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Chargeback is only as credible as the labels beneath it. Spend without a department, product, or budget code sits outside the unified technology P&L and outside anyone’s accountability. AI raises the stakes further as boards want to know what an AI investment returns, and answering that requires cost and revenue in the same frame.

Ternary’s MCP server now answers both questions in plain language, from the AI assistant your team already uses. ERPs are technology-blind and FinOps tools are Engineering-owned. These two new tools extend Ternary’s judgment infrastructure, built for Finance, into every conversation about technology investment:

Every figure is period-close compatible. Unallocated spend is defined exactly as a “not set” filter in the Reporting Engine, so the numbers reconcile to your reports. AI cost comes from Ternary’s own classification of each billing row, not from service names or tags. When revenue is missing for the period, Ternary reports AI cost alone and names the gap rather than estimating a ratio. That is finance-grade attribution, held to the same rigor as every other line of the P&L.

Connect the Ternary MCP server to your AI assistant and ask, for example: “How much of last quarter’s spend has no department label?” or “Show AI cost against revenue by product.”

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Finance plans, forecasts, and reports live in spreadsheets. The Ternary add-on for Google Sheets brings Technology Investment Intelligence directly into that workflow. Budget models, variance analyses, and board materials now run on finance-grade attribution, not pasted values.


Add-on or MCP: same data, different destination.
The add-on is deterministic: the complete report lands in cells, identical for every user and refreshable on demand. You can also use Ternary's MCP to help you build and save a new report and then import it with the Sheets add-on for complete, audit-ready numbers.

Open any Google Sheet → Extensions → Add-ons → Get add-ons → search \"Ternary\", then connect with your Ternary API key. Or install from the Google Workspace Marketplace.

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Since launch, the Ternary MCP server has let Finance and FinOps ask any AI assistant questions against live technology P&L data. No more exports or stale CSVs. That was read-only by design: the assistant could see everything you could see, and nothing more.

Now it can do something with what it finds. When an assistant surfaces an answer worth keeping, like a budget at risk or a cost driver behind a dashboard swing, it can save that query as a report directly in Ternary, so it's there for the next period-close review without you re-create it by hand.

What's new:

Same governance model as before: OAuth-authenticated, permission-scoped to exactly what the requesting user can already see. No new access, no new risk surface, just a shorter distance between a question and an ROI decision.

Access: Already connected? These tools are available now. Otherwise, learn how to connect your AI assistant.

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AI spend is growing fast, and most of it arrives unattributed. Your business needs to go deeper than the top-line total, understanding which team, project, or product is driving that cost. AI provider invoices don't carry that detail on their own, but your LiteLLM gateway already does: every request is priced and tagged by team, key, and model.

Ternary now documents a direct path to bring that gateway detail into your unified technology P&L. Point LiteLLM's built-in FOCUS export at a bucket you control, ingest it through Bring Your Own Data, and pair it with your AI provider invoice in the Billing Rules Engine: the invoice supplies the dollars, the gateway supplies the proportions. The output is a zero-sum reallocation of real invoiced spend across teams and cost centers that is reconciled to the bill, not estimated.

Requires a self-hosted LiteLLM proxy (v1.98.0+) writing its FOCUS export to a GCS or S3 bucket.

Learn how to get started with our LiteLLM AI Gateway guide.

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AI assistants are now the first place people go to ask questions about their business, including questions about AI and technology spend. The problem comes when someone asks \"what did we spend on AI last quarter,\" the assistant either guesses, or someone pastes in a CSV that's already stale by the time it's answered. That's a governance gap: judgment made on secondhand data, outside any controls, outside your permission model.

The Ternary MCP server closes it. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code, or any MCP-compatible assistant directly to your live technology P&L. No more exports, copy-paste, or shadow spreadsheets standing in for the system of record. Data spans every Custom Label, Custom Measure and provider integrated into Ternary. Ask questions of your data from Anthropic, AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Databricks, Snowflake, MongoDB Atlas, OpenAI, and any custom source brought in via BYOD.

Ask it things like:

What it does:

Learn more on how to connect your preferred AI assistant here.

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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:

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.

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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.

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.

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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

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.

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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

Number & Currency Preferences

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.

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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.

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.

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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:

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.

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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:

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. 

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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The Waterfall chart is the native language of financial accountability. It communicates cost movement to the business and the board. By bringing this construct into Ternary's Reporting Engine, technology spend is now expressible in the same format applied to headcount variance, real estate cost bridges, and capital allocation reviews.

What you can do with it

How to access it

Open any report in the Ternary Reporting Engine, select Waterfall from the visualization picker. Finance-grade attribution of your technology investment is just a click away.

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Custom Labels are only as powerful as the people who can use them confidently. Until now, only admins could see the logic behind a label. This left every other user in the Ternary Reporting Engine to interpret cost categorizations without context or understanding of the logic behind them.

All Custom Labels now carry descriptions available to all users. These descriptions are authored either by the admin who built them or generated directly from the underlying rule logic by AI. When anyone interacts with a Custom Label throughout Ternary, the intent and logic behind that label is visible, in plain language, right where they need it.

The result is that every cost categorization in your technology estate is now self-documenting. Consistent interpretation, across every user, every report, every review.

To add a description, open any Custom Label, enter your description manually or select Generate with AI to derive it from the rule logic automatically. To view the description, hover your mouse over the (i) icon next to the Custom Label name when viewing a filter.


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We’ve added support for defining dependencies between Custom Labels.

What’s new

Why it matters

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We’ve introduced a new table view to better represent hierarchical data in reports.

What’s new:

Why it matters:

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We’ve expanded Custom Metrics to support building formulas across aggregated values.

What’s new:

Why it matters:

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