Samples
Three complete six-week engagements for two fictional clients, every report as delivered, and the brief for each engagement.
How to read these
StrataForge Robotics and Seatlark, Inc. do not exist. We invented them so you could see a finished engagement at two very different sizes: what was measured, what was found, what was fixed, and how the second invoice was earned. Every report below is the document as delivered.
strataforge-0-guide.pdf
Who StrataForge Robotics is, what each of the sixteen sample reports (and the audit’s code appendix) delivers, what the two engagements found and fixed, and what is real and what is simulated.
Download PDF of Sample Engagement Reports
seatlark-0-guide.pdf
Who Seatlark, Inc. is, what each of the eight sample cost reports delivers, what the engagement found and fixed halfway through a migration to AWS, and what is real and what is simulated.
Download PDF of Sample Engagement ReportsAWS cost
The AWS bill grew faster than the business, and nobody can say who owns which line.
About the engagement Read the StrataForge case study Read the Seatlark case study
The sponsor readout is the short document an executive reads and signs off on. The full reports below are for the engineers it gets forwarded to.
strataforge-cost-3-readout.pdf
The baseline, the savings ranked, the decisions the sponsor needs to make, and what the next four weeks will put in place.
Download PDF of Analysis Sponsor ReadoutWeek 1 of 6: Baseline and inventory
strataforge-cost-1-baseline.pdf
Twelve months of StrataForge’s AWS spend by account, service, environment, and team, the full resource inventory, and the commitments in place.
Download PDF of Spend Baseline and InventoryWeek 2 of 6: Find and rank
strataforge-cost-2-analysis.pdf
The waste register, rightsizing plan, commitment plan, architecture review, and the ranked savings roadmap, with the prescriptive change for each.
Download PDF of Cost Analysis and Savings RoadmapWeek 3 of 6: Quick wins
strataforge-cost-4-quick-wins.pdf
Waste removed, non-production schedules, storage lifecycle, and log retention, change by change, with what was declined and why.
Download PDF of Quick Wins AppliedWeek 4 of 6: Rightsizing and commitments
strataforge-cost-5-rightsizing-commitments.pdf
Compute, databases, caches, and search resized to measured use, the Graviton moves, and the commitment decision finance approved.
Download PDF of Rightsizing and CommitmentsWeek 5 of 6: Architecture and guardrails
strataforge-cost-6-architecture-guardrails.pdf
Data transfer, NAT, logging, metrics, and Spot changes, and the budgets, anomaly alerts, tag policies, and showback that keep the bill down.
Download PDF of Architecture Changes and GuardrailsWeek 6 of 6: Measure
strataforge-cost-7-measurement.pdf
Every change measured on StrataForge’s Cost and Usage Report, annualized, and the guarantee’s gate.
Download PDF of Week-Six Savings MeasurementWeek 6 of 6: Hand over
strataforge-cost-8-handover.pdf
The remaining roadmap with owners and dates, the commitment calendar, the monthly cost review, and the KPIs StrataForge runs from here.
Download PDF of Handover Playbook and Monthly Cost ReviewThe sponsor readout is the short document an executive reads and signs off on. The full reports below are for the engineers it gets forwarded to.
seatlark-cost-3-readout.pdf
The baseline, the savings ranked, the decisions the sponsor needs to make, and what the next four weeks will put in place.
Download PDF of Analysis Sponsor ReadoutWeek 1 of 6: Baseline and inventory
seatlark-cost-1-baseline.pdf
Twelve months of Seatlark’s AWS spend as a migration ramp, the May run rate by account, service, environment, and team, the resource inventory, and the migration trajectory with no action.
Download PDF of Spend Baseline and InventoryWeek 2 of 6: Find and rank
seatlark-cost-2-analysis.pdf
Twenty-nine findings priced from the AWS price list and ranked, the waste register, the rightsizing plan, the commitment plan, and the prescriptive change for each.
Download PDF of Cost Analysis and Savings RoadmapWeek 3 of 6: Quick wins
seatlark-cost-4-quick-wins.pdf
Waste removed, non-production schedules, storage, logging, network endpoints, and non-production databases, change by change, with what was declined and why.
Download PDF of Quick Wins AppliedWeek 4 of 6: Rightsizing and commitments
seatlark-cost-5-rightsizing-commitments.pdf
Production rightsizing before the freeze, the ticket-scan lifecycle, and the commitment decision finance approved.
Download PDF of Rightsizing and CommitmentsWeek 5 of 6: Architecture and guardrails
seatlark-cost-6-architecture-guardrails.pdf
The guardrails, the wave runbook, and the cost-avoidance model for the remaining migration waves, built during the production freeze.
