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Software Cost Check

Paying for software half your people never open?

In two weeks, see what every tool really costs, who actually uses it, and what to keep, replace or build. If your own platform makes sense, you'll see what it would take and what it would save.

2 weeks from start. Founder-reviewed. Fixed fee, agreed before work starts.

In two weeks, see what every tool really costs, who actually uses it, and what to keep, replace or build. If your own platform makes sense, you'll see what it would take and what it would save.

2 weeks from start. Founder-reviewed. Fixed fee, agreed before work starts.

Duration
2 weeks from start
Format
Mostly remote, with a day or two on site where it helps
Direction
Founder-reviewed at every stage
Start
Start window stated in the scope

What you can decide at the end

Know, tool by tool, which subscriptions to keep, which to replace, and whether building your own pays.

Fit

Who this is for, and who it is not for.

It is for

  • Companies paying for several software suites and still running key work on spreadsheets
  • Leaders watching the per-seat bill climb at every renewal
  • Teams bending how they work to fit a tool someone else designed

It is not for

  • Companies happy with their tools and what they pay for them
  • Replacing your core ERP (enterprise resource planning) system

Before we start

What we need from you before day one.

A list of the software you pay for, with seat counts and costs.

Time with the people who use the tools every day.

One leader who makes the final call.

If you can't share costs or user numbers, we work from what you can share, and every estimate is shown as an estimate.

Week by week

Software Cost Check, week by week.

  1. Week 1

    What you see
    Short walk-throughs with the teams who use each tool
    What we do
    Every subscription listed with its cost, the seats actually used, and the work still happening outside it
    By the end
    A full picture of what you pay for and what really gets used
  2. Week 2

    What you see
    Readout with your leadership team
    What we do
    Keep, replace or build compared over the next few years, tool by tool
    By the end
    A keep, replace or build answer for every tool, and the first move

Deliverables

What you receive at the end.

  1. Every tool you pay for, with what it costs and how much it's really used
  2. Keep, replace or build for each one, with the numbers behind it
  3. What your own platform would take, if building makes sense
  4. A plan for the first change

Who directs it

Directed by the founders, delivered by senior specialists.

A senior lead runs the review, including how your teams really work and what a change would mean for them. The founders review the findings and the recommendation before they reach you.

Arjun Murthy

Co-founder and CTO

Runs the technology side: gets AI, vision and automation out of the demo and into daily use.

  • 11+ years in AI, vision, robotics and real-time software. Trained 1000+ people in AI and automation, and automated workflows for 10+ companies.
  • Built the AI platforms a large multinational business runs on every day: project management, operations, workflow automation, HR and company knowledge, with the way its best people work captured as workflows that run on their own.

Rahul Nath

Co-founder and CEO

Runs the business side: makes sure the change sticks, the numbers add up and people use what gets built.

  • 15+ years in operational analysis, revenue generation and professional services.
  • Built the revenue operations governance and leadership dashboards behind a business scaling past 100 million dollars, and the reporting behind a Series B raise.

Related service: Platform Fit Check

Who needs to agree

What each person who signs off gets from this step.

For the managing director or chief executive

A clear answer on software spend, tool by tool. Sometimes that answer is to keep what you have, and we'll tell you so.

For the operations head

Each team gives one walk-through. Nobody's working day changes.

For the IT and plant systems head

We look at licences, integrations and data exports. Nothing gets installed.

For the CFO

Keep, replace or build, costed over several years with every assumption in plain view.

Commercial

A fixed price for the two weeks, agreed in writing before we start.

The scope names the fee, what you receive and the start window before any work begins.

What follows

If building pays, the first module comes next.

You don't start from a blank page. Our own project, operations, HR and knowledge platforms, first built for an Indian electronics manufacturer, are the starting point, shaped around how your company works.

Each build is priced module by module. The first module goes live before the next one is priced.

  • First workflow live in 6 to 8 weeks from start, Sprint, On site

    Multiply Your Best

    Your top performers' way of working, built into AI workflows the whole team uses. First one live in 6 to 8 weeks.

    Fixed fee, agreed before work starts

    See Multiply Your Best

Technology we build with

  • NVIDIA
  • Amazon Web Services
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Python
  • Docker
  • PostgreSQL
  • Cloudflare
  • Linux
  • Raspberry Pi

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Talk to a founder about Software Cost Check.

Tell us the decision in front of you and what you already have. Every message is read and answered within one business day.

We reply within one business day, Monday to Friday, India time.

General enquiries: support@eliteworks.ai, write using the message form

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