AI Nexus 360Spend audit & readiness (320) 335-6186 Get the audit — $2,500

AI Readiness & Waste Audit · Fixed fee · No discovery call

You're already paying for AI
you don't use. I'll tell you exactly how much.

A fixed-fee audit of your AI and SaaS spend for IT directors and VPs at 150–2,000 person companies with Microsoft 365, 40–300 SaaS contracts, at least one AI product bought in the last 18 months, and no FinOps team.

Fee$2,500
Typical auditShort written schedule
PayCard or invoice

Deliverable no. 02 — Waste Register

Every line item carries a dollar amount, a confidence rating, the exact action, the person to send it to, and the deadline it has to happen by. Footed to one number.

Sample extract of a Waste Register: an AI and SaaS spend ledger marked up in orange A seven-row invoice-style table. Four rows are struck through and marked CANCEL, one is marked DOWNGRADE, one RENEGOTIATE, one KEEP. Handwritten margin notes explain each call. The footer totals $69,000 confirmed and $114,480 likely, for $183,480 recoverable annual dollars. Figures are illustrative of the report format, not a real client. AI & SOFTWARE SPEND LEDGER EXTRACT — WASTE REGISTER · 7 OF 214 LINE ITEMS SHOWN ILLUSTRATIVE SAMPLE FORMAT, NOT A CLIENT LINE ITEM SEATS ACTIVE 30d ANNUAL CALL MARGIN NOTE AI meeting notetaker — Ops dept. card 120 11 $28,800 CANCEL duplicate of row 03 auto-renew 09/14 — kill by 08/15 Copilot for M365 — E5 add-on 400 138 $144,000 DOWNGRADE 262 seats idle 30d @ $360 = $94,320 at true-up Transcription inside conferencing suite incl. — $0 KEEP already paid for — consolidate row 01 into this ChatGPT Team — Marketing, on expense 42 9 $12,600 CANCEL shadow: no DPA, no SSO, training opt-out unset AI document Q&A pilot — Legal 25 0 $18,000 CANCEL zero logins since Feb notice window closes 08/31 Sales AI writing add-on 90 34 $32,400 RENEGOTIATE 56 idle @ $360 = $20,160 renewal 11/02 — leverage line ready Orphaned analytics AI module — — $9,600 CANCEL internal owner left the co. nobody has logged in for 11 mo CONFIRMED — cancellable today $69,000 LIKELY — recoverable at true-up / renewal $114,480 NEEDS VERIFICATION — excluded from total not counted RECOVERABLE ANNUAL DOLLARS $183,480 FIXED FEE — PUBLISHED SCOPE every line sourced to your own exports
Fig. 01 — Waste Register extract. Illustrative of the report format; figures are not from a client engagement. Scroll the table sideways →

01 The 60-day window

Your CFO just asked what last year's AI spend returned. You don't have the number.

It is late July 2026. FY27 packets are due August through October. The Copilot / AI add-on renewal quote has landed with an increase on it. And somebody on the board read the MIT number and asked, out loud, whether your spend is in the 95%. A six-week engagement lands after the budget is signed. A short, fixed-scope audit is the product.

95%

of enterprise generative-AI pilots stalled, delivering little to no measurable P&L impact — MIT's NANDA initiative, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, Aug 2025.

Source: MIT NANDA via Yahoo Finance
36%

of SaaS licenses sit unused, at a median $9,455 of SaaS spend per employee — Zylo's 2026 SaaS Management Index.

Source: Zylo 2026 SaaS Management Index, checked Oct 19, 2026
49%

of workers admit adopting AI tools without employer approval; 58% of them use free versions — BlackFog survey of 2,000 workers at companies of 500+ employees, Jan 2026.

Source: BlackFog via CIO.com
25%

of planned AI spend will be deferred into 2027, and under a third of decision-makers can tie AI value to financial growth — Forrester, Oct 2025.

Source: Forrester 2026 Predictions

Two more numbers that decide how this quarter goes: business units now control 81% of SaaS spend while IT directly manages 15%, expense-based SaaS spend rose 267% year over year, and ChatGPT is now the single most-expensed application in the enterprise. Which means the spend you are being asked to defend is largely not on your invoices — it is on somebody's card.

Source: Zylo 2026 SaaS Management Index, checked Oct 19, 2026 Also: Gartner — 40%+ of agentic AI projects canceled by end of 2027

02 Bill of materials

Twelve artifacts. Every one of them has a defined edge.

This is the whole shipment. Nothing here is a "workshop", a "framework", or an "alignment session". If it is not on this sheet, it is not in the box — and it is never billed as an overage.

