Design Partners
Validate a new approach to Cloud and AI cost — for free, on your own numbers.
We are pre-launch. We are building Numio with a handful of Design Partners rather than in isolation. If you are a CFO, a CIO or a business leader with meaningful Cloud spend and growing AI usage, this is the invitation.
The exchange
What you get
- A scoped pilot at no cost. We agree the scope together, in writing, before we connect anything.
- Findings you keep. Savings identified during the pilot are yours whether or not you continue with us.
- A direct line to the founders. You work with the two people building the product, not an account team.
- Early influence. Your constraints shape the roadmap. What you need first, we build first.
- A view most organizations do not have yet. Token Meter shows what your AI usage costs, by team, app and use case.
The exchange
What we ask
- Read-only access to an agreed scope. One cloud account, one AI provider, one business unit — you choose. Numio connects with scoped read permissions and touches nothing.
- Two or three working conversations. To understand your tagging, your ownership model and what "good" looks like for you.
- Candid feedback. What worked, what did not, what you would need to rely on it.
- Optionally, a reference — only if the results earn it.
The process
How a pilot runs
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Email
You write to us. We reply within two working days.
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Walkthrough
A 30-minute session on your numbers. We agree the scope in writing.
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Connect, read-only
Numio observes your scope and produces informational findings: what changed, where, why, and what we would do about it.
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Review together
We walk through the findings. You decide what, if anything, to automate — per environment, per action, per team.
Typical elapsed time from first email to findings review: three to five weeks, depending on access.
Who it is for
CFOs, CIOs and business leaders at organizations with meaningful Cloud spend and growing AI usage — on AWS, GCP or Azure, and on any of the major LLM providers. Company size matters less than having a budget line you want to understand and shape.
What we cannot promise
We are a small team and the product is in development. We cannot run every pilot we are asked for. Building Numio with Design Partners is our number-one priority, and we will try hard to say yes.
In the open
Three things, running in parallel
None of them require you to buy anything.
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Design Partners
Customers who shape the product through their own top-priority concerns. You bring the real constraint; we build against it and you see it working.
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A study with CFO associations
We are running a study with Spanish CFO associations to identify where technology cost management hurts, and where the information needed to evaluate and steer tech investment does not exist. Findings are shared with participants.
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Open source, Apache licensed
We are releasing a version of the product on GitHub under the Apache License, so people can try the ideas without a procurement conversation.
Questions we get
Before you write
- Is it really free?
- Yes. There is no fee for a Design Partner pilot and no obligation to buy afterwards.
- What access do you need?
- Read-only credentials scoped to what we agree — typically one cloud account or one AI provider. Nothing is modified during the pilot.
- What happens to our data?
- Cost and usage metadata stays within the pilot scope and is used only to produce your findings. We put this in writing before connecting.
- How long does it take?
- Typically three to five weeks from first email to findings review.
- Do we have to buy afterwards?
- No.
- What if we want to automate something during the pilot?
- You grant the narrowest permission for that specific action. Numio shows its reasoning before it acts. You can revoke at any time.
Let's see it on your numbers.
One email is enough. Tell us who you are and what you would most like to learn.