LP Diligence
What is AI actually costing your portfolio companies?
Full-stack cost per outcome per workflow. Not just LLM bills. Total cost including compute, embeddings, infrastructure, retries.
Responsible AI
Responsible AI is a measurement problem.
Every AI agent runs on compute. An agent that retries five times uses five times the electricity for a single outcome.
botanu measures the cost-to-outcome of every agent, every retry. Cutting AI waste cuts emissions. The same data layer is the foundation for Scope 3 disclosure under ISSB and EU CSRD.
The Pillars
Five Pillars of Responsible AI at botanu.
LP Diligence
What happens when AI costs scale from pilot to production?
5-10x cost scaling tracked in real time. Budget alerts, cost anomaly detection, P99 tail risk analysis, and threshold-based governance.
ESG & Emissions Alignment
Cut Scope 3 emissions from AI compute.
AI compute has a carbon footprint. By reducing retries and waste, botanu directly cuts Scope 3 emissions from portfolio AI use. Measurable, reportable, aligned to ISSB and EU CSRD.
Governance & Auditability
A complete audit trail, ready on demand.
Every AI action is logged with full provenance: which model, which vendor, which retry, at what cost. GPs get a complete audit trail ready for LP diligence at any time.
ILPA RAI Guide
What are the GP's controls around AI use at the fund level?
Real-time cost monitoring, outcome measurement, vendor attribution, audit trails, and threshold-based alerts across the portfolio.
Foundation
Why measurement is the foundation.
Most responsible AI frameworks ask the right questions but leave GPs with qualitative answers. botanu provides the data layer that turns policy commitments into evidence.
When an LP asks how AI costs are controlled, botanu doesn't offer a policy document. It offers a live dashboard. When an auditor asks about AI risk, botanu doesn't describe a process. It exports a log.
This is the difference between responsible AI as a promise and responsible AI as a practice.
Responsible AI isn't a policy statement. It's a measurement system.