For COOs and CFOs with a software or AI renewal 4-9 months out
Your priciest software line. Half or less, or we tell you why not.
Send us the invoices for one tool or AI service that costs you $75K+ a year. In two weeks you get a fixed quote for the cheapest route to half or less: renegotiate it, switch it, or we build your own version and you own the code.
SAMPLE RENEWAL QUOTE
AI resolutions × 120,000$118,800
Platform + seats$24,000
Renewal uplift (+5%)$7,140
Your line, ownedhalf or less
Why a $1.20 AI phone call costs about 40 cents to run, the three ways to stop paying the gap, and what the two-week teardown hands you.6 min
6 questions, 2 minutes. Have one invoice open.
For COOs, CFOs and founders with one tool or AI service costing $75K+ a year · renewal inside 12 months
2 weeksBill Teardown: from your invoices to one fixed quote
$75K+Smallest single line we take on, per year
Day 1On a build, the code and repo are yours, in writing
120+ daysStart this far before renewal to keep all three routes open
Receipts
Receipts, not testimonials
No logo wall yet. No borrowed wins. Just public list prices next to what the same unit costs to run direct. Direct is raw usage cost, before build, QC and upkeep, so it isn't our price. Our fee lands in between, set against your renewal quote.
AI phone agent (Lorikeet)Line 01
Vendor
$1.20-1.50 per resolution + $2,100-5,100/mo platform fee
Call recording and analysis (Gong, 50 seats)Line 06
Vendor
$70-110K a year
Direct
~$6.7K a year in transcription
Transcription is the cheap part. Recording, CRM sync and upkeep cost more, so we only look at 50+ seats.
Source: Vendr contract data for Gong; Deepgram pricing, read 2026-10-18. Direct: our estimate at 50 reps, 10 call-hours a week.
Subscription billing (Recharge)Line 07
Vendor
$499/mo + 1.34% + $0.19 per transaction
Direct
A switch: cheaper apps list at ~45-46% of that
About $92K a year at $5M of subscription revenue, at list. No rebuild needed. The hard part is moving stored payment methods safely.
Source: getrecharge.com/pricing and competing apps' public pricing, read 2026-10-18. Annual figure and comparison: our estimates.
AI video, per second (Veo 3.1 Fast)Line 08
Vendor
$0.15/s through a third-party API (fal)
Direct
$0.10-0.12/s direct from Google
Same model. Google also cut Veo Fast about 70-75% in roughly 13 months. Did your rate follow? On our per-unit lines, half of every upstream cut goes to you.
Source: fal and Gemini API pricing; Google Developers Blog on the Veo 3 price cut, read 2026-10-18. The drop is our estimate.
AI dubbing (ElevenLabs Dubbing v2)Line 09
Vendor
$2.20 per minute
Direct
~$0.02-0.09 per minute, audio only
Audio only. Native-speaker review is the real cost, and the quote includes it.
Public list prices, checked 2026-10-18. Your bill is what counts, which is why the teardown starts with your invoice.
How the line comes down
Three routes. The cheapest one wins.
Route A
Renegotiate
The tool works. The price doesn't.
We cut the seats nobody uses. Zylo's 2026 index found 36% of licenses sit unused
We run your renewal with a priced alternative on the table
Paid 30-50% of the year-1 savings that show on your invoice
Route B
Switch
A cheaper product already does the job. We move you onto it.
We pick the replacement and price it against your renewal quote
We run the migration, risky parts included, timed so you never pay for both
Same fee: 30-50% of verified year-1 savings
Route C
Build & run
Nothing on the market gets the line low enough, so we build your own and run it.
Clean-room build from your own processes and exports, then a parallel run
The code and repo are yours from day 1, by written assignment
One fixed fee set against your vendor's renewal quote, run under a 99.5% SLA
Process
From invoice to fixed quote in two weeks
Send the bill
Your last 3 invoices, a usage export, and the renewal quote with notice dates. Mutual NDA first.
Two-week teardown
We price renegotiate, switch and build against your numbers and read your vendor's contract. You get one fixed quote, good for 21 days.
Prove it on your data
Before any SLA is signed, a build runs 2-4 weeks as a draft-only shadow on your replayed tickets or calls.
Cut over, then we run it
You send the non-renewal notice. We cut over before the term ends, so you never pay for both. Then we run it.
