Press and brand

If you are writing about Spendlint, listing it in a directory, or putting it on your own site, take what you need from this page. No need to ask first.

What Spendlint is

Copy either of these rather than paraphrasing. They are the descriptions we keep current.

One line

Spendlint reads a company’s cloud bill and finds the spend that is buying nothing.

A paragraph

Spendlint is a read-only service that examines an organisation’s Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, AWS and Atlassian accounts and reports the money being spent on things nobody is using: idle machines, unassigned licences, storage attached to nothing. Every finding arrives with the evidence behind it, the command to act on it and the command that undoes it, and the work is left to the customer: Spendlint changes nothing in the accounts it reads. A later bill is checked against the report, so a saving is only counted once it has actually happened.

The name is Spendlint. One word, one capital. Not “Spend lint”, not “SpendLint”, and not in all lower case in the middle of a sentence.
It is a service, not a company. Spendlint is operated by AfterOK, and takes a singular verb: “Spendlint reads the bill”, not “read”.
Read-only is the point, so please keep it in. It is the first thing a cautious reader wants to know, and the claim we are most often asked to stand behind.

The logo

A highlighter’s wave under a struck line: what someone does to a bill they have been through. Right-click to save, or use the links under each one.

the mark

spendlint the wordmark

spendlint on a dark ground

Mark: SVG · PNG 512px · PNG on white
Wordmark: PNG on white · PNG on black
Prefer the SVG wherever it will render. It stays sharp at any size, and the PNGs are there for the places that will not take one.

Give it room. Clear space on every side of at least the width of the rounded corner. Nothing crosses it.
Do not recolour it, stretch it or add effects. If it does not sit well on your background, use the version on white.
Do not use it below 24px. Under that the wave and the line merge into a smudge.
Use it to refer to us, not to imply we endorse you. Saying your product works with Spendlint is fine. A partnership, an integration we have approved, or any suggestion that we recommend you needs a conversation first.

Colours

Two, and a white ground. Read from the stylesheet this page is painted with, so they are the colours the product actually uses.

#ffe14d Highlighter yellow The brand's one colour

#0d0d0d Ink Type, rules and the mark's tile

#ffffff Paper The ground everything sits on

The yellow is the brand’s one colour and is never a status colour. Green, ochre and red say what state something is in. Type is Space Grotesk for sentences and JetBrains Mono for figures and commands; both are open licensed, so you are free to set our name in them.

Facts

What it reads. Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, AWS and Atlassian. An account can have any one of them or all four.
Where it runs. North Europe (Ireland): the service, its database and its backups.
What it changes. Nothing. Every recommendation is for the customer to review and run.
Pricing. On the pricing page, in full, without asking anyone for a call.
Sample report. A complete one, on invented data, no sign-in.

Getting in touch

Press enquiries, a fact you want checked before you publish, or anything about using the logo: hello@spendlint.com. We would much rather correct something before it is printed than after.