Zotgpt Finops

ZotGPT is one of the clearest examples in the catalog of an API operated as a cost-control instrument rather than a revenue instrument. The unit of account is the dollar-denominated credit; the control surface is the gateway; the chargeback path is the campus Kuali Financial System. Because the gateway abstracts the upstream vendor, UCI can move spend between OpenAI, Anthropic on AWS Bedrock, Google, and Azure without any campus client changing a line of code — which turns model choice into a procurement lever instead of an application rewrite.