A phased roadmap prepared for your leadership team. Crawl. Walk. Run.
Governance that slows delivery is just friction. My goal is to make compliance both automated and the path of least resistance.
Deploy FOCUS 1.2 Parquet pipeline. Stand up Athena datasets and connect to QuickSight, Looker, or Power BI for live cost visibility within two weeks.
Audit existing CI/CD pipelines. Deploy tools like Infracost in "Advisory" mode — cost visibility on every pull request, no blocking.
Assess current AI service usage and spend visibility across all cloud accounts. Map who's running what, where, and at what cost.
1:1s with every team member. Assess skills, career goals, and current operational pain points. Understand the human side before changing the systems.
Tagging audit complete. Multi-dimensional showback views tailored for Finance and Engineering. Identify serverless cost patterns and commitment discount gaps.
Incremental governance campaign. "Break-glass" process defined for production emergencies. Teams understand the rules before enforcement begins.
Define AI provisioning policy. CI/CD gates for AI workload deployments established. Implement inference IDs for cost visibility and audit traceability.
Establish team OKRs aligned to roadmap. Implement mentorship pairings (Senior/Junior). Cost-awareness becomes part of the engineering culture, not a mandate from above.
Automated anomaly alerting via EventBridge. Optimization ROI tracking (Actual vs. Projected) live in QuickSight, Looker, or Power BI. ML-based cost forecasting operational.
Full pipeline governance operational. Cost and security hard gates standard for all new deployments. Compliance is automated — not a checklist.
AI spend isolated in dashboards with full attribution. LLM-as-a-Judge accuracy scoring integrated into standard pipelines. Every inference has a cost and a quality score.
Quarterly skill-gap reviews. Team delivering autonomously against the platform roadmap. FinOps is a daily habit, not a monthly surprise.
After the 90-day foundation is in place, the Fractional FinOps Leader engagement shifts to continuous improvement and strategic advisory:
30-minute call. No commitment. We'll map your current state and show you what's possible.
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