One cloud account and a monthly report. See if it answers your questions before you pay.
Your cloud bill, explained.
See what changed on every cloud and AI bill you connect, and why, in words your CFO can read. Built for SaaS teams too small for a FinOps hire.
Free forever for one account. We never change anything in your cloud.
Built by one person, Dan Payne at Great Minds AI, who got tired of assembling the cost story by hand. Questions land in his inbox.
Reads bills from:
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud PlatformAmazon Web Services
Cloudflare
Vercel
OpenAI
Anthropic
Neon
Apify
The bill went up. Nobody can say why.
With cloud bills, the money is spent before anyone can approve it.
Your invoice tells you how much. Within hours, the person who signs it wants to know why.
Something changed last month.
A deploy, a retry storm, a test server nobody turned off over a weekend. Your invoice shows what it cost and nothing about why.
Then finance asks.
Your CFO wants a short answer: what changed, what it cost, and whether it will happen again. A screenshot of a cost chart answers none of those.
So you dig through line items.
You export a month of charges and match them up by hand. A day later you have an answer, and next month's bill is already growing.
Your cloud's own console has the data, and the agent reads from it. But the console answers in meters and SKUs, one vendor per tab, and your CFO asked in plain English.
hellocloudwatch reads every vendor you connect and writes the answer for you.
Compare it with the tools you already use →You ask in plain English.
The agent shows its work.
Type the question your CFO just asked. The agent reads the billing data from the vendors you connect and answers in plain English, with its sources attached, so you can check it before you pass it on.
The agent writes; you decide. Every finding is yours to accept, correct or ignore.
vm-prod-04 in rg-prod-app scaled
from 8 → 32 cores at 03:14 UTC Tue 22 Sept and did not scale back until
Wed 15:40, so the runaway
ran for roughly 36 hours and added $1,782 to
Production. R&D and Shared Services held to their 90-day medians within 2% either way.Production Application has no budget. I have set one at
August's settled total, $10,867.32, and asked
for notices at 50, 80 and 95 percent. At 95 percent
finance is emailed too. It is yours to change or remove.A monthly report your CFO can actually read.
One page with the headline, the key numbers, a daily spend chart, a breakdown by account or business area, and what changed and why. Send the link and your CFO reads it, with no login.
On Pro, you can edit the summary before you send it, and your changes are never written over.
Production spend rose +18.2% in September, almost entirely from one overnight scaling event.
R&D and Shared Services held to their trailing 90-day medians within 2% either way. The full
month-over-month delta of +$1,980 traces almost
entirely to one resource scaling 8 →
32 cores at 03:14 UTC Tue 22 Sept and not scaling back
for ~36 hours.
vm-prod-04.
Strip that out and your bill behaved. Every other context tracked its 90-day median.vm-prod-04 in rg-prod-app (Azure prod) scaled from 8 → 32 cores, adding $1,782 to Production. It did not scale back until
Wed 15:40.Every number shows its source. Billed amounts are marked observed. Where a vendor shares usage but no prices, we price it ourselves and mark the figure estimated.
What it doesn't do.
Know what you're getting before you connect anything.
- No dashboard.You get answers and a report, on purpose: no chart builder, no saved views, no metrics catalog.
- Read-only.We never change your cloud. Every tool the agent has against your cloud is a read: none resizes a server, stops a deploy or changes an access policy. The one thing it writes is a budget inside hellocloudwatch, and only when you ask. If a vendor only offers a broad key, we keep the same rule.
- Estimates are labelled.Most of what we read is billed dollars, marked observed. Where a vendor shares usage but no prices, we price it ourselves and mark it estimated. If a vendor's figure leaves something out, like a plan fee, the report says so on that line.
- Quiet by default.There are no streaks or badges, and no email to say it missed you. You hear from it when it finds something, and it stays quiet otherwise.
- Not built for large FinOps teams.If you have a FinOps person, or more than ten cloud accounts, an enterprise cost platform will serve you better. Our comparison page says which one, and when.
See exactly what we can access, and what we are not certified for →
Set up in minutes. Revoke any time.
Most vendors take about five minutes. Azure, AWS and Google Cloud take a little longer. We ask for the narrowest access each vendor offers, read-only wherever the vendor allows it, and your keys live in Azure Key Vault. There is nothing for you to run: your spend is read on a schedule, and your report starts with a year of history when you connect. What each vendor's credential can do →
Two vendors only offer an organisation-wide key. For those, the form shows what the key can do and where to revoke it, before you create one.
