How a saving is counted, and how we get paid

The fee share and its length are set in a written agreement before any work starts. They are not stated here because they are not final, and we would rather say that than guess.

• You pay $0 until a saving is real. Nothing for the audit, nothing to start, nothing while the old bill is still running.
• The audit is free, and works from an exported report with no connection.
• You choose which replacements we build or run, one at a time.
• We are paid a share of verified savings, only while they are real.
• Where nothing is saved, nothing is owed.

A saving is the old annual cost minus the annual cost of the replacement, both taken from your bills and your own run costs: hosting, any paid tooling, and the time to keep it patched. We compare like with like, the same period on the same basis, and count it only after the old charge has stopped.

Annual plans paid in advance are prepaid expenses, so the saving lands at renewal. We will say so up front rather than count a month the plan was already paid for.

That removes the cost of finding out. It does not remove every risk of changing software, which is why we pilot, run in parallel and keep the old account until the new one has done a real month of work.

• No charge for the audit.
• No fee on a tool that does not save money.
• A written agreement before any work.
• Your data stays in your own accounts; the old tool stays read-only until you are satisfied.

General information, not tax, legal or accounting advice. How a fee based on savings is treated for your own books and any professional rules that apply to your advisers is a question for your CPA and counsel.