Small and mid-sized businesses (10–250 employees) have accumulated a decade of tool sprawl, SaaS creep, and nobody whose job is to evaluate technology. Everyone advising you gets compensated when you buy something.
We are the only people in the room whose only job is to tell you what not to buy.
Over the last decade, your company accumulated overlapping SaaS apps, duplicate storage, and unapproved spreadsheets. Then the AI boom hit, and every single vendor raised their prices.
Every vendor in your existing stack just shipped an "AI" feature and hiked their per-seat license by $20 to $50/month. Your team uses 5% of it, but you are paying for 100%.
Business owners cannot tell the difference between a tool that will legitimately save 200 hours a year and a shiny API wrapper that will cost $30,000 and get abandoned in four months.
You don't need a dev team building custom neural networks. You need an independent technical advocate who inspects your actual workflows and tells you what to kill, what to keep, and what to ignore.
When an owner asks for technology advice, who is sitting across the table? Review how each incumbent makes their money:
Compensated by license resale & seat margins
They resell Microsoft 365, antivirus, backup, and infrastructure. Their revenue depends on keeping the stack heavy, complex, and billable.
Compensated by quotas & enterprise upgrades
Their only job is to get your contract renewed at a higher tier. They will sell you an "AI copilot" whether your staff needs it or not.
Compensated by billable dev hours
They want to build custom software for six months at $180/hour, even when a simple Zapier webhook or no tool at all would solve the root problem.
Compensated solely on advisory fee
Zero software resale margins. Zero commissions. Zero incentive to build bloated code. Our only incentive is finding software waste and protecting your P&L.
A fixed-scope, 2-to-3 week diagnostic of everything your company pays for, how your people actually work, and what vendor pitches to immediately kill.
For most businesses with 10–250 staff, recovered software waste alone (zombie seats, duplicate licenses, overlapping tools) covers our entire audit fee. You don't have to believe in AI; you just have to look at your software bill.
We catalogue every paid subscription, credit card charge, and unapproved tool running across departments. We quantify the exact monthly burn of your software sprawl.
Grounded in academic research on organizational shadow IT and low-code adoption: we speak directly with your key operators to uncover why they bypass your official tools and where the manual friction truly lives.
Because we build and run self-hosted models and full-stack AI infrastructure ourselves, we can tell you what a vendor's "AI feature" actually takes under the hood—distinguishing genuine productivity from marketing fluff.
A concrete executive briefing: exactly what to cancel today, what licenses to downgrade, which vendor pitches to decline, and how to simplify your core data flows.
Following your audit, convert to ongoing advisory. We don't build software systems; we act as your independent technology gatekeeper on retainer.
Both offers are priced up front, in writing, before any work starts. No hourly billing on any engagement, and no fee changes based on what the findings look like. The number below is the number you pay.
Same scope and same four deliverables at every tier. The fee reflects the size of the review.
Audit engagements are not capped. An audit can start even when the advisory roster is full, and audit clients do not count against the advisory limit.
Guaranteed hours are the deliverable. Flat monthly fee, no meter, unused hours do not roll over.
Advisory Plus works out to about $208 per hour, which is the standard fractional technology leadership rate. The advisory roster is capped so every retainer client gets direct principal attention.
A national consultancy will not staff a 45-person distributor or a 70-person manufacturer in Central Illinois; the deal is too small for them. Offshore shops offer zero accountability.
Local buyers make decisions on trust and proximity. We sit down across the table in Springfield, walk your actual floor, shadow your workflows, and stand behind every word we tell you.
We voluntarily and explicitly decline consulting engagements in the healthcare and Medicaid verticals to avoid any potential conflict of interest with our outside professional obligations.
Saying so out loud in writing tells you everything about how we treat your company's proprietary operational data, financial statements, and confidential decisions.
Tell us about your team and the software headaches on your desk. We'll outline whether a fixed-scope audit is appropriate for your organization.
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