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Make your cloud review easy to find when the bill and the migration plan both look wrong.
The finance head of a Pune logistics firm opens the monthly cloud invoice and finds it has doubled. The CTO says it is the new tracking app. The founder wants to know if they should have stayed on the old data centre. The people inside cannot answer in plain words, so the finance head asks a peer and searches for an outside review.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
In one paragraph
Cloud consulting companies advise businesses on moving to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, reducing cloud spend and designing safe architecture. Marketing puts your review in front of a CTO or finance head when the bill jumps or a migration is approved. Sales turns an assessment into a larger project. GullySales works on the assessment offer, the pages for the finance head and the platform partner contacts.
A firm that has published how it reads a cloud bill, and which questions it asks first, gives that finance head something to forward to the founder. A firm that lists only certifications offers a rate card to compare.
Last updated 18 Oct 2026.
How buyers decide
How cloud consulting companies are chosen.
Two kinds of buyer reach consultants. The first is the CTO or engineering head who needs senior hands for a migration or a security review. The second is a finance head or founder who has found out that cloud spend is a real line in the profit and loss account. They ask different questions, and a firm that answers only the technical one loses the budget holder.
Some referrals start with the platform. AWS, Azure and Google Cloud each run partner programmes, so buyers look at partner tier and competencies, and ask a consultant about credits and funding programmes (programme rules change, so check them with the platform). Buyers also ask peers on LinkedIn and in CTO communities, and a name that came up in a thread carries weight.
For many firms the assessment is the first paid step. Buyers want to know what is looked at, what they get in writing at the end and who is in the room. A sample outline with sensitive details removed lets a buyer picture the report before signing. A promise of insight does not.
The problem
What usually goes wrong for cloud consulting companies.
What owners tell us on the first call, in their words.
“Our work looks the same as every other cloud partner”
We list AWS, Azure, migration, DevOps and security like everyone else, so buyers fall back to comparing rate cards.
“Finance heads never find us”
Our pages talk about architecture. The person worried about the invoice searches for cloud cost reduction and meets other firms.
“Assessments end and nothing follows”
The report is delivered, the client says it is useful, and the follow-on migration goes to whoever the CTO already knew.
“We cannot name clients”
Most engagements sit under NDAs, so our references look thin compared with the work we have done.
“Platform referrals are irregular”
We hold partner status, but no one records which platform account managers know us or what they were told.
“Founders confuse us with a managed hosting vendor”
They expect a monthly support contract and are surprised that the firm advises and designs.
What we do
What we do for cloud consulting companies.
Everything included for cloud consulting companies.
A named assessment offer
A page and a short document that describe what the assessment covers, who in the client's team is needed, and what is handed over in writing, with a sample outline that has no client data.
Pages for the person holding the invoice
Pages for cloud cost reduction, bill review and spend ownership, written for finance heads and founders in plain words rather than platform jargon.
Anonymised engagement stories
Write-ups by industry and problem, such as a logistics firm facing a rising bill or a lender leaving a data centre, with the client unnamed until it agrees in writing.
Platform partner routine
A record of the platform account managers and partner development contacts, what each knows about your strengths, and a specific reason to write to each.
Assessment-to-project follow-up
A plan for the conversation at the end of every assessment, with the next phase described and the sponsor in the room.
Startup and credits explainer
A guide for founders on how consultants help with platform credits and funding programmes, written in general terms and checked against current programme rules.
How the result is measured
- Enquiries by buyer type, technical or finance
- Assessments started from enquiries
- Assessments that lead to a project
- Referrals from platform teams and integrators
- Share of revenue from repeat clients
- Sales conversations that begin with a cost problem
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
Every service, written for cloud consulting companies
Each has its own page: what it involves for cloud consulting companies, what you get, and what it is measured on.
- Lead generationFill the pipeline with buyers who already have a cloud bill or a migration to decide.
- SEOAppear when someone searches for why the cloud bill grew, not only for your platform name.
- Social media marketingPut your architects' real opinions before CTOs on LinkedIn, not company slogans.
