Your overhead is not a fixed cost.
Most operating costs were set once, years ago, and have quietly renewed ever since — utilities, telecom, cloud, supplies, waste, insurance, card processing. Overhead I.Q. prices what a business your size and shape is typically overpaying, category by category, against real industry benchmarks.
Start with the range below. The line-by-line breakdown comes from the person who sent you here.
What is in play for a business like yours
Two inputs. Nothing is stored, and nothing is sent anywhere until you ask us to.
Round numbers are fine — the estimate works off the scale of the business, not the exact figure.
Pick an industry and enter your annual revenue to see the range.
Where the money usually hides
Not the big obvious line items. The ones nobody has opened in years.
Utilities & energy
Electric and gas across every location, plus the HVAC load itself — usually the single largest controllable line in a building, and usually on a rate nobody has re-tested.
Telecom & connectivity
Phone, internet, mobile fleets, and the circuits still being billed for sites you have moved out of. Contracts renew silently; the market underneath them does not stand still.
Cloud & IT
Hosted email and productivity seats, backup and disaster recovery, contact centre, colocation, managed print. Per-seat spend that grew with headcount and never shrank back.
Procurement & supplies
Office, cleaning, safety and operating supplies bought at your volume rather than at group volume — the gap between those two prices is the whole opportunity.
Waste, water & facilities
Hauling schedules sized for a business you no longer are, container counts nobody audits, and water and sewer billing that repays a look once the spend is meaningful.
Insurance, payroll & benefits
Health, liability and workers' compensation, payroll processing, and the pre-tax benefit structures that quietly return employer payroll tax on every dollar elected.
How the number gets real
The range above is a starting point. Here is what turns it into a figure you can act on.
Your profile, priced
Industry and size set which categories apply and roughly what each one costs a business like yours. That is the range you just saw.
Your actual bills
Recent invoices replace the benchmark with your real spend, category by category. This is where an estimate becomes a number with your name on it.
Only what gets delivered
Savings are pursued category by category and measured against the bill that came before. What does not materialise does not get counted.
Common questions
Where does the range come from?
It is the same calculation the full Overhead I.Q. report runs: published industry benchmarks for each cost category, applied to the spend profile of a business your size, with conservative floors used throughout and a hard cap on the total. Nothing on this page is a figure invented for the page.
Do I have to switch suppliers?
Often not. A large share of what gets found is the same supplier on current pricing, a right-sized service level, or a billing error that has been running for years. Where a change is worth making, you see the comparison before anything moves.
How much of my time does this take?
A short conversation and a set of recent invoices. The analysis is done for you — you are reviewing findings, not running a project.
What happens to what I enter here?
The two figures above are used to calculate the range and are not stored. If you ask to have your numbers run, we take your name, email and business so the right person can follow up — nothing more.
See it by category, with your own bills in it.
The range on this page is what a business like yours has in play. The breakdown — which categories, how much each, and in what order to go after them — is the conversation.
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