FinOps and cost-governance rollout for a US SaaS scale-up
B2B SaaS company, Austin
- Challenge
- Cloud spend had grown 3x faster than revenue over two years with no one owning it; every engineering team provisioned its own resources with no tagging standard, so finance could not attribute cost to product lines when the board asked for unit economics.
- Solution
- We introduced a tagging standard enforced at deploy time, built cost dashboards broken out by product line and environment, and right-sized or decommissioned unused resources found in the audit. A monthly cost-review ritual now catches drift before it compounds.
- Results
- Monthly cloud spend down 31% with no performance regression
- 100% of resources tagged and attributable to a product line
- Unit cost per active customer now tracked monthly for the board