What You Walk Away With
Four deliverables. Zero cost.
The Waste Map
A breakdown of where your money is going -- and where it's being wasted -- organized by the five Field Guide categories. Your actual numbers, not industry benchmarks.
The Dollar Figure
A rough estimate of your total annual waste. Most teams are surprised -- it's usually 20-35% of total spend. We've seen as high as 52%.
The Prioritized Hit List
What to fix first, second, third -- ordered by the Field Guide's effort-vs-impact matrix. Some of these you can do tomorrow morning.
The Honest Answer
A straight answer on whether you need outside help, or whether your team can handle this with a checklist and a Friday afternoon. We include both options in the report.
"Once you see the number, you can't unsee it."
Why Free?
Because the Field Guide does something dashboards can't: it creates urgency.
Some teams see the Waste Map and fix it themselves. Great -- that's a win for cloud cost sanity. Some teams realize they want someone to execute the full Field Guide playbook. That's where we come in.
Either way, you walk away with a clear picture of what's burning money and what to do about it.
No pitch. No pressure. No "let me loop in my account executive."
Sam Greene
The practitioner behind the Field Guide.I built the Field Guide because I got tired of watching the same pattern: company buys a dashboard, assigns someone to watch it, holds quarterly reviews, and nothing changes. The bill goes up. Everyone just watches.
I've spent my career inside cloud cost problems. The teams that save 20-40%? They don't monitor. They act. The Field Guide is how.
1,000+ practitioners follow our work on LinkedIn. Not because we sell tools -- because the Field Guide works.
Who This Is For
The Waste Audit is built for:
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VPs & CTOs at companies spending $50K+/mo on cloud.
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Teams where cloud costs consistently outpace revenue growth.
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Leaders seeking engineering & finance alignment, not dashboards.
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Those who prefer 30 mins of clarity over 3 months of tool evaluation.
Not the right fit if:
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You already have a mature, dedicated FinOps team.
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You spend under $20K/mo (the ROI math doesn't make sense).
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You want a software demo (this is a methodology, not a tool).
