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Cut your GCP bill 15% in 7 days. Or pay $0.

BraneBridge runs cloud for teams spending $20k+/mo on Google Cloud Platform. Cost optimization, infrastructure, and engineering; without a retainer.

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No system access needed for the initial report.

$1.6M+ saved20+ production services shipped
Worked withYelpOtORainbirdand 10+ others

How we work

Three steps. No retainers. You only pay from verified savings on your bill.

1. 48-Hour Cost Leak Report
Upload a billing export and get a one-page estimate (conservative / expected / aggressive) with your top 3 fixes by dollar impact.
2. 7-Day Read-Only Audit
Under NDA and read-only IAM, we pinpoint leaks across your GCP environment and deliver a prioritized, measurable savings plan.
3. 30-Day Savings Plan & Execution
We implement with staged, monitored, rollback-ready changes, send weekly savings deltas, and you pay 25% of verified first-year savings only after it shows on your bill.

Why it works

  • Right-size autoscaling for spiky Cloud Run and GKE traffic
  • Prune BigQuery scans (partitions, clustering, materialized views)
  • Right-size Cloud SQL classes and storage tiers
  • Cut waste: idle services, zombie workloads, unwanted egress
  • Stage → test → monitor; no performance regressions

Pricing & guarantee

Pricing: Savings-share only — 25% of verified first-year savings.

Guarantee: If we don't identify ≥15% of savings, you pay $0.

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Case highlights

Real engagements with spiky traffic and heavy analytics. Client names withheld; references available under NDA.

Case 1 — Spiky SaaS/IoT Workloads

~$525K/yr saved. Unit cost down 87%.

What we changed

  • Migrated service workloads from Cloud Functions to Cloud Run
  • Right-sized autoscaling and minimized cold start times for Cloud Run services
  • Removed idle and zombie workloads
  • Used profiling to identify and remove bottlenecks in service logic
  • Implemented budgets, alerts, and labels to prevent regressions and isolate cost by service

How we verified

Weekly reporting on Per Unit Cost derived from primary service usage metrics.

Outcome

  • $6.00/unit/month reduced to $0.75/unit/month (~87–88% reduction).
  • Annualized savings ~$525K/yr.
  • Fleet size doubled during the engagement.

Case 2 — Analytics / BI

~$84K/yr saved. BigQuery spend down 70%.

What we changed

  • Implemented medallion architecture with Dataform across 20+ workloads
  • Added materialized views for hot aggregates
  • Re-partitioned and clustered high-scan tables

How we verified

Month-over-month Cloud Billing export plus INFORMATION_SCHEMA.JOBS* reports to confirm bytes scanned and spend deltas.

Outcome

  • BigQuery analysis spend $10K/month reduced to $3K/month (~70% reduction).
  • Annualized savings ~$84K/yr.
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Who's behind BraneBridge

BraneBridge was founded and is run by Sheldon Soloa, a cloud engineer with 10+ years of experience building and operating production systems on GCP.

As a lead cloud engineer, Sheldon has led teams from Series B through acquisition, saving companies more than $1.6M in cumulative GCP spend.

BraneBridge launched in 2024 as a trade compliance service. The company refocused in 2025 on providing GCP cost optimization and cloud engineering to early & growth stage startups.

Based in Toronto, Ontario.

Sheldon Soloa, Founder of BraneBridge

Sheldon Soloa

Founder & Principal Engineer

Beyond cost optimization

Cost work is the wedge, not the whole story. BraneBridge also takes on cloud engineering for early-stage and growth teams on GCP — MVP builds, infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi), CI/CD, security hardening, and migration work. Projects are scoped and priced separately from the savings-share audit.

If you're past prototype and want your GCP stack built the way it would be at a mature engineering org, we can help.

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Frequently asked questions

Will this hurt performance?

No. We stage, test, and monitor every change with rollback ready.

How does access work?

Read-only IAM under mutual NDA for the 7-day audit. Revoke anytime. Implementation is gated and reviewed.

Do you need production access?

Read-only for the audit. Implementation goes through PRs and IaC where possible.

Do you cover AWS?

GCP first. AWS coming.

Can legal sign an NDA?

Yes. Yours or ours.

What if you don't find 15% in savings?

You pay $0.

Find where you're burning spend

Spending $20k+/mo on Google Cloud Platform? Book a call and we'll start with a cost leak report. No system access needed.

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