The thirteen managers (§5.13, §5.14) are part of your company's subscription plan, the way modules are. Which managers your plan includes decides which of them exist for your company at all:
- A manager your plan includes appears under Company → AI & Capture → AI managers with its own switch, off until you turn it on — exactly as the earlier sections describe.
- A manager your plan does not include does not appear there at all — no switch, no panel, no duties. It is not switched off; it is not part of what your company runs. If your company needs it, the answer is a plan change, or your platform operator can grant that single manager to your company as an add-on without changing the rest of your plan.
- As a guide to the standard plans: the entry plan carries no managers; the middle plan carries the Inventory Manager as a pilot; the top plan carries all ten. Your own plan may differ — the Features tab shows what you actually have.
Budgets come in three layers. Each manager's monthly budgets (§5.13) are decided by the first of these that speaks: your company's own figure beside the switch, if you set one; otherwise your plan's default for that manager; otherwise the manager's standard budget. That is why two companies can run the same manager with different budgets — and why raising your own figure beside the switch always works, whatever the plan says. All of this sits on top of your plan's overall AI allowance, as before.
Seeing what a manager has used. A manager's panel on its cockpit now shows its usage at a glance: this month's narrations and runs against the budget in force in the panel header, and a usage line under it with the last six months, month by month — so a briefing that arrived with numbers only, or a budget that ran out mid-month, can be checked against the record in seconds. The figures are the actual recorded usage, nothing estimated.
How managers improve (the operator's side, in brief). Managers are maintained centrally by your platform operator as packs — the written job description, patch and budgets of §5.13. Before a revised pack may go live, it must pass a set of golden questions: fixed test questions with known right behaviour — quote only the governed figures inside its patch, show its workings, refuse questions outside its patch. A revision that fails stays unpublished and the previous version keeps working; a version that misbehaves in service can be rolled back immediately, without waiting for tests. You never have to do anything for this — it is why a manager can get better over time without ever getting loose.