Vantage Cloud — multi-region cost intelligence
Multi-tenant cost intelligence platform helping engineering teams understand and optimise cloud spend across 12 providers.
- FinOps research with 12 customers
- Analytical interface design
- Next.js + tRPC build
- D3 waterfall + anomaly viz
- SSO + enterprise auth
What they needed to solve.
Vantage was showing raw cost data in tables. Finance teams couldn't make sense of it. Engineering teams ignored it. Adoption stalled at 18% of seats.
How we approached it.
A purpose-built analytical dashboard with D3-powered waterfall charts, cost-anomaly detection, and a natural-language query interface that lets finance and engineering speak the same language. Saved-query templates onboard new teams in under five minutes.
Design decisions.
- AaGeist Sans — UI
- AaGeist Mono — figures
- AaSöhne Breit — exec summaries
Dual-mode density (analyst / exec). Saved-view system shares dashboards by URL. Anomaly badges are first-class UI.
- Natural-language query bar with autocomplete
- Anomaly badges integrated into every chart
- Shareable URL-driven dashboards
What changed.
Tabular cost reports, no narrative, no anomaly surfacing, hard to share, enterprise SSO bolt-on.
Analytical dashboard with waterfall charts, NL query, anomaly badges, shareable views, hardened SSO.