Technical drawing of the audit deliverable with dimension lines A drawing of the report document annotated like an engineering dimension sheet: 25 to 40 pages, up to 300 software line items, up to 6 stakeholder interviews of 30 minutes, 1 legal entity and up to 3 business units, a 12-month renewal calendar, 10 ranked automation candidates, a 6-dimension readiness scorecard, and a 20-minute recorded walkthrough. DRAWING — AUDIT DELIVERABLE ENVELOPE SCOPE REV. TOLERANCE PUBLISHED PRE-PURCHASE NONE — HARD EDGES WASTE REGISTER RECOVERABLE $ — FOOTED 25–40 PAGES written by me, not generated UP TO 300 SOFTWARE LINE ITEMS 6 × 30-min stakeholder interviews 1 legal entity · up to 3 business units 12-month renewal calendar, dated 10 ranked automation candidates intent — what people think they bought beyond that: quoted separately or declined each with a posture and a leverage line each with a build estimate in days 6-dimension readiness scorecard 20-min recorded walkthrough every score cites a named artifact delivered with the PDF, step 6 FIG. 02 — SCOPE ENVELOPE, DIMENSIONED
Fig. 02 — The published scope envelope. Read-only data access only; no production systems, no admin credentials, no PII. Scroll sideways →
01AI & Software Spend LedgerXLSX. Every AI-touching and SaaS line item found across contracts, invoices, card statements and expense reports — vendor, annualized cost, contract end date, auto-renew flag, internal owner, seats purchased vs. seats with activity in the last 30 days. Up to 300 line items.
02Waste RegisterXLSX + report section. Itemized cancellable, downgradable, duplicate and orphaned spend. Each row: a dollar amount, a confidence rating (Confirmed / Likely / Needs Verification), the exact action, the person or vendor rep to send it to, and the deadline. Footed to one number — Recoverable Annual Dollars.
03Shadow-AI InventoryEvery AI tool in use that IT did not procure — sourced from expense lines, SSO and identity logs, browser-extension inventory where available, and interviews. Each tool gets a data-exposure rating (does company data leave the tenant, is training opt-out set, is there a signed DPA) and a keep / replace / kill call with the reason.
04Duplicate-Capability MapOne page showing which purchased tools do the same job — three products that all do meeting transcription, two that both do document Q&A — with the consolidation target and the annual dollars freed by consolidating.
05AI Readiness ScorecardSix dimensions scored 0–5: data accessibility, identity and SSO coverage, process documentation, integration surface, governance and policy, change capacity. No score is given without a named artifact or a named system behind it.
06Unclaimed Wins List10 automation and AI candidates ranked by (annual hours saved × loaded hourly rate) ÷ build effort in days. Each entry names the system of record, the process owner, the trigger, and a build estimate in days — specific enough that your team or any vendor can quote it.
0790-Day RoadmapThree 30-day blocks. Each has a named owner, entry criteria, exit criteria, a dollar target, and an explicit "do not start this until" dependency. Written so it can be executed by internal staff or any third party.
0812-Month Renewal CalendarEvery AI/SaaS renewal date in the next 12 months with a recommended posture — cancel / downgrade / renegotiate / consolidate / renew — and the specific leverage line to use in that negotiation.
09The report itselfPDF, 25–40 pages, plus a 20-minute recorded video walkthrough delivered with it. Written by me. Not assembled by a template generator.
10One-Page CFO MemoThe entire audit compressed to a single page you can forward to finance or drop into a board packet without editing: current AI/SaaS run rate, recoverable dollars, the three actions, the 90-day dollar target.
11Written scope boundaryPublished before purchase. One legal entity, up to three business units, up to six 30-minute stakeholder interviews, up to 300 software line items, read-only data access only. Anything beyond that is quoted separately or declined — never billed as an overage.
12Data handling termsPublished before purchase. Confidential by default. Read-only exports only. No production system access. No PII requested or accepted. All client data deleted 30 days after delivery, with written confirmation.

03 How it actually runs

Typical plans run on a short written schedule. We confirm timing on the call.

No proposal. No scoping fee. No kickoff deck. You pay, you book a 60-minute intake, you send read-only exports, and the report and the recorded walkthrough follow on the written schedule we confirm on the call.

