Cloud & FinOps practitioner, founder of CloudXray AI, writing on cloud, cost, and AI.
Sep 29, 2026
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6 min read
Don't ask which framework is right. Ask which door your spend comes through.
Sep 22, 2026
9 min read
Config gets another apply. A model call gets one.
Sep 15, 2026
5 min read
Some of your cost data waits for you. The rest is gone the second you look away.
Sep 8, 2026
Cloud forgives a bad tag. AI doesn't.
Sep 1, 2026
Coverage says the tags are there. It doesn't say they answer anything.
Aug 25, 2026
7 min read
Value isn't a number you drive down. It's a position you picked on purpose.
Aug 18, 2026
4 min read
Vendors are starting to sell control. Then $7 billion bought the place where control lives.
Aug 11, 2026
3 min read
283 tools counted. The hard part is still almost empty.
Aug 4, 2026
Tokens are the hours, the model is who you staffed. Price the work the way you already know how
Jul 28, 2026
Everyone's shipping an AI cost dashboard yet few are shipping the governance and management needed.
Jul 21, 2026
The Cap tells you what a decision cost. The Gate tells you before you decide
Jul 14, 2026
Nobody knows what AI becomes. Build the things that survive being wrong.
Jul 7, 2026
AI removed the cost that used to filter weak work. Now teams need to ask "should we" instead of "can we".
Jun 30, 2026
AI spend only matters when you can show what it changed: the work, the people doing it, and the outcomes it moved.
Jun 23, 2026
AI is the newest gold rush. But most companies still can’t account for the SaaS and Cloud they already bought, and FinOps is being asked to govern the next layer before the foundation is finished.
Jun 16, 2026
FinOps X gave us two signals at once: tokens are becoming measurable, and FinOps work is becoming agentic. One is further along than the other.
Jun 9, 2026
The hidden infrastructure, tooling, and cost layer companies must build before agents can do real work.
Jun 2, 2026
8 min read
The next era of FinOps will not be won by explaining the bill after the fact. It will be won by governing the cost of work before it happens.
May 27, 2026
Why FinOps today feels a lot like Cybersecurity around 2015
May 19, 2026
12 min read
FinOps still has a greenfield problem, and most of the industry stopped talking about it.
May 12, 2026
11 min read
FinOps measures what has a bill. Gross margin lives in what doesn't
May 5, 2026
10 min read
When AI moves the engineering bottleneck instead of eliminating it, margin pays the bill.
Apr 27, 2026
80% margins forgave architectural carelessness. 50% margins do not.
Apr 20, 2026
You cannot control the next environment if you cannot clean up this one.
Apr 13, 2026
16 min read
Where to Start? A practical path from cost visibility to cost ownership
