Frank Contrepois
Context is everything, and it’s what I built my company on
Context is everything unsaid that makes sense of what’s said. It’s what turns data into meaning, and meaning into relevance. Without it, you’re answering in general. With it, you’re answering for someone — their world, their timing, their needs.
A thought that had a big impact on me
The more I work in FinOps, the clearer it becomes: it’s not just about data.
It’s about people, power, and context.
Surrending to AI
Surrender to AI does not feel like giving up, it feels productive. But the moment you stop asking questions, you stop thinking. Curate, plan, question, and make sure the machine never stops asking back. That is how you stay human in FinOps and beyond.
Context is everything applied to code - FinOps Toolkit
Forecast any number with eight forecasting algorithms
Forecasting shouldn’t be a black box. forecast_costs.py runs multiple models—SMA, Holt-Winters, ARIMA, NeuralProphet, and more—to show how each interprets your data. Vendor-neutral and simple, it helps you explore any time series with clarity, not just cloud costs.
Only get the AWS cost data you need
The first FinOps Toolkit tool, cost_and_usage.py, was built for simplicity: one command, one CSV, two columns — date and number. It pulls AWS cost data with minimal permissions and zero dashboards, proving that FinOps clarity starts with small, local, human-readable data.