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Rapid Cost Optimisation

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Convert cloud inefficiency into EBITDA uplift—fast
Rapid Cost Optimisation is built for Private Equity operating partners and portfolio leadership teams who need to demonstrate real, defensible reduction in the cost base—quickly, credibly, and ahead of exit.

Capacitas Rapid Cost Optimisation is a compressed, execution led intervention that identifies misaligned cloud spend, validates what can be removed, and delivers cost out at pace—resetting the EBITDA run rate without disrupting growth or operational stability.

It’s not cost control, it’s valuation optimisation

In many PE-backed businesses, cloud costs rise faster than revenue—quietly eroding margins and weakening the equity story.

Generic optimisation efforts often:

Depend on tooling rather than execution
Deliver temporary savings that rebound
Fail to produce board-credible evidence of cost-base change

For PE owners, that creates risk. EBITDA improvement must be realised, sustained, and defensible at exit.

Benchmarked. Validated. Delivered.

Capacitas takes a different approach.

We combine benchmark-driven cost analysis with deep performance and architectural insight to expose where spend is structurally misaligned. Every opportunity is validated with engineering teams before execution, ensuring savings are executable and do not compromise scale, resilience or performance.

This is not a long-term transformation. It is a focused cost-out programme designed to improve EBITDA now, then protect the gain.

$2.7m

Cloud cost reduction delivered

— Cinven-backed Jaggaer

€6m

Cloud spend reduction delivered

— Silver Lake-backed Cegid

$2.7m

Cloud cost reduction delivered in 3-months

— a $250m US SaaS firm

Edge unlocked

Immediate cost-out
Rapid identification and removal of over-provisioned compute and storage, inefficient scaling models and under-utilised environments, to deliver measurable EBITDA impact within 1-2 billing cycles.

Sustainable EBITDA uplift
Realign cloud spend with revenue, typically unlocking 1–2%+ EBITDA improvement that can be evidenced, tracked and defended.

Execution certainty
Every saving is validated with engineering teams, ensuring delivery without performance or stability risk.

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Get a clear picture of your cloud cost position. This is a data-driven cloud cost maturity assessment, not a high-level conversation. We work directly with your cloud data to give your leadership team a precise view of where you stand and what is possible.

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Our Clients

Realised savings inside 60 days

This is not a phased waterfall programme. We run analysis, validation and execution in parallel to deliver savings quickly and defensibly.

Surface high-confidence savings opportunities

We deploy a benchmark-driven cost and performance diagnostic to identify where cloud spend is materially out of alignment, focusing on:

Over-provisioned compute and storage
Inefficient scaling models
Under-utilised environments
Structural inefficiencies hidden by excess capacity

What PE teams get:

A prioritised savings backlog with quantified, annualised cost-out potential.

Separate theory from executable cost-out

We work hands-on with engineering and platform teams to:

Validate feasibility and risk
Confirm no impact to performance or resilience
Sequence actions for fastest realised savings

What PE teams get:

A board-credible savings plan with ownership, confidence levels, and delivery sequencing.

Convert opportunity into realised EBITDA improvement

Validated actions are executed immediately, typically including:

Rightsizing and decommissioning
Scaling model corrections
Environment consolidation
Removal of unused or redundant services

Savings are tracked from baseline through implementation and reflected directly in cloud spend and EBITDA run rate.

What PE teams get:

Visible cost reduction landing inside the hold period — not just forecast savings.

Prevent rebound without slowing growth

Once the baseline is reset, we introduce lightweight controls to hold the gain:

Guardrails aligned to growth
Clear accountability for cost drivers
Ongoing tracking of realised savings

What PE teams get:

A lower, more predictable cost base that sustains value through exit.

Capacitas helped us move from having vague cloud costs to being able to inspect everything. The mantra was: no dollar is too small, no inefficiency too minor to address. That discipline has become part of how we operate.

Jeff Laborde

CFO, JAGGAER

Capacitas was different. They didn’t push major rework. Instead, they asked the right questions about our actual usage and helped us uncover where we were overspending. Their pragmatic, data-led approach delivered real savings without disruption.

James Griffith

Global Head of Engineering, Archer Integrated Risk Management

FAQs

What is Rapid Cost Optimisation?

A focused, execution‑led cost‑out intervention designed to convert cloud inefficiency into immediate EBITDA improvement—without long transformation timelines.

When is the best time for Rapid Cost Optimisation?

We typically work with clients on Rapid Cost Optimisation post-investment. This is when it’s common for cloud costs to be rising faster than revenue or when immediate EBITDA improvement is required.

Is there a risk to performance?

No. Unlike one-off or tool-based approaches, at Capacitas, all cost optimisation actions are validated with engineering teams. This ensures systems remain stable, scalable and high-performing.

How do you reduce cloud costs quickly?

Cloud costs in PE-backed businesses often grow faster than revenue, creating structural inefficiency as technology scales.

Rapid reduction is achieved by identifying where cloud spend is structurally misaligned with demand and value contribution, and removing any inefficiency at source.

Capacitas’ Rapid Cost Optimisation combines benchmark-driven analysis with engineering validation to reset the underlying cost base, delivering immediate EBITDA impact within existing operating cycles.

How is Rapid Cost Optimisation different from FinOps?

FinOps is a continuous operating discipline focused on embedding cost awareness and control into day-to-day cloud consumption decisions.
Rapid Cost Optimisation delivers immediate, material cost out—often acting as a precursor to broader FinOps adoption.

Does Rapid Cost Optimisation work across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud?

Yes. The approach is cloud-agnostic and is proven across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

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