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.

Earlier stage, or under $20k/mo? We also build and run GCP infrastructure for seed-to-growth teams. Talk to us →

$1.6M+ saved — runway extended without new hires20+ production services shipped

Worked withYelpOtO (acq. Rain Bird)and 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

Case highlights

Two GCP engagements at OtO Lawn Care (acquired by Rain Bird), from Series B through acquisition — spiky SaaS/IoT traffic and heavy analytics.

Case 1 → ~$525K/yr saved. Unit cost down 87%.

Spiky SaaS/IoT Workloads

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

BigQuery data pipeline optimizations

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.

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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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 & Principal Engineer

Investors: we help portfolio companies extend runway without growing the engineering team. Intro us to a company →

Beyond cost optimization

BraneBridge also takes on cloud engineering for early-stage and growth teams. Including MVP builds, infra, CI/CD, security hardening, and migration works. Projects are scoped and priced separately from the savings-share audit.

After the audit, some teams have us stay on to run their GCP day-to-day (monitoring, releases, and cost discipline); so they don't have to build an internal cloud team before they need one.That's scoped separately from the no-retainer savings work.

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

Talk to us about an engineering engagement →

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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