fixed fees · never hourly · never a percentage of savings

Advisory

I work with companies spending $2M–$50M a year on cloud, and with AI-native teams of any size whose inference bill just became their scariest line item. Every engagement is a fixed fee agreed before we start — here's why.

Step 0 · free

The AI Bill Teardown

Free · 45 min

Bring your last three months of cost data to a screen-share. I'll show you three things you didn't know about your own bill — live. If there's nothing worth fixing, I'll say so and we're done. No deck, no follow-up sequence.

Step 1 · the diagnostic

Cloud & AI Cost Diagnostic

$8K–25K fixed
scoped to your spend, quoted before we start

Two to three weeks, read-only access, built on your actual billing data (CUR-level, not dashboard screenshots). You get: every savings opportunity quantified in dollars and ranked; an AI/inference unit-economics baseline (cost per token, per task, per customer); a commitment-strategy review; and a 90-day roadmap your own team can execute. Findings include the ones where the answer is "turn on the free tool" — the fee is for judgment, not gatekeeping.

Step 2 · ongoing

Fractional FinOps & AI Cost Lead

$5K–10K/mo

I run the roadmap with your team: forecast reviews, commitment decisions timed properly, AI spend governance as models and prices shift monthly, vendor and pricing evaluations, and a quarterly review your CFO will actually enjoy. Cancel any month — retention should come from value, not contracts.

When the renewal comes

Renewal War-Room

$25K–75K fixed

Enterprise discount agreements are negotiated by people who do this every week — on the other side of the table. Timed to your renewal window: baseline analysis, commitment sizing, negotiation strategy and support, from someone who spent nine years inside AWS watching how these deals actually get made.

Operating principles

  • Fixed fees, in writing, before work starts. Never hourly; never a percentage of savings.
  • Read-only access. I analyze; your team implements; capability transfer is a deliverable.
  • Honest numbers. Realistic identified savings on an unoptimized mid-market account run high-teens to ~30% — anyone promising 50%+ up front is selling you a baseline dispute.
  • Independence. No vendor sponsorships, no referral kickbacks, no reselling. When software fits (automated commitment management, for instance), I'll name the vendors and let them earn it.
  • Everything I learn becomes public method. Anonymized patterns feed the writing and tools on this site — you get an advisor whose work is peer-reviewed in public.
Book the free Teardown

Founder-led: your first conversation is with me, not a sales team — because I'm the whole firm, on purpose.