Question 1

How does the 24/7 inventory keep up without burning our budget?

Accepted Answer

Tallywyrm reconciles compute, storage and managed-service resources against trailing usage, trailing spend and the cloud's native cost signal (Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, Active Assist) every hour. Idle and oversized assets are scored, not listed — only items above your threshold ever surface as work.

Question 2

What does an IaC PR actually look like when it lands in our repo?

Accepted Answer

One PR per change. Small, scoped, with the diff, the rollback command and the forecasted saving written into the description. The change moves through your existing review, policy and merge gates as a first-class code change — nothing reaches production without your sign-off.

Question 3

Can you stop non-prod on nights and weekends without breaking morning standup?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Stop/start schedules use the cloud-native suspend/resume APIs on dev and staging accounts. Resume is fast enough that the morning standup never waits, and the schedule itself is configurable per workspace.

Question 4

Does Tallywyrm need long-lived cloud credentials?

Accepted Answer

No. Access is read-only, scoped to the accounts you choose, and brokered through your existing OIDC trust wherever the cloud supports it. We recommend short-lived tokens and we will refuse to accept static access keys.

Question 5

What can the credentials actually do?

Accepted Answer

- Read resource metadata, tags and native cost signal across the granted accounts Open pull requests in the connected IaC repository

They cannot write against billing APIs, identity providers, IAM policy or any control-plane service. The credential grant is the smallest one that produces a useful saving.

Question 6

How do we audit what Tallywyrm did with the credentials it held?

Accepted Answer

Every API call is logged with request id, account, region and resource. The log is exportable as CSV, retained for the same window as your other audit trails, and reviewed end-to-end during the weekly savings pass.

Question 7

Which compliance frameworks does the audit trail align with?

Accepted Answer

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, FedRAMP Moderate, EU CSRD, SEC climate disclosure and GDPR. The trail is designed to satisfy the controls your auditor already runs, not introduce a new one.

Question 8

What does "attributable end-to-end" actually mean here?

Accepted Answer

Each saving ties to a diff, a PR, a deploy timestamp and a post-deploy measurement. The CSV your auditor gets maps each dollar of saving back to the exact resource, the exact reviewer and the exact deploy — so the "what counts" question is answered before they ask it.

Question 9

Can we get a defensible evidence export for a SOC 2 or CSRD audit?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The weekly report is exportable as a signed CSV with a manifest mapping every row to its source PR and measurement timestamp. Customers have used the same export for both SOC 2 and EU CSRD evidence requests without modification.

Question 10

How does the percentage-of-savings tier actually work?

Accepted Answer

Three tiers: Starter at 8%, Growth at 12%, Enterprise at 18% of verified monthly savings. Pick the tier that matches the share you’re happy to keep. Final invoicing is tier % × verified savings, minus the platform fee credit — you never pay both the fee and the full share.

Question 11

How is a "verified saving" actually verified?

Accepted Answer

No verified savings = no charge. A saving is verified when the week after the rightsizing change goes live, Tallywyrm re-reads the same workload, the same account and the same time window, and confirms the bill actually dropped the forecasted amount. We charge only on that confirmed delta — if the workload regresses, the saving is removed from the next invoice, and if no saving survives the re-read the invoice drops to zero.

Question 12

What happens if a recommendation under-delivers?

Accepted Answer

- If the weekly audit pass shows the saving fell short of forecast, the next invoice only bills the verified delta. If a saving regresses below the baseline, the credit comes back off the next invoice. There is no claw-back for savings that drop after the invoice has been sent — the credit is forward-looking, not retroactive.

Question 13

Why is there a minimum platform fee on top of the share?

Accepted Answer

The minimum keeps a small single-account workspace running. The fee is credited against your first invoice, so the effective cost is `max(platform fee, tier% × verified savings) − platform fee credit`. The fee never compounds on top of the share.

Question 14

Which cloud providers and account connectors does Tallywyrm rightsize?

Accepted Answer

AWS, GCP and Azure — read-only access via OIDC trust or IAM cross-account roles, with native cost signal pulled from Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management and Active Assist respectively. Each provider runs the same hourly inventory, weekly audit pass and SOC 2 / CSRD signing-ready export; the tier percentages and the verified-savings pricing model are identical across AWS rightsizing, GCP rightsizing and Azure rightsizing.

Question 15

How long is the commitment, and what happens if savings drop?

Accepted Answer

No fixed term. Verified-savings pricing runs month-to-month, with the same model on annual billing. The fee is `tier% × verified savings` — if the weekly audit pass stops producing verified savings for your workspaces, the share drops to zero the same week. There is no minimum commitment beyond the first invoice, no auto-renewal clause, and no claw-back on savings that regress.

Question 16

How do I switch tiers?

Accepted Answer

Open Dashboard → Settings → Plan to change the tier or the billing interval. The switch is month-to-month, no fixed term, and no auto-renewal clause — if a tier no longer matches your workspace, move between them at the next audit pass.

The questions a finance or platform lead asks first.

What Tallywyrm actually does.

How your cloud credentials are handled.

Which frameworks the audit trail maps to.

How percentage-of-savings pricing is verified.

Send us your last month’s bill and we’ll model the saving.