Typical audit plan A horizontal rule with six orange tick marks showing a typical plan. Step 1: 60-minute intake call, read-only export request. Step 2: ledger build from contracts, invoices, card and expense lines. Step 3: usage reconciliation against license activity and SSO logs, shadow-AI sweep. Step 4: up to six stakeholder interviews and the duplicate-capability map. Step 5: Waste Register footed, scorecard evidence, renewal calendar. Step 6: report, CFO memo and 20-minute recorded walkthrough delivered. FIG. 03 — TYPICAL PLAN STEP 1STEP 3STEP 5 intake call, 60 min — work starts after intake — usage reconciliation · SSO logs shadow-AI sweep Waste Register footed scorecard evidence · renewal calendar STEP 2STEP 4 ledger build — contracts, invoices, card lines, expense reports up to 6 stakeholder interviews duplicate-capability map STEP 6 REPORT + CFO MEMO + 20-MIN WALKTHROUGH If your security team will not release read-only exports, do not buy this — it will not work.
Fig. 03 — A typical plan; exact days vary with how fast exports arrive. Exports needed: software contracts or a vendor spend export, M365/Workspace license assignment and activity reports, SSO or IdP application logs, 12 months of software expense lines, and your renewal calendar if one exists. Scroll sideways →
  1. 1. Pay
    Card checkout, or request an invoice (50% to start).
  2. 2. Intake
    Book the 60-minute intake call. Confidential by default.
  3. 3. Send exports
    Read-only license, SSO and software-expense exports. No admin access, no PII.
  4. 4. Get the report
    The ledger, Waste Register, roadmap, CFO memo and a recorded walkthrough.

Get the audit — $2,500 Call (320) 335-6186

04 The price, published

Published price. Pay before any call.

The discovery call is a sales filter, not work. Everything it would have told you is on this page: the deliverables, the scope limits, the data required, the typical plan, and the payment terms.

Tier 1 — the audit

AI Readiness & Waste Audit

$2,500USD flat
  • All twelve deliverables above, in full.
  • Typical plans run on a short written schedule; we confirm timing on the 60-minute intake call.
  • No discovery call, no proposal, no scoping fee, no hourly overage, no expenses.
  • After payment you get an intake link to book the kickoff at a time that suits you.
  • No upsell obligation, no retainer, no auto-renew, no implementation contract attached.

Want follow-through after delivery? Audit + 90-Day Execution Review, $6,500 USD flat: everything above, plus checkpoint working sessions at day 30, 60 and 90, a short written delta memo after each, and one renegotiation prep pack for your largest renewal. Buy Tier 2 — $6,500 · Request an invoice

Fixed fee. Written plan. Simple terms.

The fee and scope are published before you pay. Card checkout charges the full fee. By invoice: 50% to start, the balance at delivery or split over two monthly payments. Every audit follows the same written plan.

Why the band starts at 150 employees: Zylo's 2026 index puts median SaaS spend at $9,455 per employee with 36% of licenses unused. At 150 employees that implies roughly $1.4M in software spend, enough for a line-item ledger to be worth a week of your team's time. Below that, it usually is not, and you should not buy this.
Source: Zylo 2026 SaaS Management Index, checked Oct 19, 2026

4

Capacity, stated honestly

Each audit takes dedicated time and I am one person. Four audits per calendar month total across both tiers, of which at most two can be Tier 2. When the month is full, checkout shows the next available month. That is a capacity limit, not a countdown — there is no timer on this page and there never will be.

Qualification gate — affirm these three before you pay

There is no sales call to catch a bad fit. So this does it.

0 of 3 affirmed — check all three, then buy above.

Do not buy this if

  • You are under 150 employees — the same line the qualification gate above draws. There usually is not enough software spend to make the ledger worth a week of your own time.
  • You already run a SaaS management platform plus a FinOps team. You already have this ledger. Don't hire me to rebuild it.
  • Your security team will not release read-only exports. Without the data this does not work, and I would rather you know that now.
  • You are over 2,000 employees. One entity and three business units stops being a realistic boundary. You need something bigger than this.

05 Why $2,500

$2,500 isn't cheap by accident. It is priced to clear without procurement.

At the smallest end of the band I sell to (100–250 employees), a department manager's own approval ceiling is around $5,000; above it the invoice escalates to a controller or VP Finance. At 250–500 that ceiling is $10,000, and at 500–1,000 it is $25,000. $2,500 clears under the most conservative of those lines. Most published AI readiness assessments are priced above that first line and run for weeks, not days.

Source: ProcureDesk, "Invoice Approval Thresholds: How to Set Them by Company Size" (updated Oct 1, 2026), checked Oct 19, 2026. See our price →


06 Straight answers

The ten things you're about to think. Answered before you ask.

Not an accordion. Nothing is hidden behind a click, because nothing here is a thing I would rather you didn't read.

Why would I pay $2,500 before I've even spoken to you?

Because the discovery call is a sales filter, not work — it exists to qualify you and anchor a price you haven't seen yet. Every part of this is published before you pay: the exact deliverables, the exact scope limits, the exact data I need, the typical plan, and the payment terms: the full fee by card at checkout, or by invoice with 50% to start and the balance at delivery or over two monthly payments. You are buying a fixed scope on a written plan, the same way our active client engagements run.

