SAR 86K a month in technology spend with no clear return. An infrastructure audit found 40% of servers idle and 12 licences nobody opened.
Before: SAR 86K a month with no clear return, 40% of infrastructure unused, 12 purchased licences nobody used, and inconsistent developer rates.
Technology hides the real numbers — only close analysis surfaces them. A team of four worked it: a head of accounts with a technical background, a technical financial analyst, an Odoo accountant, and a business developer.
We treated every service as its own line item to see which went unused. The infrastructure audit retired 40% of dead servers (SAR 33K/month), a licence review saved 13K/month, reorganising developers into a fixed core team plus per-project freelancers saved 7K/month, automating technical accounting by pulling vendor data through APIs saved 5K/month, and long-term contracts with volume commitments saved another 5K/month.
The most important step was the conversation with the technical team itself.