cresance haamid ali alchemist accelerator startup horizon labs
SaaS

Cresance

Cresance’s Eta Analyzer™ uses AI to detect cloud wastage, reducing your costs by 20%+ within 90 days or your money back.

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Case study

Problem

Cresance builds an AI-driven cloud cost optimization product designed to identify waste and reduce spend. The core challenge is not a dashboard. It’s ingesting messy billing/usage data, detecting waste patterns, and surfacing recommendations that engineering and finance teams will actually act on.

Cloud spend optimization is difficult because:

  • Billing and usage data is noisy, large, and provider-specific
  • Recommendations must be explainable enough to earn trust
  • Savings need to be actionable (not generic “turn things off” advice)
  • Early-stage teams can stall on execution due to data complexity and integration churn

Solution

Horizon Labs supported engineering execution with a focus on shipping usable product workflows:

  • Implemented/extended pipelines to transform cost/usage inputs into savings insights
  • Built product workflows that surface findings in a usable, decision-oriented way
  • Focused on reliability and edge-case handling so outputs remain credible
  • Worked closely with the founder to prioritize deliverables that matter for early customers

Outcome

  • Improved delivery velocity by reducing founder bottlenecks
  • Shipped product milestones suitable for real customer evaluation
  • Strengthened product credibility through reliable data-to-insight workflows
  • Established a foundation for expanding integrations and deepening optimization logic

Features & Tech Stack

  • Cost/usage data ingestion and normalization
  • Waste detection logic and recommendation surfacing
  • Reporting views and savings opportunity summaries
  • Admin/config workflows for connecting accounts and baselines
"They were very collaborative and had excellent communication and technical expertise, keeping me informed on each step of the project through delivery."
Haamid Ali

Haamid Ali

Co-Founder & CEO

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