Glossary
FinOps maturity model
The FinOps maturity model describes how an organization's FinOps practice progresses through three stages — Crawl, Walk, and Run — from basic cost visibility toward continuous, automated optimization. Each capability can sit at a different stage, and maturity grows as data, process, and culture deepen. Glassity helps teams advance through this model faster by letting AI agents execute the work, so progress does not depend solely on hiring more FinOps specialists or building tooling from scratch.
The FinOps maturity model is the FinOps Foundation’s framework for gauging how advanced a practice is, using three stages:
- Crawl — basic visibility, limited reporting, mostly reactive cost work.
- Walk — repeatable processes, broader coverage, growing automation and accountability.
- Run — continuous optimization woven into engineering, with high automation and tight feedback loops.
Maturity is not a single grade. An organization can be at Run for cost allocation while still Crawling on commitment management, so the model is best read capability by capability.
Glassity accelerates the climb. By running agentic FinOps — agents that discover, remediate, and verify — much of the manual effort that normally gates the Walk and Run stages is handled for you. That makes the agentic platform for cloud operations a practical shortcut to higher maturity without proportionally larger teams. See FinOps Manager.
Related external reference: FinOps Foundation