Making Run-Stage FinOps Achievable for Everyone
Organizations will spend $5.7 trillion on IT in 2025. The teams that master Cloud, SaaS, and AI economics won't just survive—they'll dominate their industries. Run-stage FinOps is no longer optional. It's the competitive advantage.
For too long, FinOps teams have been told that mature practices require years of custom development, massive budgets, and armies of data engineers. That's the old way.
We're building the new way. StitcherAI makes enterprise-grade FinOps data infrastructure accessible in weeks, not years—so your team can focus on driving business value instead of stitching together pipelines.
Run-stage FinOps is within reach. Let's get you there.
We've Walked This Path—From Every Angle
We know the uphill climb FinOps teams face. Not from theory, but from lived experience.
Our founder built one of the earliest Cloud+ FinOps practices from scratch at Citi—managing billions in IT spend and experiencing firsthand what mature teams actually need. That practitioner perspective revealed fundamental problems the industry wasn't solving.
So he founded the open-source FOCUS standard and served as chair for two years—bringing the entire FinOps community together to solve one of the industry's most pressing challenges: the lack of a common language for cloud costs. Today, FOCUS is adopted by AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, and hundreds of organizations worldwide. As an active maintainer of the project, he continues to shape the future of FinOps standards. This combination of deep practitioner expertise and community leadership gives us the ability to recognize industry problems well before they become widespread.
He also spent years building the leading cost management platforms in the market and helped launch transformative cloud services at AWS. But it's the practitioner and community work that drives everything we build at StitcherAI.
That practitioner experience was eye-opening.
We saw the dashboard fatigue. We witnessed FinOps teams drowning in spreadsheets and custom scripts—spending 18-24 months building data infrastructure instead of driving business value. And we saw how partial or inaccurate data undermines IT Finance initiatives entirely—when stakeholders lose trust in the numbers, every optimization effort, every forecast, every budget conversation becomes a battle to defend the data instead of driving outcomes.
And we saw something else: a complete lack of innovation in data enrichment, cost modeling, and allocations over the last five years.
The current generation of tools was built for the Crawl stage. They provide visibility—but little in the way of data enrichment, cost modeling, allocations, or the proactive and reactive controls that Run-stage teams actually need to govern spending and drive accountability.
So teams face an impossible choice: stick with tools that can't scale, or build in-house solutions they don't have the time, budget, or resources to maintain.
This is the trap that keeps FinOps teams from delivering results.
What We Believe About the Future of FinOps
Data Over
Dashboards
FinOps teams can't prioritize pretty dashboards over data quality. The modern FinOps stack is about data and data dissemination—not visualization tools. If you're waiting for stakeholders to visit another cost management tool daily, you'll wait forever. Meet them where they already work.
Engagement Over Enforcement
It's time to stop treating FinOps like a one-way push from FinOps teams to engineering. We need bidirectional engagement—a collaborative data layer that drives better technology investment decisions across the organization. Accountability only happens when you get engagement right.
Outcomes Over Pipelines
FinOps teams aren't data engineers. They're strategic enablers. The right platform lets them focus on driving FinOps outcomes—not stitching together pipelines and praying the data stays current.
Our Story
StitcherAI was founded by practitioners who've lived every stage of the FinOps journey.
We've built cloud services that scaled to billions in revenue. We've created and led FinOps tools used by thousands of organizations. We've sat in the hot seat as enterprise practitioners managing multi-hundred-million-dollar IT OpEx budgets.
And we've helped create the future—incubating and bringing together the FinOps community to deliver the first four versions of the open-source FOCUS standard (some call it our "third baby").
This combination of perspectives—vendor, practitioner, and standards leader—is rare. It's also essential. Because fixing FinOps requires understanding the problem from all sides.
Our Expertise
• Launched transformative AWS cloud services (Redshift, RDS Aurora)
• Defined and led the FinOps market (Apptio & Cloudability)
• Built enterprise-scale FinOps practices from scratch (Citi, managing billions in IT spend)
• Created and led FOCUS standard development (FinOps Foundation)
• Deep expertise in AI, data engineering, and Cloud+ economics
Why StitcherAI Exists
Built for Run-Stage Teams
Traditional FinOps tools were built for Crawl-stage visibility. StitcherAI was architected for Walk and Run-stage execution.
We handle the complexity of mid-9-figure IT OpEx environments—complete TCO modeling, business-aligned semantic modeling, and advanced governance—so your FinOps practice doesn't have to.
Data + Engagement, Not Dashboards
We don't ask your organization to visit another dashboard. We push actionable, business-aligned data directly into the workflows, tools, and processes where your teams already operate.
Slack. Jira. BI tools. Data lakes. Wherever your stakeholders make decisions—that's where FinOps data should live.
Flexible AND Opinionated
StitcherAI is flexible enough to map to how YOUR organization actually works—your teams, your tags, your semantics, your allocations.
But it's also opinionated enough to guide you toward proven outcomes. We've built the rails. You drive the train.
Let's Build the Future of FinOps. Together.
The FinOps market is ready for innovation. Teams are hungry for solutions that prioritize data and engagement over dashboards. If you're ready to move past Crawl-stage and accelerate toward Run-stage maturity, we're ready to help.
