Agreed before we start, once we understand the scope.
Easy to start. Safe to say yes.
Get in touchTonick@jointemple.io
SubjectDiscussing our technology
Hi Nick, our cloud bill keeps climbing and nobody can quite say why. Could we have a quick call?
SendReply within one working day
What happens next
From first email to first findings, in four steps.
- 01
A 30-minute call
You tell us what you run and what’s worrying you. No preparation needed.
- 02
A written proposal
A scoped audit with a flat fee and timing, in writing, before you commit to anything.
- 03
Paperwork, then access
We sign an NDA and a data processing agreement, then you set up read-only access.
- 04
Kick-off
The audit starts, with a date agreed for your findings.
Then the work itself begins: audit, define, implement and ongoing. See the method →
What you get
Findings you can act on, not a slide deck.
- An estate mapEvery account, region, service and connection, and what depends on what.
- Line-by-line bill findingsWhat each part of your cloud bill pays for, and what it shouldn’t.
- A risk registerTechnical debt, access and single points of failure, each one evidenced.
- A ranked savings planEvery saving quantified and ordered by impact and risk.
- A documented handoverYour findings after the audit, and every change after implementation, written down for the team that runs it next.
FINDINGS REPORT
Example · not client data
Unused services still billing$9,600
Orphaned load balancers, old snapshots$4,100
Oversized databases and containers$3,200
Duplicated monitoring and logging$2,700
Production access too broad riskHIGH
Infrastructure code out of step debtHIGH
+ 8 more findings, ranked by impact and risk
+ Every saving checked against the next invoice
Est. annual saving$28,400
EXAMPLE
Pricing
AuditFlat fee
Implementation30% of year‑one savings
OngoingOptional
You only pay for implementation when it saves you money.
Paid once, measured from your bills before and after each change. No saving, no fee.
A retainer for periodic cost reviews, agreed separately.
Security
Your systems are confidential. We treat them that way.
NDA before any access
Confidentiality is agreed before we see a single account.
Data processing agreement
Signed as standard, so your data is handled on clear, GDPR-compliant terms.
Read-only first
We start with read-only access and ask only for what the work needs.
No changes without sign-off
Nothing touches production until you’ve approved it.
Who you’ll work with
One person accountable. The right specialists behind them.
Nick AppsFounder
Nick leads every engagement and owns the outcome. He leads the redesign of a regulatory platform used by institutional financial clients, and ran the work behind our 91% infrastructure savings.
He has been building products since 2017, from his own start-up to a legal-tech platform that was acquired after 18 months, and has worked with engineering teams, data teams and project managers across London, New York and Dubai.
Based in London. Global footprint.
Great talent isn’t limited to one city.
Temple is based in London with a global footprint. We believe some of the best platform engineers, DevOps engineers and product and project managers in the world work outside London. So we’ve built a network of high-quality, experienced professionals across the UK, Europe, India and Latin America, people we’ve worked with and trust. You get the right expertise for each job, led by Temple from start to finish.
What we don’t do
Knowing what we’re not matters too.
No due diligence
We work with firms on their own technology. We don’t assess acquisition targets.
No lock-in
No long contracts, and you own everything we produce.
No cloud reselling
We don’t resell cloud or take vendor commissions, so our advice has no angle.
No big-bang rewrites
We simplify what you have rather than rebuild it from scratch.