These four close: cost ÷ users = cost per user, over the same 12 departments. The cards above cover the part allocated to departments; the estate's whole bill is $126,000, because 160 seats sit outside any department — see the Overview.

1 filter active Showing: May 2026 (1 month of 6) All departments All productsChange

1 filter active Showing: May 2026 (1 month of 6) All departments All products

The privacy floor survives every filter on this page. This page never names a person — named recognition exists only on Department AI visibility, where your organization's policy and each person's own choice decide it. Other teams — 2 teams shown together, so that no group of fewer than five people is shown on its own.

How the floor holds when the data is cut

There is no per-person view, screen or export for any leader to pull. Filtering is how a k-anonymous surface usually leaks: each cut is safe and the intersection of three of them is one person. So the department list offers only the already-merged rows — a small team is not an option here or anywhere else, and selecting the merged bucket shows the aggregate, never a split of it. Where a department and a product are combined, a cell below five reports “fewer than 5”: the count is withheld, the fact is not.

Saved views none yet on Chargeback analytics

Why this workspace keeps none

This is the illustrative organization — it is never written to, so there is nothing here to save. In your own tenant, naming a filter set keeps it for everyone who can open this workspace, and answers it with the numbers as they stand each time somebody opens it.

Cost by department

Counted seats at this estate’s seat price, ranked.

Counted license cost by department

current license position US$ per month Assumption

Engineering

680 counted seats across 1,550 people

$20,400 17% of the bill in these bars

Sales

600 counted seats across 1,370 people

$18,000 15% of the bill in these bars

Operations

420 counted seats across 1,020 people

$12,600 10% of the bill in these bars

Customer Success

390 counted seats across 885 people

$11,700 9.7% of the bill in these bars

Finance

340 counted seats across 650 people

$10,200 8.4% of the bill in these bars

Product

260 counted seats across 455 people

$7,800 6.4% of the bill in these bars

Marketing

260 counted seats across 540 people

$7,800 6.4% of the bill in these bars

250 counted seats across 495 people

$7,500 6.2% of the bill in these bars

Data & Analytics

240 counted seats across 425 people

$7,200 5.9% of the bill in these bars

Manufacturing

210 counted seats across 537 people

$6,300 5.2% of the bill in these bars

Supply Chain

210 counted seats across 445 people

$6,300 5.2% of the bill in these bars

Human Resources

180 counted seats across 370 people

$5,400 4.5% of the bill in these bars

Counted seats at this estate’s seat price

Evidence & data — Counted license cost by department

Comparison

These 12 bars account for $121,200 a month, which is every dollar this page can put against a named department. A long bar is a large bill, not necessarily an inefficient one — the ranking directly below sorts the same teams on how much of what they hold is actually being used.

Source & method

Microsoft license records joined to your directory.

Basis: Assumption

Accessible data

Counted license cost by department, ranked
Department	License / mo	Share of allocated
Engineering	$20,400	16.8%
Sales	$18,000	14.9%
Operations	$12,600	10.4%
Customer Success	$11,700	9.7%
Finance	$10,200	8.4%
Product	$7,800	6.4%
Marketing	$7,800	6.4%
IT	$7,500	6.2%
Data & Analytics	$7,200	5.9%
Manufacturing	$6,300	5.2%
Supply Chain	$6,300	5.2%
Human Resources	$5,400	4.5%

The shares are of $121,200, the total this page allocates to departments. A team with no counted seat row carries no bar rather than a zero one.

Product breakdown

Every paid product, sized by the seats it holds.

Paid seats by product

current license position paid seats Counted

Microsoft 365 Copilot4,200 seats (48.0%)Microsoft 365 E52,500 seats (28.6%)Power BI Pro1,050 seats (12.0%)Dyn365600 seats (6.9%)Visio Plan 2242 seats (2.8%)Project Plan 3150 seats (1.7%)

One arc per product, sized by counted paid seats

Evidence & data — Paid seats by product

Comparison

Every paid Microsoft product in this estate, sized by the seats bought rather than by what they cost. Money appears in the legend only beside a product this estate holds a real seat price for, which is Copilot. The ring itself is drawn in seats so that every product is in it.

