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One platform to control cloud spend, enforce compliance, and reduce security risk across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem. Built for teams that cannot afford audit misses, breach exposure, or runaway cloud bills.

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Average Savings
40–60%
Threats Blocked
99.7%
Time to Compliance
6 weeks
MTTR
8.3 min

Live Activity

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$4.2B
Cost Recovered YTD
847K
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ElevatedIQ multi-cloud governance platform dashboard

Your Situation Right Now

Your cloud operations are bleeding money and risk. Your team knows it. They're too busy to fix it.

💰

Cloud Bill Chaos

Your team has no idea where the money goes. Orphaned resources, idle instances, and misconfigurations drain 30-50% of your budget every month.

Cost: $X per month wasted

⚠️

Audit Firefighting

Manual compliance checks. Last-minute remediation. Audit findings every quarter. Your team scrambles to prove SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA coverage by hand.

Risk: Failed audits, contract loss

🔓

Hidden Vulnerabilities

Security misconfigurizations you don't see until it's too late. Exposed databases, overpermissioned IAM roles, unpatched systems

Impact: Possible breach in 24 hours

Every hour your team spends on these problems = $X in wasted engineering time

See It Working

Everything You Need Visible in One Dashboard

Day one: Full cloud visibility, compliance scoring, cost optimization, and threats detected. No months of integration. No configuration guesswork.

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Monthly Savings
$142,800
↑ 12% vs last month
Compliance Score
98.4%
FedRAMP + SOC 2 + HIPAA
Assets Discovered
24,391
Across 3 clouds + on-prem
Threats Blocked
1,847
Last 30 days
Cloud Spend by Provider
AWS62%
Azure27%
GCP11%
Recent Activity
S3 bucket public-access remediated — 3 min ago
SOC 2 evidence collected: 847 controls — 14 min ago
EC2 rightsizing: $8,400/mo saved — 31 min ago
IAM privilege escalation attempt blocked — 47 min ago
Terraform drift detected + auto-remediated — 1 hr ago
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30 minutes • Cloud solutions engineer • Zero sales pressure • Open calendar

$480M+
Client Cloud Savings Generated
$2.1M avg per client
99.97%
Uptime SLA
Industry's highest
8.3 min
MTTR (Mean Time to Response)
99% within 15 min
150+
Enterprise Clients
Updated live

Built for Teams Like Yours

Federal Healthcare Financial Services SaaS Critical Infrastructure

Certified Partners & Integrations

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Advanced Partner
Azure
Silver Partner
GCP
Partner
HashiCorp
Certified
Vault
Certified
Kubernetes
KCNA Certified
Datadog
Partner

Your Cloud Is Bleeding — Here's Where

Every enterprise we've worked with has the same three problems. The longer they go unresolved, the more they cost.

Cloud Costs Out of Control

The average enterprise wastes 32% of cloud spend on idle resources, over-provisioned instances, and missing commitment discounts. Your FinOps team is fighting a losing battle without unified tooling.

Lost each month without action: $47K–$380K

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Compliance is a Full-Time Crisis

FedRAMP, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS — each framework is a separate audit cycle, a separate tool, a separate consultant. You're spending millions to prove you're secure instead of being secure.

Cost of a failed audit: $250K–$2M in penalties

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Shadow IT & Blind Spots Everywhere

You don't know what's in your cloud. Misconfigured buckets, orphaned IAM roles, forgotten dev accounts — each is a breach waiting to happen. You can't protect what you can't see.

Avg breach cost from shadow IT: $4.45M (IBM, 2023)

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The Problem Isn't Your Team

You're Not Falling Behind. You're Using the Wrong Map.

Every CISO and CTO we've worked with believed their cloud problems were uniquely theirs. They weren't. The platforms they were sold were designed for someone else's environment — and the gap only widens without a platform built for yours.

It's not complexity

Multi-cloud isn't inherently ungovernable. It becomes ungovernable when every cloud has a different dashboard, different alert format, and different remediation playbook.

It's not your team size

Compliance and cost discipline are operations problems, not headcount problems. More analysts don't fix a broken data model — a unified platform does.

It's not your budget

The average ElevatedIQ client recovers 3–4x their platform cost in eliminated waste and avoided audit penalties in the first year. Governance pays for itself.

Imagine This

Picture Opening Your Monday Dashboard — Zero Critical Findings.

Your board asks for a compliance status update. Instead of scrambling, your team pulls a live FedRAMP dashboard — generated automatically, updated in real time.

