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What you can ask Billy. Real prompts, real Billy answers. From basic cost visibility to advanced unit economics - across cloud, Kubernetes, AI, and SaaS spend. 
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Cost Visibility
19

Top 5 cost-driving services this week

copy Which 5 services drove the most cloud cost this week, and what changed from last week?

What Billy returns

The five highest-cost services for the week, each with its change from the previous week.
  • Finance
  • FinOps
  • Exec
  • Multi-cloud
Product & How-To
10

How CostGuard works and its data source

copy How does CostGuard work, and what's the data source behind its reports?

What Billy returns

How CostGuard evaluates your resources, and what data feeds its reports.
  • FinOps
  • Engineering
Cost Visibility
6

Account-level spend ranking

copy "Rank my AWS accounts by spend for last month, and tell me which three grew the fastest."

What Billy returns

Your AWS accounts ranked by last month's spend, each with month-over-month growth, and the three growing fastest.
  • Finance
  • FinOps
  • AWS
Product & How-To
1

Virtual tag permissions for basic users

copy Can basic users create and use virtual tags?

What Billy returns

Which permission level is required to create and use virtual tags.
  • FinOps
  • Admin
Cost Visibility
4

Quarter-close reconciliation

copy "Reconcile our Q1 cloud spend by business unit, including credits, refunds, and marketplace charges. Surface anything that looks misallocated.."

What Billy returns

Quarterly spend by business unit, with credits, refunds, and marketplace charges itemized.
  • Finance
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Product & How-To
2

Connect an S3 bucket for telemetry

copy How do I connect an S3 bucket for telemetry?

What Billy returns

How to connect an S3 bucket for telemetry.
  • DevOps
  • Engineering
Optimization & Waste
10

Rightsize underutilized compute

copy "Identify EC2 and GCE instances sustained below 20% CPU and 30% memory over the past 14 days, and recommend rightsizing."

What Billy returns

EC2 and GCE instances running below 20% CPU over the last 14 days, ranked by potential saving, with a suggested smaller size.
  • DevOps
  • Engineering
  • Multi-cloud
Product & How-To
2

MegaBill data lag explained

copy Why is my MegaBill data 24–48 hours behind?

What Billy returns

Why MegaBill data runs 24 to 48 hours behind, so you know it's expected rather than a problem with your account.
  • FinOps
  • Finance
Commitments
2

Expiring reservations in the next 60 days

copy "Which AWS reservations are expiring in the next 60 days, and what would those workloads cost on-demand?"

What Billy returns

Reservations and Savings Plans expiring in the next 60 days, and what their workloads would cost at on-demand rates.
  • FinOps
  • Finance
  • AWS
Product & How-To
3

Schedule a recurring export

copy How do I schedule a recurring export?

What Billy returns

How to schedule a recurring export.
  • FinOps
  • Finance
Product & How-To
3

Creating a custom KPI for a dashboard

copy How do I create a custom KPI in Finout and present it on a dashboard?

What Billy returns

How to build a custom KPI and add it to a dashboard.
  • FinOps
  • Finance
Cost Visibility
3

Multi-cloud spend,
last month

copy What did we spend last month across AWS, GCP, and Azure? Break it down by provider and show the month-over-month change.

What Billy returns

Last month's spend by provider, the prior month's spend, and the change in dollars and percent.
  • FinOps
  • Finance
  • Exec
  • Multi-cloud
Allocation & Showback
4

Tag coverage and untagged spend

copy "What percentage of my cloud spend is properly tagged, and what's the dollar value of untagged resources by service and account?"

What Billy returns

Your tag coverage percentage and untagged spend broken down by service and account.
  • FinOps
  • Engineering
  • Finance
  • Multi-cloud
Allocation & Showback
1

Build a virtual tag for application owner

copy "What would a virtual tag rule look like that groups workloads by application owner, using the app_id tag as primary key and falling back to account ownership where app_id is missing?"

What Billy returns

A draft virtual tag rule with the fallback logic written out, for you to review and set up in Finout yourself..
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Resource Metrics
1

Cost vs. CPU for your top 5 EC2 instances

copy For our five most expensive EC2 instances this month, show cost next to average CPU. Which are expensive and underused?

