Before You Spend Money, Talk to Us.
Honest, vendor-neutral advice with real numbers. We stop you from overspending, signing bad contracts, and building the wrong thing.
What We Advise On
Software Cost Audit
Every licence, subscription, and per-seat fee mapped against open source alternatives. You get exact Rand amounts showing what you pay now versus what you could pay.
Process Mapping
We shadow your team and map how work actually flows. Every bottleneck, manual step, and dropped handoff identified with automation priorities ranked.
Technology Assessment
Full stack review: what's earning its keep, what's dead weight, and what's holding you back. Vendor-neutral, honest answers.
IT Strategy & Roadmap
A practical plan with phases, costs, and expected outcomes your board can approve and your team can execute.
Vendor Assessment
Total cost of ownership, implementation risk, support quality, and exit costs evaluated before you sign. We show you the red flags.
Digital Transformation Planning
Current state, desired state, gap analysis, phased implementation. Planned properly so you don't join the 70% of digital transformations that fail.
The Numbers Speak
Real engagements. Real numbers. This is what happens when you ask the right questions before writing cheques.
23 separate SaaS subscriptions. 6 of them overlapping. 4 with unused licences still being billed. Nobody had a full picture of what the company was paying for across departments.
Full software audit. 8 products consolidated into open source alternatives. 4 cancelled entirely (unused). 3 renegotiated with better terms. Monthly spend dropped by R123K. Annual saving: R1.47 million.
Client was about to sign a R2.1M contract for an enterprise CRM. Sales rep had them convinced it was the only option. 3-year lock-in with 15% annual escalation.
We assessed their actual requirements. 80% of what they needed was available in a R45K/year open source alternative. The other 20% we built as custom integrations for R180K once-off. Total cost over 3 years: R315K instead of R2.1M.
Operations team of 8 spending 40% of their time on manual data entry, report generation, and inter-system data copying. Nobody had mapped the actual process. It just evolved over 5 years.
Process mapped end-to-end. 12 automation opportunities identified. Top 5 implemented in 6 weeks. 340 hours/month freed up. Two contractor positions eliminated naturally through attrition. ROI positive in month 3.
Questions Worth Asking
If you can't answer these confidently, a consulting engagement would pay for itself.
Are you paying for software licences nobody uses?
Average company wastes 25-30% of SaaS spend on unused or underused licences. We find every one of them.
Are you locked into contracts with automatic renewal?
Most enterprise contracts auto-renew with price escalation. If you miss the cancellation window, you're locked in at the new rate.
Could open source replace what you're paying per-seat for?
For every major SaaS product, there's usually an open source alternative that costs 80-90% less. We've mapped 200+ of them.
Are your team's manual processes costing more than automation would?
If someone does the same task more than 10 times a day, it's cheaper to automate than to keep paying a salary for it.
Is your IT vendor solving problems or creating billable hours?
Some vendors fix things slowly because faster means less revenue. We audit your vendor relationships and flag the ones working against you.
Do you know your actual IT cost per employee?
Most businesses don't. We calculate it: hardware, software, support, connectivity, security. Then we benchmark it against industry averages.
How We Consult
Evidence first. Opinions second. Everything written down.
Listen
Discovery session to understand your business before we offer a single opinion. We ask questions first, recommend second. Every assumption gets tested against your actual situation.
Analyse
Data gathering, process mapping, cost analysis, vendor review. We base every recommendation on evidence, not gut feel. You see the data we used to reach every conclusion.
Recommend
Written recommendations ranked by impact and feasibility. Each one includes: what to do, why, expected cost, expected saving, timeline, and risk. Clear enough to present to the board.
Support
We help you execute or hand off to your team with full documentation. We stay involved until the recommendation is working and delivering the expected result. We don't hand you a report that sits in a drawer.
Works Better Together
These services turn recommendations into results.
Development
We build the custom software and automation that turns strategy into working systems.
AI Readiness
We identify where AI saves real money and where it's just hype your vendor is selling you.
Open Source
Our audits often reveal open source alternatives that cut costs by 80%. We map replacements and plan the migration.
How much are you overspending on IT right now?
Free initial consultation. We'll look at your current setup and give you an honest opinion on where the money is going and where it could be going instead. No obligation. No sales pressure. Just clarity.