# Strategic Blue

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/strategic-blue/  
**Website:** https://strategic-blue.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Strategic Blue is a UK-headquartered cloud FinOps company founded in 2010 by Dr James Mitchell, a former commodities trader. It specialises in AWS rate optimization through commitment management, delivering Reserved Instance and Savings Plan savings of up to 40-45% without lock-in, forecasting burden, or technical compromise. Strategic Blue treats cloud like a commodity, applying price-risk-management techniques from financial markets to optimize AWS discounts. Its Automate service serves commercial enterprises while Accelerate serves the UK public sector. The company operates on a least-privilege model, accessing only cost and usage metadata and never customer cloud environments. It is ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001 certified, CSA STAR and Cyber Essentials registered, and an AWS Advanced and Google Cloud Premier partner.

## Kin Score — 18.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 18.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (2)

- **Strategic Blue Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Strategic Blue Trust Center** — ISO 27001:2022, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, CSA STAR, Cyber Essentials, HIPAA (Business Associate Agreements available)

## Tags

Company, FinOps, Cloud Cost Management, Rate Optimization, Cloud, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/strategic-blue/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.