Numbers only where they belong

This page explains why two people can open the same portfolio and be shown different figures. Read it if a number you expected is absent from your view — the omission is deliberate, and this page sets out who sees which kind of number, and why.

Not everyone should see the money — and the platform enforces the difference.

A portfolio has two very different kinds of number, and conflating them is how dashboards mislead. There is portfolio money — what a program is worth, what's exposed, what's at risk — and there is operational cost — what running the tooling itself consumes. They answer different questions, for different people.

InaiBridge keeps them apart by role, on purpose:

• Sponsors and executives see the portfolio money. Deciding where value is at risk is their job, so the exposure, the budgets, the amounts under management are theirs to see.
• PMO leads and risk officers see process and count — how many programs are un-reviewed, how many controls are open, what's overdue — but not the portfolio's dollar figures. Their work is oversight and assurance, not spend authority, and a money figure on their screen would imply an authority they don't hold.

Why withhold rather than show?

Because showing every number to everyone isn't transparency — it's noise that blurs who is accountable for what. A PMO lead reviewing coverage doesn't need the exposure figure to do their job well; putting it there only invites a decision that isn't theirs to make. The discipline is the same one that runs through the whole platform: each role is shown exactly what its decisions require — no less, and no more.

(Operational cost is the one exception, and a deliberate one: a PMO lead does see what the AI tooling costs across their programs, because managing that spend genuinely is their responsibility.)

Which programs a role sees at all is a separate boundary, enforced the same way — see Who sees what.