The scoping is a fixed-fee, two-week engagement where we get read-only access to your environment and your billing data, walk through your architecture with your team, and produce a written engagement plan. The plan confirms the right tier for your environment and names a committed reduction target in dollars — not a percentage — that we'll deliver during the engagement. If you proceed with the engagement within 30 days, the $5,000 is credited toward the tier price. If not, the scoping artifacts are yours to keep.

Read access to your cloud accounts, your billing data, and your IaC repos. A single point of contact on your platform or infrastructure team who can answer architecture questions and review changes. We do the rest — including the merge requests, the deploys, and the verification against your next invoice.

We work alongside whatever you have. If there's room to renegotiate an EDP, restructure a Savings Plan portfolio, or move workloads to better-priced services, we surface it in the roadmap. We don't replace your account team or your procurement function — but we give them a defensible analysis to negotiate from.

The recurring ones, yes — that's why every engagement includes the attribution system and the FinOps playbook. The temporary ones (one-time reclamation of unused resources, expired contracts, idle environments) get noted as such in the deliverables so your team knows which savings to defend and which to expect to repeat. Most environments need a periodic reduction pass; the roadmap tells you when.

Yes. If new accounts come online, a new workload moves to production, or a different reduction opportunity surfaces, we reshape or extend the engagement together and are flexible in how we work with you.