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Keep cloud spend
under control

We cut cloud waste without slowing your engineers. Every cost gets a tag and an owner, oversized resources are resized, discounts are planned around real usage, and dashboards show what each customer costs to serve.

To kick off a scoped project
1–2 weeks
Daily overlap with your team
4+ hours
Monthly per squad, no hourly bills
Flat fee
Your code, designs and IP
100%

What's included

What we
build for you

6 capabilities, delivered by one squad. Use what you need now and add more as you grow.

  • 01

    Allocation and tagging

    A tagging scheme and ownership model, so every cost has an owner and each team sees, or pays for, what it uses.

    • Policy enforcement
    • Service-level ownership
  • 02

    Rightsizing and clean-up

    Resize machines that are bigger than they need to be, and remove idle machines, orphaned storage and forgotten environments.

    • Idle detection
    • Automated clean-up
  • 03

    Commitment planning

    Savings plans and reserved capacity bought only for steady workloads, so you get the discount without paying for capacity you don't use.

    • Coverage planning
    • Risk limits
  • 04

    Data transfer and egress

    Cut the cost of moving data between zones, regions and the internet through better CDN use, NAT gateway set-up and traffic routing.

    • Egress mapping
    • Topology tuning
  • 05

    Cost per customer

    Track cost per API call, tenant, order or workflow, so teams cut the costs the business actually cares about.

    • Cost attribution
    • KPIs and targets
  • 06

    Governance and safeguards

    Budgets, alerts, automated checks and approvals that keep spend in line without slowing engineering.

    • Budgets and alerts
    • Policy automation

Our approach

What usually goes wrong,
and what we do instead

  1. The usual way

    Spend is shared across teams, so nobody owns it and nobody fixes it.

    How we do it

    Every service, team and environment gets a named owner, a budget and a unit cost it is accountable for.

  2. The usual way

    Resources aren't tagged properly, so costs can't be traced to the teams that created them and arguments start.

    How we do it

    A tagging scheme enforced by policy, so each cost lands with the team that created it.

  3. The usual way

    A one-off clean-up whose savings fade because nothing stops waste coming back.

    How we do it

    Regular rightsizing and idle clean-up, backed by budgets, alerts and policies that keep the savings in place.

Architecture

How it's
put together

Each layer has a clear job, so the system is easier to secure, test and extend.

  1. Layer 01

    Allocation layer

    Tags, accounts, projects and owners, so every part of your bill traces back to a team.

    • Tagging policy
    • Chargeback / showback
    • Owner and budget mapping
  2. Layer 02

    Optimisation engine

    Resize compute, clean up idle resources, cut data transfer costs and plan commitments within agreed risk limits.

    • Compute
    • Storage
    • Egress
    • Commitment coverage
  3. Layer 03

    Governance gates

    Budgets, alerts, policies and approval workflows, so teams can't accidentally recreate waste.

    • Budgets and alerts
    • Policies
    • Limits
    • Approval workflows
  4. Layer 04

    Dashboards and reviews

    Cost KPIs, cost per customer, anomaly alerts and monthly reviews that end in clear decisions.

    • Unit cost KPIs
    • Anomaly detection
    • Monthly FinOps reviews

How we deliver

From first review
to live in production

4 phases, each ending with an output you can review.

  1. Step 1: Spend baseline and allocation plan

    Map your accounts and projects, then agree a tagging scheme, owners, budgets and unit-cost targets.

    Output: Allocation blueprint

  2. Step 2: Quick wins and playbooks

    Resize oversized resources, remove idle ones, cut storage and data transfer costs, and plan savings plans and reservations.

    Output: Savings backlog

  3. Step 3: Safeguards and automation

    Add budgets, alerts, policies, approvals and automated fixes, so the savings stay in place.

    Output: Controls in production

  4. Step 4: Cost per customer and monthly reviews

    Set up dashboards, KPIs and anomaly alerts, with a monthly review where engineering and finance agree what to change.

    Output: Predictable spend

Your team

Who works
on it

Specialists join your squad for this work, alongside a delivery lead who keeps you updated.

  • FinOps lead

    Sets the review rhythm, ownership and allocation rules, and keeps engineering and finance working from the same numbers.

    • Chargeback
    • Ownership
    • Review cadence
  • Optimisation engineer

    Handles rightsizing, clean-up automation, commitment planning and data transfer design for savings that last.

    • Rightsizing
    • Clean-up
    • Commitments
  • Governance engineer

    Sets up budgets, alerts and automated checks that stop spend creeping back up.

    • Budgets
    • Policy
    • Approvals
  • Cost analytics lead

    Builds dashboards, unit-cost KPIs and anomaly alerts, and runs the monthly FinOps review.

    • Dashboards
    • Unit cost
    • Anomalies

Trust and control

Safe by design,
not by policy alone

  • Budgets and alerts

    Early warnings go to the right owner, with clear escalation paths.

  • Automated safeguards

    Policy checks flag expensive set-ups before they reach production.

  • Chargeback and accountability

    Each team can see, and owns, the costs it creates.

  • Recorded reviews

    Monthly reviews, decisions and outcomes are recorded alongside cost per customer.

You keep full ownership of the code, configuration and documentation we create, with no vendor lock-in.

Tools and standards

We pick what fits your product and team, not the other way round.

Practices
  • FinOps
  • Tagging policy
  • Chargeback / showback
  • Unit cost KPIs
Cost levers
  • Savings plans
  • Reservations
  • CDN
  • NAT gateways

Results

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FAQ

Straight
answers

Have a different question? Ask it on a 30-minute call.

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FinOps is a way of running cloud spending where engineering and finance share ownership of costs. In practice it means tagging every resource, giving each service an owner and a budget, removing waste and reviewing cost per customer every month. Savings last because teams can see the costs they create.

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