Cloud decision intelligence
Most tools report what you spent. CaeliQ prices what you could spend, before you commit.
Every option across providers and regions, worked out on cost, risk, and payback. Vendor-neutral by design, so decisions reflect your priorities, not a vendor’s.
What does renewing at a reduced discount cost us?
The same usage costs $7.5M more a year. With migration funding not renewed, the three-year exposure reaches $34.5M.
| Item | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Current annual spend | $100.0M | observed |
| Commitment discount at renewal | 20% → 14% | observed |
| Same usage after renewal | $107.5M | calculated |
| Extra cost over three years | $22.5M | calculated |
| Migration funding not renewed | $6–12M | calculated |
The cost of doing nothing
The cloud is just somebody else’s computer. Choosing whose computer runs your workloads should be a routine commercial decision, made on price and terms like any other supplier.
Commitments, discounts, and proprietary services make switching look impossible, so the supplier sets the terms.
Most guidance comes from the providers you pay, or partners they pay. Nobody prices the alternatives for you.
Every what-if becomes a project, so the moves that would save money or cut risk wait another budget cycle.
See · Weigh · Decide · Deliver
Leverage, independence and investment at the top. Protection and continuity as the foundation.
When it matters Renewals within the next 24 months · Competitive tenders · Commitments behind plan or expiring
Without CaeliQ
Your largest cloud renewal is coming up. Nobody can say what you really pay per unit, so the team anchors on the previous deal. Your supplier knows you won’t switch, so it trims your discount.
The discount shrinks, and you pay about 5–7.5% more for the same usage.
With CaeliQ
Deeper discounts and lower unit costs, backed by evidence the supplier can’t dismiss.
When it matters New sovereignty or data residency rules · Political shifts and trade tensions · Public sector and regulated customers
Without CaeliQ
The largest cloud providers are US companies, bound by the US CLOUD Act wherever your data sits. As politics shift, a foreign government can hold the keys to your data. They should be yours.
With CaeliQ
Independent where it matters, efficient elsewhere.
When it matters Large transformation programs · Mergers and integrations · Budget cycles and reforecasts
Without CaeliQ
You need to recommend a major move: a migration, a new platform, a merger integration. Finance and IT use different numbers, and the board wants options within days.
Just finding out whether a big move makes sense takes six months of preparation and over $200k. Deciding is expensive before anything happens.5
With CaeliQ
A defensible recommendation with a clear case for approval and payback.
When it matters New or changing regulation · Expansion into new countries · Regulatory reviews and audits
Without CaeliQ
Critical services lean on a single supplier, and every audit means gathering evidence by hand, service by service. New rules arrive faster than you can map them.
Audit findings, NIS2 fines of up to 2% of global turnover, and manual work every cycle.6
With CaeliQ
Compliance you can prove, with gaps closed in the right order at the lowest cost.
When it matters Continuity planning and testing · Major outages in the market · New resilience rules
Without CaeliQ
Your board and regulators ask what happens if a key location or supplier goes down. Recovery plans exist, but nobody has priced them, and answers take weeks.
With CaeliQ
Continuity at the right price: no overspend on standby, no gaps where it counts.
Ask the question. See the trade-off.
Every question ends in a verdict: a conclusion, the figures behind it, and the basis of each figure. This is what a CaeliQ verdict looks like in practice.
| Current annual spend | €2,418,300 | observed |
| Equivalent stack, Azure | €2,206,900 | calculated |
| Commitment discount forfeited | −€193,500 | observed |
| Migration effort | €310,000 | assumed |
| Break-even | 29 months | calculated |
Not yet · renegotiate first
| Current commitment discount | 18% |
| Peer benchmark | 22–26% |
| Required to match the alternative | 24% |
Renegotiate · 6 points short
| Workload mapped | 142 services |
| Providers compared | AWS · Azure · GCP |
| Time to first draft | Hours, not weeks |
Proceed · priced sections ready
| Services out of policy | 23 of 89 |
| Remediation cost | €410,000 |
| Sovereign EU regions | 3 options |
Proceed · cost justified by risk reduction
Illustrative scenarios with example figures. In a real verdict, every figure links to its source.
The earliest point of control
From caelum, Latin for “sky”: Intelligence and eQuivalence across clouds, so your team focuses on the decision, not the data wrangling.
What you pay per unit, what you depend on, and which rules apply, next to the closest alternatives.
Options compared like for like on capability, price, risk, and governing law, and against what peers achieve.
The cost of each choice, switching, staying, or closing a gap, with targets you can defend.
A brief, plan, or business case ready for the supplier meeting, the board, or the auditor.
Every figure carries its basis
Read from your billing data or contract, with the source row and date.
Derived from public price lists, exchange rates, or published indices. Inputs and method are stated.
Stated where no hard data exists, such as migration effort or growth. Change it and the scenario reruns.
Why CaeliQ
CaeliQ goes beyond traditional FinOps: it is a radical Shift Left. Where FinOps tools report what you spent, CaeliQ prices what you could spend. And unlike a general-purpose AI assistant, it does not start from a blank prompt.
| Aspect | Generic AI assistant | CaeliQ platform |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | A blank prompt. You supply the method. | 40,000+ hours of consulting practice, built into every workflow. |
| Data | Whatever you paste in, often incomplete or out of date. | Current pricing, contracts, and market signals, normalized across providers. |
| Comparisons | Plausible estimates that may not match real services. | Like-for-like equivalence, mapped service by service. |
| Consistency | A different answer each time you ask. | The same proven method, every time. |
| Output | A draft you still need to check and finish. | A result: targets, plans, and business cases ready to use. |
Questions
To start, the decision you are facing. For a full analysis, your spend data and the relevant contract terms.
AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, STACKIT, and Scaleway. Support for Databricks and Snowflake is in development.
Far less than it used to be. The cloud is just somebody else’s computer, and moving between them has become routine: AI-assisted migration cuts time and investment by about 40%11, and from January 2027 providers can no longer charge you to leave9. CaeliQ prices every option before anything moves, so a switch is a decision made on numbers.
Yes. CaeliQ doesn’t favor any single cloud. Every analysis rests on an objective foundation, so decisions reflect your priorities, not a vendor’s. Most guidance comes from the providers you pay, or partners they pay; CaeliQ prices the alternatives for you.
Most tools report on spend after the fact. CaeliQ works before the decision, when every option is still open: FinOps tools report what you spent; CaeliQ prices what you could spend, before you commit.
CaeliQ runs in the US and EU on Azure and AWS. Only named CaeliQ system operators can access your confidential contract and spend data. We are working to achieve ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification at public launch in early 2027.
A European manufacturing client used CaeliQ to cut renewal cost by 6%. Reference available upon request.
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