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Shift-Left Cost Intelligence

Know your costs before you build.

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Design Studio analyzed blueprint for payments-api v3 architecture2s ago
THE PROBLEM

Cost Surprises Kill Projects

Teams design architectures blind to cost. By the time the bill arrives, the budget is blown and the damage is done.

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of cloud projects exceed budget
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wasted on cloud annually
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average cost overrun vs estimate
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design-time cost tools
8 INTEGRATED SYSTEMS

Cost Intelligence at Every Stage

Eight purpose-built systems that embed cost awareness into every architecture decision.

01

Design Studio

Architecture blueprints with real-time cost estimation before a single resource is provisioned

02

What-If Simulator

Model cost scenarios before committing — migration, scaling, region expansion, architecture changes

03

Golden Paths

Pre-validated architecture patterns with known costs, compliance checks, and optimization built in

04

PR Impact Scanner

Every pull request analyzed for infrastructure cost impact before merge — catch cost spikes in review

05

Blueprint Costing

Service-level cost breakdown with estimated vs actual variance tracking and confidence scoring

06

Commitment Advisor

Intelligent reservation and savings plan recommendations based on steady-state workload analysis

07

Pattern Library

Curated catalog of architecture patterns with cost benchmarks, scaling profiles, and team adoption metrics

08

Compliance Gate

Automated cost governance — budget guardrails, approval workflows, and drift detection at design time

SUPPORTED PATTERNS

Every Architecture Pattern, Costed

From serverless APIs to ML pipelines, every pattern comes with real-time cost estimates and optimization recommendations.

Serverless APILambda + API Gateway
ContainerKubernetes / ECS
Managed DBRDS / Aurora / CosmosDB
CDN + StaticCloudFront + S3
ML PipelineSageMaker / Vertex
Event-DrivenEventBridge + SQS
Data LakeS3 + Glue + Athena
WHY ARCHITECT

Cost Awareness, Not Cost Surprises

Cost at Design Time

Shift Left

Stop discovering cost overruns in production. Architect embeds cost modeling directly into the design phase, so every architecture decision includes a price tag.

Code-to-Cost Pipeline

PR Intelligence

Every pull request automatically analyzed for infrastructure cost impact. Catch a $5,000/month mistake before it merges, not after the invoice arrives.

Paved Road Economics

Golden Paths

Pre-validated architecture patterns with known cost profiles. Teams build faster on proven foundations while finance sleeps better with predictable spend.

PR IMPACT PREVIEW

Every PR Gets a Price Tag

Automatic cost impact analysis on every pull request. Reviewers see the dollar impact alongside the code diff.

#1847Add Redis caching layer+$2,400/mohigh
#1842Migrate auth to Lambda-$1,800/molow
#1839Scale K8s to 20 nodes+$5,200/mocritical
#1835Consolidate 3 microservices-$3,100/momedium
#1831Add WAF rules for gateway+$180/molow
PROVEN RESULTS

Design-Time Intelligence, Production Savings

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Avg budget variance reduction
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Monthly savings per team
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PR cost impact detection rate
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Faster architecture approval

Stop Guessing.
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