OpenMetal Labs

Better infrastructure starts with knowing what should run where.

OpenMetal Labs helps you understand your current infrastructure spend, decide what should run where, and build the right solution across public cloud, private infrastructure, and AI. 

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OpenMetal Labs with Economize

Companies running infrastructure-heavy businesses have needed a FinOps tool and an infrastructure vendor that understands their cost structure, and rarely got both from the same place. Bringing Economize and OpenMetal together closes that gap because it’s a full suite from one directly accountable provider. And because we’re paying attention to what our customers need day to day, we can keep tailoring our offerings to match, instead of asking them to fit into a fixed product.

Todd Robinson, Co-founder and President at OpenMetal

One team from cost intelligence to infrastructure

OpenMetal Labs brings together these two capabilities that infrastructure-heavy businesses have traditionally had to source separately.

OpenMetal Labs helps infrastructure-heavy businesses solve cloud, AI, cost, and architecture challenges that don’t fit neatly into an off-the-shelf product. We help you understand what you’re running, what it’s costing, and what should run where, then help you build the right solution. That could mean optimizing what you already run in public cloud, moving the right workloads to dedicated infrastructure, designing a hybrid environment, deploying GPU infrastructure, or building something custom.

The architecture follows the workload. Not the other way around.

Understand

Through Economize, OpenMetal’s cloud and AI cost-management platform, we can help teams understand how infrastructure spend is distributed across public cloud, AI platforms, services, teams, and workloads. That can include:

  • Cloud and AI cost visibility
  • Cost allocation
  • Anomaly detection
  • Optimization opportunities
  • Usage trends
  • Workload economics

Decide

OpenMetal Labs connects those economics to the infrastructure itself. We evaluate where workloads make sense based on their actual requirements, not simply where they run today. That can include:

  • Public vs. private infrastructure analysis
  • Workload placement
  • Hybrid architecture planning
  • GPU infrastructure economics
  • Capacity planning
  • Migration opportunities
  • Cost and performance trade-offs

Build

When the answer involves dedicated infrastructure, OpenMetal can provide and build it. That includes:

And when an existing product doesn’t solve the problem, Labs can work with your team to build the missing piece.

OpenMetal Labs - Full infrastructure lifecycle

A working lab that builds what’s missing

OpenMetal Labs doesn’t stop at recommendations. Our teams work directly with customers to solve infrastructure and cost problems in real environments. That work can span infrastructure, software, FinOps, and architecture, especially when an off-the-shelf product doesn’t fully solve the problem. Labs engagements can include:

  • Custom OpenStack environments
  • Specialized Ceph storage architectures
  • GPU and AI infrastructure designs
  • Public-to-private cloud migration planning
  • Hybrid cloud architectures
  • Cost allocation and reporting systems
  • Cloud and AI cost anomaly detection
  • Internal FinOps tooling and dashboards
  • Infrastructure automation
  • Workload optimization systems
  • AI agents and infrastructure integrations
  • Custom integrations between infrastructure and cost systems

If the right solution already exists, we’ll use it. If it doesn’t, Labs can help build it.

And when something proves useful beyond a single engagement, we look for ways to turn it into something reusable. That might become a new infrastructure configuration, reference architecture, Economize capability, automation, cost model, integration, OpenMetal product feature, or published methodology.

You get help solving the problem in front of you.
What we learn helps make the platform stronger for the next one.

Talk to OpenMetal Labs

Fill out the form below to connect with our team to share your use case, discuss your requirements, delivery timelines, and capabilities. Or email us at labs@openmetal.io.

FAQs

What is OpenMetal Labs?

OpenMetal Labs is OpenMetal’s applied infrastructure and cost-optimization group. It works directly with businesses on cloud, AI, infrastructure, and cost problems that require deeper analysis, architecture work, or custom engineering. Labs combines OpenMetal’s infrastructure expertise with cloud and AI cost-management capabilities from Economize.

What is Economize?

Economize is OpenMetal’s cloud and AI cost-management platform. It helps engineering, finance, and FinOps teams understand, monitor, and optimize infrastructure spending across platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

Within Labs, that cost intelligence can be used alongside OpenMetal’s infrastructure expertise to evaluate not only how to optimize an environment, but whether workloads should run somewhere differently.

Is Labs a consulting service?

Labs includes direct work with customer teams, but it isn’t designed as a traditional consulting engagement that ends with a set of recommendations. When appropriate, Labs can help design the architecture, build the solution, deploy the infrastructure, create missing tooling, and continue optimizing the environment afterward.

Does Labs only recommend OpenMetal infrastructure?

No. Labs starts with the requirements of the workload.

Some workloads should remain in public cloud. Others may make more sense on private cloud, bare metal, dedicated GPU infrastructure, or a combination. When OpenMetal infrastructure is the right fit, the same organization can move from analysis to implementation.

Do I need to be an existing OpenMetal or Economize customer?

No. Labs can work with existing customers as well as businesses evaluating their infrastructure strategy for the first time.

What size companies is Labs designed for?

Labs is most relevant when infrastructure has become a significant business expense or technical constraint. Organizations spending roughly $250K or more per month across cloud and infrastructure are especially likely to benefit from deeper Labs involvement, although complexity can matter as much as spend.

What happens after I contact Labs?

We start by understanding your environment, workloads, economics, requirements, and the problem you’re trying to solve. The next step may be a cost analysis, architecture conversation, OpenMetal infrastructure deployment, Economize engagement, migration assessment, or a deeper Labs project.

OpenMetal Labs

Better infrastructure starts with knowing what should run where. Understand the economics. Choose the architecture. Build what the workload actually needs.

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