Source & method

Microsoft license records (Organization.Read.All).

Basis: Counted

Accessible data

Paid seats by product, with each product’s share of the counted total
Product	Paid seats	Share	Spend / mo
Microsoft 365 Copilot	4,200	48.0%	$126,000
Microsoft 365 E5	2,500	28.6%	no seat price held
Power BI Pro	1,050	12.0%	no seat price held
Dyn365	600	6.9%	no seat price held
Visio Plan 2	242	2.8%	no seat price held
Project Plan 3	150	1.7%	no seat price held

The shares are of 8,742 counted paid seats across 6 products, which is the figure in the middle of the ring. A product with no seat price is counted in seats and deliberately never dollarized.

Department details

Every team this page can name, with the step it took since last month.

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Every department this page can name, with its counted license bill, its cost per head, the last month's step and the shape of its seat position.
Department	Users	Total cost	Cost / user	Change	Trend
Engineering	1,550	$20,400	$13	—	—
Sales	1,370	$18,000	$13	—	—
Operations	1,020	$12,600	$12	—	—
Customer Success	885	$11,700	$13	—	—
Finance	650	$10,200	$16	—	—
Product	455	$7,800	$17	—	—
Marketing	540	$7,800	$14	—	—
IT	495	$7,500	$15	—	—
Data & Analytics	425	$7,200	$17	—	—
Manufacturing	537	$6,300	$12	—	—
Supply Chain	445	$6,300	$14	—	—
Human Resources	370	$5,400	$15	—	—
Other teams	243	—	—	—	—

Explore detailed analysisTrends, cost per user, usage alignment, efficiency, products and variance

Spend trend

Metered consumption month by month across May 2026, each month carrying its own basis.

estimate

May 2026 is the only completed month inside May 2026 — $238,650, labeled estimate — so there is a figure but nothing yet to compare it against.

Metered consumption by month

one month US$ per month Labeled estimate

Labeled estimate — An estimate worked from real inputs, deliberately on the low side — never a measurement.

Evidence & data — Metered consumption by month

Comparison

0 of 1 month in this period are measured. A month is solid only once an export covering it has landed — the hatched bars are the honest picture of when measurement began, not a gap in the data.

Source & method

Azure Cost Management export where connected; Aristo consumption envelope otherwise.

Basis: Labeled estimate

Accessible data

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Metered consumption by month, each month carrying its own basis.
Month	Metered	Basis
May 2026	$238,650	estimate

Source: Azure Cost Management export where connected; Aristo consumption envelope otherwise As of: 24 September 2026

Cost per user

Counted Copilot license per head, by team, across every department.

assumptionView insight →

Product carries $17 of Copilot license per head, 1.5× what Manufacturing carries at $12 — not because its seats cost more, but because 260 of its 455 people hold one against 210 of 537.

Counted Copilot license per head, by team

current license position US$ per person per month Counted

Product

260 seats across 455 people · 57% hold one

$17/head

Data & Analytics

240 seats across 425 people · 56% hold one

$17/head

Finance

340 seats across 650 people · 52% hold one

$16/head

250 seats across 495 people · 51% hold one

$15/head

Human Resources

180 seats across 370 people · 49% hold one

$15/head

Marketing

260 seats across 540 people · 48% hold one

$14/head

Supply Chain

210 seats across 445 people · 47% hold one

$14/head

Customer Success

390 seats across 885 people · 44% hold one

$13/head

Engineering

680 seats across 1,550 people · 44% hold one

$13/head

Sales

600 seats across 1,370 people · 44% hold one

$13/head

Counted license cost ÷ counted headcount

Evidence & data — Counted Copilot license per head, by team

Comparison

A team is expensive per head when more of its people hold a seat, not because its seats cost more — the seat price is the same everywhere in this estate. This ranking is therefore a map of seat coverage in money, and it is a different question from whether those seats are being used.

Source & method

Microsoft license records joined to your directory.

