Why Duckbill

Deep expertise for your biggest tech commitments

Duckbill gives you the technical and financial specialization to negotiate, manage, and forecast compute. As your largest and fastest-growing area of strategic spend, you need a strategic, experienced partner trusted by not only the AI-native market leaders, but the hyperscalers, AI labs, and neoclouds themselves too.

Technology-driven finance, not financial-led tech

We’re a software company with deep financial, cloud, and AI expertise, not a financial firm with a technology bolt-on. Duckbill builds the financial control layer that AI-native companies use to negotiate, manage, and forecast their spend across every cloud, model, neocloud, and inference provider. This is the discipline we pioneered, and it’s all we do.

We have the perfect marriage of software and expertise

People struggle to make sense of complex compute and contract data without great software thanks to its size and complexity. Software, in turn, can untangle the complexity but can’t make the judgment calls that high-stakes commitments require. Duckbill delivers both the purpose-built software that handles the data complexity, and seasoned practitioners who make the critical calls. It’s the only combination that turns overwhelming compute data into clear next moves.

Compute contracts require specialized expertise

Generalist consultancies and analyst firms lack the technical depth and provider-specific specialization to level the playing field with hyperscalers, model labs, inference providers, and neoclouds. We can help you identify your best options for negotiating costs, providers, and availability.

Best of the best, every day

Our solution delivers the software and world-class expertise you need. We hire the top talent in the market, and they’re who you work with alongside product purpose-built for AI-native complexity. Instead of training up people new to these fields, we seek out the hidden experts and turn them loose on your toughest commitments.

We act as a translator and connector between your teams and stakeholders

Compute spend is now shared ground. Duckbill sits at the intersection of strategic finance, engineering, and procurement, making sure each team’s needs are reflected equally — so the whole organization works from the same numbers across every provider.

“ As part of the cost modelling, Duckbill came up with a meaningful unit economic KPI for us to use: cost per thousand document views. It’s helped bridge the gap between how Finance perceives what we’re doing and how Engineering and Product perceives it. It just gives us a meeting place in the middle as we talk about costs.”

R. Tyler Crow Director of Platform Engineering, Scribd

Built on trust – in our product and our expertise

Companies hand us their largest, most complex commitments — that only happens on trust. It’s earned two ways: expertise proven across billions in negotiated contracts, and a product that ties your contracts, consumption, and pricing together across every provider, so the numbers you act on are numbers you believe. Our customers and press coverage attest to both.