The FinOps Crossroads
Cloud+ spend—across cloud infrastructure, AI, SaaS, software, data centers, and internal platforms—is rising at an unprecedented rate. In 2024, 72% of CIOs and CFOs cite lack of visibility and accountability as a top concern.
Time is not on their side.
Every month, while FinOps teams fight fires, millions of dollars are wasted or misallocated. As spending accelerates and complexity compounds, enterprise leaders face a critical crossroads:
Path 1: Rely on Inadequate FinOps Tools
Tools that:
- Lack the comprehensive data and modeling capabilities required for Walk- and Run-stage FinOps
- Silo data, limiting integration into engineering, finance, and business workflows
- Depend on dashboards that stakeholders rarely visit
These tools may work at the Crawl stage—but quickly become a ceiling on maturity.
Path 2: Build DIY In-House Solutions
An approach that:
- Costs $2M+ per year
- Takes 18–24 months to deliver consistent value
- Diverts FinOps talent into data plumbing instead of high-ROI initiatives
- Requires scarce finance-savvy data and AI engineers
- Creates long-term maintenance and ownership risk
For many organizations, DIY starts as a necessity—and becomes a multi-year tax.
Path 3: StitcherAI
Build ❌ Buy ❌ Stitch ✅
Until now, the FinOps “Build vs. Buy” decision has been a lose-lose proposition. Most tools target Crawl-stage needs, while Walk- and Run-stage FinOps teams were forced to build costly, fragile in-house platforms to move forward.
StitcherAI changes that equation.
StitcherAI enables organizations to FinOps like the Fortune 50—at a fraction of the cost and time—by filling the critical gap between build and buy.
A New Foundation for Run-Stage FinOps
StitcherAI is an AI-powered data engineering platform purpose-built for FinOps and finance teams. It delivers a customizable, enterprise-grade FinOps data layer that unlocks advanced maturity without the burden of DIY.
Delivering Results with StitcherAI
High-performing FinOps organizations share two ingredients:
- A comprehensive, accurate, near real time FinOps data -
- A team empowered to drive FinOps enablement and outcomes
With StitcherAI in place, FinOps teams can deliver industry-leading impact, including:
- A single, live, accurate cost and usage dataset—no more emailing stale spreadsheets
- Tailored data artifacts: reports, unit metrics, allocations, controls, and simulations
- FinOps insights embedded directly into the tools and processes stakeholders already use
- Advanced forecasting driven by granular signals and customer-defined events, not coarse time-series averages
- Near real-time reactive and proactive cost governance
- Capacity to focus on high-ROI “final-mile” initiatives like optimization and enablement
Why StitcherAI Is Different
StitcherAI is the only FinOps platform designed specifically for Run-stage maturity, offering:
- Unified cloud, SaaS, AI, data center, and internal costs for accurate TCO modeling
- Advanced attribution, allocation, and simulation at cloud-data scale
- AI-assisted, no-code cost modeling—accessible to finance and FinOps users
- Automatic conversion of all cost and usage data into FOCUS format
- A Finance-as-Code approach with version control and full auditability
- Minimal vendor lock-in through open standards and open-source data formats
And critically: StitcherAI does not store your data.
All data and artifacts are deleted after outputs are delivered to the customer.
The Case for StitcherAI
Before StitcherAI, achieving Walk- or Run-stage FinOps required building in-house—an option that simply isn’t practical for most organizations.
With StitcherAI, FinOps teams:
- Improve efficiency, accountability, and engagement
- Reclaim time and talent from data wrangling
- Focus on high-ROI initiatives like optimization, education, and workflow integration
- Move beyond Crawl-stage limitations—without paying a tax on spend
FinOps leaders are no longer satisfied with the status quo. They want innovation, not dashboards—and they don’t want to be charged 1% of their spend for it.
StitcherAI listened—and delivered.
“Building DIY FinOps tools was exciting at first—but it became an expensive four-year investment. StitcherAI feels like FinOps magic. Our team is now focused on driving real ROI instead of maintaining data pipelines.” - Fortune 500 FinOps leader
We Get It
The StitcherAI team brings decades of experience across the FinOps ecosystem—as former FinOps tool vendors, Run-stage practitioners, FinOps Foundation leaders, and cloud experts.
We built the FinOps platform we always needed.
Now we’re sharing it with you.
Next Steps
Join other FinOps leaders using StitcherAI to achieve industry-leading outcomes:
🔍 See StitcherAI in action: Book a demo
⚙️ Explore how StitcherAI supports your custom needs
🚀 Imagine your FinOps team—unburdened by data wrangling and focused on impact
