About OPTIMAZE
Technology spend has been managed as cost. It behaves as capital.
OPTIMAZE attributes every dollar of AI and cloud spend to the products, teams, and features it funds, so finance and engineering can run technology like the investment it already is.
Why we exist
The tooling of the 2010s was never built for this scale.
Those tools assumed you could manage technology one resource at a time. At today's scale, with cloud and token consumption compounding by the hour, that approach breaks. Spikes arrive faster than anyone can attribute them, and spend that should read as investment gets filed as overhead or R&D. We built OPTIMAZE to close that gap and give every company the view we had from the inside.
The State of AI and Cloud Spend
95%
of enterprise generative AI pilots show no measurable impact on the bottom line.
MIT, State of AI in Business 2025
39%
of organizations can attribute any enterprise-level EBIT impact to their AI.
McKinsey, The state of AI in 2025
40%+
of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027 over cost and unclear value.
Gartner, June 2026
Our Truths
Three truths, one platform.
Work backwards from business outcomes
Optimizing things that should not be there is a thing of the past when you work backwards from business outcomes. The proof will be in the economics.
Don't rely on manual cost allocation
Any unit of economics that relies on manual administration, tagging or cost allocation, is inevitably too slow or inaccurate.
Enable every stakeholder
Only when finance and technology leaders work off the same performance data, does efficient decision making occur at velocity.
What you can answer
Founded by people who lived the problem.
Co-founder - Former VP Engineering, ROKT
Dawshiek Yogathasar
Building the systems that made high-scale AI and cloud spend perform under real commercial pressure. Focused on platform efficiency through economics.
Co-founder - Former Commercial Lead AWS
Ralf Capel
A decade at AWS, including five years running large software accounts, watching heavy cloud and AI users not being able to answer what they were getting for their spend.
Investor Backed
Backed by investors who understand the category.
Arconic
An AI-first fintech specialist venture capital firm.
The Innovation Club
A sustainability-focused venture capital firm.
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