What Billy returns

Your five highest-cost EC2 instances for the month, with average CPU utilization next to each one's cost, and a read on which are both expensive and underused.
  • FinOps
  • Engineering
  • DevOps
  • AWS
AI Unit Economics
0

Cost per transaction, trended

copy "Show me cost per transaction for our core API, trended monthly for the past 12 months."

What Billy returns

Monthly cost per transaction for the API over the last 12 months.
  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Multi-cloud
Kubernetes Cost
1

Workload-level cost attribution to owner

copy "Attribute Kubernetes cost down to the deployment / workload level for the past month, and roll it up to the application owner."

What Billy returns

Kubernetes cost at the deployment or workload level, rolled up to the application owner using your labels or virtual tags.
  • Engineering
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Resource Metrics
2

Snowflake warehouse usage pattern, 60 days

copy Show me the usage pattern for this Snowflake warehouse over the last 60 days — is it bursty or steady?

What Billy returns

60 days of usage volume for the warehouse, showing whether consumption is bursty or steady.
  • Engineering
  • FinOps
  • Finance
  • Snowflake
Product & How-To
0

Granting a new user access to Finout

copy How do we give access to someone?

What Billy returns

How to invite a new user and grant them access to Finout.
  • Admin
Kubernetes Cost
0

Namespace cost with utilization

copy "For the payment-processing namespace, show me cost alongside CPU and memory utilization for the past 14 days."

What Billy returns

Daily cost for the namespace alongside its CPU and memory utilization for the last 14 days.
  • Engineering
  • DevOps
  • Multi-cloud
Optimization & Waste
0

Non-prod auto-shutdown savings

copy "Estimate how much we'd save if we auto-shutdown all non-prod workloads outside business hours (7 PM to 7 AM weekdays, all weekend)."

What Billy returns

An annualized savings estimate for the shutdown window you describe, and the non-prod workloads contributing most of it.
  • DevOps
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Product & How-To
0

Unsubscribing from a scheduled dashboard

copy How do I unsubscribe from a dashboard?

What Billy returns

How to unsubscribe from a scheduled dashboard or report.
  • Finance
  • Admin
AI Cost
3

Token cost trends with input/output split

copy "Show me the trend in cost per input token and cost per output token across our top three LLM providers for the past 90 days."

What Billy returns

Cost per million tokens, input and output separately, trended over the last 90 days for each provider.
  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Multi-cloud
AI Cost
0

Multi-vendor AI spend rollup

copy "Roll up our spend on AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex, direct Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot for the past month."

What Billy returns

Each of those vendors' spend for the month, with each one's share of your total AI cost.
  • FinOps
  • Engineering
  • Exec
  • Multi-cloud
Product & How-To
0

Opening a support ticket

copy How can I open a support ticket?

What Billy returns

How to open a support ticket with Finout.
  • Admin
Product & How-To
0

Enabling Billy's AI instructions

copy How do I enable AI instructions for myself?

What Billy returns

How to turn on and customize Billy's AI instructions.
  • Admin
Commitments
1

Commitment coverage rate and gap analysis

copy "What's my current commitment coverage rate by service, and where am I leaving savings on the table?"

What Billy returns

Coverage rate per service, and the on-demand spend sitting outside a commitment.
  • FinOps
  • Finance
  • Multi-cloud
Resource Metrics
1

Underutilized GPU instances this month

copy Which of our GPU instances are underutilized this month?

What Billy returns

A ranked list of this month's GPU instances with GPU utilization, GPU memory utilization, and power draw shown next to cost, so you can see which instances are genuinely idle rather than just quiet. Instances already flagged by the GPU Idle scan are called out separately.
 
  • FinOps
  • Engineering
  • AWS
Anomaly Detection
0

Anomaly impact attributed to team 
or owner

copy "For the anomalies detected in the past 30 days, which teams or owners are responsible for the most impact?"

What Billy returns

Anomaly impact from the last 30 days aggregated by team, owner, or virtual tag, ranked by dollars.
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Product & How-To
0

Where to find Finout's MCP setup

copy Where do I find Finout's MCP setup?