$2,500 is suspiciously cheap. What am I not getting?

You are not getting a partner markup, an analyst pyramid, a six-week timeline, or a 60-slide deck. Most of what larger assessments charge for is organizational overhead. This is one senior person, a short written schedule, and a scope that does not move. What you are also not getting: any assessment of AI model quality, any custom benchmarking research, or anything outside the published scope.

This is just a lead magnet. You'll use it to sell me a six-figure implementation.

The roadmap names the work, and yes — my other company builds that kind of work. I am telling you that here rather than hiding it. But every item on the Unclaimed Wins list ships with a build-it-internally estimate in days, so your own team can quote it, and the 90-day roadmap is written to be executable by any vendor or by you. There is no implementation contract attached to either tier, no retainer, and no auto-renew. If the audit's honest answer is "cancel three things and build nothing this year," that is what the report says — and roughly half the value of this product is telling companies to stop buying.

How can you audit our environment on a short schedule without knowing our business?

Because I am not learning your business — I am reading finite artifacts: your contracts, your license usage exports, your card and expense lines, your SSO and identity logs, your renewal dates. That set is bounded and it does not require domain expertise to read. The six interviews cover intent — what people think they bought and why. The data covers reality. The gap between those two is the entire product. Where the data cannot settle a question, the item is marked "Needs Verification" with the specific document required, and it does not get counted in the recoverable-dollars total.

My own IT team could do this internally.

They could. They haven't — and the reason is structural, not a skill gap. The person who would run this audit is the same person who chose, championed, and now owns the tools the audit would recommend killing. That is not a report anyone writes about themselves. Separately, do the arithmetic on doing it in-house: $2,500 for a typical week of work is $62.50 an hour across a 40-hour week. No VP of IT's loaded rate is that low, and that week comes out of the roadmap work they are already behind on.

Leadership just froze the AI budget. This is the worst possible timing.

It is the best possible timing. This audit is deflationary — its primary output is a list of things to stop paying for, footed to a dollar number, with the cancellation deadline for each one. It is not a proposal to spend more. If your budget was frozen because nobody could show a return, the one-page CFO memo is the artifact that ends that argument in either direction. Buy it out of the software budget it is going to shrink.

What access do you actually need? Security is going to push back.

Read-only exports only. No production system access, no admin credentials, no PII. Specifically: your software contracts or a vendor spend export, Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace license assignment and activity reports, SSO or identity provider application logs, 12 months of expense-report lines filtered to software, and your renewal calendar if one exists. Confidential by default. Everything is deleted 30 days after delivery with written confirmation. If your security team will not release those exports, do not buy this — it will not work.

Who actually does the work? Is this offshored or AI-generated?

Daniel Graham does all of it, personally. There is no team, no junior analyst, no offshore partner — which is exactly why the capacity is four per month and why the calendar cuts off when it is full. I use AI tooling to accelerate the ledger reconciliation the same way an accountant uses a spreadsheet; the findings, the confidence ratings, and every recommendation are mine, and I sign the report.

We're 250 people. Isn't this built for enterprises?

It is built for 150–2,000, and 250 is squarely inside that. Under 150 employees there usually is not enough software spend to make the ledger worth a week of your own time, so don't buy it. Over 2,000 employees, one legal entity and three business units stops being a realistic boundary and you need something bigger than this. Those limits are published so you can disqualify yourself before checkout instead of after.

What if you find nothing?

You still get the full deliverable: the report, the ledger, the scorecard and the roadmap, every line sourced to your own exports. The qualification gate above exists so an engagement only starts where there is enough software spend to find. Terms: the full fee by card, or by invoice with 50% to start and the balance at delivery or over two monthly payments — the same written process I run for active client builds.


07 Who signs the report

I'm Daniel Graham. I do all of it myself.

This audit is a fixed, time-boxed process, written and signed by one person.

There is no "we" here. No firm voice, no client logo wall, no invented roster. Four audits a month, because that is what one person with a calendar can actually deliver.

Ask me something first — 30 min Email me instead
FOUNDERFounder of AgentHive Inc, based in Palm Coast, FL.
EXPERIENCE25 years in enterprise IT and telecom.

DISCLOSURE — AI Nexus 360 finds and prices the gap. It never builds. My other company builds. That relationship is stated here, on the page, before you buy, and no part of the audit fee is contingent on you using it.

08 Before the budget locks

Before you buy more AI, find out what you already bought.

$2,500. Typical plans run on a short written schedule; we confirm timing on the call. Twelve artifacts with hard edges. Pay by card at checkout, or request an invoice (50% to start, the balance at delivery or over two monthly payments).

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