Cognocient sits between your code and the AI providers you call — OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and others — and stops spend before it happens, not after. Most cost tools tell you what you already spent. Cognocient enforces a budget before the request goes out. If a call would break a limit, it's blocked at the proxy, not flagged in a dashboard three days later. Built for teams running agentic workflows, where a single bad loop can burn a month's budget in an afternoon. Cognocient gives you real-time cost attribution down to the request, pre-request budget enforcement, controls built specifically for agentic loops, and FOCUS 1.1-compliant reporting so the numbers reconcile with the rest of your cloud spend. Cognocient attributes every LLM API call by feature, team, and model in real time, then enforces budgets before costs exceed limits, not after. One-click waste recovery. Board-ready PDF reports. AI Efficiency Score for the C-suite. Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, Groq, and more. Setup in 2 minutes, no code changes required. Bootstrapped, built in public, and still early. If you're spending real money on LLM APIs and have been burned by a runaway bill, this is for you.