Stop Letting AWS, GCP & AI Bills Burn Your Runway.
When cloud and inference bills grow faster than ARR, gross margins collapse. We audit your compute, databases, egress, observability, SaaS vendor sprawl, and LLM token pipelines—engineering structural 25%–50% cost reductions without degrading latency or uptime.
Typical Spend Reduction
25%–50%
Across cloud, DB, APM & AI APIs
Production Downtime
Zero
Staged rollouts with rollback safety
Payback Horizon
< 60 Days
Savings frequently exceed advisory fee
- FAST STARTStart Within 48 Hours Under Mutual NDA
- EQUITY0% Equity Taken · 100% Your Code & IP
- CLOUD BILLS25%–45% Saved on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure & AI
- INVESTORSSeed, Series A & M&A Tech Checklists Handled
- SECURITYSOC 2 · ISO 27001 · Cyber Essentials · GDPR · HIPAA
- UPGRADESModernize Old Software & Spreadsheets With 0 Downtime
- PRIVATE AI100% Private Company AI That Saves 15+ Staff Hrs/Wk
- PROVEN20+ Years · 15+ SaaS Products Built · US & UK Hours
Tailored for High-Velocity Startups & Established Operators
Technical bottlenecks look different at a 12-person Seed startup in London or New York than at a profitable 20-year operating business modernizing its core workflows. We structure every engagement around your commercial stage.
US & UK Startups (1–30 Employees)
SaaS and AI-native startups whose monthly AWS, GCP, Vercel, Supabase, Datadog, or OpenAI/Anthropic spend is eroding runway and SaaS gross margins.
Established UK & US Businesses Making the Tech Shift
Growing UK & US businesses paying bloated cloud hosting, licensing, and redundant SaaS vendor renewals accumulated over years without central technical governance.
4 Signals You Need Immediate CTO Intervention
- Cloud and third-party API costs are scaling 2x faster than customer revenue
- Idle staging environments, oversized RDS/Cloud SQL instances, and NAT gateway fees go unchecked
- LLM inference costs threaten unit economics as user adoption grows
- Nobody owns cost-per-tenant telemetry or vendor contract negotiations
Core Stacks, Cloud & Standards Audited
- AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront)
- Google Cloud (GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud SQL)
- Azure, Vercel, Cloudflare, Datadog & Snowflake
- LLM Token FinOps, Prompt Caching & Model Tiering
- SaaS Gross-Margin & Cost-Per-Tenant Modeling
Concrete Deliverables & Timeline
Every engagement produces tangible engineering artifacts, executive clarity, and shipped improvements—never vague slideware.
- 01Phase 1Days 1–4
Granular Cloud, Database & Vendor Spend Forensics
Tag-level and service-level breakdown across AWS/GCP/Azure, managed databases, logging/APM tools, CI minutes, and AI inference endpoints.
- 02Phase 2Days 5–10
Zero-Downtime Quick-Win Savings Execution
Immediate reclamation of unattached volumes, over-provisioned instances, chatty cross-AZ egress, runaway log ingestion, and redundant SaaS licenses.
- 03Phase 3Weeks 2–4
Architectural & AI Inference Margin Engineering
Query indexing, read-replica tuning, caching layers, semantic/prompt caching, model routing (tiering frontier vs. compact models), and autoscaling policies.
- 04Phase 4Ongoing
Unit-Economics Telemetry & Budget Guardrails
Automated anomaly alerts, cost-per-customer dashboards, and cloud credit / enterprise commit guidance so waste never creeps back.
How GotYourTech Compares to Status Quo Alternatives
Dev agencies profit from longer hours and ground-up rewrites. Unassisted teams accumulate silent risk. Our incentives are 100% aligned with your P&L and valuation.
| Dimension | Without Senior CTO | Typical Agency / Junior Lead | GotYourTech Principal CTO |
|---|---|---|---|
| Optimization Depth | Blindly paying monthly auto-debit invoices | Buys 1-year lock-in commitments on bad architecture | Fixes root-cause code, DB queries, topology & vendor contracts |
| AI Cost Control | Every request routed to most expensive frontier model | Lacks production evaluation & routing benchmarks | Tiered model routing + caching preserving accuracy & margin |
| Vendor Neutrality | Locked into cloud reseller markups | Earns kickbacks on cloud consumption | 100% independent—zero reseller commissions |
Cost Optimization — Frequently Asked Questions
Can you reduce our AWS or GCP bill without locking us into 3-year commitments?
Do you also optimize AI / LLM API costs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex)?
Can you help startups secure AWS Activate, Google for Startups, or Azure credits?
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Scope Your Cost Optimization Engagement
Share your stage, region, and primary technical bottleneck—or skip straight to a live 30-minute strategy call with a Principal Fractional CTO.