Download PDF of Architecture Changes and GuardrailsWeek 6 of 6: Measure
seatlark-cost-7-measurement.pdf
Every change measured on Seatlark’s Cost and Usage Report, annualized, and the guarantee’s gate.
Download PDF of Week-Six Savings MeasurementWeek 6 of 6: Hand over
seatlark-cost-8-handover.pdf
The remaining roadmap with owners and dates, the commitment ladder, the monthly cost review, and the KPIs Seatlark runs from here.
Download PDF of Handover Playbook and Monthly Cost ReviewEverything on the engagement page in a document you can hand to the person who signs.
vantalect-aws-cost-optimization.pdf
A fixed-price AWS cost engagement: a two-week Analysis for $25,000 and a six-week Optimization for $35,000, with half the fee invoiced only if savings reach three times it.
Download PDF of AWS Cost Analysis & OptimizationAWS security · compliance · governance
An audit is coming, a customer sent a security questionnaire, or nobody can say for certain who can reach production.
The sponsor readout is the short document an executive reads and signs off on. The full reports below are for the engineers it gets forwarded to.
strataforge-security-3-readout.pdf
What an attacker could reach today, the critical findings, the decisions the sponsor needs to make, and the four weeks of hardening that follow.
Download PDF of Audit Sponsor ReadoutWeek 1 of 6: Access and scan
strataforge-security-1-scan.pdf
Every account and enabled Region scored against CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v5.0.0 and AWS Foundational Security Best Practices.
Download PDF of Organization ScanWeek 2 of 6: Verify and plan
strataforge-security-2-audit.pdf
The verified findings register, identity and access review, SOC 2 compliance map, governance review, and remediation roadmap, with the prescriptive fix for each finding.
Download PDF of Audit ReportWeek 2 of 6: Verify and plan (appendix)
strataforge-security-2-appendix.pdf
The complete prescriptive remediation for every finding in the audit report: the code, the commands, how to verify it, and how to roll it back.
Download PDF of Audit Report Appendix: Remediation CodeWeek 3 of 6: Criticals and guardrails
strataforge-security-4-criticals-guardrails.pdf
Every critical finding closed as code, and the service control policies, resource control policies, and account defaults that keep it closed.
Download PDF of Criticals Closed and Guardrails at the TopWeek 4 of 6: Identity
strataforge-security-5-identity.pdf
People on single sign-on, long-lived keys retired, workload roles cut to least privilege, and root and break-glass access locked down.
Download PDF of Identity RebuiltWeek 5 of 6: Detection and response
strataforge-security-6-detection-response.pdf
GuardDuty, Security Hub CSPM, IAM Access Analyzer, and AWS Config in every account and Region, the organization trail, and the runbooks.
Download PDF of Detection and Response EverywhereWeek 6 of 6: Re-scan
strataforge-security-7-rescan.pdf
The same scan as week one, run the same way: before and after, every critical’s closure evidence, and the guarantee’s gate.
Download PDF of Week-Six Re-ScanWeek 6 of 6: Hand over
strataforge-security-8-runbooks-handover.pdf
The runbooks for the alerts most likely to page StrataForge, the remaining roadmap, and how to keep the score where it is.
Download PDF of Incident Runbooks and HandoverEverything on the engagement page in a document you can hand to the person who signs.
vantalect-aws-security-audit.pdf
A fixed-price AWS security audit in two weeks, or hardening in six with half the fee tied to closing every critical finding: scope, weeks, deliverables, guarantee, and terms.
Download PDF of AWS Security, Compliance & Governance AuditAI-native engineering
Your board asked what the company is getting from Claude Code, and the honest answer is faster autocomplete.
Brief only. Engineering Leverage has no sample engagement yet. The brief is the whole document: scope, weeks, deliverables, price, and terms. The engagement page lays out the weeks, the hours, and the deliverables one by one.
Everything on the engagement page in a document you can hand to the person who signs.
vantalect-engineering-leverage.pdf
Two fixed-price ways to install AI-native engineering in one team: a two-week Assessment at $25,000 and a six-week Embed at $35,000, half of it tied to a measured 3× lift.
Download PDF of Engineering LeverageAWS architecture · Six pillars
A critical production workload has grown under deadline pressure, and nobody has reviewed its reliability, security, performance, and cost together.
Brief only. AWS Well-Architected Framework Review has no sample engagement yet. The brief is the whole document: scope, weeks, deliverables, price, and terms. The engagement page lays out the weeks, the hours, and the deliverables one by one.
Everything on the engagement page in a document you can hand to the person who signs.
vantalect-aws-well-architected.pdf
A fixed-price AWS Well-Architected Framework Review in two weeks for $25,000, or a six-week Remediation for $35,000 with half the fee tied to closing every agreed High-Risk Issue.
Download PDF of AWS Well-Architected Framework ReviewThe next conversation
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