FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimisation

Know What Your Cloud Actually Costs — And Who It Belongs To

Cloud spend is an engineering decision with a finance consequence. We assess your estate against the FinOps Framework, attribute cost to the teams and services that create it, and surface waste with the evidence behind every finding. Optimisations are proposed as governed changes you approve — never applied behind your back.

Inform → Optimise → Operate
Cost Visibility & Allocation
Waste & Rightsizing Analysis
Commitment & Discount Modelling
Unit Economics

Cost doesn't sit apart from posture. The same estate assessed by cloud governance carries the spend, the same pipelines built through DevSecOps can enforce cost policy as code, and the same telemetry that reveals waste reveals carbon. FinOps is where engineering, finance and procurement finally read from one set of numbers.

Business challenges

The challenges we solve

A cloud bill nobody can fully explain
Cost that can't be attributed to a team, product or customer
Untagged and orphaned resources accumulating quietly
Commitment and discount decisions made on guesswork
Engineering and finance working from different numbers
Optimisation as an annual panic, not an operating habit
Services

How we help

Cost Visibility & Allocation

Spend broken down by account, service, environment, team and tag — with the gaps in your tagging model called out explicitly.

Waste & Rightsizing Analysis

Idle, oversized and orphaned resources identified against real utilisation data, each finding carrying the evidence behind it.

Commitment & Discount Modelling

Reserved capacity and savings-plan coverage modelled against your actual usage curve, so commitments are a decision rather than a guess.

Unit Economics

Cost per tenant, transaction, environment or feature — the metric that tells you whether spend is growth or drift.

Cost Policy As Code

Budgets, tagging standards, anomaly alerts and guardrails expressed as policy in your pipeline, not a spreadsheet nobody opens.

FinOps Operating Model

The practice itself: who owns cost, which forum decides, what cadence reviews it, and how engineering is held accountable without being punished.

Assessed & mapped against
FinOps FrameworkCloud architecture cost pillarsISO/IEC 19086 (cloud SLA)

We assess and map against these standards — we don't claim certification by them.

Deliverables

What you receive

Real, governed artefacts — not slideware.

Cloud Cost Baseline & Allocation Model
Tagging & Showback Design
Waste & Rightsizing Register (evidence-backed)
Commitment Coverage Analysis
Unit-Economics Model
FinOps Operating Model & RACI
Cost Guardrail Policy Pack
Anomaly Detection & Alerting Design
Prioritised Optimisation Backlog
Business outcomes

The outcomes we deliver

A cloud bill you can explain line by line
Cost attributed to the teams that create it
Waste identified with evidence, not assertion
Commitment decisions grounded in real usage
Engineering and finance reading the same numbers
Optimisation running as a habit, not an annual fire drill
Example engagement

How a typical engagement flows

Connect billing & usage dataBaseline & allocationWaste and commitment analysisOptimisation backlogHuman approves the changes
Related accelerators

Accelerators & blueprints

FinOps Maturity AssessmentTagging Standard TemplateUnit-Economics Model PackCost Guardrail Policy Library

Find out what your cloud really costs — and where it leaks.