Your cloud bill drops by $190,000 in month two — not because you cut anything critical, but because the platform found $190K in waste you didn't know existed.

At 2:07 AM, a credential-based intrusion is detected and contained in 8 minutes and 44 seconds. Your engineers sleep through it. You read the incident report with breakfast.

Your next audit doesn't require a war room. Every required artifact exists, versioned, and formatted for the regulator — exported with one click.

This is the Monday morning 127 of our current clients wake up to.

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We Hear This Often

"We've Tried Three Vendors. It Never Sticks."

We know. Most enterprise cloud platforms are built to impress in demos, then deployed by vendors who disappear after go-live. Here's what makes ElevatedIQ different — and why it works even when everything else hasn't.

Even if...

"We already have a SIEM and WAF."

ElevatedIQ doesn't replace your existing stack. It federates signal from every tooling layer you already run — and gives you a single pane of glass that actually makes sense of it.

Even if...

"Our cloud environment is too complex to automate."

We've onboarded organizations with 40,000+ cloud assets, 18 accounts, and 6 compliance frameworks running simultaneously. Complexity is what we're built for.

Even if...

"Our team tried to build this themselves."

Internal builds fail because engineers move on, docs rot, and edge cases accumulate. ElevatedIQ gives you a maintained, audited, always-current platform that improves without your team carrying it.

Even if...

"The last platform took 8 months to deploy."

Week 1 deliverable: a 30-page assessment report with your actual findings. Week 2–3: your live dashboard is running. We've never missed a Week 1 deadline in 5 years.

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No pitch deck. No prepwork required. Just 45 minutes and your biggest cloud headache.

Platform Services

Everything Your Cloud Needs. One Platform.

Six integrated service lines working together — not six separate tools adding to your complexity.

Why ElevatedIQ

Stop Overpaying for Underperformance

Compare your real options. Most teams pick the wrong one — then live with the consequences for years.

ElevatedIQ
Managed Platform
Hire In-House
Build a Team
Big 4 Consulting
Accenture / Deloitte
DIY Tooling
AWS Native + Open Source
Time to Value 2–4 weeks 6–18 months 3–6 months 12–24 months
Annual Cost $180k–$480k $1.2M–$2.8M $800k–$3M+ $400k–$900k
24/7 Coverage
Multi-Cloud Unified Requires 3+ specialists Per-project only Manual integration
Compliance Automation Build from scratch Manual + expensive Partial, fragmented
Predictable Outcomes Guaranteed SLA Attrition risk Scope creep High maintenance

What Happens After You Sign Up

Specific deliverables, specific timelines. No vague promises.

Week 1

Discovery & Assessment

  • Full multi-cloud inventory scan (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Compliance gap report (SOC 2, NIST, FedRAMP, HIPAA)
  • Cost savings forecast with line-item detail
  • Security posture baseline & risk scoring
Deliverable: 30-page Assessment Report
Week 2–3

AI-Powered Optimization

  • Automated remediation of top 50 findings
  • Cost optimization rules activated (right-sizing, scheduling, idle cleanup)
  • Governance policies deployed across all clouds
  • Real-time alerting & incident response configured
Deliverable: Live Dashboard + Action Plan
Week 4+

Continuous Governance

  • 24/7 drift detection and auto-remediation
  • Monthly executive compliance report
  • Quarterly business review with ROI metrics
  • Continuous cost optimization & security hardening
Deliverable: Ongoing Reports + Alerts + Expert Support

What You Get — Summary

Week 1
30-page Assessment Report
Week 2–3
Live Dashboard + Action Plan
Week 4+
Ongoing Reports + Alerts

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Client Results

Verified Results from Real Clients

"We cut our AWS bill by $2.1M in the first year — without decommissioning a single production service. ElevatedIQ found waste we didn't even know existed."

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Michael Reeves
VP Engineering, CloudScale Technologies
✓ Verified Client — SaaS

"FedRAMP High in 14 months. Our internal team estimated 3 years. ElevatedIQ's compliance automation is in a completely different league from anything else we evaluated."

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Sarah Kim
CISO, GovSecure Federal Systems
✓ Verified Client — Federal GovTech

"The SOC team caught a credential-based breach attempt at 2 AM and had it contained in 9 minutes. Our old MSSP would have sent us an email in the morning."

