Step 3 (Stakeholder & Planning Alignment) — turn a scored opportunity into owned, executable work. Two sub-phases: the opportunity-level one approves the org plan and seeds assignments; the assignment-level one names a single accountable owner, builds a persona-tailored plan with a timed rollback, and advances to…
Step 2 (Opportunity Assessment) — score discovered opportunities on value, effort, and risk, compute Net Optimization Value, and apply the NOV gate. Rejects negative-NOV Fool's Gold. Read-only; recommends /finops-align for what passes.
Step 1 (Discovery) — collect and classify cloud-optimization ideas into Rate / Usage / Architectural / Governance, stamp each with a discovery date, and emit a typed-idea table. Read-only; applies the typed-idea gate and recommends /finops-assess for the discovered set.
Step 4 (Execution) — convert a Definition-of-Ready plan into a deployed, verified change at an automation level the user picks per opportunity (L1 Manual, L2 Guided, L3 CI/CD, L4 Autonomous). Applies the verification gate: deployed, verified, rollback proven. Mutates.
Step 5 (Feedback Loop & Celebration) — measure realized against projected savings, compute a labelled Cloud Entropy proxy, close the opportunity, and emit at least one new idea or policy update so the loop actually closes. Applies the double-loop gate. Mutates on the closure path.
Orientation — say where an opportunity or assignment sits in the five-step FinOps lifecycle and what unlocks next. Useful when a record has no active stage: an opportunity while its assignments do the work, an assignment whose plan has not been approved yet, or a rejected or archived assignment. Read-only; mutates…