Sift
Some costs exist because
nobody has questioned them yet.
Sift finds recurring expense that can be removed without removing the capability your business actually needs.
- 01Cost
- 02Capability
- 03Options
- 04Replacement
- 05Baseline check
- 06Savings
Find the cost that shouldn't be there.
Recurring cost accumulates quietly. The usual places:
- Overlapping software
- Underused tools
- Expensive vertical software
- Redundant vendors
- Repetitive paid labor
- Inefficient handoffs
- Unnecessary manual processes
- Duplicated infrastructure
Price is not the question.
We do not optimize on price alone. Before anything changes, we ask what the business actually needs this cost to accomplish, who depends on it, and what would break without it.
Then choose the simplest answer.
Sometimes the answer is to:
- Use a cheaper vendor
- Consolidate systems
- Automate the workflow
- Build a simpler replacement
- Redesign the process
- Remove the tool entirely
We build and run the replacement, so the saving does not depend on your team doing the migration.
Keep the capability.
The objective is not indiscriminate cost cutting. A costly system that creates significantly more economic value may be worth keeping. A costly system nobody has questioned in years may not be.
Savings are counted against a baseline taken before we start.
Illustrative example, not a customer result
- Before
- $5,000/mo
- After
- $3,000/mo
- Annual difference
- $24,000
Saving time is not the same as saving money.
A change only counts when the recurring cost actually leaves the business, or when the hours it frees are put to work that earns.
