Pricing built so the downside is ours, not yours
Two ways to engage and nothing else. A Fixed Fee from $18,000, or Gainshare, a share of verified savings or avoided penalty with zero retainer. Both are backed by the same guarantee: we reduce your exposure, or we reimburse our service fee.
Choose how you want to engage
Fixed Fee
- One agreed number, no surprises through the engagement
- Best when the scope of the audit or true up is known
- Predictable for budget holders and procurement
- Reimbursed in full if we do not reduce your exposure
Gainshare
- You pay only from what we remove from the number
- Reduce nothing and you owe nothing at all
- No retainer and no risk to you, by design
- Best when exposure is large or still uncertain
How the two models compare
| Question | Fixed Fee | Gainshare |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay | A scoped fee from $18,000 | A share of verified savings or avoided penalty |
| Retainer | Agreed at the start | Zero retainer |
| If we reduce nothing | We reimburse our service fee | You owe nothing |
| Best fit | Known, bounded scope | Large or uncertain exposure |
| Who carries the risk | We do, through the guarantee | We do, by design |
BACK
we reimburse our fee
We reduce your exposure, or you pay us nothing.
We are confident because the opening position almost always overstates what you owe. If our defense does not reduce your Microsoft or SPLA exposure, we reimburse our service fee in full.
- No reduction, no fee, we pay our service fee back
- Gainshare means you pay only from verified savings
- We never take vendor money, only your side of the table
What buyers ask about pricing
That figure reflects the floor for a scoped defense, from reading the audit letter to challenging the finding. The final number depends on the size of the estate and the track, whether end customer audit or SPLA hoster audit. We agree it before any work begins.
Gainshare is a share of verified savings or avoided penalty, measured against the auditor's opening position and the signed outcome. There is zero retainer. If we remove nothing from the number, you owe nothing. The model carries no risk to you.
Yes. Under either model, if our defense does not reduce your exposure, we reimburse our service fee. Under Gainshare there is nothing to reimburse because you only ever pay from savings we verify.
Never. We are an independent buyer side advisory. We sit between you and Microsoft and its appointed auditor, and we are paid only by you.
The opening number is not the real number.
Fixed Fee or Gainshare, both backed by our guarantee. We sit between you and Microsoft and we never take vendor money.
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