AWS never gives us a key at all, only a role you can cut off from your side.
That is the whole setup. The agent starts on last month as soon as you connect. After that, a new report arrives in the first week of each month. The twelve months before it are filled in at the same time.
- Encryption
- At rest in Azure Key Vault; in transit over TLS 1.2 or later. If somebody walked out with a copy of our database, they would not have one of your keys.
- Audit log
- Every agent action is logged with its exact tool call and arguments, so you can check the agent's work instead of trusting it.
- Cancellation
- One click. Your credentials are deleted at once, and the rest follows the schedule in our privacy notice.
You'll never get a surprise bill from us.
Each tier limits how much computing we spend on your account. That's our cost, separate from your cloud bill. If your workspace reaches that limit, the agent pauses new analysis, tells you, and resumes when the limit resets. It never becomes a charge.
Up to 3 cloud accounts, checked daily, with a plain-English report every month.
Up to 10 cloud accounts, deeper answers, and a report you can review before it goes out.
The questions a skeptical CTO actually asks.
If yours is not here, write to us. A person reads every note.
For the questions it answers, yes: every answer lists the sources it used, and each observation it cites opens that month on your Spend page. The monthly report is built to match your vendor's own bill, wherever that vendor bills a figure we can read. Where it differs, that is a bug and we treat it as one.
For what it cannot answer, like what next quarter will cost or a vendor you have not connected, it says so rather than hallucinating a number to be helpful.
The vendor's, wherever the vendor bills a figure we can read; that is what the monthly report reconciles to. Where a vendor publishes metered usage and no money, the figure is ours: their units against their published price list. That is an estimate, not a bill, and the agent says which one you are looking at.
We would rather say so than imply a precision we do not have.
The citation pills mean you can usually catch it inside thirty seconds: the agent's claim sits next to the sources it read. And every public report ends by asking readers to verify important facts, so a CFO reading the forwarded link is not being told the number is gospel.
If a number was materially wrong, email us. We read it.
In Azure Key Vault, whichever vendor you connect; we hold a reference, not the secret itself. We ask for the narrowest credential each vendor issues, and for almost all of them that is scoped read-only to billing: no resource visibility, no ability to modify anything. Where a vendor issues nothing narrower than an organisation-wide key, the connect form says so before you create one, and we call exactly one endpoint with it.
Rotating or revoking takes one click and one minute. We never email you to ask for a secret. We never paste a secret into chat.
Yes, from the account page. Your credentials are purged immediately; the rest of your data follows the staged-deletion schedule in our privacy notice. There is no retention clause to wait out, and nobody asks whether you are sure.
Because your CFO does not ask "what is my month-over-month variance by service?" They ask "why did production cost more last week?" A dashboard pushes the work of answering onto you; the agent answers directly. The report is the artifact that survives the conversation, but the conversation is the product.
We considered one, then watched ourselves never open it for three months. So we cut it.
SaaS teams of around thirty people, where a CTO or engineering lead owns the cloud bill and finance wants it explained. The founder was that CTO, and spent about four hours a month writing the cost story for finance by hand. Most teams like this pay for no cost tool at all, because every option is sized for a FinOps team they do not have.
If you run a large FinOps practice or want deep cost tooling, an enterprise platform will suit you better, and our comparison page says which.
The reasoning step uses a foundation model, yes, with no access to the public internet, your other documents, or any data outside the cloud cost surface you connect. Every tool call is logged and shown in the answer. If a model swap improves accuracy we will do it; if it changes the voice we will not.
A monthly report for the month that just closed: the numbers are written in the first days of the month and the agent's narrative follows by the fifth to seventh. In between, the agent reads your spend every morning and re-reads the last five days each evening as figures settle, and emails you when a settled day breaks its own 28-day pattern, never on a provisional number.
Yes. Map resources to the parts of your business they run, "Production SaaS" rather than a resource-group id, and set a monthly budget per business context. Crossings notify you at fifty and eighty percent; at ninety-five, finance is emailed too.
Find out why your bill changed.
The agent starts on last month as soon as you connect. After that, a new report arrives in the first week of each month. No card, no demo call, no email follow-up if you walk away.
Upgrade only when you want more. No charge unless you add a card.