What Billy returns

How to set up Finout's MCP server.
  • Engineering
  • Admin
Forecasting & Scenarios
2

What-if: 80% reservation coverage

copy "Model what our compute cost would look like if we moved from current commitment coverage to 80% coverage, mixing 1-year and 3-year terms."

What Billy returns

Projected compute cost at 80% coverage compared with on-demand, modeled across 1-year and 3-year terms.
  • Finance
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Forecasting & Scenarios
0

Multi-year cloud spend forecast

copy "Forecast our 2027 and 2028 cloud spend across AWS, GCP, and Azure, excluding marketplace and one-time charges. Assume 1% monthly organic growth."

What Billy returns

A monthly forecast through the end of 2028 by provider, on the growth assumption you give.
  • Finance
  • Exec
  • Multi-cloud
Forecasting & Scenarios
1

Azure forecast with savings plan scenario

copy "Forecast my Azure spend over the next 12 months assuming we shift 80% of consumption to a 3-year Compute Savings Plan starting month 3."

What Billy returns

A 12-month Azure forecast with the savings plan applied from the month you specify, compared with staying on-demand.
  • Finance
  • FinOps
  • Azure
Allocation & Showback
1

Showback by business unit

copy "Generate a showback report by business unit for the past month, including both direct cost and allocated shared services.."

What Billy returns

Cost per business unit with direct and allocated shared-services portions separated.
  • FinOps
  • Finance
  • Multi-cloud
Anomaly Detection
0

Investigate yesterday's production anomaly

copy "Investigate yesterday's anomaly on the production environment — what resource or usage type caused the spike?"

What Billy returns

The specific anomaly record, contributing resources ranked by cost impact, and (when correlated data is available) the deployment or configuration change that aligns with the spike.
  • Engineering
  • DevOps
  • Multi-cloud
Cost Visibility
1

Month-to-date spend by environment

copy "Show me month-to-date spend grouped by environment (prod, staging, dev) across all my accounts."

What Billy returns

Month-to-date spend per environment across your accounts, sorted highest to lowest.
  • Engineering
  • DevOps
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Product & How-To
0

Generate an API key and enable team tokens

copy Where do I get an API key, and how do I let my team create their own personal access tokens?

What Billy returns

How to generate an API key, and how to enable personal access tokens for teammates.
  • Admin
Cost Visibility
0

Spend mix: compute, storage, networking, AI

copy "What's my cloud spend mix between compute, storage, networking, data transfer, and AI services for the past 90 days?"

What Billy returns

Spend across those five categories for the last 90 days, with dollar totals and percentages.
  • FinOps
  • Engineering
  • Multi-cloud
Cost Visibility
0

Spend by region with anomaly flags

copy "Break down my cloud spend by region for the past 30 days, and flag any region where spend deviates from the 90-day baseline by more than 20%.."

What Billy returns

Spend by region for the last 30 days, with the regions more than 20% off their 90-day baseline identified.
  • Engineering
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Product & How-To
0

Set up SSO groups

copy How do I set up SSO groups?

What Billy returns

How to configure SSO groups in Finout.
  • Admin
Reporting & Sharing
1

Quarterly summary for a leadership update

copy Write me a short summary of last quarter's cloud spend I can send to my leadership team — the total, the change from the prior quarter, and the three biggest drivers.

What Billy returns

A written summary with the quarter's total, the change from the prior quarter, and the three largest drivers.
  • FinOps
  • Finance
  • Exec
Reporting & Sharing
0

Recap an investigation for the owning team

copy Summarize what we found in this conversation so I can share it with the team that owns this cost.

What Billy returns

A written recap of the findings from the conversation so far. To hand over the full investigation, share the conversation link from the top of the chat.
  • FinOps
  • Engineering
Cost Visibility
0

Daily cost trend with driver analysis

copy "Daily cloud cost for the last 14 days, and which services, accounts, or usage types are behind the trend."

