Preventive FinOps
Only 30% of companies understand their cloud spend. The average bill carries 29% waste. AI inference costs are the new blind spot nobody's tracking. We find the money — then we build the gates so it never leaks again.
What It's Costing You
Cloud waste compounds quarter over quarter. By the time finance asks, engineering can only describe the spend in broad strokes — not govern it.
- Direct waste: 29% of a $50K+ monthly cloud bill = $174K+/year in preventable spend
- AI cost shock: inference went from $5K to $25K/month — untracked, unbudgeted
- CFO can't forecast cloud spend, can't explain variance to the board
- As the company grows, cloud bill grows 2–3× faster than revenue
Three Ways In. One Financial Control Layer.
Start with a one-week X-Ray that finds the money. Scale into a Build that adds the prevention gates. Keep a partner who makes cloud spend predictable quarter after quarter.
Cloud Cost X-Ray
One-week spend audit. 20% savings found or it's free.
- Full Spend Breakdown (service / team / env)
- Waste Identification
- Industry Benchmarking
- AI / Inference Cost Mapping
- Quick-Win Savings Estimate
- Cost Trends & Forecast
- FinOps Readiness Score
- 90-Day Optimization Roadmap
FinOps Foundation
Build the tagging, dashboards, and gates that prevent the next leak.
- Cost allocation tagging (100% coverage)
- Finance & engineering dashboards
- Pre-deployment cost estimation
- Reserved-instance / Savings Plan optimization
- Infrastructure scheduler (dev/staging off-hours)
- AI inference monitoring & budget alerts
Preventive FinOps Operations
Ongoing optimization with success-based upside.
- Ongoing monitoring & anomaly response
- Quarterly forecasting for finance
- Gate administration & tuning
- CFO-ready monthly reports
- New-service cost reviews before launch
- RI / SP renewal strategy
The 5-Day Assessment Process
Read-only audit. Zero change to your environment. By Friday you have a CFO-ready roadmap with quantified savings.
Cost Explorer / CUR access. Tagging coverage baseline. Infra inventory.
Idle resources, over-provisioned nodes, orphaned volumes, stale snapshots.
Break down model spend by team, endpoint, and request tier.
Compare to industry ratios. Build 12-month forecast under 3 scenarios.
Readout with CFO + CTO. Roadmap, quick wins, Build proposal if fit.
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