One model
MagicOrange holds all three families on one model, with the people counted in the same terms as the cloud bill.
Someone else runs it and you pay on a meter.
You bought it and it depreciates.
The trace
A general ledger posting knows a vendor and an account. It doesn’t know which application the money powers or which business unit uses it. MagicOrange supplies the missing steps.
Every figure walks back through each allocation that made it, to the ledger line, the invoice or the metered event underneath. When a business unit disputes its recharge, the share of technology cost billed back to it, the answer is a trace rather than a rebuild.
Almost every organization can read a bill. Far fewer can say what each part of it was for. Allocation, chargeback, showback, attribution and cost assignment are one job under many names, and that job decides whether a number gets used or gets argued about.
Costed with an automated Bill of ICT, TBM-aligned, with cross-agency transparency.
A Leader in The Forrester Wave™: IT Financial Management Software, Q2 2026.
Forrester gave MagicOrange its top score for cost transparency model building, and for allocation, chargeback and showback.
Forrester describes All-Back as a way to trace cost impacts up and down the entire cost transparency model in one user-friendly view.
MagicOrange has “the cleanest cost transparency model-building interface in this evaluation.” The Forrester Wave™: IT Financial Management Software, Q2 2026.
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The calculation engine
Actuals, allocations and unit costs come from rules in the calculation engine. A language model can summarize a figure or answer questions about it, but it never produces one, so every figure an assistant shows you ties out.
See how AI Studio worksFrom visibility to value
MOTEF, the MagicOrange Technology Economics Framework, runs every spend category through the same six moves. The first is visibility and the last is value, and the four between are the bridge.
Every cost from every source, in one model, on shared definitions.
Cost in the unit the business manages: per trade, per claim, per customer.
Budget and forecast on the model that holds the actuals.
Decide what to scale, redesign or retire, on evidence.
Budgets, thresholds and alerts that act before the invoice arrives.
Book the result to a ledger line, so the value reconciles to the same books as the cost.
Value only counts when it lands on a ledger line.
Savings, new revenue and avoided spend are easy to claim and harder to book. The Tokenomics Foundation framework names five places value can land: new revenue won, revenue retained, spend removed, spend avoided and capital freed.
Six capabilities
Adding a second capability adds a view, not a second version of the truth. The model that measures this year’s spend also plans next year’s, so the forecast and the result stop being two conversations.
What technology costs, pre-built on TBM.
Model any cost, on your framework or ours, and defend every number.
Cloud cost management, FOCUS-native, allocated daily.
Budgets, forecasts and what-if scenarios across financials, workforce, contracts and capex.
The labor cost nobody else captures, from plan to timesheet to allocated cost.
Token, model, GPU and agent cost, and the return on AI investment.
Included with every capability
They are included, not sold. They are never priced as capabilities, and they are never an add-on.
The agent-ready foundation under every capability: context, business rules and trusted data in one governed model.
Power BI, conversational analysis and an open API, all reading the one model.
A digital workforce you can audit, working on your own governed model. Included, not an add-on.
Standards
The model follows the TBM taxonomy, normalizes cloud billing to FOCUS and works to the FinOps Framework. MOTEF, MagicOrange’s own framework, holds all seven categories of spend on one model.
One structured taxonomy for technology and finance, built into the model.
Managing cloud and technology spend, and how MagicOrange supports it.
One normalized billing format across every hyperscaler, with token-level fields being defined now.
The MagicOrange Technology Economics Framework: six moves, from seeing the cost to proving the return.
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