Billing and inventory review
We start from your exported billing data and read-only inventory, then reconcile the largest cost lines against actual resources and tags.
The cloud bill went up. The workload did not.
A rising bill is usually a mix of idle capacity, storage that never expires, data transfer, and resources nobody owns. We review the billing and inventory evidence first, then propose a scoped implementation only where the numbers justify it.
Fees
Qualification$500
Implementationfrom $4,000
The assessment fee is credited toward the matching approved sprint. You get a written scope and quote after the assessment; work starts only after you approve it.
Prices are in USD. The sprint is quoted from the assessment findings; the amount shown is the starting point, not a fixed total.
Nobody can point to the line that changed.
The bill arrives as one total. Tagging is partial, environments multiply, and the people who provisioned a resource have moved on. Cutting randomly risks a production incident; doing nothing keeps paying for capacity no one is using.
Spend without ownership
A resource can be expensive and still have no clear owner, environment, or expected lifetime.
Storage and transfer are easy to ignore
Snapshots, old volumes, logs, and cross-region traffic can grow quietly while compute gets all the attention.
A commitment is not a finding
Long-term discounts can reduce a rate, but they can also lock in the wrong architecture. We do not buy commitments during qualification.
What you get
A qualification that shows its evidence.
The qualification is a fixed-fee first step. The implementation is quoted from the findings, not from a savings target.
Findings with evidence
Candidates are grouped by confidence and risk, with the billing line, the resource, and the dependency that must be checked before any change.
Scoped implementation and quote
You get a written scope for the approved changes and a quote. The $500 qualification fee is credited toward the implementation.
Measured result
After an approved change, we compare the same billing dimensions with the baseline and document what moved. We report what changed, not a promised percentage.
What this is not
A lower bill is not assumed before the evidence is reviewed. The qualification can conclude that the safest next step is to change nothing yet.
- A guarantee of savings, a target percentage, or a payback period before the evidence is reviewed.
- Production resource changes during the qualification.
- Commitment purchases, reserved capacity, or enterprise discount negotiation unless separately scoped and approved.
- Application performance tuning or architecture redesign.
- A complete FinOps program, 24/7 cost monitoring, or ongoing tag governance.
How it works
Read the bill, prove the cause, then change only what is approved.
The qualification uses read-only access. Write access is not needed until a scoped implementation is approved.
- 1
Intake
You describe the bill change, the accounts in scope, the business impact, and the deadline. No credentials or exports go in this form.
- 2
Read-only review
We reconcile billing lines with inventory and tagging, then rank the cost drivers by evidence, risk, and dependency.
- 3
Findings and quote
You get the qualification findings, the proposed implementation scope, and a written quote. The qualification fee is credited toward the approved implementation.
- 4
Implement and measure
Approved changes are applied, monitored against the agreed checks, and compared with the baseline. Anything not approved stays untouched.
Requirement
Read-only first.
The qualification uses billing exports and read-only inventory. We do not need write access to change anything until a scoped implementation is approved.
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What access do you need?
A billing export and read-only inventory for the accounts in scope. We agree the exact access after the inquiry; no credentials go in the form.
Do you guarantee savings?
No. We report evidence and measured changes. A qualification may conclude that the safest next step is not an implementation.
Will you buy reserved instances or commitments?
Not during qualification. If a commitment is part of an approved implementation, we show the trade-off and get explicit approval first.
What if our bill is not tagged?
We work from the billing data and resource inventory that exists, and identify the tagging gaps as findings. Better tagging may be part of the implementation.
How is the $500 credited?
In full toward the matching approved implementation. If you do not proceed, the qualification is still the delivered work.
Which providers do you review?
We start with the provider and accounts you name. If the available billing data is not sufficient to support a finding, we say so in the qualification.
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Do you know what changed in the bill?
Send the provider, the accounts in scope, and the budget or renewal deadline. We will reply with the qualification next step.