Basis: Counted

Accessible data

Counted Copilot license per head and per active seat, by team
Department	People	Seats	Coverage	License / mo	Per head	Per active seat
Product	455	260	57%	$7,800	$17	$39
Data & Analytics	425	240	56%	$7,200	$17	$65
Finance	650	340	52%	$10,200	$16	$38
IT	495	250	51%	$7,500	$15	$37
Human Resources	370	180	49%	$5,400	$15	$45
Marketing	540	260	48%	$7,800	$14	$46
Supply Chain	445	210	47%	$6,300	$14	$53
Customer Success	885	390	44%	$11,700	$13	$45
Engineering	1,550	680	44%	$20,400	$13	$39
Sales	1,370	600	44%	$18,000	$13	$46
Operations	1,020	420	41%	$12,600	$12	$47
Manufacturing	537	210	39%	$6,300	$12	$50

Every row is a team of five people or more. Coverage is seats divided by headcount; per head divides the same bill by the same headcount.

How this is counted — 3 notes on scope, denominators and what this section cannot answer

This is a TEAM total divided by a TEAM headcount, at five people or more. It is not a per-person figure — this page holds none and no filter combination on it produces one; the only named surface is Department AI visibility, under your organization’s policy and each person’s own choice.

The apportioned consumption estimate is deliberately not divided by headcount here. That apportionment multiplies a flat per-user rate by a department size, so dividing it back out returns the same rate for every team — a column that looks like a finding and can never contain one.

1 row is not ranked here: a row is ranked only when its seat bill and its headcount are both counted and both shown. It is named in the department table below with an em dash or in words rather than a guess.

Source: Microsoft license records joined to your directory (Organization.Read.All + User.Read.All) As of: 24 September 2026

Usage vs cost

Seat use against license cost, one mark per team, sized by counted seats.

assumptionAttentionView insight →

Sales, Operations, Marketing sit in the low-use, high-cost corner: together $38,400 a month of license against seat use at or below the estate's median of 66%.

Seat use against license cost, by team

current license position x — % of seats active · y — US$ per month Counted

Team, sized by counted seatsLow use, high cost — the corner worth acting onMedian use and median cost

Evidence & data — Seat use against license cost, by team

Comparison

The dashed guides are the estate's own medians — 66% of seats in use and $7,800 a month of license. The quadrant below and right of them is where a team is using what it pays for.

Source & method

Microsoft license records + Copilot usage signals, joined per team.

Basis: Counted

Accessible data

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Seat use against counted license cost, one row per team of five people or more.
Department	Seats	Seat use	License / mo	Position
Engineering	680	76%	$20,400	Aligned
Sales	600	65%	$18,000	Low use, high cost
Operations	420	64%	$12,600	Low use, high cost
Customer Success	390	67%	$11,700	Aligned
Finance	340	79%	$10,200	Aligned
Marketing	260	65%	$7,800	Low use, high cost
Product	260	77%	$7,800	Aligned
IT	250	82%	$7,500	Aligned
Data & Analytics	240	46%	$7,200	Aligned
Manufacturing	210	60%	$6,300	Aligned
Supply Chain	210	57%	$6,300	Aligned
Human Resources	180	67%	$5,400	Aligned

How this is counted — 3 notes on scope, denominators and what this section cannot answer

Every mark is a team of five people or more. The bubble is drawn as an AREA in counted seats, so a team with four times the seats gets four times the ink — scaling the radius instead would quadruple the visual weight of a doubled quantity.

The usage axis runs the full nought to a hundred whatever the data does. Auto-scaling a percentage axis to its own spread makes a five-point difference between teams read as a chasm.

1 row is not plotted: a row is plotted only when its seat use and its seat bill are both counted and both shown, and a point is not invented for the others.

Source: Microsoft license records + Copilot usage signals, joined per team As of: 24 September 2026

Department efficiency

Every team ranked on the share of its counted seats that are working, across every department.

countedAttentionView insight →

IT runs the tightest estate at 82% of its 250 seats in use, while Sales leaves $6,300 a month on 210 seats not yet opened.

