You provide three things
12 months of vendor payments from AP, an export from your identity system (Okta, Microsoft, or Google Workspace), and your renewal calendar.
Fixed-fee vendor diagnostic
Find the software spend you're losing, and turn it into recovered dollars.
Your finance, IT, and department teams each hold one piece of the vendor picture. Vendor Detox™ puts it in one place, reconciling what you pay for against what your people actually use, and hands your leadership a prioritized plan to recover the waste. One report. One working session. About a month.
Fixed fee from $8,500
Vendor- & software-agnostic
Light lift on your team
Built for mid-market leadership teams of 200–1,000 employees
Delivered by senior technology advisors
Decades running enterprise technology & vendor portfolios
Written for the whole C-suite
One read the entire leadership team can trust
The Detox stays neutral because it has no stake in what happens next, which is exactly what lets every seat at the table act on the findings.
CEO
Discipline without drama
Recover budget and tighten vendor sprawl without a reorg or a new software purchase. A clean win you can point to.
CFO
Spend you can see
Every technology dollar reconciled against real usage, with recoverable savings quantified and creditable toward the work that captures them.
COO
Fewer redundant tools
Overlapping platforms consolidated and orphaned subscriptions retired, which means less operational friction across every department.
CIO / CTO
A defensible stack
A single reconciled registry, a 12-month renewal watchlist, and the leverage points that keep contracts from renewing against you.
The blind spot
The waste isn't hidden. It's just never been put in one place.
Mid-market organizations quietly lose a meaningful share of their software budget, because no one inside has ever seen the whole picture at once.
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Seats nobody uses
Licenses provisioned for people who left, teams that shrank, or rollouts that never landed, paid for month after month.
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Tools that do the same job twice
Departments buy their own software. Overlapping platforms pile up, each with its own invoice and no one comparing them.
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Contracts on autopilot
Renewals fire at list price because the cancellation window quietly passed, and the leverage is gone for another year.
Finance pays the invoices. IT owns the systems. Departments buy the tools. No one inside holds the whole picture, so the money keeps leaking.
How it works
The engagement runs on data you already have
The lift on your team is light. Finance can pull most of it in an afternoon.
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We reconcile pay against use
Payment records show what you're buying. Your identity system shows what people actually sign into. The gap between them is where the money is.
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We surface the leverage
Redundant tools, subscriptions on autopilot, premium tiers nobody uses, and renewals where the contract has quietly weakened your position.
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You get a plan
A prioritized written report and a live debrief: what to cut now, and what to renegotiate at renewal. You own the findings entirely.
What you receive
One report. Five things you can act on.
A complete, reconciled map of your technology vendor stack, with the dollars attached.
A reconciled vendor registry
Every tool, what it costs, and who actually uses it: the whole stack in one view for the first time.
Shelfware findings
Unused and under-used licenses, each with the recoverable dollars attached. The fastest money to reclaim.
Redundancy findings
Overlapping tools you can consolidate: the same job, paid for twice, now visible side by side.
A 12-month renewal watchlist
Every renewal ahead, with notice deadlines and the leverage points that protect your spend before the window closes.
A prioritized savings plan
Quick wins to act on immediately, and structural moves to make at renewal, sequenced by dollars and effort.
Built to pay for itself
Designed to surface recoverable spend well beyond the cost of the engagement, and the fee is creditable toward any follow-on work.
Transparent, fixed pricing
Priced by the size of your vendor stack
One number, fixed at the start: no per-vendor surcharges, no retainer, no surprises.
Clarity
Up to 25 vendors
$8,500
Typical timeline: ~30 days
- Reconciled vendor registry
- Shelfware & redundancy findings
- Written report + live debrief
Most common
Standard
26–40 vendors
$10,500
Typical timeline: 30–40 days
- Everything in Clarity
- 12-month renewal watchlist
- Prioritized savings plan
Enterprise
41+ vendors
$14,500
Typical timeline: ~45 days
- Everything in Standard
- Full-stack reconciliation at scale
- Structural-risk contract review
Tier true-up: the fee is quoted at intake from your estimated vendor count. If the reconciled registry runs larger, the engagement simply moves to the next tier, with no per-vendor surcharge. Fees are creditable toward any follow-on Savings Capture work.
Optional second step
Don't just find the money. Capture it.
The Detox ends at a plan you own. When you're ready to execute it, Savings Capture takes those findings and goes and gets the money, driving the cancellations, consolidations, tier downgrades, and renegotiations.
It's a separate, opt-in engagement, because a diagnostic with no stake in the outcome is the only kind a skeptical board can fully trust.
- Paid on results. A share of verified savings, only on dollars actually delivered.
- Verified against a baseline. What counts as savings is defined up front, with a verification step.
- You choose to proceed. Offered after the Detox, using its findings as the input, never a precondition.
You pay from the savings
25–35%
of verified first-year savings, and nothing on dollars that don't materialize. The engagement pays for itself out of the money it frees.
Vendor-neutral, always. Delivered by our senior advisors or subcontracted negotiators who take no money from your vendors. No vendor funds ever touch the engagement, so the read stays straight.
Is it the right time?
When a Detox pays off most
A new CFO or finance leader taking stock of what the organization actually owns.
Renewals stacking up over the next 6–12 months.
Budget pressure with no obvious cuts left on the table.
Vendor sprawl after a stretch of fast growth, a merger, or a move to remote work.
Who runs your Detox
Senior technology advisors
J. Lynne & Co.
Your Detox is delivered by senior technology advisors who have spent decades running enterprise technology and vendor portfolios across higher education, government, and the private sector.
They advise mid-market leadership teams on cutting wasted technology spend and bringing discipline to bloated vendor stacks, vendor- and software-agnostic throughout, so the read is always straight.
Decades in enterprise technology
Enterprise vendor-portfolio expertise
Independent & conflict-free
Vendor- & software-agnostic
The next step
A 30-minute call to look at your stack together.
We'll decide whether a Detox makes sense for your organization. No obligation, and no prep required on your end.
Fixed fee from $8,500 · Vendor- & software-agnostic · Fees creditable toward follow-on work