Catch cloud spending problems before they blow your budget

Checks your cloud costs every day, flags policy violations with AI, and alerts your team by Slack or email.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken; runs once per each spending alert.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Starts itAn outside serviceRuns once per itemOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsEmail AutomationMessaging & Notifications
Connects
SlackGmailOpenAI

The problem it solves

Cloud bills can climb fast across multiple providers, and by the time you notice, you're already over budget. Catching a cost spike or a policy violation manually means someone has to check dashboards every single day.

Who it fits

A finance, IT, or operations team responsible for keeping cloud spending across multiple providers under control.

How it works

  1. Every day, the system pulls current cloud spending data
  2. AI reviews the numbers for waste and unusual spikes
  3. A second AI check compares spending against your budget policies
  4. Alerts are sorted by how urgent they are
  5. Your team gets notified in Slack or by email depending on severity
What you get

Budget overruns caught before they happen

You get an alert in Slack or email whenever your cloud spending drifts from policy or shows unusual spikes.

What you get

A prioritized alert in Slack or email whenever spending looks risky or breaks a policy.

What you need

Billing access to your cloud providers, an OpenAI account, a Slack workspace, and an email account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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