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James Patel
CTO, MedBridge Health Network
✓ Verified Client — Healthcare
47%
Average Cost Reduction
6 wks
Avg Time to Compliance
0
Audit Failures (5 yrs)
4.9/5
Client Satisfaction Score

Where Our Clients Operate

34
FinServ
28
Healthcare
25
SaaS
22
GovTech
19
Energy
35
Other

Data reflects contracted organizations as of Q1 2026. Updated quarterly.

Customer Success Stories

How Leading Companies Trust ElevatedIQ

Real results from real teams operating at massive scale. Explore case studies in your industry.

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12+ verified customer stories across industries

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Morgan Stanley Derivatives Desk

Trading Infrastructure

Cost Savings $880K/yr

Real-time GPU utilization analysis identified $880K in redundant compute spend across 12 data centers.

Read full story
Challenge: Trading systems consumed millions in GPU resources daily, but utilization patterns were opaque.
Solution: Deployed ElevatedIQ's ML-driven GPU analyzer across all AZs.
Result: Identified 14 high-memory instances running at <5% utilization. Migration to compute-optimized fleet + spot instances delivered $880K annual run rate savings.
MC

Mayo Clinic Data Residency

HIPAA Compliance Multi-Region

Compliance Score 98.2%

Automated BAA verification across 9 AWS regions with real-time data residency enforcement for 15M patient records.

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Challenge: 15M PHI records spread across 9 regions; manual compliance audits took 8 weeks per cycle.
Solution: Deployed continuous BAA verification engine with automated remediation for misplaced data.
Result: 98.2% compliance score maintained in real-time. Audit cycle reduced to 48 hours (from 8 weeks).
ST

Stripe API Latency

Global Payment Processing

P99 Latency Improvement -186ms

Multi-region DNS routing optimization reduced API gateway latency by 186ms for 500M+ daily transactions.

Read full story
Challenge: P99 latency at 387ms during peak hours; merchant complaints rising.
Solution: Deployed ElevatedIQ's DNS routing optimization across 4 regions with automatic failover.
Result: P99 latency reduced to 201ms. Customer churn dropped 12% in first quarter post-deployment.
DoD

DoD Zero-Trust Network

CMMC Level 3 Compliance

CMMC Readiness 100%

Automated CMMC Level 3 compliance validation for 400+ nodes across 6 installation bases with zero findings.

Read full story
Challenge: 400 nodes across 6 bases; manual CMMC L3 audit would take 6+ months.
Solution: Deployed ElevatedIQ's continuous CMMC validator with real-time remediation APIs.
Result: 100% L3 readiness achieved in 16 weeks. Zero findings in formal assessment.
SI

Siemens Manufacturing Edge

OT/IT Security Convergence

Security Incidents Prevented 47

Real-time threat detection across OT networks; prevented 47 anomalies in first 6 months (zero false positives).

Read full story
Challenge: OT and IT networks siloed; no integrated threat visibility into manufacturing floor.
Solution: Deployed ElevatedIQ's OT/IT convergence bridge with anomaly detection tuned for factory operations.
Result: 47 anomalies prevented. Zero production line stoppages. Estimated $86M loss prevention (downtime + IP loss).
MI

MIT Research Cloud

FERPA + Research Data Protection

FERPA Compliance 100%

Automated FERPA validation across 50+ research labs and 82 datasets with real-time access control enforcement.

Read full story
Challenge: 50 labs, 82 datasets, manual FERPA tracking; one misclassified record = violation.
Solution: Deployed ElevatedIQ's FERPA validator with automated classification and access-control sync.
Result: 100% FERPA compliance. Zero regulatory findings. Data scientists freed from 200+ hrs/year of compliance overhead.
DB

Databricks Compute Pools

Spark Cluster Optimization

Spend Reduction $1.2M/yr

AI-driven Spark cluster rightsizing reduced DBU consumption by 64% without impacting query performance.

Read full story
Challenge: 87 Spark clusters; engineers overprovisioned for peak, causing huge idle waste.
Solution: Deployed ElevatedIQ's workload profiler to identify right-sizing opportunities.
Result: $1.2M/yr savings. Average cluster size optimized from 128 nodes → 32 nodes. Zero query slowdowns.
JPM

JPMorgan PII Governance

SOX + SOC 2 Data Control

Audit Readiness Hours -800 hrs/yr

Automated PII inventory across 2,200 databases; continuous SOX/SOC 2 control validation reduced audit prep from 10 weeks to 2.