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Departments ranked on the share of their counted seats that are active. Seats, people and utilization are counted; the allocation column is the consumption budget your organization set and is never added to the license column.
#	Department	People	Seats	Active	Seat use	License / mo counted seats · default price	Per active seat counted seats · default price	Allocation consumption · set by your organization	Assigned seats ready to activate / mo
1	IT	495	250	205	82%	$7,500	$37	—	$1,350
2	Finance	650	340	270	79%	$10,200	$38	$31,500	$2,100
3	Product	455	260	200	77%	$7,800	$39	—	$1,800
4	Engineering	1,550	680	520	76%	$20,400	$39	—	$4,800
5	Customer Success	885	390	260	67%	$11,700	$45	—	$3,900
6	Human Resources	370	180	120	67%	$5,400	$45	—	$1,800
7	Marketing	540	260	170	65%	$7,800	$46	$28,000	$2,700
8	Sales	1,370	600	390	65%	$18,000	$46	$42,000	$6,300
9	Operations	1,020	420	270	64%	$12,600	$47	—	$4,500
10	Manufacturing	537	210	125	60%	$6,300	$50	—	$2,550
11	Supply Chain	445	210	120	57%	$6,300	$53	—	$2,700
12	Data & Analytics	425	240	110	46%	$7,200	$65	—	$3,900
—	Other teams Teams aggregated for privacy	243	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

How this is counted — 3 notes on scope, denominators and what this section cannot answer

Ranked on the share of a team's counted assigned seats that are in use — the one column here with no estimate and no price inside it. The two money columns are on different bases and are never added: license cost is counted seats at your seat price, the allocation is the consumption budget your organization set.

1 row carries no rank: a privacy-merged bucket or a team below the utilization join's five-person floor has no counted use to rank. They are shown with an em dash rather than dropped, so the table still adds up to the estate.

Aristo began keeping a per-team monthly seat record in April 2026. The “change since last month” column and the trend line need a second month and appear then; nothing is drawn as a flat line meanwhile.

Source: Microsoft Graph — license records + adoption signals, joined per team As of: 24 September 2026

Product utilization

Every paid Microsoft product, in counted seats — bought, assigned, and never handed to anyone.

countedAttention

Microsoft 365 Copilot carries the largest unassigned block: 160 of its 4,200 paid seats have never been handed to anyone, which is $4,800 a month at your seat price.

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Every paid Microsoft product: seats bought, assigned and never handed to anyone. Seats are counted for every product; money appears only where a real seat price backs it.
Product	Licensed	Assigned	Unassigned	Assigned share	Active	In grace	Spend / mo	Seats never given to anyone / mo
Microsoft 365 Copilot	4,200	4,040	160	96%	2,760	—	$126,000	$4,800
Microsoft 365 E5 No seat price held — counted in seats only	2,500	2,440	60	98%	—	—	—	—
Power BI Pro No seat price held — counted in seats only	1,050	900	150	86%	—	—	—	—
Dyn365 No seat price held — counted in seats only	600	520	80	87%	—	—	—	—
Visio Plan 2 No seat price held — counted in seats only	242	120	122	50%	—	—	—	—
Project Plan 3 No seat price held — counted in seats only	150	90	60	60%	—	—	—	—

How this is counted — 2 notes on scope, denominators and what this section cannot answer

Seats are counted for every paid product. Money appears only where this product holds a real price for the product — Copilot today — because an invented price makes a total look precise and be wrong.

5 of the 6 products shown are reported in counted seats and deliberately never dollarized. Their headroom is real; its value is not yet knowable.

Source: Microsoft license records (Organization.Read.All) As of: 24 September 2026

Variance analysis

What moved across May 2026, against the prior month, the prior run, your cap and the labeled projection.

projection

The largest movement across May 2026 is that seats ready to activate fell from 1,283 at the previous run on 25 August 2026 to 1,280 at this one, down 3 seats — $90 a month of license. Seats ready to activate fell by 3 while active seats rose by 3. That is the shape of activation rather than of reclamation — though the previous run did not record the paid-seat total, so the two cannot be reconciled to the seat from here.