- Content marketingPublish how you read a cloud bill so the finance head has something to forward.
- Buyer personasKnow who signs, who worries and who vetoes before you write the next proposal.
- CRM setupRecord each platform contact, sponsor and assessment so no follow-on is forgotten.
- Follow-up systemsPlan the closing session of every assessment so the next phase is already on the table.
- WhatsApp marketingUse WhatsApp for the quick questions between calls, with permission and with care.
- Digital marketingChoose the few online channels that reach a CTO or a finance head with a live problem.
- WebsiteLet the finance head and the CTO each find their answer within one click of the home page.
Worth a page and a campaign of their own
A named assessment with a clear written output · Pages for the finance head and for the CTO · Cost review for companies with rising invoices · Migration planning from data centres and hosted servers · Partner relationships with platform account teams · Anonymised case stories · Follow-on projects after assessment · Funding and credits help for startups
Priority campaigns
Campaigns for what cloud consulting companies most want to sell.
Each one planned around when your buyers decide, and measured against the baseline.
Cost-shock searches
Pages and ads aimed at people searching for why a cloud bill increased, how to reduce AWS or Azure costs, and who reviews it.
CTO community presence
Useful posts, talks and answers in CTO groups, engineering meetups and LinkedIn, written by a practising architect and not by marketing.
Platform partner events
A plan for joint sessions and webinars with platform teams, with a topic that suits their local customers.
Account-based outreach to larger firms
Targeted contact with a short list of companies that have said they are moving out of a data centre or consolidating cloud accounts.
Beyond search
Where we reach buyers of cloud consulting companies, beyond Google.
Search matters, but it is rarely the only way this industry's buyers find a supplier.
CTOs and engineering heads
Companies in your region, sorted by size and by the stack they run. Outreach opens with one architecture or cost question, not a list of certifications.
Finance heads and founders
People who own the budget need cloud spend explained in rupees and line items, so they get an approach of their own, apart from the CTO's.
Platform account managers
A partner development contact at AWS, Azure or Google Cloud passes on leads that match what the firm is known for, so a one-page profile of your strengths decides which ones reach you.
Software firms and system integrators
A system integrator or app studio building for a client needs a cloud adviser at the table the day the client asks about hosting cost. Partner outreach to them says what you will and will not take on.
Startup incubators and investors' portfolio teams
A short session for an incubator cohort on cloud choices, credits and the first architecture decisions reaches founders before the bill grows.
Who it is for
This is written for these cloud consulting companies.
- AWS partners and consultants
- Microsoft Azure partners and migration specialists
- Google Cloud partners and data platform advisers
- Cloud cost optimisation and review specialists
- Cloud security and architecture review firms
- Data centre exit and migration advisers
- Multi-cloud and hybrid strategy consultants
- Landing zone and cloud governance advisers for larger firms
Not for
It is not the right fit if.
- You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
- You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
- You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.
How it works
How the work runs for cloud consulting companies
The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.
- 1
List the engagements you want more of and fewer of
Which engagements you want more of, which you want fewer of, and which platform relationships are active.
- 2
Define the first offer
The assessment becomes a page and a document, with a plain written output the client can keep.
- 3
Write for two buyers
A technical version and a finance version of each page, with anonymised stories behind them.
- 4
Work the partners
Platform and integrator contacts are listed, each with a specific reason to refer you.
- 5
Convert assessments
The closing session of each assessment is planned, and a record shows which assessments became projects.
Where this fits
Three pieces of sales work, in this order.
GullySales builds every engagement from three pieces of sales work. This page is not one of them, but the same three steps apply to the business behind it.
Step 1
Sales audit
Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.
Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.
Step 2
Sales process design
One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.
Start here if every salesperson sells differently.
Step 3
Sales management
A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.
Start here if the team has targets and no routine.
FAQ
Questions cloud consulting companies ask before they call.
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How is this different from marketing a cloud and DevOps services company?
Can you help us if most of our work comes from platform referrals?
Will you make claims about savings?
We cannot show client names. Is that a problem?
Do you write about security and data laws?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
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