Onaro Introduces Meridian, a FinOps System of Record for AI Labor

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Onaro Introduces Meridian, a FinOps System of Record for AI Labor

New platform helps finance and enterprise AI teams meter usage, attribute spend, establish controls, and document the business return of AI agents

GREENWICH, Conn., September 3, 2026 -- Onaro, the agent FinOps company, today announced Meridian, a system of record for what enterprise AI labor costs and returns. Meridian is designed to help organizations meter AI usage, attribute spending to the agents, owners, workflows, and business units responsible for it, and produce the financial and operating records teams need as AI adoption expands.

As companies deploy AI agents across functions, their related costs can become fragmented among model providers, gateways, cloud platforms, and departmental tools. Only 7% of executives can demonstrate ROI from their AI investments, according to KPMG. Zylo reported that 78% of organizations experienced surprise, unbudgeted AI charges in the past year as AI spending rose 108% year over year. Meridian is built to consolidate that view for finance and enterprise AI teams, turning raw usage into an attributable record with budgets, alerts, chargeback files, cost-per-outcome analysis, and executive-ready reporting.

"Companies are effectively hiring a workforce with no payroll system behind it," said Brian Diamond, Founder of Onaro. "AI agents write code, handle customers, and move money, and almost nobody can say what they cost or who owns them. Meridian is the set of books for that workforce, not another dashboard, a record a CFO can close."

Meridian is organized around three operating needs: meter, control, and prove. It connects in read-only fashion to model providers, LLM gateways, platform billing sources, and internal systems to capture AI usage and spending. It then attributes that spend to accountable owners and workflows, helping teams identify unattributed costs, cost drift, and concentration risks. The platform supports budgets, anomaly alerts, and policy actions through existing organizational controls, while its recordkeeping capabilities support chargeback, ROI analysis, and audit evidence exports.

The platform is intended for enterprise stakeholders with different responsibilities for AI operations. Finance teams can pursue spend under management and chargeback. Executives can review ROI and board-ready reporting. Risk and compliance teams can access documented AI-estate records and evidence exports. Engineering teams can continue working within their established technology stack.

Onaro also offers a free, two-week, read-only Agent Spend Assessment. The assessment connects to a company's selected AI and billing sources, produces an Agent Spend Report, and culminates in a live CFO read-out. According to Onaro, the report may surface unattributed spend, idle agents, cost drift, attribution readiness, and identified opportunity estimates without requiring write access to production systems.

Meridian is available to corporate clients through Onaro as a managed service or private deployment, with onboarding, support, and custom integration options. The first twenty customers join a founding cohort at preferred, rate-locked pricing. Organizations can begin with an Agent Spend Assessment at https://www.onaro.io/assessment.

About Onaro

Onaro is the agent FinOps company. Its flagship product, Meridian, is a system of record for what AI labor costs and returns, designed to meter usage, attribute spend to owners and workflows, and provide budgets, chargeback, ROI evidence, and audit-grade records for finance, executives, compliance, and engineering teams. Onaro was built by Brian Diamond. The publisher of record is BrianOnAI LLC, Connecticut. Learn more at https://www.onaro.io/.

Media Contact

Brian Diamond Onaro press@onaro.io 860-800-5200 https://www.onaro.io/