We turn opaque cloud bills into a number your engineering, finance and board teams all trust — then work systematically to reduce it. Tagging, unit economics, savings plans and anomaly detection across AWS, Azure and GCP.
Savings opportunity report included · Findings in 5 business days
Most organisations can tell you their total cloud spend. Very few can tell you what a single customer, feature or product line costs to run. Without that link, cost is a number that arrives monthly — not a signal engineers can act on.
FinOps closes that loop. Every resource tagged and allocated. Every dollar traced to a team, product or customer. Every commitment optimised against real usage patterns — not last year's spreadsheet.
The result isn't just a smaller bill. It's a cost model your finance team can forecast, your engineers can influence and your board can trust. Cost becomes an engineering input, not an afterthought.
No optimisation is credible until every dollar is mapped to an owner.
Cost per request, per tenant, per feature — the metrics engineers can own.
Anomaly detection and waste sweeps run daily — not quarterly.
Engineering, finance and product accountable together — not one team blamed.
Engage the full programme or start with a single workstream. Every capability is delivered by practitioners who run FinOps in production.
Tagging strategy, account structure and allocation rules that map every dollar to a team, product or customer.
Data-driven commitment strategy across RIs, Savings Plans, CUDs and Azure Reservations — sized to real usage, not guesswork.
Systematic removal of idle, oversized and orphaned resources — the fastest savings available in almost every estate.
Cost per request, per tenant, per transaction — the metrics that connect cloud spend to business value.
Daily spend anomaly alerts and rolling forecasts that catch problems in hours, not on next month's invoice.
Training, rituals and governance that make cost a shared responsibility — not a quarterly email from finance.
The most powerful number in FinOps isn't the total bill. It's the unit cost — the cost of serving one customer, processing one transaction, running one API call. That's the number engineers can influence and finance can forecast.
We build the pipeline that connects cloud usage data to your business metrics, then instrument dashboards that show every team exactly how their decisions move the number.
Discuss unit economicsCost per order, per tenant, per GB processed, per API call — defined with your team and tracked continuously.
Cost visible where engineers already look — in Grafana, Datadog or your internal portal — not in a separate finance tool.
Quarterly unit-cost goals that align engineering priorities with business outcomes — not arbitrary cuts.
Cost data normalised across AWS, Azure and GCP using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification.
Aggregate across 40+ FinOps engagements · 2023–2025
A four-stage engagement with measurable outcomes at every gate. You always know what's being built, why, and what it saves.
Spend baseline by service, account and team. Identify the biggest cost drivers and the untagged, unallocated spend nobody owns.
Tagging policy, cost allocation rules, FOCUS data pipeline and dashboards — so every dollar has a name against it.
Commitments, rightsizing, waste elimination and architecture changes shipped in two-week increments with measured savings.
Anomaly monitoring, monthly cost reviews, unit-economics tracking and enablement — or a structured handover to your team.
Every engagement produces working pipelines, documented policy and dashboards — not a savings estimate that never materialises.
Where every dollar goes today, ranked by savings opportunity and effort to realise.
Written policy, IaC modules and SCPs that prevent untagged resources from being deployed.
Normalised cost data across clouds, loaded into your warehouse for analytics and reporting.
Executive, engineering and product views — plus the unit-cost metrics that connect them.
Savings Plans, RI and CUD coverage plan sized against 90-day usage — with renewal calendar.
Documented monthly rituals, anomaly workflows and workshops so cost stays owned.
Vendor-neutral by design. We'll use your existing platform if it works — and tell you honestly when something better fits.
A payments company had grown from $40K to $380K in monthly cloud spend in eighteen months, with no allocation and no unit-economics view. Finance couldn't forecast. Engineering couldn't see the impact of architecture choices.
FinOps Practice Build“For the first time we can tell the board what it costs to process a payment — and show them the number falling quarter over quarter. FinOps stopped being a cost-cutting exercise and became an engineering discipline.”
Aisha Okonkwo · VP Finance, Helix Pay
No. We're vendor-neutral and often build a lightweight pipeline on native tools (AWS CUR, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing) before recommending any third-party platform. If a commercial platform genuinely fits, we'll say so — and if it doesn't, we won't push one.
Cost-cutting is a one-off exercise that damages engineering velocity and gets reversed within two quarters. FinOps is an operating model: attribution, unit economics, continuous optimisation and shared ownership. The savings are larger and they compound, because the system keeps working after we leave.
The fastest wins — idle resource elimination, storage class changes, orphaned volumes — typically land in weeks 3–6. Commitment optimisation and rightsizing show up over 60–90 days as we build confidence in usage patterns. Architectural changes take longer but often produce the largest long-term savings.
A full spend baseline across your cloud accounts, identification of the top ten savings opportunities ranked by value and effort, a tagging and allocation gap analysis, and a written findings report. It takes about a week and requires read-only billing access.
Assessments and fixed-scope optimisation projects are fixed-fee, quoted after the cost assessment. Ongoing FinOps retainers are monthly, scaled to the size of your cloud estate and the number of teams involved. You'll get a written scope and price before any work begins — never a percentage of savings.
Book a free cost assessment. We'll baseline your spend across every account, identify the top savings opportunities and hand you a written report — no obligation, no sales theatre.
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