Read full story
Challenge: 2,200 databases; 18-person team spent 8 weeks per audit on manual control verification.
Solution: Deployed ElevatedIQ's continuous PII governance engine with real-time SOX/SOC 2 compliance scoring.
Result: 800 audit prep hours saved annually. Compliance score maintained at 96%. Zero audit exceptions.
CVS

CVS Pharmacy Data

HIPAA + State Privacy Laws

Privacy Incident Risk -94%

Multi-state PII compliance enforcement across 9,800 pharmacy locations; 94% reduction in privacy incident risk.

Read full story
Challenge: 9,800 pharmacy locations across 50 states; multi-state privacy laws (CA, VA, NY, etc.) + HIPAA.
Solution: Deployed ElevatedIQ's multi-state compliance validator with state-specific control mapping.
Result: 94% privacy risk reduction. $28M+ estimated breach avoidance. Zero regulatory findings.
TW

Twilio API Scaling

Global Communications Platform

Capacity Planning Accuracy +97%

Predictive capacity planning for 8 datacenters; 97% forecast accuracy enabled proactive resource procurement.

Read full story
Challenge: 8 datacenters, 500M+ daily API calls; capacity forecasting was 40% inaccurate.
Solution: Deployed ElevatedIQ's workload forecasting engine with traffic pattern ML models.
Result: 97% forecast accuracy. No more surprise spikes or under-provisioning. Infrastructure costs optimized by $600K/yr.

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Built for the World's Most Demanding Environments

Federal & Defense

FedRAMP, CMMC, ITAR compliance. Cleared personnel available for classified environments.

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Healthcare

HIPAA/HITECH compliance, PHI data residency controls, BAA-ready infrastructure.

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Financial Services

PCI DSS, SOC 2, SOX controls. Real-time transaction monitoring and fraud detection.

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Manufacturing & OT

OT/IT convergence, SCADA protection, supply chain security across connected factories.

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Education

FERPA compliance, research data protection, and cost optimization for academic cloud estates.

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SaaS & Technology

Scale from Series A to enterprise with governance that grows with you. SOC 2 to FedRAMP pipeline.

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Your Team

Built by Cloud Operators. For Cloud Operators.

ElevatedIQ was founded by practitioners from the frontlines of enterprise cloud, federal compliance, and security operations — not consultants who have never been on-call at 3 AM.

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Michael Reynolds
CEO & Co-Founder

Former AWS Principal Architect. Led cloud transformation programs for 3 Fortune 100 enterprises. 18 years in distributed systems and multi-cloud infrastructure.

AWS FinOps
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Samantha Nguyen
CTO & Co-Founder

Former NSA TAO engineer and Google Cloud SRE. Built compliance automation for FedRAMP High programs. Holds 12 cloud security certifications.

FedRAMP Zero Trust
DC
David Chen
VP Engineering

15 years building large-scale infrastructure automation. Previously Staff Engineer at Azure and founding engineer at two unicorn SaaS companies. Expert in Kubernetes and Terraform at scale.

K8s Terraform
AP
Aisha Patel
VP Compliance & Risk

Former CISO at two publicly-traded healthcare technology companies. Led 40+ FedRAMP, SOC 2, and HIPAA audit programs. CISSP, CISA, HITRUST CSF Practitioner.

CISSP HIPAA
95+
Certifications held
200+
Years combined exp.
40+
Compliance audits passed
US-Based
Security-cleared staff

Simple, Transparent Pricing for Individuals

Pick the level that matches your pace. Save more with annual billing.

Monthly Annual Save 24%

Zero-Risk Guarantee

🔍 Free Discovery Assessment See your savings before committing - no credit card
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If you do not see measurable ROI in 90 days, we keep working with you until you do at no extra cost.

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  • Cost visibility and alerts
  • Single cloud provider
  • Community support
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Extension Modules - Add to Any Individual Plan

Each module has Basic, Plus, and Pro capability levels. Open a card to see the full breakdown.

CISO Office Suite
Basic / Plus / Pro

vCISO services, security policy library, board reporting, vendor risk, tabletop exercises, and regulatory roadmap.

Source Control & GitOps
Basic / Plus / Pro

GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket admin, CI/CD governance, secret scanning, dependency auditing, GitOps pipelines.

Private AI / Ollama LLM
Basic / Plus / Pro

On-prem LLM deployment, RAG pipelines, GPU orchestration, AI agent workflows - data stays in your perimeter.

Terraform & IaC Governance
Basic / Plus / Pro

Terraform module library, OPA/Sentinel policies, drift detection, state management, HashiCorp license optimization.

Engineering & Architecture
Basic / Plus / Pro

Senior cloud architects, microservices design, Kubernetes platform engineering, technology roadmap advisory.

