensions to navigate. Finding the right measure, grouping by the correct dimension and applying the right filters required knowing where to look and what things were called.

The Unified Filter Experience brings a single, consistent filter and dimension picker to every view across the platform. Search by name or description, filter by data source, and browse dimensions organized into logical categories. The new filter puts FOCUS, custom labels and custom measures at the forefront, while still providing access to source keys when needed.

This makes finding the right data more accessible to a wider segment of your business. Every dimension is labeled, described, and organized. 

Admins can customize the groupings presented via the Global tab within the Admin page.