The numbers
What we have actually recovered.
But every figure below is a verified annualised saving from a completed engagement.
Recovered to date
Across banking, e-commerce, manufacturing and SaaS.
Largest single saving
A Series C banking start-up, off the annual bill.
Smallest saving recorded
A modern in-house team whose CTO wanted a second opinion.
Typical engagement
Fifteen for the largest and most complex estates.
The problem
The bill goes up. The reasons don’t.
Cloud is one of the largest costs in the business that leadership cannot fully explain. It rises quarter after quarter, the invoice never says why, and by the time it is big enough to worry about it is tangled into everything.
What we look for01
No visibility
The invoice arrives, it is larger than last month, and nobody can give you a straight answer about which decision caused the increase.
02
Not a competence problem
This is not a sign your engineers are doing a bad job. They are building and running the platform. A proper cost investigation is a fortnight of focused work that no delivery team has sitting spare.
03
Nobody owns the bill
Finance owns the budget, engineering owns the architecture, and the gap between the two is exactly where the money goes.
04
Waste compounds quietly
An over-provisioned service costs the same every hour for years. Nothing breaks, so nothing ever prompts anyone to look.
To be clear
Your engineering team is not the problem.
Every estate we audit has capable people running it. They are shipping product against a roadmap, and cost work loses that argument every quarter. We are not a second opinion on your team, we are the fortnight of focused investigation they have never been given.
The audit
Where the money usually is.
Every engagement is evidence-led and works from your actual billing and utilisation data. These are the places the savings almost always come from.
Rightsizing
Compute provisioned for a peak that never arrives, billed at full price every hour.
Idle resources
Environments, volumes and instances that were spun up once and never switched off.
Storage
Wrong tiers, orphaned volumes and snapshot sprawl quietly accumulating month after month.
Data transfer
Egress and cross-region traffic that architecture decisions made expensive by default.
Commitments
Reservations and savings plans that are under-used, mismatched or simply never bought.
Architecture
Structural inefficiencies that multiply every other line on the bill as you scale.
How it works
Five stages, ten days.
A tightly packaged intervention with a fixed start and a fixed finish, not open-ended cloud consultancy.
Stage 01
Kick-off and access
About an hour. We confirm scope, cloud accounts, monthly spend, key systems and the read-only access we need. Then we get out of your way.
Stage 02
Independent analysis
Billing, utilisation, commitments and architecture worked through from your own data. No workshops, no discovery series, no standing meeting in your engineers’ calendars.
Stage 03
Targeted technical validation
One focused conversation with the technical owner who knows your constraints, to confirm that what looks cuttable on paper is genuinely cuttable in production.
Stage 04
Deeper investigation and savings model
The highest-value opportunities examined properly, then each one quantified, quick wins separated from longer-term changes, and the run-rate saving modelled.
Stage 05
Report and handover
An executive summary, the full technical report and a prioritised roadmap showing saving, effort and risk. Or the same findings written straight into your ticketing system.
Minimal disruption
Two touchpoints. That is all we need.
Your team is needed twice across the whole engagement: the kick-off call and one validation conversation. That is the entire ask. We built it that way deliberately, because the reason cloud waste goes unfixed is almost never ability, it is bandwidth.
Pricing
Fixed scope. Fixed fee.
Three tiers based on the size of your estate. We confirm the right one on the intro call, once we know how large and complex your environment actually is.
Platform
Under £30k monthly cloud spend
£7,500
Engagement
10 days
Typical annualised saving
£10k – £25k
Minimum verified saving
£7,500
Best for
Start-ups, scale-ups and single-product platforms
Multi-Platform
£30k – £100k monthly cloud spend
£15,000
Engagement
10 days
Typical annualised saving
£25k – £80k
Minimum verified saving
£15,000
Best for
Established SaaS and multi-product organisations
Portfolio
£100k – £300k monthly cloud spend
£30,000
Engagement
Typically 15 days
Typical annualised saving
£80k – £250k
Minimum verified saving
£30,000
Best for
Large enterprise estates, complex multi-cloud, multi-region or hybrid on-prem
Book your free intro call
Find out what your cloud bill is hiding.
A free intro call, no obligation. Tell us roughly what you spend and we will tell you honestly whether there is enough in it to be worth doing.