Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200), allowable costs, monitoring readiness, and federally funded program considerations.
Federal monitors won’t disallow AI costs because you used AI — they’ll disallow them because you can’t show how the cost benefited the funded activity. A working documentation template you can paste into your file.
If you operate under federal awards, AI tool costs raise specific Uniform Guidance questions — allowability, allocability, classification, reporting, documentation. Five questions to answer before you charge anything.