Cut Cloud Spend in a Quarter. Hold the Discipline Forever
from $40K. 4 to 6 weeks.
from $120K. 8 to 12 weeks.
4 to 6 weeks, scoped to severity.
Where Do You Start?
Three situations we see most often. Pick the one closest to yours.
Your Cloud Bill Just Got Escalated
Finance has flagged the run-rate. Engineering has been asked for an answer they don't have. The board meeting is in eight weeks. You need quick-wins now and a defensible story before the next quarterly review.
Cloud Cost Remediation (4 to 6 weeks, fixed-fee scoped to severity).
Realized savings against a target written into the SOW. Quick-win remediation executed: rightsizing, RI optimization, idle and zombie cleanup. Cost dashboards with team and workload attribution. A defensible story for the next finance review.
You Want to Do This Properly, Not in Panic Mode
The cloud bill is uncomfortable but not on fire. You want a defensible cost analysis, a savings target you can plan against, and a FinOps operating model your engineering and finance teams can sustain. Not a quick patch.
Cloud Cost Audit (4 to 8 weeks, from $40K). Then FinOps Implementation Program (8 to 12 weeks, $120K to $220K typical).
Audit with service, team, and workload-level cost attribution. Quick-wins remediated. Tagging via policy-as-code. FinOps operating rhythm with monthly cadence and named owners. Engineering and finance trained to run it.
You Have FinOps Running and Want It Run Better
You've done the work. Tags exist. Dashboards exist. Optimization happens sometimes. But the discipline is uneven and new accounts and workloads keep slipping out of governance. You need embedded capacity that owns the discipline.
Managed Cloud Operations Retainer (12 months rolling, from $12K per month).
Monthly optimization cycle. New account and workload onboarding to FinOps standards. Reserved instance and commit strategy management. Quarterly executive review with savings realized vs. target.
What a Typical Engagement Looks Like
Most clients arrive in one of the three situations above. The shape of a typical Audit plus Implementation engagement is below. The rhythm, the team, the cadence, the milestones. Remediation runs faster and tighter. Operate runs as monthly cadence after delivery.
Cloud Cost Audit
- Weeks 1 to 2: Cost data ingestion across accounts, hyperscalers, and Kubernetes workloads. Tagging current-state assessment.
- Weeks 3 to 4: Service, team, and workload-level cost attribution. Quick-win identification with quantified savings estimates.
- Weeks 5 to 6: FinOps operating model recommendation. Tagging standards proposal. Implementation roadmap with named savings target.
FinOps Implementation
- Weeks 7 to 10: Quick-win remediation executed against signed savings target: rightsizing, idle cleanup, RI and Savings Plans optimization.
- Weeks 11 to 14: Tagging standards enforced via policy-as-code. Cost dashboards built with team-level attribution. Alerting configured.
- Weeks 15 to 17: FinOps operating rhythm rolled out. Monthly review cadence, escalation paths, named owners. Engineering and finance enablement sessions.
- Week 18: Handover documentation. Runbook for the operating model.
Managed CloudOps Retainer
- Monthly optimization cycle against expanded scope as your cloud footprint grows.
- New account and workload onboarding to FinOps standards.
- RI and commit strategy management.
- Quarterly executive review with savings realized vs. target.
Typical first-year program investment: Audit, Implementation, plus first year of Managed CloudOps is $260K to $410K. Most clients realize 20 to 35 percent cloud spend reduction in the first quarter post-implementation.
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Who's on the Team
The senior practitioner who scopes the work is the senior practitioner who delivers it. Your team is named in the SOW.
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Lead Architect, FinOps & Cloud
12+ years in cloud cost optimization and operating model design. Owns the savings target and the operating rhythm.
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Senior Engineer, Cost & Tagging
Deep on hyperscaler-native cost tools, Kubecost, Infracost, and policy-as-code. Writes the tagging enforcement that makes the discipline durable.
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Senior Engineer, Optimization
Owns rightsizing, RI and Savings Plans strategy, idle and zombie remediation. Where the realized savings actually come from.
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Platform Engineer
CI/CD, observability, infrastructure-as-code. Embeds the FinOps discipline into engineering workflows.
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Delivery Lead
Sprint cadence, fortnightly executive steering, RAID log, milestone acceptance. Single contact for engagement status.
How We Approach the Work
FinOps is an operating model, not a tool purchase. Kubecost, Infracost, hyperscaler-native cost dashboards are all table stakes. The realized savings come from the operating rhythm: tagging discipline, engineering accountability, finance fluency, monthly review cadence.
We write the savings target into the SOW. The Remediation engagement in particular is paid against realized savings. We are accountable to a number, not to an effort. Quick-wins are quantified before we sign, and tracked monthly thereafter.
We build the tagging and governance layer as code. Tagging standards enforced via policy-as-code. Not via documentation that nobody reads. This is what makes the discipline durable after we leave.
We engage finance and engineering as a single audience. FinOps fails when it's an engineering discipline that finance doesn't trust, or a finance discipline that engineering ignores. Our cadence runs both audiences in the same room.
Technology and Platform Posture
You have already chosen your cloud platforms. We deliver against your existing footprint. Below is what we work with most often.
Cloud Platforms
AWS 
Microsoft Azure 
Google Cloud Platform AWS (Commercial and GovCloud). Multi-cloud and hybrid where applicable.
Cost and Tagging Tooling
Kubecost 
Infracost 
CloudHealth AWS Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports. Azure Cost Management. GCP Billing Reports. Custom dashboards in Tableau, Power BI, or Grafana where existing BI tooling is preferred.
Governance and Policy-as-Code
Terraform 
OpenPolicyAgent (OPA) 
Crossplane Native hyperscaler policy frameworks (AWS Organizations SCPs, Azure Policy, GCP Organization Policies).
Cloud-agnostic by architectural decision, not by inheritance.
Bring the spend. We return with a savings target written into the SOW.
What to Expect from a FinOps Engagement
FinOps engagements typically deliver in the following ranges. These are category benchmarks for this class of engagement, not blanket commitments. Specific savings targets for your engagement are scoped during the Audit and written into the SOW.
20 to 35 percent of in-scope spend.
90 percent plus across new resources.
target outcome written into retainer SOW.
Where a target falls outside range due to constraints in your existing estate or commit posture, we surface that during the Audit and scope to a defensible number. We do not commit to outcomes we cannot defend.
From the FinOps Practice
A mid-program technical delivery for a Big Four prime contractor. We took over critical modules of a stalled state government welfare platform and shipped them on the contracted timeline.
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A week-by-week runbook for the first 90 days of a FinOps engagement. Quick wins, governance, and operating model rollout. Written as a runbook, not as marketing copy.
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Scope a FinOps Engagement
Tell us what's driving the conversation. Escalated bill, governance concern, or ongoing discipline. Thirty minutes is enough to know what shape the engagement should take. If we're not the right firm for what you need, we'll point you to who is.