Every AI-powered company has two numbers: what they pay, and what that same work should cost. Most know the first. Almost none have calculated the second. The difference is your recoverable, a direct line to your gross margin. We calculate it in 48 hours, from your invoices and workflow descriptions. No code access. No infrastructure review.
The invoice tells you what you spent. It does not tell you what you should have spent, where that spend belongs in your accounts, or what it is doing to your gross margin. Most companies have never calculated those numbers. The gap is already in their financials.
This is an accounting problem, not an engineering one. We work from what you tell us about your spend and your workflows. The output is a document your CFO or lead investor can read without a translator.
Your invoices show what you paid. We show what those payments represent: what belongs in cost of goods, what belongs in operating expense, and what is neither because it is not generating output.
Each finding is expressed as a monthly cost, an annual consequence, and a payback period measured in working days. Not a recommendation to implement something. A calculation of what a specific gap is costing you right now.
Calculated, documented, and explained. Whether that means a reclassification or a confirmation that the number you hold is already correct. Either way, you arrive at investor conversations holding a figure that has been tested, not assumed.
Written in the register of a due diligence conversation, not an engineering review. Your CFO and your lead investor can read it without a translator. That is the point.
A structured conversation about your company, your spend, and what is worrying you most financially. Not a technical review session. No preparation needed. You will know within the first few minutes whether the audit is likely to find something material enough to matter before your next raise.
Covers your spend figures by category, the workflows your company runs, and the tools you use. No code access. No system credentials. No infrastructure review. Everything we need is captured in plain language, the same things you would tell a CFO, not an engineer.
A financial document delivered to your inbox. Every finding stated in monthly dollars, annual consequence, and gross margin impact. An optional 30-minute walkthrough is included at no charge for founders who want to discuss the numbers before a board meeting or investor conversation. If the audit finds nothing material, there is no fee.
Investors correct AI cost classifications in due diligence regardless of what your model says. The gross margin question will come. The only variable is whether you already hold a clean, documented answer when it does, or whether they produce one for you.
Your team already knows the AI landscape. What you do not have is a clean financial calculation of what your specific spend is costing you in gross margin terms, expressed in a format that survives a due diligence conversation. That is what this produces.
AI spend scales with your product. If you cannot currently say what proportion of that spend is generating proportionate output, or whether it belongs in COGS or OpEx, the next funding conversation will surface those questions before you are ready for them.
Years working inside early-stage ventures, guiding founders through due diligence, preparing investor-facing materials, and supporting companies from first cheque to seed round, made one pattern impossible to ignore.
AI spend was scaling fast across every company in the portfolio. The financial discipline around it was not. Founders heading into raises could tell investors what they paid. Almost none had calculated what they should have paid, or what the gap was doing to their gross margin. Every time that question surfaced in a due diligence conversation, it was too late to prepare a clean answer.
Rush of Read exists to calculate that number before the conversation happens.
The diagnostic call is free. The audit fee applies only if we find something material: a recoverable cost, a misclassified expense, or a gap in your cost model. If the engagement finds nothing worth paying for, you pay nothing.