Cloud Cost Reduction

The guarantee, up front

The fee is $2,900, fixed. If the audit doesn’t identify at least $8,700 in annualized savings, documented line by line in the deliverable, the fee is waived. “Identified” means specific and actionable: named services, named changes, dollar amounts you can capture. Theoretical maximums and “up to” numbers don’t count.

I can offer that because AI-built apps almost always have it. The tools that build fast also provision generously, and the bills quietly grow into the headroom.

Who this is for

Your app scaled (congratulations, genuinely) and the bills scaled faster.

• Your infrastructure bill doubled and your traffic didn’t.
• The AI-API line item became your biggest cost, and nobody has examined a single request: the retries, the oversized context windows, the premium model doing work a cheap one could.
• The AI provisioned services “to be safe” during a late-night build, and they’ve been running at full size ever since.
• You’re pricing your product off costs you don’t actually understand.

What happens

Days 1–3: find out where the money goes. A full breakdown of infrastructure and AI-API spend, mapped to what each dollar actually does, including the dollars that do nothing.

Days 4–8: compare it to what your traffic needs. Right-sizing against real utilization, architecture review for the always-on services that should be event-driven, a configuration review against provider best practices to catch the quiet money leaks, and a request-level look at AI-API usage: model choice, context size, retries, caching.

Days 9–10: the plan in dollars, plus the guardrails. Quick wins sized in dollars per month and sequenced for immediate capture, larger changes with effort estimates, and the annualized savings forecast, which is the document the guarantee is measured against. I also set up automated cost and configuration scans in your account, so drift gets caught by a bot instead of by next quarter’s invoice. We walk through all of it together.

What you walk away with

The Cost Reduction Plan & Savings Forecast, with every finding named, sized, and sequenced. The automated scans stay behind as standing guardrails after the engagement ends. Most clients can start capturing the first tranche of savings the same week, because the plan is written so you can execute it yourself, with your own tools and on your own schedule.

And if the plan doesn’t identify at least three times what you paid for it, you don’t pay for it.

The full terms of the guarantee — including how “identified savings” are measured and confirmed — are set out in the engagement’s statement of work.