YOUR IT BUDGET
IS LEAKING.
A fixed-fee, four-week independent audit that finds the waste your vendors profit from.
Duplicated licences. Auto-renewed contracts. Retail margins on wholesale products. Most mid-market CFOs sign these invoices every month with no way to test them. We test them, line by line, and we do not earn a cent from any vendor we assess.
THE BLACK HOLE: WHERE YOUR IT BUDGET IS DISAPPEARING.
Most CFOs have no visibility into their actual IT spend. Here is what an independent audit typically surfaces:
Licence Bloat
Paying for 500 licences with 350 staff. Nobody inside the business is incentivised to find the other 150. Your vendor certainly is not.
Contract Creep
Contracts renew automatically every year without review. Retail margins on products that should be wholesale. Pricing that has never been benchmarked against the market.
The Visibility Gap
One client put it this way: 'Every initiative seemed to take two years and a million dollars.' When your roadmap is written by the people who invoice you, that is what it costs.
The Opportunity Cost
Every wasted dollar is a dollar not funding growth. Managing IT spend reactively means the strategic projects are always the ones that miss out.
YOUR OPTIONS: THE THREE PATHS TO IT COST CONTROL
Three choices for IT cost governance. Only one is designed for your budget reality.
The Big Four
World-class advice, at a price point built for the ASX100.
Out of reach
The Managed Service Provider
Convenient for day-to-day support, but their strategic advice is shaped by the products they sell.
Can you trust the fox to guard the henhouse?
Conflicted
The Third Way
Agility Next
Top-tier strategic rigour, at mid-market pricing, in four weeks.
We do not sell technology. We verify it. Line-by-line spend analysis, market benchmarking, contract renegotiation points. If the audit does not identify value worth at least twice our fee, we refund it.
The Clear Choice for CFOs
Not sure which path is right for you?
Schedule a free discovery callOUR GUARANTEE: 2X VALUE, OR WE REFUND THE FEE.
We are confident enough in what independent analysis finds in mid-market IT spend to put our fee on it:
2x
Minimum value identified, or your fee back
4 wks
From kick-off to board-ready findings
15+
Board-ready recommendations per audit
$0
Earned from the vendors we assess
If our 4-Week Commercial IT Health Check does not identify and demonstrate value improvement opportunities worth at least twice our engagement fee, we will refund our fee. No questions asked. Terms published, in writing.
Not a report. Not recommendations. Quantified, board-defensible value: specific contracts to renegotiate, specific licences to cut, specific numbers for the renegotiation call. Our principals have been finding it in organisations like yours for over twenty years.
What "Value Improvement" Means
Value improvement is not just cost savings. It includes:
DIRECT COST SAVINGS
Vendor optimisation, licence consolidation, contract renegotiation, service elimination.
SPEND AVOIDANCE
Future spend avoided through planning and vendor consolidation.
STRONGER VENDOR POSITIONS
Contracts renegotiated against market benchmarks and your real volume.
GOVERNANCE IMPROVEMENT
Financial risk reduced; board confidence in IT cost management restored.
CAPABILITY WITHOUT COST
Performance, reliability and security improved without proportional spend.
This guarantee applies to all new 4-Week Commercial IT Health Check engagements. Read the terms.
THE AGILITY NEXT DIFFERENCE: COST-CONSCIOUS IT ASSURANCE.
We bridge the gap between technical complexity and commercial reality. We do not sell technology. We verify it and optimise it.
What We Deliver
Forensic Cost Analysis
Line-by-line analysis of your IT spend against market benchmarks, with specific renegotiation points for specific contracts.
Vendor Optimisation
Renegotiation leverage built from market data, not gut feel. The objective numbers change the conversation with your vendors.
Strategic Cost Planning
A three-year IT cost roadmap aligned to your growth plan, so investment is deliberate instead of reactive.
What We Don't Do
We don't sell technology.
No vendor bias, no referral fees, no conflicts. Recommendations serve your commercial needs, not our revenue.
We don't do long, expensive engagements.
No six-month projects. No $500K fees. Four weeks, fixed fee, published pricing.
We don't promise to eliminate all risk.
We identify risk and help you manage it within a real budget. Anyone promising zero risk is selling something.
The Result
Visibility
You know what every material line of IT spend buys, and whether it is market price.
Stronger Vendor Positions
Contracts renegotiated against benchmarks and your actual volume.
Strategic Clarity
A three-year cost roadmap the board can hold you to.
Peace of Mind
Independent verification that spend is optimised and governance is sound.
INDEPENDENT GOVERNANCE. COMMERCIAL DISCIPLINE.
Led by people who have owned enterprise budgets and delivered independent reviews for twenty years, with no vendor to answer to.
Greg Spencer
Founder & Principal Consultant
Greg has spent more than twenty years running independent technology reviews for Australian organisations, after senior executive careers as CIO, CTO and COO. He founded one of Australia's longest-running independent technology advisory practices and has delivered board-level reviews across health, education, financial services, professional services and the public sector.
"I founded Agility Next to give the mid-market advice with no revenue attached to the answer. When your advisor profits from your spend, they are not your advisor."
Alex Frew
Partner & Enterprise Growth Lead
Alex has scaled technology businesses from $5M to $330M, led the integration of 12 acquisitions and managed IT teams of up to 1,100 people. He has sat on the buying side of the exact vendor contracts our audits test.
"I have signed the IT invoices at every scale from $5M to $330M. I know exactly where they hide the margin, because I have paid it."
The Record
Two decades of independent reviews. Zero dollars earned from technology vendors.
The Track Record
Where our principals have done this before.
Independent technology reviews and advisory delivered by our principals across two decades of prior practice, from airports and regulators to universities, councils and national charities.
Engagements listed were delivered by Agility Next principals in prior advisory practice. Listing does not imply endorsement of Agility Next Pty Ltd by the organisations named.
READY TO FIND YOUR WASTE?
Download the IT Cost Reduction Checklist: ten places mid-market IT budgets leak, and how to check yours this week.
Use it to audit your own spend before you spend a dollar with us. Most CFOs find at least three items that apply immediately.
THE IT COST REDUCTION CHECKLIST
Ten quick wins to reduce IT spend without sacrificing capability.
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