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.
EDA spend is your largest engineering cost. It's also your least visible.
Token-based license pools are typically provisioned for worst-case demand, but real-world utilization tends to run closer to 60–70% of that capacity — meaning a genuine share of every renewal is idle headroom, not consumed value. Meanwhile, EDA vendors already track detailed, tool-by-tool and engineer-by-engineer usage across your account. Most engineering and procurement teams don't have equivalent visibility into their own consumption, so the renewal conversation starts from an uneven position before it even begins.
DesignLedger turns lifecycle, license, and IP-consumption data into auditable ledger lines a CTO and a CFO can both act on.
Renewal season is the most expensive 90 days in chip design — and the window to act closes before most teams even see the problem.
Renewal conversations typically start 30–60 days before a contract expires. The visibility needed to actually act on them usually arrives even later than that. By the time a cost problem is visible the ordinary way, most of the runway to do anything about it is already gone.
DesignLedger gives back the reaction window: the same granular, continuous visibility your vendor already has into your own consumption, mapped against actual utilization instead of provisioned peaks, updated in real time instead of at renewal.
That's not just more data — it's more time. Time to right-size before the term ends. Time to catch overages before they compound. Time to walk into the renewal as an informed buyer, not a captive one.
Six controls, one set of books
DesignLedger connects to the license servers already running in your stack and organizes what it sees into six controls — the operating language of the people who actually own the budget.
License Operations
Real-time license consumption, denial events, and token burn across every connected license server.
Optimization
Underutilized features and unused products surface before the renewal window closes, not after.
Spend Analysis
Invoice actuals reconciled against contract budget — consolidated EDA and IP spend with variance tracked across time periods.
Contract Lifecycle
AI-assisted contract and invoice parsing with automatic contract-to-invoice matching, so every EDA agreement lives in one place.
Renewal Planning
A renewal pipeline with AI-assisted, evidence-backed recommendations for every upcoming contract.
Project Economics
EDA license and IP costs attributed to individual chip design projects, in real time.
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. DesignLedger's six controls are what reconcile that exhaust into one ledger — the financial-control layer EDA 3.0 didn't have.
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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