AI Budget
How to configure per-category AI spend budgets in Guard, including disabling spend for a specific capability by setting its allocation to zero.
The AI budget controls how AI spend is distributed across capability categories in your Guard organization. Each category can be given a percentage allocation, and the allocations across all categories must sum to 100%. Setting a category to 0% disables AI spend for that category entirely.
Prerequisites
You must have an organizational admin role to access budget settings.
Open the budget wizard
Sign in to Guard and navigate to Settings.
Select AI Budget from the left navigation.
The budget wizard displays each capability category alongside its current allocation.
Set a category allocation
Locate the category you want to configure.
Enter a percentage value in the allocation field for that category.
Values must be whole numbers between 0 and 100.
The sum of all category allocations must equal 100%. The wizard tracks the running total and surfaces a validation error if the invariant is not met.
Repeat for each category you want to adjust.
Select Save to apply the updated budget.
Disable a category with a zero allocation
Setting a category to 0% disables AI spend for that category.
The category is hard-blocked at the governance layer — no AI calls are made for it, and it does not fall back to the platform key or any shared pool.
The zero-sum invariant is preserved: the remaining 100% must be distributed across the other categories.
A disabled category can be re-enabled at any time by assigning it a non-zero allocation (and adjusting other categories so the total remains 100%).
Considerations
Hard block, not soft limit — a 0% allocation is not a soft cap. Spend for that category is fully prevented. If a scanner or capability relies on the disabled category, it will not consume any AI budget.
No fallback — unlike categories with a positive allocation that may draw from a shared reserve depending on your plan, a zero-allocation category has no fallback path.
Audit trail — budget changes are recorded in the organization audit log with the actor, timestamp, and previous and new values.