What Billy returns

Daily cost line chart plus a narrative driver analysis - which services, accounts, or usage types account for the trend direction.
  • FinOps
  • Engineering
  • Multi-cloud
Resource Metrics
1

Check if a resource ran continuously or on a schedule

copy

Was this resource running continuously last month, or only during certain hours?

What Billy returns

Whether the resource ran continuously last month or only during certain hours.
  • DevOps
  • Engineering
  • AWS
  • GCP
Optimization & Waste
3

Top savings opportunities ranked by value

copy "Give me my top 20 cost-saving opportunities right now, ranked by monthly savings potential."

What Billy returns

Your cost-saving opportunities ranked by monthly savings potential.
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Product & How-To
0

Sharing a dashboard via link

copy How do I share a dashboard with another user using just a link?

What Billy returns

How to generate a shareable dashboard link.
  • Admin
  • FinOps
Product & How-To
0

Exclude promotional credits from cost data

copy How do I exclude promotional credits from my cost data?

What Billy returns

Instructions for excluding promotional credits from your cost views, sourced from documentation, plus a note on where the setting applies, account-wide or per report.
 
  • FinOps
  • Finance
AI Cost
1

Cursor and Copilot spend per engineer

copy "What's the average Cursor and GitHub Copilot cost per engineer over the past 14 days, and who are the heaviest users?"

What Billy returns

Average per-engineer cost across Cursor and Copilot for the last 14 days, and your heaviest users ranked by spend.
  • Engineering
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Product & How-To
0

API access for CostGuard and anomaly alerts

copy Do we have a Finout API for CostGuard, and is there API access into anomaly alerts?

What Billy returns

Which modules expose API endpoints, including CostGuard and anomaly alerts.
  • Engineering
  • Admin
Resource Metrics
0

Verify a CostGuard idle flag before terminating

copy

CostGuard flagged this instance as idle. Show me its CPU and network for the last 30 days before I terminate it.

What Billy returns

30 days of CPU and network utilization for the instance, so you can check the idle finding against real usage.
  • Engineering
  • DevOps
  • FinOps
  • AWS
Allocation & Showback
1

Explain my virtual tag structure

copy "Explain how my virtual tags are structured and show me how cost flows through them."

What Billy returns

A visual breakdown of your virtual tag hierarchy, the rule behind each tag, and how a representative resource is attributed through it.

  • FinOps
  • Engineering
  • Multi-cloud
Resource Metrics
0

Confirm headroom for a rightsizing recommendation

copy

We have a rightsizing recommendation to downsize this instance. Show me peak and average CPU — is there headroom for the smaller size?

What Billy returns

Peak and average CPU for the instance, and whether the smaller size has room to absorb the peaks.
  • Engineering
  • DevOps
  • AWS
Allocation & Showback
0

Resource-level 
tag lookup

copy "What tags does resource i-0abc123def456 currently have, and which virtual tags does it fall under?"

What Billy returns

The native cloud tags on the resource, and the virtual tags it falls under.
  • Engineering
  • DevOps
  • Multi-cloud
AI Unit Economics
0

Fully-loaded cost 
per feature

copy "Give me a fully-loaded cost per product feature - compute, storage, networking, AI, and shared services allocated proportionally."

What Billy returns

Cost per feature with the category breakdown and each feature's share of allocated shared services.
  • Engineering
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
AI Unit Economics
0

Cost per customer, 
by feature

copy "Calculate cost per customer for each of our top 5 product features over the past month."

What Billy returns

Cost per customer for each of those features over the past month.
  • Product
  • Finance
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Kubernetes Cost
0

Multi-cluster cost-per-pod comparison

copy "Compare cost per running pod across my production clusters. Are there clusters significantly more expensive on a per-pod basis?"

What Billy returns

Cost per running pod for each of your production clusters.
  • Engineering
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Kubernetes Cost
1

Kubernetes cost by namespace across all clusters

copy "Show me Kubernetes cost grouped by namespace across all my EKS, GKE, and AKS clusters for the past 
30 days."

What Billy returns

Namespace-level cost ranked by spend across your clusters, with cluster attribution where a namespace appears in more than one.
  • Engineering
  • DevOps
  • Multi-cloud
Product & How-To
0

Group membership and data filters

copy How do I get information on membership and data filters for groups?

