AI Observatory

Cost and Budget Controls

Admin-controlled budgets, model settings, limits, and ratings keep AI useful without surprise cost or unreviewed behavior drift.

Public surface

Cost and Budget Controls

AI costs should be visible, capped, and connected to quality. CRYA should know what features spend tokens, where answers help, and when to pause or review.

Budgets

Daily/monthly caps, feature caps, topic limits, and emergency pause.

Limits
Model settings

Admin-controlled provider/model, temperature, context size, and fallback rules.

Settings
Quality ratings

Thumbs, reports, answer outcomes, and support deflection signals.

Quality
Privacy cost

Spending controls should never require exposing private user data publicly.

Privacy
What belongs here
Admin viewBudget remaining, error rate, costly prompts, answer ratings, and high-risk routes.
Feature gatesAssistant, Telegram bot, creator help, support summary, and store metadata drafts can have separate limits.
Pause modesDisable AI globally, by feature, by Telegram group, or during maintenance.
ReviewHigh-cost or low-rated answers should feed the review queue.

Workflow

How this should work

A public page should explain the user path while protected state, permissions, and audit trails stay in CRYA Mission Control.

1Set budget

Admin defines caps and model settings.

2Monitor

Track usage, ratings, errors, and escalations.

3Adjust

Tune prompts, limits, and docs gaps.

4Pause safely

Use maintenance or feature gates if needed.

Related surfaces

Continue the journey

Move between public discovery, creator guidance, store trust, and support evidence without exposing private admin systems.