◈ Management of companies

Many companies.
One platform.
One bill, and a smaller one.

Holding companies and corporate groups inherit infrastructure with every acquisition: different clouds, different contracts, different ways of keeping records. Bringing it together is usually a project nobody has time for. Compute gives each subsidiary its own separated estate on one platform, priced under the leading cloud, on one bill the group can read.

Used by family holding companies, private equity platforms and Fortune 500 groups for shared services, consolidation and portfolio estates.

One
Bill across every subsidiary
30%
Under the leading cloud on CPU instances
Separated
Estates by default
Zero
Commitments to inherit

What this looks like in practice

◆Group consolidation and reporting◆Shared finance, HR and procurement services◆Subsidiary applications and websites◆Intercompany data and reconciliation◆Acquisition onboarding and integration◆Group-wide code hosting and review◆Portfolio dashboards for the board◆Group consolidation and reporting◆Shared finance, HR and procurement services◆Subsidiary applications and websites◆Intercompany data and reconciliation◆Acquisition onboarding and integration◆Group-wide code hosting and review◆Portfolio dashboards for the board
What holds true here

Four things you stop arguing about

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Each company kept apart

Subsidiaries run in separated estates with their own access and data. Shared services sit alongside without blurring the boundaries.

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One bill, itemised

Spend broken out by company, service and project, so recharges and allocations come from the bill rather than a spreadsheet.

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Lower cost across the group

Machines, managed databases, build minutes and support priced 30% under the leading cloud for the same thing, published beside the leading cloud’s figure.

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Nothing to inherit

No reservations or minimum terms, so an acquisition or disposal does not leave a commitment behind.

The shift

From a collection of estates to a group platform

Most groups run as many infrastructure arrangements as they have companies. Each was reasonable when it was chosen. Together they are expensive, hard to see across and harder to govern.

The usual arrangement
  • ✕A different cloud contract at every subsidiary
  • ✕Recharges calculated by hand at month end
  • ✕Reserved capacity stranded after a disposal
  • ✕Shared services duplicated in several places
  • ✕No single view of what the group spends
What replaces it
  • ✓One platform, with each company separated on it
  • ✓Recharges taken straight from an itemised bill
  • ✓No commitments to unwind when the portfolio changes
  • ✓Shared services built once and used across the group
  • ✓Group spend visible in one place
What you can count on

Stated plainly, and qualified

One
Bill
Itemised by company, service and project
30%
Under the leading cloud’s support plans
Against the leading cloud’s support minimums
30%
Under the leading cloud’s managed databases
Per managed database-hour
None
Minimum term
Nothing stranded by a disposal
Closer in

Management of Companies, specifically

The acquisition that onboards itself

A new company joins the group with its own systems and its own contract. Rather than a year-long integration, it gets an estate on the same platform as everyone else, with its own access and data kept apart. Its spend appears on the group bill from the first day, at a lower price than it was paying the leading cloud.

Shared services, built once

Finance, HR and procurement tools on CosmoBase and Panel, used across every company that needs them.

Group code in one place

Every subsidiary’s repositories on CodeGraph, with review and CI under one set of rules.

Domains held centrally

Every brand’s domains and DNS registered and managed together.

Support that scales with the group

Business and Enterprise support, monthly, priced under the leading cloud’s support minimums.

Against the leading cloud

Management of Companies on Compute, against the leading cloud

4 vCPU / 8 GB server
$0.0941/hr
Leading cloud $0.1344/hr · Its cheapest machine with 4 vCPU and 16 GiB
30% less
Database
$0.0112 / database-hour
Leading cloud $0.016 / database-hour · Managed database, smallest instance
30% less
Business support
$70.00 / month
Leading cloud $100 / month · Business support plan, monthly minimum
30% less

Compared with the leading cloud's own published on-demand prices, US East. Every comparison.

Questions we are actually asked

Answers without the hedging

Can each subsidiary keep its own access and data?+

Yes. Separation between estates is a configured property of the platform, not a convention. Shared services can be granted access deliberately where they need it.

Can we allocate cost by company?+

Usage is itemised by service and project, so allocations and recharges can be taken directly from the bill.

What if we sell a company?+

There are no reservations or minimum terms to unwind. Its estate can be handed over or closed without leaving a commitment behind.

Does this suit a smaller group?+

Yes. A holding company with two businesses pays only for what it uses; the same arrangement carries groups with many more.

Other industries

Where else this goes

AI Agents

Run agents, the tools they call and the models behind them on one platform, billed by the token and the second, for less than the same work costs on the leading cloud.

Customer Acquisition

Host the landing pages, attribution pipelines and onboarding flows that bring customers in, and spend less on the infrastructure than you would on the leading cloud.

Marketing

Run campaign sites, personalisation, content pipelines and marketing data on one platform that costs less than the leading cloud for the same machines and models.

Lead Generation

Run the forms, enrichment jobs, scoring models and routing that turn interest into leads, for less than the same infrastructure costs on the leading cloud.

Sales

Run CRMs, sales data, call analysis and AI assistants on one platform, priced under the leading cloud for the same machines, databases and models.

Creator Economy

Host creator platforms, media processing, storefronts and AI tools on infrastructure that bills by the second and costs less than the leading cloud for the same machines.

Start where it matters most

Begin with one workload. Keep what you have running. Decide whether to continue once you have seen it carry something real.

No migration required to begin. Nothing to tear down if you stop.