Cloud Financial Advisory

Turn unpredictable cloud spend into a managed line item.

FinOps Consult gives finance predictability and engineering accountability — without slowing delivery.

Monthly cloud spend −28%
Diagnostic Q1 Q4 projected optimized
Grounded in
FinOps Foundation Framework AWS Well-Architected FinOps Certified Practitioner
The problem

Cloud spend has outgrown the tools meant to control it.

By the time finance sees the number, engineering has already moved on. The gap between them is where margin quietly disappears.

Visibility

The bill arrives too late to act on

Spend is understood monthly, in arrears — long after the decisions that drove it.

Accountability

No one owns the number

Cost sits between finance and engineering, so it belongs to neither.

Predictability

Forecasts the board can't trust

Without unit economics, next quarter's cloud line is a guess, not a plan.

What changes

FinOps, run as a discipline rather than a fire drill.

25–30%

Predictable spend

A cloud line you can forecast and defend.

1:1

Unit economics

Cost mapped to customers and revenue.

100%

Accountability

Every dollar has a clear owner.

QBR

Board-ready reporting

The spend story, told upward, on time.

How we help

Scoped engagements, not open-ended hours.

Each one is a defined deliverable with a clear outcome — so you always know what you're buying.

Start here
01

Cloud Cost Diagnostic

A prioritized, evidence-backed picture of where the money leaks — and what it's worth to fix.

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02

Operating Model & Governance

Tagging, showback, and the accountability that makes savings stick after we leave.

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03

Cost Optimization Sprint

Hands-on remediation — commitments, rightsizing, waste — with savings realized, not just identified.

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$100Kremoved from annual run-rate, in 90 days

A scaling platform brought its cloud line back under control — without a hiring freeze or a migration.

A two-week diagnostic, ownership stood up across six teams, then a focused optimization sprint. The savings held into the following quarter.

— VP Engineering · B2B SaaS · Representative engagement
The method

A repeatable system that de-risks the work.

Vendor-neutral, run alongside your teams. No rip-and-replace, and the capability stays in-house when we're done.

01

Assess

Find the leaks and size the opportunity.

02

Govern

Put ownership and accountability in place.

03

Optimize

Realize the savings, sprint by sprint.

04

Operate

Make it a standing, in-house discipline.

5-minute self-assessment

Where does your organization sit on the FinOps curve?

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