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Engagement models

We take a cut of what you save. Nothing else.

The assessment is free because we'd rather show you the number than sell you a discovery phase. If we can't find savings worth acting on, you owe us nothing and we'll say so in writing.

Assessment

Free

5 business days · read-only access

  • Ranked savings map with dollar estimates
  • Effort, risk and blast radius per item
  • A number for what six weeks would recover
  • Yours to keep either way
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Our preferred model

Savings share

A share of realized savings

Percentage and term agreed in writing before we start

  • Embedded engineer, hands on keyboard
  • We open the PRs and see them merged
  • Measured against a baseline frozen on day one
  • Month with no savings, month with no invoice
  • Guardrails and handover included
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Embedded retainer

Monthly fixed fee

For estates where cost work never ends

  • Named engineer, fixed days per month
  • Anomaly response and commitment management
  • Quarterly efficiency review with finance
  • Flat fee, no savings share
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We quote both models against your actual estate once the assessment is done, so you're agreeing to a number you can already see the return on.

How "realized savings" is measured

Agreed in writing before any work starts. If we can't agree on the formula, we shouldn't be working together.

  1. 01

    Baseline

    Trailing three-month average unit cost per service, frozen on day one.

  2. 02

    Normalized

    Adjusted for traffic, headcount and new product launches. Growth isn't our loss; it isn't our win either.

  3. 03

    Attributed

    Only reductions traceable to a merged change or a commitment we placed.

  4. 04

    Invoiced

    Monthly, off your own AWS invoice, with the calculation attached.

What we don't charge for

The assessment

Free, and the savings map is yours whether you hire us or hand it to your own team.

Savings your team already had in flight

Anything on your roadmap at baseline is excluded by name in the agreement.

Rate cuts you'd have gotten anyway

Provider price drops and EDP discounts you negotiated don't count as our work.

Start with the free assessment. The number is yours either way.

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