Understand where your cloud spend is leaking
Find and reclaim wasted spend.
The budget you might already have, if you go looking for it
Most AI-readiness conversations focus on the tools list and skip past a key question that’s worth answering:
Is your current cloud spend working as hard as it should be?
Resources provisioned for old business initiatives, inconsistent tagging, infrastructure sized for the wrong load – none of it is unusual, and most of it is invisible until someone goes looking.
The assessments
Azure FinOps & Cost Governance Assessment
A deep-dive into cloud right-sizing, cost governance frameworks and spend leakage. Establishes formal cost management controls and helps fund the next stage of your AI-readiness roadmap.
Duration: 3–6 days
Infrastructure Modernisation Assessment
A strategic evaluation of your legacy on-premises environment – identifying technical debt, assessing cloud-migration feasibility, and delivering a structured modernisation roadmap.
Duration: 4–5 days
The four pillars
- Pillar 1: Financial Integrity – find and reclaim wasted spend.
- Pillar 2: Structural Readiness – build a data estate AI (and your auditor) can trust.
- Pillar 3: Security & Compliance – harden identity and prove your compliance position.
- Pillar 4: Operational Excellence – align to best practice and get ready for Copilot
Find out more in our upcoming webinar series
For Financial Services
Building this evidence base does double duty for FCA-authorised firms – a documented account of infrastructure spend and governance is exactly the kind of third-party evidence current regulatory direction expects firms to hold.
For Professional Services
Every pound leaking out of the cloud bill is a pound not reinvested in the practice-management tools your fee earners are actually asking for.
For Not-for-Profit organisations
This is the plain-English answer trustees are already asking for: a documented account of what IT spend is delivering, ready if a funder or the board asks.
But is it relevant to you?
“Our spend isn’t big enough to bother optimising.”
Waste tends to scale with sprawl, not the size of your bill – over-provisioned VMs and forgotten resources add up fast regardless of headline spend. It’s a fixed-scope review, and what it finds often covers its own cost.
“Can’t we just lift-and-shift the servers as they are?”
You can – but you’ll carry the same sprawl and maintenance cost into the cloud, just with a bigger bill. We look beyond lift-and-shift to size the right destination and retire what’s not needed, so the foundation underneath is leaner and ready for AI.
Join the webinar
Webinar 1: Financial Integrity – 30 minutes, live with recording on demand. Wednesday 05 August @ 11am
Where cloud spend typically leaks, and how to find yours.
What’s next?
Financial Integrity comes first here because spend can help fund some of what follows, not because the pillars have to run in this order. The four pillars, and the assessments within them, are independent: pick the one that matches your own challenges and start there.
If you’re following the roadmap in sequence, Pillar 2 asks the next question: is your data structured well enough for an AI tool, or an auditor, to trust it?
Before you buy any AI tool, audit what you’re already paying for
Most AI conversations start with a shopping list of tools and skip asking the key question: what’s your current cloud spend actually doing? Estimates suggest as much as 30% of it could be going to waste, and this saving could help fund your AI-readiness.
Colin Riddle, our Chief Product Officer, has written an article on why the audit should come before the tools, not after.
Join any, or all, of our four short webinars.
Four 30-minute sessions, one per pillar, live weekly from Wednesday 5th August. Each covers the problem, what “good” looks like, and what the relevant assessment actually involves – no pitch deck marathon. Register once and choose the sessions that matter to you.
What you’ll learn in each webinar:
- Pillar 1: Financial Integrity – where cloud spend leaks typically occur, and how Ekco can help
- Pillar 2: Structural Readiness – what “AI-ready data” actually means, and how far off most estates are
- Pillar 3: Security & Compliance – what “good” security and compliance looks like in the context of AI
- Pillar 4: Operational Excellence – what has to be true before you switch Copilot on
Register for the AI-Ready Webinar Series
Available to watch live or view on demand afterwards:
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- Pillar 1: Financial Integrity – Weds 5 Aug @ 11am
- Pillar 2: Structural Readiness – Weds 12 Aug @ 11am
- Pillar 3: Security & Compliance – Weds 19 Aug @ 11am
- Pillar 4: Operational Excellence – Weds 26 Aug @ 11am
