Ourus · one quarter, traced
Two rooms.
One number.
Finance commits to a cloud budget from last quarter's bill. Engineering commits to a roadmap. Nobody reconciles the two until the invoice lands.
The backlog
Next quarter's bill
is already written.
Two hundred and forty stories. Every one of them will provision something, scale something, or leave something running.
One story
A ticket is a purchase order nobody prices.
Component, label, team, points. Enough to know which service it touches and roughly when it ships.
$1.03T
global public cloud spend in 2026
72%
of enterprises blew their cloud budget last year
The roadmap
Four teams.
One quarter.
Each team plans in isolation and each plan is reasonable. That is exactly why the failure is invisible.
The architecture underneath
Every story lands on a service that costs money to run.
Map component to service, service to normalized cost and usage. The roadmap becomes a cost model of a system that does not exist yet.
Adoption drives the bill
The code is cheap. The users are not.
For AI features, 80 to 90 percent of the spend is inference, which scales after launch with how many people actually use the thing.
73%
of AI costs exceeded their original budget
29%
of cloud spend is now waste, a five-year high
The collision
Three roadmaps. One shared service.
No single team's forecast contains this failure. It only appears when you run all four plans against each other at once.
And the spend nobody owns
Orphaned, untagged, still billing.
Environments left running. Experiments provisioned and forgotten. Invisible to the very attribution your forecast depends on.
Re-solve
Change the plan,
not the budget.
Resequence two epics. Buy commitment coverage before the launch instead of after it. Shard the hot service before the third team arrives.
The result
Same roadmap. Same dates.
$460K avoided.
Nothing was cut. The work simply landed in an order the system could afford.
Reading 1
The forecast finance is budgeting against.
Quarterly cloud spend · $2.0M baseline
Historical forecast—
Simulated roadmap—
After re-solve—
Illustrative model on published FinOps economics. Not client data.
Usage agents simulated
0
Untagged
no owner, still billing
Saturated · week 6
3 teams, 1 endpoint
Sharded
capacity ahead of launch
PAY-1842
component: inference-gw · 8 pts
Ourus
Your forecast describes
the system you already have.
Your next bill is being written
right now, in your backlog.
We read the roadmap, price it before you build it, and show you which week it breaks in.
Optimized by math. Validated by simulation.
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