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Frank Contrepois

Context is everything, and it’s what I built my company on

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

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

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

Context is everything applied to code - FinOps Toolkit

Forecast any number with eight forecasting algorithms

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

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.

FinOps Toolkit: start with context, end with clarity

FinOps Toolkit: start with context, end with clarity

The FinOps Toolkit is a set of open-source scripts to explore, forecast, and explain cloud costs — no dashboards, no lock-in. Some tools are AWS-specific; others are vendor-neutral and forecast any number. Built on one idea: context is everything — start with context, end with clarity.