Turn costsinto cash.
A 10% cut in costs can improve profit by 35%+ with no disruption and no compromise on quality.
A four-step process that frees up cash while you stay focused on running the business.
We get paid when you save.
- Fees typically paid from realised savings
- Fully aligned with your outcomes
Sources: 1 McKinsey & Company – Operations insights; 2 The Hackett Group – Digital World Class Procurement; 3 Illustrative arithmetic based on UK non-financial corporate net margins reported by the Office for National Statistics. Actual results depend on baseline margin, addressable spend and category mix.
Most organisations are overspending.
Not because of poor decisions, but because costs evolve faster than they are reviewed. In a typical mid-market business the overspend sits in a few predictable places: contracts that renewed on autopilot, prices that moved with inflation and never moved back, and specifications written years ago that no longer match how the business operates.
The rest usually sits in the tail. Hundreds of low-value suppliers, bought locally, outside any framework and never benchmarked. Add duplicated suppliers in the vendor master, freight and energy contracts nobody owns, and software licences paid for seats that left the business, and the picture is consistent: spend that is fragmented rather than wasteful, and invisible because the data was never cleaned.
We identify and deliver savings across supplier spend, operations and delivery models. We find them, we implement them, and our fees are tied to what you actually realise.
Strategic sourcing
We rebuild the fact base for a category, then take it to market. That means cleansed spend data, a should-cost view of what the item ought to cost, a shortlist of credible suppliers and a negotiation run against evidence rather than last year's price. Savings are signed into contract terms so they hold after the sourcing wave ends.
Automation & AI
We target the repeatable, rules-based work that sits in finance, procurement and customer administration. Invoice matching, supplier onboarding, data entry and reporting are the usual candidates. Each case is sized on hours removed and error rates avoided, and only built where payback is under twelve months.
Outsourcing & offshoring
We assess which processes can move to a lower-cost delivery model without damaging service. That covers location choice, provider selection, transition planning and the service levels that keep quality measurable. Governance is set up before go-live so performance is tracked from day one, not reconstructed after a problem.
Cost reduction that holds up under scrutiny.
The method is deliberately plain. We start with a baseline: twelve months of accounts payable and purchase order data, cleansed, deduplicated and classified by category and supplier. That baseline is agreed with finance before any savings number is quoted. Where a price looks high we build a should-cost model from materials, labour, overhead and margin, so a negotiation is a conversation about cost drivers rather than a request for goodwill. Benchmarks, market testing and volume analysis fill the gaps.
Savings are then evidenced the way an auditor would want them. Each one is logged with a before price, an after price, the volume it applies to, the contract or purchase order that proves it, and the month it starts hitting the profit and loss account. Finance signs off the calculation. We track realised versus forecast every month, and report the variance rather than the headline.
No disruption to operations
We work alongside your business, not through it. Data requests are scoped once, interviews are short and booked in advance, and your team is not pulled into a change programme. Most of the analysis happens on our side.
You stay in control
All decisions remain yours. We provide the analysis, the options and the execution support, with the trade-offs written down. Nothing is signed, switched or renegotiated without your approval.
Quality maintained or improved
Cost reduction is not about cutting corners. We look at specification, volume, supplier mix and contract terms before price, so the cost structure changes rather than the standard. Service levels are written into the contracts we negotiate.
Execution, not just advice
We do not stop at identifying savings. We run the sourcing waves, handle supplier transitions, and track realised savings against forecast each month until the numbers show up in your accounts.
The areas we know best.
Renegotiating, consolidating and re-tendering third-party contracts to release immediate cash.
Reshaping how work is structured and delivered to lower cost-to-serve without losing quality.
Streamlining finance, HR and admin processes to remove duplication and manual effort.
Targeted automation and AI to cut repetitive work and improve accuracy with fast payback.
Building governed offshore and nearshore models that protect service levels at lower cost.
Ready to find the savings hidden in your business?
Request a no-obligation Cost Review - typically 1–2 weeks, with minimal involvement from your team.