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The Spend & Contract Review.

Most mid-market companies haven't inventoried their software subscriptions, licenses, and IT contracts in years — while the spend grew a line at a time. In two to four weeks, we build the full picture and hand your CFO a savings roadmap: what to cancel, what to consolidate, what to renegotiate, and when.

Or download the one-pager (PDF) — where mid-market companies overspend on IT contracts.
Timeline2–4 weeks
EngagementFixed fee, scoped per client
DeliverableA prioritized savings roadmap
Built forOwner-led & CFO-run companies
GeographyHouston · Texas · National
Where it fits

The front door to the operating model.

The Spend & Contract Review is not a sixth F. It's the lowest-commitment way to experience how Corvell works: a defined scope, a measured result, and judgment you can act on whether or not you ever buy another thing from us. Findings usually point up the ladder — duplicate tools are a Flow problem, licenses nobody reconciles are a Fidelity problem, and spend nobody reviews is a Feedback problem. Ongoing vendor and contract management belongs in Forward. The review tells you which layer is leaking.

SR Spend & Contract Review Entry-point engagement — fixed fee, 2–4 weeks
04FeedbackSpend nobody reviews
03FidelityLicenses nobody reconciles
02FlowDuplicate tools, one job
01FoundationReliable, secure environment
The status quo

How spend gets away from you.

Software and IT spend grows a line at a time — a card swipe here, an auto-renewal there — until nobody holds the full picture. Five patterns show up almost everywhere we look.

01

Subscription sprawl

SaaS gets bought one card swipe at a time — by department, by manager, by whoever hit a wall that week. Nobody holds the full list.

02

Auto-renewals nobody negotiates

Contracts renew at list price with an annual uplift, because the renewal date lived in one person's inbox.

03

Licenses for people who left

Seats provisioned years ago are still billing today. Offboarding removed the account access — not the subscription.

04

Three tools, one job

Overlapping platforms doing the same work in different departments, each with its own contract, admin, and invoice.

05

No owner

IT owns the tools, finance owns the invoices, nobody owns the spend. A Fortune 100 has a vendor-management office. You have a spreadsheet — maybe.

There is a better way.

We bring the Fortune 100 vendor-management playbook to your contract stack — in weeks, at a fixed fee.

What you get

A savings roadmap your CFO can act on.

Not a benchmarking report and not a sales document — a prioritized, owner-assigned plan for taking cost out of the stack, delivered by a founder in a working session with your leadership.

The standard we hold it to: we expect the roadmap to identify annualized savings that are a multiple of the fee. And if your stack is genuinely clean, we'll tell you that too — a clean bill of health is a valid outcome; invented savings are not.
  • A complete inventory of software subscriptions, licenses, and IT/telecom contracts — spend, owner, seat counts, term, and renewal date for each.
  • License-utilization analysis: what's provisioned versus what's actually used.
  • Overlap and consolidation map: where multiple tools do one job, and which one should win.
  • A renewal calendar with negotiation windows flagged — so no contract renews unexamined again.
  • Renegotiation targets with market context on where pricing has room.
  • A prioritized savings roadmap: quick cancellations first, then consolidations, then renewals — each with an annualized run-rate figure and an owner.
  • A founder-delivered executive readout. Not a report emailed into the void.
Who this is for

Owner-led and CFO-run companies where nobody owns the spend.

Built for mid-market companies where IT decisions route through finance, software spend has grown faster than anyone reviewed it, and vendor management is a spreadsheet at best.

Fits when
  • IT budget sits with the owner, CEO, or CFO
  • Software spend grew faster than headcount
  • No one person holds the full subscription list
  • Renewals happen by default, not by decision
  • Multiple departments buy their own tools
Trigger events
  • Budget season or a new CFO / controller
  • PE diligence or post-close value creation
  • A big renewal on the horizon
  • Margin pressure and a cost-out mandate
  • A sense that "we pay for a lot we don't use"
The process

Three phases. Four weeks. One roadmap.

Light lift on your side: access, a kickoff, and one working session. The rest is on us.

01

Inventory

Week 1
  • Pull the picture together from your accounting system, invoices, admin consoles, and contracts
  • Spend, owner, seat counts, term, and renewal date for every line
  • Kickoff with the budget owner — access and context, under an hour
DeliverableThe complete spend inventory
02

Analysis

Weeks 2–3
  • License utilization: provisioned versus actually used
  • Overlap and consolidation candidates across departments
  • Term review and market context on the contracts with room
DeliverableFindings with annualized run-rate figures
03

Roadmap & readout

Week 4
  • Prioritized savings roadmap — cancellations, consolidations, renewals — each with a figure and an owner
  • Renewal calendar with negotiation windows flagged
  • Founder-led working session with your leadership on what to do first
DeliverableThe roadmap + executive readout
Frequently asked

Questions CFOs ask before signing.

Is this an audit of our current MSP or IT provider?

No — it's a review of your spend, not a gotcha on your provider. Some findings may involve provider contracts; most involve software nobody's provider was ever asked to watch.

What do you need from us?

Read access to the accounting system or an export of IT/software vendor payments, invoices and contracts where you have them, and admin access (or reports) from your major platforms. Kickoff plus one working session — the rest is on us.

Do you take a percentage of the savings?

The review is a fixed fee. If you want help executing — renegotiations, consolidations, migrations — we scope that separately, and we'll propose the structure that fits.

What happens after the review?

The roadmap is yours either way. Many of the fixes are simple cancellations you can run internally. Where execution needs real work — consolidation, migration, renegotiation — that maps to a defined Corvell engagement, and the review tells you exactly which layer of the operating model it lives in.

Can this fund other work?

That's the idea. Recovered run-rate spend is the cleanest budget there is — most clients redirect it into the layer they were missing.

Find out what your stack really costs.

A 30-minute scoping call is the fastest way to know if the review is worth it for you. Tell us roughly how many people and how many tools; we'll tell you what we'd expect to find and quote the fixed fee. No proposal until we agree on scope.