How Sourcing Works

From First Audit to Signed Contract in 90 Days.

First we find your stack. Then your spend. Then your leverage. 25 years. 250+ enterprises. It's never not worked.

7
Steps
90
Days to savings
25
Years refined
The Journey

Before We Fix Your Vendors, We Fix Your Visibility.

You can't negotiate what you can't see.

STACK

Find Your Stack

  • -What's actually running your infrastructure?
  • -Which vendors do you not even remember signing?
  • -Are you paying for capacity you don't use?
  • -Is your uptime guarantee actually enforced?
  • -Visibility starts with a real inventory.

SPEND

Find Your Spend

  • -What's the real cost, not the invoice cost?
  • -Stop renewing on autopilot.
  • -Consolidation beats point solutions.
  • -The wrong vendor mix may cost more than the wrong vendor.
  • -The savings reveal themselves through data.

LEVERAGE

Find Your Leverage

  • -Leverage lives inside the renewal date.
  • -The contracts. The SLAs. The exit clauses.
  • -Who's overpriced? Who's overdue for renegotiation?
  • -Who needs to be replaced?
  • -The bad contract gets fixed here.

Our role: find the waste, connect the vendors, fix the contracts, build the process. Not the biggest vendor - the right vendor.

STACK → SPEND → LEVERAGE

Phase 1 - Diagnose

Find the real cost - not the invoice.

01

The Call

You tell us what's breaking your budget. We listen. We diagnose in 48 hours.

Could be a redundant contract. An unenforced SLA. A missed renewal window. Whatever the problem, there's always a solution.

02

Infrastructure Flow Assessment

Map your stack's invisible architecture. Who's the Core system? The Redundancy? The Bottleneck? The Legacy drag?

Identify where cost is blocked. Calculate the waste. See the stack you have vs. the stack you need.

The Stack Roles

Core
Primary system
Redundant
Backup capacity
Bottleneck
Refinement
Legacy
Execution
Orchestrator
Oversight

Common Friction Points We Find

Missing SLA enforcement
Wrong vendor mix for the workload
No consolidation after audit
Peripheral vendor costs more than primary
Broken handoffs between vendors
Stalled procurement or RFP pipeline
Phase 2 - Activate

Build the shortlist. Name the requirements. Set the targets.

03

Assemble the Specialists

One vertical-specific procurement team contracted at ~20% of savings identified. Principals + category specialist.

If the audit found a gap, we fill it. Missing redundancy? We source one. No failover? We fix it.

04

10 Must-Haves

What do you need besides a lower price? Every company wants savings - that's not the whole answer. The answer is terms that protect you.

We ask for everything you need. Then we build the RFP.

05

Top 25 Vendors

We identify the 25 highest-fit vendors from our network. Vetted introductions only. No spray and pray.

25 years of vendor relationships opens doors that cold RFPs never will.

Phase 3 - Execute & Deliver

Process over promises. Execution over pitch decks.

06

Negotiate & Sign

We go live. Vendor calls. Negotiations. Contracts signed. Principals on every call. Weekly progress reports.

Category management - not vendor hype. We test, benchmark, close. Process over promises. Execution over pitch decks.

07

90-Day Checkpoint

If we haven't delivered measurable savings in 90 days, you can walk. No penalty. No hard feelings. No lock-in.

In 25 years, no one has ever exercised this option.

The Guarantee:90 days. If we don't deliver savings, you walk. It's never happened in 25 years.

The Economics

$15K–$50K/month·Success-fee available·Vertical specialist ~20% of savings·Clawbacks·Historical: 20X return

The Complete Map

01
The Call
02
Infra Audit
03
Build Team
04
Must-Haves
05
Top 25 Vendors
06
Negotiate & Sign
07
90-Day Proof
What You Bring

The problem. The urgency. Your 10 must-haves - everything you need besides a lower number.

What We Find

Infrastructure friction. Missing SLAs. Wrong vendor mix. Broken renewals. The real cost under the invoice.

What We Bring

25 years of vendor relationships. $10B in transaction intelligence. A category specialist team. The Top 25 vendor list. Process - not vendor hype.

Stack → Spend → Leverage

Find your real stack. Find the right spend. Build leverage around it. Visibility first.

The Economics

$15K–$50K/month. Success-fee available. Specialist at ~20% of savings. Clawbacks. Historical 20X return.

The Guarantee

90 days. Measurable savings or you walk. No penalty. No lock-in. Never exercised in 25 years.

Tell Us What's Broken.

Principal responds within 24 hours. No associates. No filters. No intake maze.