Are you paying 2019 prices for work AI now does for a fraction?
Agency retainers, software seats, support contracts, content production, reporting. We go through the invoices with you, line by line, and show where the same outcome is now available for a fraction, where it is not, and where the honest answer is to keep paying. Nothing is recommended that we would not build or run ourselves.
A$1,800 fixed for a business under twenty people; A$3,200 up to a hundred. Credited against any implementation within ninety days.
A written review of every recurring technology and digital line with a costed alternative where one exists, a sequence for changing them, and the lines we recommend you keep.
Two weeks from receiving the invoices.
What it is
Most small businesses have never had their technology and digital spend read by someone who has both run a business and built the alternatives. Agencies review the agency lines; IT providers review the IT lines; nobody reviews the whole and nobody asks what the same result costs today.
We read the whole. For each line we ask three questions: what outcome is this buying, what does that outcome cost now if built or bought differently, and what would it take to change. Some lines go. Many stay, and we say so, because a review that finds nothing to keep is a sales document.
This is for you if
- You suspect a retainer or a subscription is buying less than it did
- You want the comparison before you decide, not a pitch
- You are the person who signs the invoices
Not for you if
- You want a cheaper version of everything regardless of outcome
- You are mid contract and cannot change anything for a year; do it three months before renewal
- You want us to manage the vendors afterwards; that is managed operations
How it runs
- 1 · week 1
Gather
Twelve months of invoices for anything digital or technical, and thirty minutes on what each one is for.
- 2 · week 1 to 2
Read
Every line: outcome, current cost, cost of the same outcome now, effort to change, risk of changing.
- 3 · end of week 2
Report
The written review, with the keep list stated as clearly as the change list, walked through with you.
- 4 · included
Sequence
What to change first and what to wait for; renewal dates noted.
In writing, before we start
Three sentences that hold on every engagement. They are the method, written as promises.
The measure, the budget cap and the point at which we stop are set in the written scope before anything is billed. Nothing moves the goalposts afterwards.
Everything we build runs in your accounts and is yours: code, configuration, documentation and measurements. We hand over; there is no dependency on us.
If the pilot does not hit the measure we agreed first, we keep working at no further cost until it does, or we stop and say so in writing. You will not be sold the next step by the first one.
Lines we most often find
- Content production paid per piece where a governed engine now does the drafting
- Reporting retainers for numbers your systems already hold
- Software seats nobody has logged into for a quarter
- Support contracts priced for an infrastructure you no longer have
Lines we most often say to keep
- Accounting and payroll platforms
- Security tooling that is actually configured
- A designer or writer whose judgement you rely on
- Anything where the switching cost exceeds the saving
What you receive
Questions
Will you recommend your own services?
Only where they are the cheaper route to the same outcome, and we will say when they are not. The review is priced so that it pays for itself whether or not you engage us again.
Do you need access to accounts?
No. Invoices and a conversation are enough. Where a usage figure would change the answer, we ask you for it.
What if the review finds nothing to change?
Then you have a document that says your spend is well placed, which is worth having when the next vendor calls.
Send us twelve months of invoices.
Or start with the three lines you already wonder about. The written review comes back in two weeks.