Built on enterprise-grade methodology. Sized for growing businesses.
The same discipline that found a Fortune 100 millions in savings, delivered through our cost-intelligence partner network, is what we bring to multi-location SMB and mid-market companies, across telecom, software, cloud, and cybersecurity. No vendor changes required to start.
Illustrative example: an engagement of this type typically surfaces roughly 20–30% in blended savings, based on industry benchmarks (results vary), across telecom audit, SaaS rationalization, cloud right-sizing, and vendor benchmarking.
What we typically uncover in a multi-location business
When a business grows to multiple locations, technology spend grows with it, contract by contract, site by site, with no one reviewing the whole picture. Here's where the money usually leaks:
TELECOM & NETWORK
- Billing errors, unused lines, and per-site contracts never consolidated.
- Typical recovery: 20–30%.
SOFTWARE / SAAS
- Unused licenses, duplicate tools across locations, and over-tiered plans.
- Typical recovery: 15–25%.
CYBERSECURITY
- Overlapping tools covering the same threat and over-licensed seats.
CLOUD / INFRASTRUCTURE
- Idle resources and the wrong commitment tiers quietly inflating bills.
The math: a multi-location business spending ~$1.5M a year on technology typically has six figures of recoverable spend hiding in billing errors, duplicate tools, and un-benchmarked contracts, found without switching a single vendor. We find it the same way we did for the enterprises below, just sized to you.
The methodology, demonstrated at the highest scale
These outcomes were delivered through our cost-intelligence partner network. The same audit-and-benchmark discipline scales down to a business of any size.
20% reduction (~$2M annually), Fortune 100 telecom optimization
Engagement delivered through Stackstone’s cost-intelligence partner network. Results reflect that specific engagement, not a direct Stackstone client outcome, and are not a prediction of your results.
CHALLENGE
- Unmanaged, out-of-date telecommunication carrier contracts across all 50 states plus Asia and Latin America.
- Need to assess carrier market competitiveness and rectify gaps or billing errors.
SOLUTION
- Created an inventory baseline from current invoices, verified against location list and network map.
- Audited total expenditure and benchmarked contract rates, terms, and conditions.
- Developed a roadmap to source, optimize, and consolidate; initiated targeted sourcing.
RESULTS
- 20% reduction on total services costs (~$2M annually).
- New contract with improved SLAs, commitments, terms, and conditions.
- Better process and methodology for ongoing vendor management.
The same billing errors and un-benchmarked, per-site contracts exist in a 20-location business, just smaller. We find them the same way.
$200M saved on a single SaaS / CSP renewal
Engagement delivered through Stackstone’s cost-intelligence partner network. Results reflect that specific engagement, not a direct Stackstone client outcome, and are not a prediction of your results.
CHALLENGE
- Massive enterprise SaaS / CSP footprint with a major renewal cycle on the horizon.
- Limited visibility into true consumption, license utilization, and contract leverage across global business units.
SOLUTION
- Cost-intelligence audit and consumption analysis across the publisher portfolio.
- Contract restructuring with the client's IT, Finance, and Sourcing teams as joint sponsors.
RESULTS
- $200M in savings on a single SaaS / CSP renewal within 12 months.
- No vendor changes required, savings achieved through contract and consumption optimization.
- Additional publishers still in progress with further savings expected.
Most multi-location businesses overpay on software for the same reasons at smaller scale, licenses no one uses and plans no one re-benchmarked. The fix is identical.
Disciplined energy procurement & demand-response program
Engagement delivered through Stackstone’s cost-intelligence partner network. Results reflect that specific engagement, not a direct Stackstone client outcome, and are not a prediction of your results.
CHALLENGE
- Price volatility in Texas created meaningful budget risk during tight system conditions.
- Growth created uncertainty around contract sizing and timing, risk of being over- or under-covered.
- Supplier offers difficult to compare across terms, adders, and pass-through treatment.
SOLUTION
- Built an interval-based load & cost baseline; ran multi-round procurement with standardized bid templates.
- Implemented a layered purchasing plan tied to load tranches and expansion milestones.
- Coordinated with a specialized partner for a compliant, operationally safe demand-response program.
RESULTS
- Up to 8–14 MW of dispatchable capability with meaningful incremental annual revenue.
- Improved pricing transparency, clearer budget expectations, reduced exposure to high-volatility periods.
- Repeatable framework that supports future campus expansion.
Same principle as any contract we touch, visibility, benchmarking, and disciplined timing beat list-price autopilot.
Find out what's hiding in your spend.
Start with a free Technology Spend Assessment. We'll show you the savings in dollars, specific to your business, before you commit to anything. Whether you run 5 locations or 50, the waste is the same, and so is how we find it.