Before FinOps has an owner
A growing company can notice its GCP bill long before it can justify hiring someone to own FinOps.
The bill gets harder to explain as usage grows. Data workloads, Kubernetes clusters, databases, AI usage, and commitments each add their own logic. Engineering knows the systems, but cost work competes with product work. Finance sees the total without always seeing the reason behind it.
AI agents add another infrastructure cost. An agent that runs repeatedly can consume model inference, compute, storage, and the data services it calls. The cost may be worthwhile. It still needs an owner who can see what is running, what it costs, and whether it should keep running that way.
Google provides useful recommendations. Someone still needs to check whether a resource is safe to change, whether an existing commitment changes the savings math, whether a production window is coming up, and whether the recommendation fits how the system is used. Then someone has to make the approved change.
The work behind Onyxize
That is the work behind Onyxize, a GCP FinOps consultancy.
Onyxize is a GCP cost optimization and FinOps consultancy for growing B2B SaaS, AI/ML, and data-heavy companies. It starts with the invoice and read-only access, then turns findings into a practical list of changes a customer can approve.
The analysis looks for idle resources, missing labels, clusters that never sleep, commitment and usage mismatches, and spend patterns across BigQuery, GKE, Cloud SQL, Vertex AI, CUDs, and SUDs. That includes the infrastructure behind agent workloads when they are part of the bill.
We start with Google’s own recommendations. We also check whether savings remain after existing commitments, production constraints, and the implementation plan are considered. Some costly SKUs have no useful recommender.
Read-only before change
The engagement begins read-only. Customers see the savings math before anyone gets write access. If they approve the plan, Onyxize implements the changes and validates the documented first-year savings afterward.
The fee is 30% of documented first-year savings. It is not a permanent percentage of the GCP bill. Savings depend on a company’s infrastructure, usage, commitments, and the changes it chooses to implement, so there is no promised percentage reduction.
Who it serves
Onyxize is for teams with a meaningful GCP bill, growing infrastructure, and no dedicated FinOps hire. It is poorly suited to free trials, hobby projects, or companies seeking only a dashboard.
The goal is to give a growing team a cost plan it can review, approve, and implement without guessing what production can safely absorb.