Reports
Report generation and export across executive, FinOps, operations, and unit economics audiences, with AI-generated variance narratives and scheduled delivery.
At a glance
| Route | /reports, with sub-routes under /reports/cost |
| Group | Analyze |
| Page permission | intelligence |
What it is
Report generation and export across executive, FinOps, operations, and unit economics audiences, with scheduled delivery and shareable snapshots.
Who it is for
Finance teams producing the monthly close, FinOps leads reporting upward, and executives distributing cost information to a board or leadership group.
How it works
Reports are generated server-side from the normalised ledger, with narratives produced by a language model — so a variance report explains movement in prose rather than presenting a table and leaving interpretation to the reader.
Reporting periods are handled explicitly, so month boundaries and partial periods are treated consistently.
Features
- Executive, FinOps, operations, and unit economics report families
- AI-generated variance narratives explaining why numbers moved
- CSV and Markdown export
- Report preview before generation or delivery
- Scheduled executive report delivery with run-now override and Markdown preview per schedule
- Cost report sub-views mirroring Cost Center: current, history, savings, rightsizing
- Finance allocation and budget-versus-actual reporting with CSV export
- Operating pack generation with benchmark comparison
- Tokenised external share links for dashboards, with revocation
How to use it
Choose the report family matching your audience
The framing differs substantially between an executive pack and an operations report — this is not a cosmetic choice.
Set the reporting period explicitly
Rather than relying on defaults, especially across month boundaries.
Preview before generating
Read the narrative and confirm it matches your team's understanding of the period.
Export in the right format
CSV for further analysis, Markdown for direct inclusion in a document.
Create a schedule for recurring reports
So the monthly close does not depend on someone remembering.
Issue share links for external stakeholders
For people who should not have platform accounts. Revoke when the engagement ends.
Why it matters
Reporting is the most repetitive and least valuable manual work in a FinOps practice, and it is where analyst time disappears.
Automating generation, narrative, and delivery converts several days a month of spreadsheet work into a schedule — and the narratives make the output legible to audiences who cannot read a cost table.
Connects to
- Draws on Intelligence, Cost Center, and Unit Economics
- Dashboards and share links managed in Cost Center → Enterprise Ops
- Executive framing summarised in CEO View
Intelligence
The analytical core of the platform — telemetry ingestion, waste scanning, commitment negotiation, forecasting, regression attribution, and finance reporting.
Cloud Billing
Partner and reseller billing operations — invoices, pass-through discounts, payments, and a tracked dispute lifecycle.