Changelog

What's in Layne today

Everything listed here is live in the product. No teasers, no roadmap promises.

Latest · August 2026

  • Live usage polling: vendors on a verified connector refresh every hour, each figure stamped with when it was fetched, and a metered vendor on pace to exceed its cap raises an alert before the money is spent.
  • Per-person vendor budgets: cap what one person may spend on one vendor, enforced on the card swipe itself.
  • Balance you can audit: your Layne balance now mirrors the funding account to the cent, with every fee itemized on the ledger.
  • Projections that show their math: every budget alert spells out the subscription fee, the usage so far, and the pace behind its number.
  • Declines in plain words: every declined charge explains itself in a full sentence, dated, on every surface.

Everything in the product

Core platform

  • Connect OpenAI and Anthropic to see token usage and billing next to your card spend.
  • Connect Snowflake and Datadog to track consumption-based spend as it happens.
  • Issue a dedicated virtual card for each vendor, each with its own monthly limit.
  • Every subscription and usage bill, including your AI spend, on one dashboard.
  • A month-end close pack, approvals inbox, and budget variance view built for founders and CFOs.

Visibility

  • Subscriptions, tokens, compute, seats, and credits all tracked in one consistent format.
  • A live dashboard showing every vendor with its spend and budget at a glance.
  • Reports with monthly trends, a spend heatmap, and per-vendor and per-team breakdowns.
  • Live month-to-date spend and budget consumption for every vendor.
  • Search across all your vendors and transactions from one box.
  • Download expense statements as PDF, Excel, or CSV for any period, with identical figures in every format.

Payments & cards

  • Prefer a single card? Master card mode keeps per-vendor caps on one shared card.
  • Top up your balance by card or US bank transfer.
  • Auto top-up refills your balance automatically when it runs low.
  • Every charge is checked against your rules and approved or declined in real time.

Spend controls

  • Set a monthly budget for each vendor.
  • Get warned when a vendor reaches a set percentage of its budget.
  • Hard caps decline a charge at the card network the moment a vendor goes over its limit.
  • Set one account-wide monthly cap on top of per-vendor limits.
  • Spending stops automatically once a budget cap is hit.
  • Approve or block specific merchants with your own rules.
  • Charges that jump sharply month over month are held for your approval instead of just alerting you.
  • Small charges under your chosen threshold are approved automatically, no human needed.
  • Approvals route to the person who owns the vendor or the team.
  • Define a spending policy once and it is enforced on every vendor and every charge.

Automation

  • Upload an invoice PDF or photo and the amount, date, and billing frequency are extracted for you.
  • Upload a card statement (CSV or PDF) and Layne finds the software vendors in it. The file is parsed, then deleted.
  • Cards are issued, funded, and settled without manual work.
  • Upcoming renewals appear on a calendar so nothing sneaks up on you.
  • Renewal reminders at 90, 60, 30, 14, and 7 days out, including cancellation-notice deadlines.
  • Held charges open an approval you can act on straight from an email link.

Forecasting & reporting

  • Spend spikes and first-time charges trigger alerts in Slack or Teams.
  • Get told when a vendor quietly raises its price.
  • A next-month forecast built from your subscriptions, renewals, and current run rate.
  • An early warning when a vendor is on track to blow through its budget.
  • See what each team actually costs.
  • Split a shared charge across teams.
  • Attribute spend to the features it powers.
  • Compare budget against the projected month-end, per vendor and per team.
  • Annual and quarterly fees land in the month they are billed, with a billing-cadence label on every line.

Vendor records

  • One record per vendor holding its card, usage, budget, owner, and contract details.
  • Monthly spend is archived so you can look back at any month.
  • Every important change is written to an audit log.
  • Track contract terms, dates, auto-renewal, and notice periods for each vendor.
  • Attribute every charge to a team or cost center.

Integrations

  • A catalog of more than 100 SaaS vendors ready to track.
  • Step-by-step connection guides for more than 60 vendors.
  • Vendors on a verified connector are polled hourly, so their usage figures stay fresh without opening the app. The ones still marked Endpoints unverified refresh when you open the vendor.

Price benchmarks

  • Market price ranges for vendors in the catalog.
  • See whether you pay above or below market for each vendor.

AI agent spending

  • Give each AI agent its own identity, owner, and budget.
  • Per-agent spending policies: caps, daily velocity limits, merchant allowlists, and approval requirements.
  • Agents ask before they spend: every request is allowed, denied, or held against your policy.
  • A running spend ledger means no sequence of agent requests can ever exceed the cap.
  • Roll out agent controls safely: watch decisions in shadow mode before turning on enforcement.
  • Freeze any agent instantly with a one-click kill switch.
  • Every agent decision is attributed to its task and recorded in the audit log.
  • Each agent gets its own revocable API key.
  • Any agent framework can request spend authorization from Layne through a standard MCP server.
  • An agents dashboard shows each agent’s budget standing, with one-click freeze.

Team & access

  • Three access levels: admin, member, and viewer. Money controls are admin-only, enforced at the database layer.
  • Assign a vendor and its card to a team member.
  • Members see only the vendors, cards, and spend they own.
  • Budgets per member and per team, enforced on every charge.
  • Cap what one person may spend on one vendor, enforced when the card is charged.
  • Members request new vendors or limit increases; approving applies the change automatically.
Changelog · Layne