What the teardown hands you
One page. Three routes. A fixed quote.
Every teardown ends with a readout like this: your line, what each route costs over 36 months, and the contract clauses that decide the timing.
Sample · fictional companyNorthfield Goods, a DTC brand doing $48M
Line under reviewAI support resolutions$118,800 a year · 10,000 a month
RouteWhat happens36-month costvs staying
StayRenew as quoted. Price rises about 5% a year (renewals rise 3-7%)$374,517—
A · RenegotiateRight-size and renew with a priced alternative on the table. Assumes 20% off$299,614−20%
B · SwitchA cheaper product covers the workflow. Migration in about 6 weeks$262,162−30%
C · Build & runCheapestYour own version, run under SLA. 50% of the renewal quote, 4% cap, plus a 20% implementation fee$209,183−44%
Clause flags
Auto-renews for 12 months unless notice lands 60 days before the term ends
No cap on the per-resolution price at renewal
Data export is CSV only, and only for 30 days after termination
Sample with a fictional company and illustrative numbers. A real readout uses your invoices, usage export and the vendor's written renewal quote.
Fit
Built for one big line, not your whole stack
Built for
COOs, CFOs and founders at Shopify Plus brands doing $15-150M, with usage-billed apps across the stack
Performance and UGC agencies spending $5K+ a month on AI video or avatars
B2B SaaS teams of 100-500 with a big renewal coming, like Gong at 50+ seats
Anyone with one tool line over $75K a year, renewing in 4-9 months
Not for
Tool lines under $75K a year, or AI usage under $5K a month. Half of a small bill won't pay for running it well.
Systems of record: core CRM, ERP, payroll, HRIS, payments, tax. Those stay put.
Contracts with 12+ months left on a multi-year term. Come back closer to renewal.
Teams with 10+ engineers already on that system. You can build it yourselves.
How we charge
You pay against the bill you already have
Every fee is set against your vendor's written renewal quote, so you can compare line for line.
Bill Teardown: about $7.5K, 2 weeks, credited to your build.
Renegotiate or switch: 30-50% of the year-1 savings that show on your invoice. If nothing shows, that route costs nothing.
Build and run: one fixed yearly fee set against your vendor's written renewal quote. 50% of it on lines of $200K+. 60-65% on $75-200K lines, where we already have a build kit.
Implementation fee: about 20% of that quote. Spread over the term below $250K, waived above it.
36-month term. Increases capped at CPI or 4% a year. Exit after month 12.
FAQ
Questions CFOs ask first
Who owns what you build?
You do. The custom code and the repo are assigned to you in writing from day 1. Our reusable core is licensed to you for good, so the system stays yours to run if we part ways. Where we can, it runs on your own model keys.
How do you handle our data?
Mutual NDA before we see a single invoice. Every build carries a DPA: you approve subprocessors, and your data is deleted or returned at the end. We never log into the vendor's app. Specs come from your own exports.
What happens when it breaks?
We run it, so it's ours to fix. You get a 99.5% availability SLA with service credits and 8 change hours a month. Outages at the AI providers themselves are excluded, which is why we fail over across two or more. Support and voice builds are measured against your own last 90 days, not an industry average.
Can we get out of the contract?
Yes. Terms run 36 months, but after month 12 you can exit for 50% of the remaining fees, with 40 hours of handover. You can also buy it out. The code is already yours either way.
Isn't AI-written code a risk?
AI speeds up the typing. Engineers spec it, review it, test it and answer for it. Every build runs as a draft-only shadow on your real tickets or calls before go-live, and hard rules like refund caps live in code, not in a prompt.
Why not just negotiate with our vendor ourselves?
Try it. Vendors do move at renewal, just rarely to half. The teardown shows how far yours should move, and a priced alternative on the table moves them further. If their best written offer wins, we tell you, and we can run that renewal for a share of what it saves.
What if half isn't possible?
The teardown says so in writing. You keep the benchmark: your real unit costs, the renewal math and every route we priced. Take it into your next negotiation.
Will our vendor's contract allow this?
That's the first thing the teardown checks. We read your contract, then build clean-room from your own processes and exports, never from the vendor's product. If our delay forces you to extend the old tool, we refund up to the full implementation fee.
Your renewal date is the deadline.
Builds need 120+ days before the term ends. Start the teardown while all three routes are still open.