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Movements against the prior month, the prior run, the cap you set and the labeled projection. Each row carries the basis of its weaker endpoint, and a reason only where the data evidences one.
What moved	From	To	Change	Basis	Why, where the data says so
Seats ready to activate	previous run, 25 August 2026 1,283 seats	this run 1,280 seats	−3 seats ↓ 0.2%	counted	Seats ready to activate fell by 3 while active seats rose by 3. That is the shape of activation rather than of reclamation — though the previous run did not record the paid-seat total, so the two cannot be reconciled to the seat from here.
Active seats	previous run, 25 August 2026 2,757 seats	this run 2,760 seats	+3 seats ↑ 0.1%	counted	—
Chargeback-ready cohort	previous run, 25 August 2026 1,118 people	this run 1,120 people	+2 people ↑ 0.2%	estimate	—
Next month, projected	May 2026 $238,650	projection $208,560	−$30,090 ↓ 13%	projection	A projection is what the trailing months imply if nothing changes. Fitted over Aristo's newest 3 completed metered months (June 2026 $246,780, July 2026 $258,420, August 2026 $269,760), projecting June 2026; figures are shown rounded to the dollar. It is not a forecast anybody has committed to and it is never counted as spend.

How this is counted — 3 notes on scope, denominators and what this section cannot answer

A movement between two months on DIFFERENT bases is not purely a movement in spending — one endpoint counts Aristo-mediated consumption and the other counts everything your billing export sees. Every row states the basis of its weaker endpoint, and says so in words where they differ.

Seat and cohort movements are measured between RUNS, not between calendar months, and are labeled that way. A run is when Aristo counted; the calendar is not what moved.

Estimated months are included in the comparison and marked, rather than dropped. Dropping them would leave a tidy series with a hole in it and no sign that the hole was ever there.

Source: Azure Cost Management export, Microsoft license records, and the persisted prior run As of: 24 September 2026

How every number on this page was arrived at, which filters are not offered, and what is not measured yet

Every department figure on this page is the one the Overview states. This page filters, ranks and compares them; it re-derives nothing. That is deliberate: a leader who reads one number on the summary and a different number one click deeper has stopped trusting the product, and no explanation about denominators gets that back.

Counted means read directly from your Microsoft license records or usage signals. Measured means taken from your own billing export for the month shown. Estimate means an envelope Aristo computed and labeled as one. Assumption means a default this product supplied because you have not set the real value. Projection means a labeled forward figure and is never counted as spend. Every figure carries the weakest of the words that apply to it.

Filters this page does not offer, and why.

Region and country. Aristo counts seats by region under the same five-person floor, but no money is attributable to a region — the department split is the only k-safe join this product has to dollars. A region filter would change the page and change nothing in it.
Cost center, manager and business unit. Aristo reads department from your directory. It does not read cost centers or manager chains, and a manager filter is a per-person view with a different name on it.
Active / inactive people. That is a per-person cut. This page shows teams at five people or more and offers no per-person view; named department visibility, where your organization turns it on, lives on Department AI visibility under its own policy.
License type. This is the product filter above. Aristo names the SKU as your license records name it rather than inventing a second taxonomy on top.

What is not measured yet.

Anomaly alerts stay withheld until enough measured history exists to establish a defensible baseline and threshold; ordinary variation is never promoted into a false incident.
There is no benchmark to compare this organization against on this page. Cross-organization outcome evidence exists in this product only where enough tenants have run the same move, and a spend benchmark is not one of the things it evidences.
Not every month in this period is measured. Connect a read-only Azure Cost Management export and each estimated month becomes measured, to the cent, from the month it lands onward.
Every license dollar on this page — seat bills, cost per head, department charges and positions waiting for a user — is priced at this product's default seat assumption rather than your negotiated price; metered consumption months from your billing export are measured and do not move with it. One number in Settings re-prices the license figures and turns their labeled assumptions into counted figures.
Every chart opens its exact numbers under "View the data behind this chart". Open License Report opens the report as a page. Export the department table from Where the money goes.
Per-team history begins April 2026. The month-over-month change per team appears once a second month is recorded.