Saildrone Finops

Saildrone's commercial surface is Mission-as-a-Service (MaaS) — vehicle leases, per-mission contracts, sensor payload upcharges, and government cost-plus arrangements with NOAA, NASA, US Navy, and EUMETSAT. There is no published consumption-priced API. This FinOps document maps Saildrone's *negotiated* billing surface onto FOCUS-style fields so downstream FinOps tooling can model Saildrone spend alongside cloud and SaaS spend, even though invoices are contract-based, not API-metered.