The savings are already in your data.
We find the stranded costs and redundant spend in your accounts payable, ERP and contract data, and send commercial professionals to go and get it.
Discovery is a fixed fee, agreed before we start. There’s no commitment beyond it until the scope is agreed.
The Meruit Value Roadmap
Not a desk estimate. Not an opinion. Every opportunity in your spend and contract estate, sized, dated, and carrying the document it came from.
| Opportunity | Dimension | Source | Value | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duplicate licence estate across two entities | Demand | AP ledger | £612k | Validated |
| Auto-renew clause, 90-day window closing | Commercial | Contract 8841 | £438k | Validated |
| Tail spend, 214 suppliers below £25k | Supply | AP ledger | £1.02m | In delivery |
| Capacity sized for pre-restructure headcount | Demand | ERP + Contract 2207 | £287k | Awaiting sign-off |
| SLA credits unclaimed, 11 months | Commercial | Contract 1190 | £94k | Mapped |
Illustrative only. Meruit is a new firm and these are not client results — the screen shows what a Value Roadmap contains, not what we have delivered. In a live engagement, every figure traces to a source document.
Who this is for
Finance and technology leaders in organisations with £5m or more of annual third-party spend. Below that, the numbers rarely justify the exercise. Above it there is no ceiling — the larger the estate, the less likely anyone holds the whole picture, and the more there is to find.
You have signed off savings before that never appeared in the accounts. You want a number your own finance team has certified, not one a consultancy has asserted.
A growing share of technology spend is now bought outside IT, and cloud and AI licence costs rise faster than anyone re-tests them. Both are where we consistently find the most.
One rule holds throughout: no saving is counted if the cost reappears somewhere else. A charge moved from one budget line to another is not a saving, and we do not claim it as one.
Decades at the negotiating table. Tooling that does the groundwork in weeks.
The people who deliver Meruit engagements have been running these categories and closing these contracts for most of their careers. What changed is that the evidence-gathering underneath them — the part that used to consume the first three or four months — now takes a fortnight.
From receipt of your data to a complete, evidenced Value Roadmap.
Previously a three-to-four-month exercise.Every week spent assembling evidence is a week the overspend continues. Reaching the Roadmap in a fortnight means recovery starts a quarter earlier — and recovery is where the value is.
Five stages. Nothing skipped.
The method is deliberately visible. A programme that asks you to trust its numbers should be willing to show its working.
Diagnostic
Your AP and ERP spend data and your contract estate come in. We build the evidenced baseline — for most clients, the first complete one they have seen.
Opportunity identification
Every opportunity surfaced and sized across demand, supply, commercial and governance. This is the Meruit Value Roadmap.
Validation
You approve each opportunity before anything is actioned. A named, timestamped decision — never a default.
Execution
Commercial professionals negotiate, consolidate and implement — capturing the evidence as it happens, not afterwards.
Governance
Realised savings are signed off by your finance team, and oversight continues after we hand over.
You never pay more for delivery than we save you.
Our delivery fees are an advance against commission, not a fee in their own right. When the programme closes, we add up the savings your finance team has signed off. If they come to less than the fees you’ve advanced, we refund the difference. Beyond that, commission is only paid on savings that have been validated.
How the guarantee works in fullFour dimensions. One programme.
Every engagement is scoped across the same four. What changes between clients is the weighting, never the framework.
Demand
An evidenced baseline of what the business actually needs — not what was assumed, inherited, or specified for a business that has since changed shape.
Supply
A supplier base tested against the live market: pricing challenged, alternatives sourced, and leverage restored where a long tail of legacy suppliers has quietly eroded it.
Commercial
Contracts actively managed rather than filed: renewal windows, SLA credits and exit rights surfaced before they lapse, never left to auto-renew.
Governance
This is not a one-off exercise. Leakage returns unless somebody is watching, so you keep one live view of savings, risk and compliance after we hand over — not a report that goes stale the week it is issued.
Let us show you your number.
Discovery establishes the evidenced baseline and the Value Roadmap in weeks, not months.
Start a DiscoveryDiscovery is a fixed fee, agreed before we start. There’s no commitment beyond it until the scope is agreed.