Independent · Vendor-neutral · Performance-based
Turn overhead into margin.
Without changing vendors.
We review what your organization pays to operate, line by line, and benchmark every recurring cost against the market. Most clients reduce that overhead by 30%. The review is risk-free: fees come only from the savings we find.
Where the overhead hides
Current spend vs. benchmarked rate
- Largest recurring vendor-38%
- Multi-site service contract-31%
- Recurring monthly overhead-33%
- Annual vendor agreement-24%
The track record
Two decades
of finding it.
Two decades of correcting billing errors and renegotiating vendor contracts to recover overspend and protect it going forward.
A dollar saved on overhead is a dollar of pure profit.
30%
Average reduction in operating costs
20+
Years of procurement expertise
7
Industries served
$0
Fee owed if no savings are found
The methodology
How a risk-free review actually works
Three steps, no vendor changes required. The same approach we have run for procurement organizations across law firms, manufacturers, medical facilities, and beyond.
See every line against the market
We compare your effective rates and surcharges against a database of similar-sized organizations. The gap between what you pay and what the market pays is where the savings live.
- Effective-rate analysis on every statement
- Surcharge and fee audits that catch the buried charges
Rate gap by line item
Current spend vs. benchmarked rate
- Largest recurring vendor-36%
- Multi-site service contract-31%
- Monthly overhead line-34%
Recover it without switching vendors
We renegotiate the agreements you already have or surface the billing errors quietly inflating them. In most cases you keep your current vendors and simply stop overpaying.
- Contract renegotiation on current market terms
- Billing-error recovery, often backdated
Before vs. after
Current spend vs. benchmarked rate
- Negotiated vendor rate-35%
- Billing errors credited-41%
- Recurring service terms-26%
Make sure the savings hold
We watch the line items going forward so rate drift, surcharge changes, and quiet auto-renewals do not unwind the savings months after the review.
- Ongoing rate-drift and surcharge monitoring
- Auto-renewal and contract-term alerts
Savings held, month over month
Current spend vs. benchmarked rate
- Largest vendorheld
- Second vendorheld
- Recurring serviceheld
Why independent
We win only when your costs go down.
- No vendor stake. We do not sell software, hardware, or carrier services.
- Risk-free. The analysis is funded out of the savings found.
- Backed by the book. The methodology on this site is the methodology in The Profit Alchemist.
By industry
Built for your sector
Pick a sector to see where overhead usually hides and what a benchmarked review tends to surface.
Where law firms overpay
Back-office overhead rarely gets benchmarked because partners stay focused on billable work.
- Recurring vendor contracts. Agreements that auto-renew on terms no one has tested against the market in years.
- Multi-office overhead. Separate contracts per location, none of them consolidated or re-quoted.
- Quiet rate creep. Surcharges and annual escalators that compound unnoticed across the year.
Representative spend review
Current spend vs. benchmarked rate
- Largest recurring vendor-34%
- Multi-site service contract-29%
- Monthly overhead line-27%
Figures shown are illustrative of a typical review, not a quote.
From The Profit Alchemist
Every dollar you save on overhead goes directly to the bottom line as pure profit. You do not have to sell a single extra product to earn it.
Tim Jackson
Education and public service
- Temple University
- Randolph-Macon College
- Borough of Camp Hill
- Stonebridge Financial
- JT Dorsey Foundation
See what we would find.
Twenty minutes. We look at your statements; you walk away with a benchmarked view of where the overhead is. No commitment.