What Billy returns

How group membership and the data filters attached to groups work.
  • Admin
  • FinOps
Product & How-To
0

Connecting a CUR 2.0 file

copy Can we connect a CUR 2.0 to Finout?

What Billy returns

Whether CUR 2.0 is supported, and how to connect it.
  • Engineering
  • FinOps
  • AWS
AI Cost
2

Bedrock spend by model

copy "Break my Bedrock spend down by model — Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, Titan, others — for the past 90 days."

What Billy returns

Bedrock spend per model for the last 90 days, with input and output token cost separated.
  • Engineering
  • FinOps
  • AWS
Forecasting & Scenarios
0

End-of-month projection from current burn rate

copy "Based on month-to-date spend and the past 90 days of patterns, project where my cloud spend will land at end-of-month."

What Billy returns

A projected end-of-month total from month-to-date spend and recent patterns.
  • FinOps
  • Finance
  • Multi-cloud
Product & How-To
0

Setting up a budget within a financial plan

copy How do I add a budget, and how do I set one up within a financial plan?

What Billy returns

How to create a budget, and how to configure it inside a financial plan.
  • Finance
  • FinOps
Forecasting & Scenarios
0

Budget variance with forward projection

copy "Show me budget variance by team for the current quarter, and project end-of-quarter overrun risk based on current burn rates."

What Billy returns

Actual against budget per team for the quarter to date, a projected end-of-quarter position from the current run rate, and which teams are tracking toward an overrun.
  • Finance
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Forecasting & Scenarios
0

AI workload forecast at 40% growth

copy "If our AI inference workload grows 40% next year, what will it cost on Bedrock, Vertex, and direct Anthropic / OpenAI usage? Where will the new cost concentrate?"

What Billy returns

Forecast AI cost by vendor at the growth rate you specify, and where the additional spend lands.
  • Engineering
  • Finance
  • Multi-cloud
Optimization & Waste
0

Top 5 quick wins to act on this week

copy "What are the top 5 quick-win cost reductions I could act on this week? I want low effort, high impact."

What Billy returns

Five cost reductions ranked by impact, each with its monthly savings amount.
  • FinOps
  • DevOps
  • Multi-cloud
Anomaly Detection
0

Top anomalies this week with root cause

copy "Show me the top cost anomalies from the past 7 days and what's driving each one."

What Billy returns

The anomaly record, and the resources or usage types that contributed to it ranked by cost impact.
  • Engineering
  • FinOps
  • Multi-cloud
Anomaly Detection
0

Sustained run-rate changes, period over period

copy "Compare last week's daily run rate to the week before. Are there accounts or services with sustained reductions or increases?"

What Billy returns

Last week's daily run rate next to the previous week's, and the accounts and services where the change persisted.
  • FinOps
  • Finance
  • Multi-cloud
Reporting & Sharing
0

Board-ready executive summary

copy "Build me a board-ready cloud cost summary for last quarter: total spend, year-over-year change, top drivers, savings actions taken, AI spend trajectory, and risks for 
next quarter."

What Billy returns

A written summary covering total spend, year-over-year change, top drivers, savings actions, AI spend trajectory, and next-quarter risks.
  • Exec
  • Finance
  • Multi-cloud
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Three ways to use these prompts

Billy goes where you work

In the Finout console, from your IDE through the Finout MCP server, or shared with your team as a conversation link. Pick the channel that fits the moment.

01

In‑app, in your Finout console

Open Billy from any page in Finout. Your account context, MegaBill, virtual tags, allocations, and CostGuard scans are already loaded. Ask, refine, and turn the answer into a dashboard with one follow‑up.

02

From your IDE via the Finout MCP

Connect the Finout MCP server to Claude Code, Cursor, or Claude Desktop and use these same prompts from where you already write code. Cost answers without leaving your editor.

MCP setup guide 

03

Shared with your team as a link

Any Billy conversation can be shared with a link. Hand a teammate the analysis, let them continue the thread, or drop the link into the Slack channel where the cost owner lives. Context travels.

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