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United States · San Francisco, CA Client Protected Under NDA
Ops
Cloud Operations & Incident TriageB2B Infrastructure & SaaS Platform (140+ Employees)

How a US Cloud Platform Consolidated Multi-Tool Incident Triage & Reclaimed $185,000

“StackIQ pinpointed exactly where our support engineering budget was leaking. In under a month, CloudMotiv replaced 3 expensive bolt-on bots with a single unified triage workflow built right into Slack.”— VP of Engineering Operations (Client verified under mutual NDA)
$185,000
Annual SaaS Spend Eliminated
75%
Faster Escalation Triage
30 Days
Audit to Production Delivery
Integrated Production Tech Stack
Slack APIn8n Workflow EngineOpenAI EmbeddingsJira Service ManagementSupabasePagerDuty API Webhooks

1Executive Summary & The Operational Challenge

The client operates a high-availability B2B developer cloud platform servicing over 2,000 enterprise customers across North America. As customer ticket volumes grew 120% year-over-year, different support engineering pods began subscribing independently to point-solution AI bots: one tool for Slack sentiment classification, another for ticket auto-tagging, and a third for runbook retrieval.

This created severe software sprawl: engineers had to reconcile conflicting tags across three different portals during live P1 and P2 escalations, while annual seat licenses accumulated without centralized oversight.

2The StackIQ Diagnostic Audit

CloudMotiv conducted a comprehensive StackIQ diagnostic across the company's incident management infrastructure. Within 10 days, the diagnostic surfaced:

  • $15,400/month in overlapping subscriptions: 3 distinct tools were performing essentially the same vector similarity search against the company's Confluence runbooks.
  • 45 unused premium seats: Expensive enterprise tier add-ons had been provisioned for team members who had not logged in for over 90 days.
  • High context-switching friction: Support engineers took an average of 14 minutes simply navigating between disparate dashboards to assign on-call ownership.

3Solution Architecture & The CloudMotiv Method

Rather than introducing another vendor subscription, CloudMotiv designed and deployed a native workflow automation architecture:

Centralized Webhook Ingestion: Inbound telemetry alerts and customer escalations are parsed through a single n8n workflow cluster.
Context-Aware Runbook Matching: An embedded vector pipeline queries runbooks and posts direct actionable resolution steps into the incident Slack channel.
Zero Shelfware: Cancelled all 3 redundant SaaS tools; engineers now complete triage without ever leaving Slack and Jira.

4Tangible Business Outcomes

$185,000 Recovered
Net recurring software savings decommissioned permanently.
75% Faster MTTR Triage
Initial incident classification dropped from 14 minutes to under 3.5 minutes.

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