- Pricing
- Monthly retainer, three tiersquoted at the teardown debriefUSD · fixed
- Payment
- Monthly in advance. Net 15. 3-month term, then monthly, 30 days notice.
- Prerequisite
- None
Rung
Margin Watch
A weekly variance report, plus pull requests that ship fixes.
The decisions that set your unit cost are made continuously, in pull requests, by people who cannot see the bill. Below roughly 10M of spend it does not round up to a hire.
3%Tolerance
AWS · Azure · GCP
Delivered
What arrives
| Artifact | Lands in |
|---|---|
| Weekly variance report, each line tied to a commit | channel |
| Anomaly triage within one business day | channel |
| Commitment expiry watch, monthly reconciliation | memo |
| Eight engineering hours a month, as pull requests | repos |
| Pre-launch cost model per AI feature | memo |
| Quarterly deep review, what we declined | calendar |
| Tier | Includes |
|---|---|
| Reports | Reports, triage, reconciliation |
| One estate | Reports, plus eight hours of fixes |
| Multi-estate | Every estate, plus the quarterly review |
Not included 24/7 paging (your rota) · Commitment buying (ProsperOps, Zesty) · Staff augmentation (capped at eight hours) · Azure or GCP re-architecture (referred out)
Your side
| Block | Your hours | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| Onboarding week | 4 | Credentials, repository access, thresholds, a channel. |
| Every month | 2 | Pull request review, pre-launch models. |
| Every quarter | 1 | One hour, with the architecture owner. |
| Total | 7 |
Guarantee
Any month where reported identified or realized savings do not exceed the fee, tell us and that month is free.
CapTwice a year. Continuity clause applies.