Your agents don't know when to stop spending.

Burn Control is FinOps for teams running AI agents in production — built for the failure modes standard cloud cost tools never see: retry storms, tool-call explosion, and coding agents left running unattended.

30 minutes, no deck. We trace one week of your agent spend live.

agent-fleet/prod last 24h
$1,860/hr
peak run-rate — nightly-build-fixer
$180/hr
contained run-rate, post-fix
budget threshold retry storm detected breaker tripped spend contained 00:00 12:00 24:00
token & tool-call spend, illustrative$ / hour

Standard FinOps wasn't built for this.

Cloud cost tools assume spend that scales roughly with traffic. Agents don't work that way — one stuck loop can burn a month's budget in an afternoon, and nobody notices until the invoice lands.

failure mode

Retry storms

An agent stuck retrying a failing call, multiplying token spend with every attempt instead of failing loudly and stopping.

failure mode

Tool-call explosion

A plan that hands off to more tools than the task needed, each hop quietly adding its own cost on top of the last.

failure mode

Unattended coding agents

Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot left running against a task that should have stopped an hour — and several dollars — ago.

How we work

One path, three stages. Each stage stands alone, and each one sets up the next.

01
flat fee · 1–2 weeks

Audit

We trace your agent spend end to end and quantify exactly where retry storms, tool sprawl, and idle agents are burning budget — then hand you a ranked list of what to fix first.

02
fixed scope

Remediation sprint

We build the guardrails directly into your pipeline: circuit breakers, retry caps, per-agent budget ceilings — the controls that stop the next storm before it reaches your invoice.

03
ongoing retainer

Fractional Head of FinOps for AI

Someone owns agent spend infrastructure the way a fractional CFO owns the numbers — watching thresholds, tuning guardrails, and answering for the bill before finance has to ask.

Who this is for

You're not evaluating whether to use agents — you already have them in production, and the spend is starting to get someone's attention.

Your agents are live, not a pilot — and nobody currently owns their spend the way someone owns your cloud bill.

A usage-based AI invoice already surprised someone in finance, and they've started asking questions engineering can't fully answer.

Your platform or DevOps team is capable of fixing this, but stretched too thin to build spend guardrails from scratch.

You'd rather fix the pipeline than add another dashboard that shows you the number after it's already spent.

Built by a practitioner

Burn Control is run by Umar, who spent years in cloud and DevOps engineering — AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes — watching cost incidents get caught at 2am by the person on call, not by a dashboard.

He approaches FinOps from an engineering-first perspective and understands that cost has a blast radius, and the fix belongs in the pipeline, not a slide deck.

Start with a free spend gut-check.

30 minutes. Bring last month's AI infra bill — we'll tell you, live, where it's likely leaking.