FinOps as a Service: a practice you own, not a tool you resell.
Your clients are already asking why the cloud bill keeps climbing. FinOps as a Service turns that question into a monthly line on your invoice, delivered on our platform, under your brand.
Nobody owns the cloud bill.
Engineering provisions it. Finance pays it. Neither sees it until the invoice lands, by which point the resource has been running for a month, the commitment is signed, and the model has been serving traffic since before anyone noticed.
The usual answer is a dashboard. Dashboards report what already happened, so the conversation stays retrospective: a variance meeting about last month rather than a decision about next month.
Your clients cannot fix this by hiring. Building an effective internal FinOps practice takes a year or more: specialised people, new tooling, and a cultural shift across finance and engineering. Most mid-market companies will never do it.
That gap is your service line.
FinOps as a Service means you run cloud financial management for them. You run the practice, not only the software. Here is the shape of it.
Billable every month.
One view across every client
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud reconciled daily into one taxonomy, per client, without logging into each tenant separately. The thing that makes a portfolio manageable by one person instead of one person per client.
Cost decided before it is spent
Cost Guardrails prices each infrastructure change before it merges and routes approval to whoever owns the budget. This is the part a dashboard cannot do, and the part clients remember at renewal.
Savings you can show
Rightsizing, storage, idle resources, commitments and AI workloads, ranked by annualised impact with the evidence attached, so the monthly review has a number in it rather than a status update.
Attribution and chargeback
Tag policy enforced, every dollar tied to a team or project, and showback reports your client can hand to their own finance team. Reporting is the deliverable clients pay for month after month.
It adds MRR to clients you already have.
- New MRR without new logos. Every client with a cloud bill is a candidate. You are not prospecting, you are extending an account you already service.
- A wider portfolio. FinOps sits alongside migration, managed security and modernisation rather than competing with them, and it makes those engagements easier to scope, because you already know what the client runs and what it costs.
- Margin you set. Partner pricing is wholesale; you price your clients your way and keep the spread. Flat per tenant, so your quote does not move when their bill does.
- Stickiness. A monthly cost review is a recurring reason to be in front of the client's finance team, not only their engineers.
- No platform to build. You are not funding a year of tooling and hiring to get a practice off the ground. The platform exists; you bring the relationship.
Read-only, always. SKYXOPS never changes your client's environment, which is what makes this easy for them to approve and safe for you to sell.
Background reading.
FinOps is a defined discipline, not a vendor category. It is governed by the FinOps Foundation, which publishes the framework, the certification path and the FOCUS billing specification. Its lifecycle (Inform, Optimize, Operate) is the same one this service delivers against.
The practitioner survey behind the discipline is the Foundation's own State of FinOps report (opens in a new tab), worth reading before any client conversation. This page covers the delivery side of that trade: what it takes to deliver the service rather than buy it.
Run it under your own brand.
Tell us how many clients you manage and which clouds they run. Commercials are agreed individually: managed service, resale or referral.
Apply to the partner programmeOr read the MSP & Reseller Program for how the commercial side works.
Become a SKYXOPS partner
Join the SKYXOPS MSP & Reseller Program and add a fast-growing cloud & AI cost-management service to what you already offer. Tell us about your business and our partner team will reach out.
- 1
You tell us about your book
Client count and the clouds they run.
2 minutes - 2
Partner call
Margin, model and white-label scope, agreed individually.
Within 2 business days - 3
We set up your tenant
Your brand, your console, your first client connected with us alongside.
Week 1 - 4
You bill your first client
Recurring, on your paper, with the client-facing templates provided.
Week 2–4
Commercials are agreed individually. They depend on your model: managed service, resale or referral.
