Fractional FinOps
A standing cost function, without the headcount.
Cloud costs do not stay optimized on their own. Optimization cycles, commitment management, forecasting, governance, and executive reporting, run as a standing monthly practice against your environment.
Talk about ongoing FinOps- Run monthly, so cost creep gets caught early
- Works with your existing tooling — no platform to buy
- Reporting written for engineering and finance alike
- Vendor-neutral, with no commission on anything we recommend
What is included
The cost function most teams cannot justify hiring for.
The work has to happen well before the bill justifies a full-time FinOps hire.
Continuous optimization
A standing cycle across compute, storage, and platform spend, so new waste is caught in weeks rather than at the next budget review.
Commitment portfolio management
Coverage, utilization, and expiry managed as a portfolio, including what deliberately stays on demand.
Forecasting and budgets
Forecasts finance can plan against, with the drivers named and variance explained when the invoice disagrees.
Anomaly monitoring and response
Detection tuned to your environment, plus the follow-through — cause found, owning team told, confirmed resolved.
Allocation and governance
Tagging standards, account structure, showback by team, and guardrails that keep new spend attributable.
Executive reporting
A monthly view of spend, efficiency, and what changed — short enough to actually be read.
Cadence
A fixed cadence, with a concrete output every cycle.
Monthly
Optimization cycle, anomaly review, commitment position, and an executive report covering spend, efficiency, and what changed.
Quarterly
Forecast against budget, commitment renewals, and the next quarter's priorities.
As needed
Cost review of significant architecture decisions before they ship, the cheapest point to influence them.
How the engagement runs
What you get every month.
The practical shape of an ongoing engagement, rather than the pitch for one.
Next step
Start where the numbers are.
Ongoing FinOps works best once there is a baseline to manage against. That is what the Cloud Cost Assessment establishes — and it is the same first conversation either way.
No obligation, no cloud reselling, no commission from any vendor.