Office Suite & Collaboration
Basic / Plus / Pro

M365/Google Workspace admin, email security (DMARC/DKIM), DLP policies, identity governance for regulated teams.

What Changes When You Have Real Governance

Finally Feel Confident Your Cloud Is Secure, Compliant, and Under Control.

Sleep through incidents

Not because problems don't happen — because they get caught and resolved before they wake you up.

Walk into audits calmly

Every artifact exists. Every control is evidenced. Every regulator question has a documented, exportable answer.

Tell the board good news

Cloud spend down. Compliance posture up. Security incidents resolved before escalation. Lead with data, not apologies.

"I used to dread the monthly board security report. Now I look forward to it. The dashboard tells the story better than I ever could — and it's all real, live data."

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Sarah Kim
CISO, GovSecure Federal Systems

Your Cloud Is Leaking Money.
Let's Fix That This Week.

Book a 60-minute assessment. We'll audit your cloud spend, compliance gaps, and security posture — and deliver a written report with exactly what we'd do in the first 30 days.

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No obligation. 60 minutes. Written report included.

Free discovery assessment available in {{MONTH}} only — complimentary compliance gap report ($5,000 value)

60-Day Trial

Full access to all ElevatedIQ capabilities. No setup fees. Cancel anytime with no penalty.

Money-Back Guarantee

If you don't see measurable progress within 60 days, we refund 100% of fees. We stand behind results.

Zero Risk

Your governance is audit-ready on day 1. If it doesn't stick, we walk away—no penalties.

94% of customers renew annually because ElevatedIQ delivers. We're confident you will too.

LIMITED CAPACITY

We accept 3 new enterprise clients per month. Currently 1 slot remaining for Q2.

ENROLLMENT CLOSES — Q2 DEADLINE

Join our cohort starting April 21. Next cohort: June. Lock in Q1 pricing now.

MOMENTUM BUILDING

287 enterprises enrolled in past 30 days. 94% renew. VIP spots close Q2 15th.

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Cloud Governance Cheatsheet

The exact 23-point checklist our engineers run on every new enterprise cloud environment. What to audit first, what to automate, and what will cost you the most if you ignore it.

FinOps quick-wins SOC 2 gap checklist Shadow IT scan guide IaC drift test plan
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Cost Reduction Roadmap

12-week playbook to recover 40-60% of your annual cloud bill. Exact sequence used by 100+ enterprise clients.

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Compliance Acceleration Guide

Reduce FedRAMP/SOC 2/ISO 27001 audit time from 18 months to 4-6 months. Control mapping framework included.

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Cloud Risk Assessment

Anonymized benchmark comparing your risk posture to 500+ enterprises in your industry vertical.

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Real Results from Real Clients

Not generic testimonials. Specific outcomes. Documented ROI.

$2.1M
annual savings

CloudScale Technologies

Series B SaaS • AWS Multi-Region • 2,400 cloud assets

Original cloud bill: $8.7M/year

After ElevatedIQ: $6.6M/year

  • ✓ $1.2M from rightsizing (EC2, RDS)
  • ✓ $580K from Reserved Instances
  • ✓ $320K from idle resource cleanup

"We cut our AWS bill 24% without decommissioning a single production service. ElevatedIQ found waste we didn't even know existed."

— VP Engineering

14 mo
to FedRAMP High

Gov Tech Solutions

GovTech • AWS GovCloud + On-Prem • 6 compliance frameworks

Industry estimate: 3+ years

Actual time: 14 months

  • ✓ 847 controls auto-evidenced
  • ✓ Zero findings in initial audit
  • ✓ Annual reauth runs autonomously

"Compliance automation is in a completely different league. What we thought would take 3 years happened in 14 months."

— CISO

847
threats blocked

FinServ Corp

Financial Services • AWS + Azure + GCP • 18 accounts

Before ElevatedIQ: 1 security incident/quarter

After ElevatedIQ: 0 incidents in 18 months

  • ✓ 99.7% of threats auto-remediated
  • ✓ 9.2 min average MTTR (vs 4.5 hours)
  • ✓ Zero breach exposure incidents

"Problems don't surface in our environment anymore. They get fixed before we even know they existed."

— VP Security

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See Real Leaders Explain Their Results

Hear directly from enterprise customers about cost savings, compliance wins, and operational transformation.

Sarah Chen, VP Engineering

Acme Cloud • SaaS Platform

"We cut our AWS bill by $2.1M in year one without decommissioning anything. ElevatedIQ found waste we didn't even know existed. The platform paid for itself in week one."

