Developer Tools
Compass
Compass Cut Cloud Spend 44% Without Sacrificing Performance.
The problem
Compass already had a live product and a metric that had stopped moving. The brief was specific: Compass Cut Cloud Spend 44% Without Sacrificing Performance. We started from that constraint, not a deck of adjacent ideas.
What we built
A senior squad sat on Compass only — shared Slack, staging from week one, Friday demos. In the developer tools work we put the platform in front of the people who suffer it. CI, cost, and observability work only counts if a team will use it on a Tuesday.
The result
The engagement landed at -44% cloud spend and 0 downtime events. Same people through launch. Most of these relationships continue as a dedicated team rather than a clean break.
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