Start with intent
Make purpose, accountable ownership, budget and lifecycle first-class inputs rather than details that must be recovered after the environment exists.
About Acumy
Non-production should be governed by design.
Acumy is building a control plane around the moment cloud infrastructure is requested. We believe the strongest point for governance is before resources are created, while purpose, ownership and acceptable boundaries are still explicit.
Our point of view
Every deployment should have a reason, an owner, a budget and an end.
Why Acumy
Cloud governance has been looking at the wrong end of the lifecycle
Too often, teams first meet non-production governance after resources exist and the spend appears. By then, purpose may live in a closed ticket, ownership may be unclear and temporary infrastructure may have no reliable end date. We believe context and constraints belong at the point of intent.
Govern continuously
Keep policy, financial boundaries and lifecycle conditions attached from request through operation, renewal and retirement.
Work across clouds
Create one operating model across AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud while preserving the delivery paths teams already use.
Why now
The number of infrastructure makers is expanding
Cloud self-service removed many of the delays associated with central provisioning. Automation accelerated delivery further. AI agents now introduce another class of infrastructure actor capable of translating intent into action at machine speed.
The answer is not to restore a slow approval queue. It is to encode the right context and boundaries into the request so approved work can move quickly and remain accountable.
More clouds and accounts
One organisation may operate different non-production models across multiple cloud providers, business units and teams.
More delivery paths
Portals, APIs, command-line tools and pipelines can all create infrastructure outside a single central workflow.
More autonomous actors
AI agents make clear identity, scope, budget and expiry increasingly important at the point of action.
Founding team
Built across cloud, product and go-to-market
Acumy brings together product, technology and commercial leadership around a clear category insight: non-production needs its own operating model, not a thinner version of production governance or another retrospective cost dashboard.
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Mark McGowan
Chief Executive Officer
Company direction, category strategy and the connection between customer need and product value.JM
Joanne McDowell
Chief Technology Officer
Product and technology leadership for the Acumy multi-cloud control plane.SM
Stephen McPhee
Chief Revenue Officer
Commercial strategy, market development and conversations with cloud and financial leaders.Building with design partners
Help shape a new control category
We are building Acumy with the realities of complex cloud organisations in mind. Conversations with cloud, platform, engineering and financial leaders help us test the operating model against real approval paths, account structures and governance constraints.
Join an early conversation
Share how environments are requested today, where ownership becomes unclear, how budgets are applied and what prevents temporary infrastructure from ending cleanly.
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