Stop Overspending.
Start Optimizing.
Detakai helps organizations take control of cloud costs through FinOps best practices and intelligent automation powered by OpenOps — turning cost-saving opportunities into actionable results.
Three Phases to Cloud Financial Excellence
The FinOps journey consists of three continuous phases. Organizations at any maturity level cycle through them — starting where the greatest need is, and evolving in scale, scope, and complexity as business value warrants.
Visibility & Awareness
Gain full visibility into your cloud spend. Accurate, timely data is the foundation of FinOps — enabling allocation, showback/chargeback, budgeting, forecasting, and anomaly detection across all teams and providers.
- Cloud cost dashboards & real-time reporting
- Resource tagging strategy & enforcement
- Budget allocation & forecasting across teams
- Showback & chargeback models
- Anomaly detection & trending analysis
Reduce & Rightsize
Identify and act on cost-saving opportunities. From rightsizing instances to leveraging reserved capacity and commitment-based discounts, we build automated workflows that balance cost, quality, and speed.
- Rightsizing compute, storage & databases
- Reserved instances & savings plan coverage
- Idle resource detection & safe de-provisioning
- Spot & preemptible instance strategies
- Unit economics & benchmarking
Govern & Automate
Embed FinOps into your organization's DNA. Establish governance frameworks, automation pipelines, and organizational alignment that make cost efficiency a continuous, proactive practice — not a one-time cleanup.
- Automated policy enforcement & guardrails
- Continuous anomaly detection & alerting
- Proactive architecture reviews & adjustments
- Automation workflows powered by OpenOps
- Cross-team collaboration & shared accountability
The Six FinOps Principles
These guiding principles — defined by the FinOps Foundation — act as a north star for every successful FinOps practice.
Teams Need to Collaborate
Finance, technology, product, and leadership work together in real time. FinOps breaks silos so everyone is aligned on strategic goals — from executives to engineers.
Business Value Drives Decisions
Unit economics and value-based metrics matter more than raw spend. Make conscious trade-offs among cost, quality, and speed — technology choices should maximize business impact.
Everyone Takes Ownership
Accountability is pushed to the edge. Engineers own costs from architecture design to operations, and teams manage their own usage against budgets they help control.
Data Should Be Accessible & Timely
Cost data is shared as soon as it's available. Real-time visibility drives better utilization, fast feedback loops improve efficiency, and consistent data empowers every level of the organization.
Centralized FinOps Team
A central function evangelizes best practices in a shared accountability model. Rate, commitment, and discount optimization are centralized to leverage economies of scale.
Leverage the Variable Cost Model
Embrace just-in-time planning and purchasing. The variable cost model of the cloud enables agile, iterative capacity planning over static long-term commitments.
Based on the FinOps Framework by the FinOps Foundation, a Linux Foundation project. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Automate FinOps with OpenOps
We leverage OpenOps — the open-source no-code FinOps automation platform — to turn cost-saving insights into automated, actionable workflows.
Why Choose Detakai
We combine deep FinOps expertise with powerful automation to deliver measurable results for your organization.
Reduce Cloud Costs
Identify waste, rightsize resources, and leverage reservations to cut cloud spend by 30% or more.
Full Visibility
Unified dashboards showing exactly where every dollar goes across all cloud providers and services.
Cultural Alignment
Bridge the gap between engineering, finance, and business teams with shared accountability for cloud costs.
Faster Innovation
Move fast with confidence — automated guardrails ensure cost control without slowing engineering velocity.
Multi-Cloud Ready
Whether you run on AWS, Azure, GCP, or a hybrid setup, our approach works across all environments.
Actionable Insights
Go beyond reports. Every optimization opportunity comes with an automated workflow to implement it.
Layered Services for Every Stage of Your FinOps Journey
Whether you're just starting with cloud cost management or looking to scale a mature practice, our layered approach meets you where you are and grows with your needs.
FinOps Assessment & Diagnosis
Understand where your cloud money is going. We analyze 3–6 months of billing data to map your FinOps maturity and uncover quick wins that deliver immediate savings.
- Billing deep-dive: idle instances, hot/cold storage mismatches, unnecessary egress
- FinOps maturity assessment across the Inform → Optimize → Operate lifecycle
- Governance, tagging strategy, and process improvement recommendations
- Executive-ready report with prioritized action plan
OpenOps Implementation for FinOps
Turn insights into automated action. We set up OpenOps end-to-end — from cloud provider connections to production-ready automation workflows that save money on autopilot.
- OpenOps setup (open-source or paid), cloud provider connections & authentication
- Cost anomaly detection & alerting via Slack, Teams, or Email
- Automated rightsizing with Jira ticket generation for recommendations
- Tagging enforcement: missing tag → alert + ticket + auto-correction
- Commitment management (RIs/Savings Plans) with renewal & underutilization alerts
Continuous FinOps Operation
FinOps as a Service — ongoing monitoring, reporting, and optimization so your team can focus on building while we keep costs in check.
- Monthly/weekly cost monitoring with executive reports (savings, budget deviations)
- Special analyses: cost peaks, new project impact, multi-cloud comparisons
- Proactive optimization recommendations and implementation support
- Training and support for engineering and product teams on cost best practices
Internal Capabilities Development
Build lasting FinOps muscle within your organization. We create custom dashboards and train your teams to operate autonomously with confidence.
- Custom FinOps dashboards (Power BI, Databricks + BI) for cost visibility by product/team/project
- Hands-on OpenOps training: creating workflows, interpreting logs, leveraging AI
- FinOps data models tailored to your organizational structure
- Knowledge transfer and documentation for long-term self-sufficiency
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about FinOps and how Detakai can help.