CAST AI Cost Evidence Review

Overview

Turn reporting into a prioritized plan without treating modeled savings as invoices. Separate actual spend, available opportunity, realized savings, workload rightsizing, adoption, pricing, and baseline assumptions.

Prerequisites

• The organization and cluster reports for a declared time range
• Cloud billing or internal allocation evidence for reconciliation
• Current automation adoption, workload SLOs, and pricing-adjustment ownership

Instructions

Step 1: Normalize the question

Use Read to identify whether the request concerns actual spend, a forecast, available savings, realized savings, or workload autoscaler savings. Record cluster scope, currency, time range, and comparison period.

Step 2: Validate the reporting basis