The ledger for everything your design tools cost.
DesignLedger turns scattered license servers, vendor contracts, and IP consumption into one auditable set of books — the layer between engineering and finance that EDA has never had.
Every other cost center closed its books years ago. Design tools never did.
Engineering can see per-tool utilization if they go looking. Finance can see the invoice. Nobody sees the line connecting a multi-million-dollar EDA contract to which seats are actually in use, which renewals are coming in blind, or which token allotment is quietly burning down before anyone forecasted it.
DesignLedger turns lifecycle, license, and IP-consumption data into auditable ledger lines a CTO and a CFO can both act on.
Four capabilities, one set of books
DesignLedger connects to the license servers already running in the fab-to-tapeout stack and turns raw usage into something a finance team can read.
See every seat
Once a license server is connected, DesignLedger lists every registered design tool, seats owned versus seats in use, and utilization — the seats nobody is touching become visible for the first time.
Read every contract
Vendor contracts are parsed automatically, uploaded directly or pulled from a contract-management system or SharePoint, with AI recording value against each tool and flagging low-confidence terms like renewal dates for confirmation.
Forecast the burn
Usage plus contract value drives a forward view of utilization and spend, including token-based contracts, with a statistical burn-rate projection against the allotment before the budget surprise lands.
Act on it
Under-used seats, looming renewals, and over-allocated tools surface as recommendations, not just dashboards, so the conversation with the vendor happens on your terms and your timeline.
Hybrid. A lightweight on-prem agent talks to the customer's license servers — Cadence, Synopsys, and others. Everything else runs on AWS, SaaS-style.
License-usage data only. No design data or proprietary IP ever leaves the building, and the customer controls stream frequency and interval.
Corporate SSO. No new credential sprawl for a tool that's meant to reduce risk, not add to it.
The financial-control layer EDA 3.0 didn't have
The EDA 2.0 incumbents were never built to answer to a CFO. Each layer of the lifecycle, from intent through yield, generates its own license and IP-consumption exhaust — and until now, none of it reconciled into one place.
DesignLedger just joined the AiT portfolio.
We're helping bring it to the accounts already asking what their EDA spend actually buys them.
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