Software and licenses
Seats, active usage, duplicate tools, renewal terms, and the features your team relies on.
Technology cost audits
Know what you spend.
Plan what to change.
Software subscriptions, cloud resources, hosting, integrations, and support contracts add up. Zyel reviews the costs and the work they support, then builds a practical plan to reduce your monthly technology spend.
Scope
Follow the bill back to the work.
We agree on the services and accounts to review before access is shared. Bills, usage reports, contracts, and a conversation with the people who use the tools establish the baseline.
Cloud and hosting
Capacity, storage, databases, traffic, environments, backups, and the service requirements behind them.
Vendors and support
Recurring agreements, ownership, overlapping services, renewal dates, and the cost of changing providers.
Integrations and operations
Scheduled jobs, data transfers, manual repairs, and recurring work that adds cost across applications.
Deliverables and process
A review you can act on.
Establish the baseline
A recurring-cost inventory connects charges to accounts, owners, usage, contracts, and dependencies.
Compare the options
A findings sheet separates potential reductions from implementation effort, replacement costs, risks, and contract constraints.
Plan and verify changes
A prioritized plan names the next actions and how to check billing, usage, and service performance after implementation.
We present the findings with your team. Any implementation work is scoped separately so you can decide which changes to proceed with.
Illustrative example
See how findings become a cost plan.
This fictional example shows the structure of a findings sheet. The amounts are sample assumptions, not client results or promised savings.
| Finding | Check before changing | Monthly reduction |
|---|---|---|
| Unused software seats | Confirm inactive users, team needs, and renewal terms. | $250 |
| Excess cloud capacity | Review workload peaks, resilience, and performance requirements. | $500 |
| Overlapping vendor tools | Compare required features, data retention, and migration effort. | $250 |
| Total estimated monthly reductions | $1,000 | |
With no new monthly costs and $3,000 in one-time implementation costs, this example produces $1,000 in net monthly savings, $9,000 in first-year net savings, and a three-month simple payback.
Download the sample findings sheet (CSV) ↓Savings and payback
Try your own planning assumptions.
Use estimated reductions and implementation costs to compare options. The calculation assumes 12 months of constant savings after implementation; it does not include a ramp-up period, tax, financing, or changes in usage.
Net monthly savings = reductions − new monthly costs. First-year net savings = (net monthly savings × 12) − one-time costs. Simple payback = one-time costs ÷ net monthly savings. If net monthly savings are zero or negative, there is no payback at that rate.
Start with the costs you want to understand
Tell us where the monthly bill has grown.
Describe the services you use, the costs you want reviewed, and any upcoming renewals. We’ll use that to suggest an audit scope and the information needed to begin.