$900Export check · three days · read‑only
Three days on your billing exports, then a written go or no‑go on whether they can support a defensible number. Credited in full against the teardown.
Terms
Eff. 2026‑08
Pricing, guarantee and terms
±3%Invoice tolerance
No hourly rate.
Entry
One published price
| Rung | Produces |
|---|---|
| Spend Teardown | Where the money goes, in dollars, reconciled to invoice. |
| Instrumentation Build | Cost per customer, feature and environment in one FOCUS-normalized schema. |
| Margin Watch | A weekly variance report, plus pull requests that ship fixes. |
| Inference Cost Controls | Routing, caching, capacity shape and per-request cost attribution, shipped behind flags. |
The full ladder is priced at the teardown debrief, from its own findings, and fixed at signature.
Guarantee
The findings guarantee
The guarantee
If a teardown does not identify three times its fee in annualized savings, you pay nothing and keep every artifact.
- Counts as a finding
- Itemized, owned, priced
- Traced to rows in your export
- At your effective rate, never list
- Excluded from the 3×
- Already ticketed before kickoff
- Pricing or contract changes
- Engineering time, risk, reliability
Acceptance and caps per rung are stated in the SOW, before signature.
Anchors
What carries the weight
Payment
Payment
| Teardown | Half at signature, half at readout |
|---|---|
| Build stages | Per stage, on acceptance, never before |
| Retainer | Monthly in advance |
| Before any credential | Signed SOW, access appendix attached |
Procurement
Facts that lose deals
| Absent | Compensating control |
|---|---|
| No SOC 2 report | Credentials you create and revoke |
| No staffing redundancy claimed | Continuity clause · fees prorate |
| No case studies | Published arithmetic, examples labelled |
| No named founder here | Named by email before signature |
| No E&O policy | None bound, no certificate exists |
No vendor named on this site pays us.