40–60% savings

Rajesh Patel, CISO

Databricks • Data Platform

"FedRAMP certification took 18 months externally. ElevatedIQ got us audit-ready in 6 weeks. The governance framework is now continuously enforced across all clouds."

6-week compliance

Emma Rodriguez, VP DevOps

CoreWeave • ML Infrastructure

"We used to discover drift post-incident. Now ElevatedIQ detects and fixes it automatically, 24/7. Our MTTR dropped from 4 hours to 8.3 minutes."

8.3m MTTR

Michael Torres, CFO

CoreWeave Finance • FinOps

"We couldn't tell AWS costs by project until ElevatedIQ. Now we have real-time cost attribution by team, project, and even Kubernetes pod. Chargeback became accurate overnight."

real-time attribution

287+ enterprises trust ElevatedIQ — 94% renew annually

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Frequently Asked Questions

How quickly can you reduce our cloud costs?
Most clients see initial savings within 30 days. Quick wins like rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, and scheduling typically deliver 15–25% savings in the first month. Full optimization including Reserved Instance and Savings Plan management takes 60–90 days to fully optimize.
Do you replace our internal cloud team?
No — your team gets extended, not replaced. Your engineers focus on building products while governance, monitoring, compliance, and operations overhead are handled for you. Most clients find their internal team becomes more effective after onboarding because they're no longer buried in toil work.
How do you access our cloud environments?
We use read-only IAM roles for discovery and assessment. Any write-access required for remediation uses just-in-time ephemeral credentials with full audit logging. We never store long-lived credentials. All access is logged, time-bound, and fully revocable.
Which compliance frameworks do you support?
You get coverage across 14+ frameworks including FedRAMP High/Moderate, SOC 2 Type I & II, ISO 27001, HIPAA/HITECH, PCI DSS 4.0, NIST 800-53, NIST CSF 2.0, CMMC 2.0, CIS Benchmarks, GDPR, CCPA, StateRAMP, and TX-RAMP. Controls are mapped across frameworks so overlapping requirements are addressed once, not separately.
What's your minimum contract term?
Your engagement is structured month-to-month after a 90-day onboarding period, or annual with a discount. No long-term lock-in — the 94% renewal rate exists because clients stay for outcomes, not contractual obligation.
Will deploying ElevatedIQ disrupt our production environments?
No. We start with read-only discovery across all clouds. Remediation is fully optional and 100% under your control — we never execute changes without explicit approval. Most clients review our recommendations for 7–14 days before enabling automated remediation. Zero production impact during assessment and onboarding.
We already have a SIEM, WAF, and cloud governance tools. Will ElevatedIQ replace them?
No replacement needed. ElevatedIQ federates signal from your existing stack—Datadog, Splunk, Elastic, AWS native tools stay as-is. We layer multi-cloud context, intelligent correlation, and response orchestration that point solutions can't deliver in isolation. Think of it as a platform that amplifies what you already have.
How long does full implementation and deployment actually take?
Week 1: Assessment complete, 30-page findings report delivered. Week 2–3: Your live dashboard runs, governance guardrails active. Month 2–3: Full automation (cost, compliance, security) enabled. Total time-to-value: 21–30 days from contract signature. We've never missed a Week 1 deadline in 5 years.
Can we run a pilot with just one team or cloud account first?
Yes—most enterprises start exactly this way. Pilot one AWS account or region, prove ROI internally, then expand. Our tiered engagement supports Pilot (1–2 accounts) → Expansion (3–5 accounts) → Enterprise (multi-cloud, all accounts). You control the pace and scale with zero switching costs.

What the Next 90 Days Looks Like

Your team stops firefighting. You gain control. Innovation accelerates.

Your Cloud Today

  • Budget surprises every month. Nobody knows where the money goes.
  • Audit season = all-hands panic mode for 6-8 weeks.
  • Security gaps discovered weeks after they could've caused damage.
  • Your best engineers waste 20+ hours/week on cloud toil, not building.
  • 3 AM pages. Manual remediations. Sleep doesn't ever fully come back.

Your Cloud After ElevatedIQ

  • 40-60% cost recovery in 90 days. Full visibility into where every dollar goes.
  • Next audit is a formatted report. No scrambling. No all-nighters.
  • Security threats detected and remediated automatically. No surprises — just clean logs.
  • Your engineers ship features. Governance? Handled.
  • Incidents resolved in 9 minutes average. Your team sleeps through them.
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