Reduce IT Costs by 15-25%. Without Sacrificing Performance.
Uncover hidden waste in your IT spend and get a clear roadmap to improve ROI.
Most mid-market CFOs have no visibility into their actual IT spend. You're paying for 500 licences but only have 350 staff. Contracts are renewed without review. Vendors are charging retail margins on products that should be wholesale. And you have no way to know.
We are the third way. Independent. Commercial. Forensic. We conduct unbiased audits that uncover hidden costs, identify vendor margin bloat, and quantify the real waste in your IT spend. Then we give you a roadmap to recover that money.
The engagement is fixed fee, four weeks, and guaranteed: if we do not identify value worth at least twice our fee, we refund it. Terms in writing.
The Black Hole
Where Your IT Budget Is Disappearing
You sign invoices for 'Cloud Services' and 'Licensing' every month, but you have no visibility into what you're actually paying for. Here's what we typically find in mid-market organisations:
Licence Bloat
Most organisations have 15-30% licence waste. You're paying for 500 licences but only have 350 staff. Unused subscriptions. Duplicate tools. Licences that were purchased for projects that ended years ago. This is money sitting on the table.
Vendor Margin Bloat
Your vendors are charging you retail margins on products that should be wholesale. You're paying 2-3x market rate for commodity services. Your MSP is taking a cut. Your contracts haven't been renegotiated in years. You're leaving 10-20% on the table with every vendor.
The Visibility Gap
You have no line-of-sight into your IT spend. You don't know what you're paying for. You don't know if you're getting value. You can't make informed decisions about IT investment because you don't have the data. This is the black hole.
The Opportunity Cost
While you're managing IT spend reactively, you're missing strategic opportunities. You could be investing in growth initiatives instead of wasting money on redundant services. You could be improving margins instead of bleeding money on inefficient IT.
The Correction
What We Deliver
The Cost-Out Ledger
A line-by-line breakdown of every dollar we've identified as waste, inefficiency, or opportunity. Duplicate licences. Unused subscriptions. Vendor margin bloat. Contract renegotiation opportunities. We don't just identify savings; we provide the specific actions and dollar amounts to realise them. This is your roadmap to cost recovery.
Learn MoreThe Vendor Hit List
Specific contract renegotiation points to lower your rates immediately. We benchmark your current spend against market rates and provide the leverage you need to renegotiate with vendors. We identify which vendors are overcharging and by how much. The renegotiation points alone are typically worth multiples of the audit fee.
Learn MoreThe Spend Optimisation Roadmap
A 12-month roadmap to optimise your IT spend without sacrificing capability or performance. Phased approach to licence consolidation. Vendor consolidation strategy. Cloud optimisation opportunities. Technology refresh strategy. This is your path to sustainable cost reduction.
Learn MoreThe 30-Day Cost Analysis Cycle
Low Impact, Fast Results
Data Ingestion
We connect to your systems and pull your IT environment data. No interviews required. No disruption to your team. We gather licence data, vendor contracts, cloud spend, SaaS subscriptions, and historical spend data.
Forensic Cost Analysis
Our team conducts a detailed analysis of your spend. We identify duplicate licences, unused subscriptions, and vendor margin bloat. We benchmark your spend against market rates and peer organisations. We quantify the waste.
Vendor Validation & Challenge
We interview your key vendors and validate contracts. We challenge pricing assumptions. We identify specific renegotiation opportunities. We quantify the savings potential with each vendor.
The Cost Recovery Roadmap
We deliver the Cost-Out Ledger, Vendor Hit List, and Spend Optimisation Roadmap. We provide a 1-hour executive briefing to you and your team. We outline the specific actions required to recover savings, with dollar amounts and timelines.
Our Guarantee
We Demonstrate 2X Value Improvement (Or We Refund)
We are so confident in our ability to identify cost reduction and value improvement opportunities in your IT spend that we offer a simple guarantee: if our 4-Week Commercial IT Health Check doesn't identify opportunities worth at least twice our fee, we will refund our fee. No questions asked.
This guarantee is backed by more than twenty years of independent technology reviews delivered by our principals for Australian organisations. The pattern in mid-market IT spend does not change: unbenchmarked contracts, unused licences, retail margins on wholesale products.
For CFOs, this typically means: direct cost savings through vendor optimisation and licence consolidation, spend avoidance through better planning and technology choices, improved vendor relationships with renegotiated contracts, and capability improvement without proportional cost increases.
In Their Words
What Vendor-Led IT Actually Costs
From independent reviews delivered by our principals for Australian organisations.
"Every initiative seemed to take two years and a million dollars."
"After you identified the root cause of our difficulties, we have never looked back."
"The leadership team has stopped calling IT the unhelpful desk and now invites them into planning meetings."
FAQ
Commercial Questions
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The 4-Week Commercial IT Health Check is the fastest way to gain visibility into your IT spend, identify the waste, and get a costed roadmap to recover it.
Fixed fee, scoped to your seat count. Non-disruptive: we work from contracts, invoices and system data, not your team's calendars. And if we don't identify value worth at least twice our fee, we refund it.