Consulting · Advisory & Procurement

Experts who turn cloud spend into a commercial advantage.

Advisory is a service, not a feature. Senior FinOps practitioners and cloud economists work alongside your team and the platform — building the operating model that sustains savings and negotiating the contracts, discount programs and commitments that create them. Vendor-neutral, and wired so every recommendation lands as a live KPI or an automated action.

Senior practitioners Procurement & contracts Operating model
An extension of your teamembeddedYour team+ Optmin crewForward Deployed EngSuccess managerProcurement
$0 lock-in
vendor-neutral advice
EDP / PPA
negotiated for you
Crawl → Run
maturity in quarters

Two disciplines, one engagement

We pair a FinOps operating-model practice with hands-on cloud procurement. One team builds the culture that keeps cost accountable, and negotiates the commercials that move the rate — so strategy and savings arrive together.

  • A cross-functional FinOps council & charter
  • Decision rights, rituals and review cadence
  • Procurement and commitment strategy in lockstep
Operating modelalignedFinOpscouncilFinanceEngineeringLeadershipProductProcurement

Procurement that moves the rate — not just the dashboard

Our cloud economists negotiate enterprise discount programs (EDPs), private pricing agreements (PPAs), marketplace and consolidated billing with the people who actually set the levers. You keep leverage; we bring the benchmarks.

  • EDP / PPA & private pricing negotiation
  • Risk-aware, laddered commitment portfolio
  • Consolidated billing across AWS, Azure & GCP
Cloud procurement−27% rateEffective rate ladder · negotiatedList / on-demand100%Committed (1–3 yr)74%EDP / private pricing56%Net effective rate42%

A practice that outlasts the engagement

We define the KPIs your CFO and CTO both trust — ESR, coverage, forecast accuracy, unit cost — and wire them live into the platform, so the scorecard is real and the discipline sticks after we leave.

  • ESR, coverage & forecast-accuracy targets
  • Benchmarks mapped to the FinOps Framework
  • Live scorecards, not spreadsheet snapshots
FinOps scorecardon targetCommitment coverage86%Effective Savings Rate31%Forecast accuracy±4%Unallocated spend2%
Challenges we solve

Savings die between the dashboard and the contract.

Tooling surfaces opportunities. Realizing them takes an operating model and a seat at the negotiating table — most teams have neither.

The challenge

Nobody owns the FinOps practice

Cost is everyone's problem and no one's job, so accountability evaporates after kickoff.

How OPTMIN solves it

We stand up the function — charter, decision rights and a council across finance, engineering and procurement — so cost has a clear owner.

The challenge

You're negotiating commitments blind

Without benchmarks, EDPs and private pricing get signed on the vendor's terms, leaving real money on the table.

How OPTMIN solves it

Our cloud economists bring the benchmarks and the playbook to negotiate EDPs, PPAs and commitments in your favor — and stay vendor-neutral.

The challenge

Discounts get bought, not managed

A three-year commitment locks in last year's usage and turns into a liability as you grow or shift clouds.

How OPTMIN solves it

We design a laddered, risk-aware commitment portfolio, then let the platform keep coverage tuned to live usage.

The challenge

Advice arrives as a binder

Consultants deliver a deck and leave; the recommendations never become behavior.

How OPTMIN solves it

Every recommendation is wired into the platform as a live KPI or an automated action — not another slide.

What advisory & procurement covers

Strategy and commercials, together.

From first principles to a running practice — and a better deal with your providers.

Maturity assessment
Benchmark today against the FinOps Framework and find the gaps.
Target operating model
The team, roles, decision rights and rituals to run FinOps.
EDP / PPA negotiation
Enterprise discount & private pricing agreements, negotiated in your favor.
Commitment strategy
A laddered RI / Savings Plan / CUD portfolio that grows with you.
Consolidated billing
One invoice and marketplace strategy across AWS, Azure & GCP.
Allocation & tagging
A clean foundation so every dollar has an owner.
KPI framework
ESR, coverage, forecast accuracy and unit economics — defined and instrumented.
Enablement & training
Workshops and playbooks so the practice outlives the engagement.
How we engage

Assess, negotiate, operate.

A focused engagement that hands you a running practice and a better rate — not a binder.

1

Assess

We benchmark maturity, allocation, commitments and contracts against your goals and the Framework.

2

Negotiate & design

We negotiate the commercials and co-design the operating model and metric set — wired into the platform.

3

Operate & enable

We train your teams, stand up the rituals, and stay as the savings compound.

Turn cloud spend into an advantage

Talk to an advisor about a maturity assessment, operating-model roadmap and a procurement review.