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Infrastructure cost review (FinOps)

Where STOP finds the money that funds the AI tooling. A costed, dated savings plan — explicitly earmarked so the funding line from "take cost out" to "fund token spend" is visible and honoured.

The method​

  1. Tagging — get resources attributable to products/teams (a prerequisite for everything else).
  2. Idle & oversized — find unused and over-provisioned resources.
  3. Environment sprawl — non-prod environments that outlived their purpose.
  4. Licensing — unused or over-tier licences.
  5. Produce a savings plan — costed, dated, and earmarked to fund AI tooling and token spend.

This review is one side of the token-budgeting equation: STOP savings fund the token budgets that accelerated delivery consumes. The savings-vs-AI-spend reconciliation is a headline view on the metrics platform — so leadership can see the trade playing out.

Standards referenced: FinOps Framework.