Free Guide · 12-Point Audit Framework
The IT Cost Reduction Guide
The audit methodology we run against $1.5M+ IT budgets, written up so you can run it yourself — line by line, before you renew another contract.
What’s inside:
- 12 audit points across licensing, cloud, vendors and operations — each scored 0–2, totalled out of 24
- Verdict bands that tell you roughly how much is recoverable at your score
- Section-level scoring, so you fix your real constraint rather than the biggest line item
- A 90-day sequence — see it, cut the obvious, then negotiate — in that order
- The specific checks: seat reconciliation, edition fit, overlapping tools, idle cloud resources, right-sizing, commitment coverage, renewal calendar, uplift caps, support tiers, ticket drivers, refresh discipline, shadow IT
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Why most IT cost-cutting fails
Because it starts with the biggest number instead of the weakest system. Teams renegotiate the largest vendor line, save a few percent, and leave untouched the departed-employee licences, the idle cloud resources, and the auto-renewing contracts nobody has a calendar for — which together usually cost more. This guide is deliberately ordered to stop that: build the picture first, take the reversible cuts second, and only then open a negotiation.
Score honestly. A section scoring zero is worth more attention than a section scoring one across a bigger budget, because zero means nobody is watching it at all.