Vendor-neutral costs reduction across every major technology category.
Most cost reduction firms specialize in one category — telecom, software, cloud, or hardware. The problem is that waste hides in the seams between categories. A mobile line tied to a former employee shows up in telecom data. A SaaS license for the same person shows up in software data. An idle laptop sits in IT asset data. Nobody connects them. We work across every category, with one methodology, one Clarity Report, and contract negotiation included throughout.
Five service categories. One connected approach.
Telecom Expense Management
Wireline voice, internet circuits, MPLS, SD-WAN, conferencing, contact center, and the vendor contracts behind them. We audit billing, identify inactive services, benchmark pricing, and negotiate renewals.
Mobile Device Management
Carrier plans, device programs, MDM tooling, BYOD policy, and mobile expense optimization across the workforce. We reduce overprovisioned plans, eliminate lines for departed employees, and renegotiate carrier agreements.
Cloud + Software Cost Optimization
SaaS license rightsizing, cloud waste reduction, software audit support, and renewal negotiation. We surface shelfware, decommission idle cloud resources, and consolidate overlapping tools.
IT Asset Management
Hardware inventory, lifecycle tracking, deprecation patterns, and asset rightsizing. We help you see what you own, what you're using, and what should be retired or redeployed.
Contract Negotiation
Direct vendor negotiation on telecom, mobile, cloud, software, hardware, and operational contracts. Included with every technology expense management engagement, available standalone.
Why working across categories produces better results.
The major patterns we find are cross-category. Consider one common example:
A mid-market client with 500 employees has 100 active mobile lines, 480 licenses for their primary productivity SaaS suite, and 350 issued laptops. A surface-level review would call those numbers reasonable. A cross-category review finds that 12 of the mobile lines belong to former employees, 22 SaaS licenses match those same names, and 9 laptops were never returned. The same offboarding gap shows up in three categories, and a vendor-specific audit would miss it.
This is why we don’t operate as four separate practices. The methodology is unified, the discovery work overlaps, and the Clarity Report surfaces the cross-category patterns that single-category firms miss.
The negotiation work doesn't come with a separate invoice invoice .
Every technology expense management engagement includes contract negotiation as part of the scope. If we find that your telecom carrier contract is overpriced by 25%, we don’t tell you to find a different firm to renegotiate it — we negotiate it.
If you only need contract negotiation — not a broader expense management engagement — we offer it as a standalone service.
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market-leading benchmarks
success rate
95%
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I engage you for just one service category?
Yes. Single-category engagements are common, especially for clients who have a specific catalyst — a carrier renewal coming up, a software audit, a cloud cost spike. We can scope an engagement to one category and expand if you decide to.
Do you handle operational expenses too, or only technology?
Both. Technology categories are the most common starting point, but we also work on operational vendor contracts — shipping, freight, and other recurring operational expenses — when those create meaningful savings opportunities. See [Operational Expenses](/services/operational-expenses/) for detail. *(Note: Operational Expenses is a Phase 2 page.)*
Do you have minimum engagement sizes?
Yes, but they're not large. Fixed-scope assessments start in the low five figures for SMB engagements. We're not the right firm for companies under $5M in revenue unless there's a specific catalyst.
Will your work conflict with our existing IT or finance teams?
No. We work alongside internal teams, focused on cost reduction work that typically sits between teams. Most cost issues exist precisely because no single team owns the cross-functional view — finance sees the expense, IT sees the technical detail, procurement holds the contract. We're the connective tissue.
How do your services compare to a TEM platform like Tangoe or Calero?
TEM platforms are tools. We're an advisory firm. Platforms can be valuable for ongoing billing management at enterprise scale, but they don't replace the strategic analysis, negotiation, and execution work that produces savings. Many of our clients use a TEM platform and Unravyl together — the platform handles ongoing data; we handle the work that platforms don't do well.
Start with a structured review.
The Technology Spend Review is the most common entry point. It’s a fixed-scope, fixed-price assessment that produces the Unravyl Clarity Report in 4–6 weeks.