“I think we’re wasting money and I can’t see where”
This might be you if:
- You’re paying for reports, licences or systems and nobody can say who uses them
- You’ve inherited a data or systems estate nobody fully understands
- Different teams produce numbers that don’t reconcile
- Reporting takes days when it should take hours
- Budget conversations stall because the picture isn’t clear enough to act on
In most cases the information already exists. What is missing is a single structured view of it — one that examines the estate as a whole rather than in parts, and establishes what each element costs, who relies on it, and what the consequence of removing it would be.
This matters more where automation is under consideration. Organisations tend to automate what people complain about most, and the loudest inefficiency is rarely the most expensive one. An accurate picture of where cost and effort actually sit is what separates investment that produces a return from investment that produces a demonstration.
The output is a clear view of the current estate: what is redundant, what is duplicated, what is costly relative to its value, and where automation or replacement would produce a genuine return.
Where we’ve done this
At Pret A Manger, Florencia led an audit of the Legacy Data Warehouse, working through thousands of business reports across data, engineering, digital, operations, supply chain, tax and finance. The audit identified significant cost savings and gave the business a clear view of what it was actually running.
Engagements run as fixed-term project contracts or retained advisory, and begin with an initial conversation to establish scope and fit. There is no cost or obligation attached to it. More on how we work.