FinOps

Every paid choice in the lab gets a decision record: what it costs, what it buys, what else was considered, and when to look at it again. The point isn't the dollar amounts, which are small here. It's the habit: a cost is decided on purpose, with the math written down, not discovered on a bill.

How a record works

• Cost, with the math. Prices and the date they were checked, the volume they're multiplied by, and the result. Anyone can redo it.

• What it buys. The risk it removes or the capability it adds, in plain terms.

• Alternatives. What else was considered, and why not. A cheaper option that weakens safety says so.

• Revisit when. The change that would make the decision worth reopening: a price change, more volume, a new requirement.

Decisions