Optint is an Optimization Intelligence platform for software and AI spend. One export. No integration. Results in 48 hours. You decide where the money goes.
No Agent
No System Access Needed
No Downside
ZERO-RISK
🔒 Your Data, Protected By Design
Read-only export
We never access your live systems. One file, provided by you.
No agent, no install
Nothing runs on your network. Ever.
Australian Azure
Your data stays in-jurisdiction, always.
Nothing found, nothing paid
Zero cost, zero risk to test.
Phase 1 · Out-of-Band
Raw Financial Ingestion
One read-only export from the systems finance already runs — AP registers, card feeds, GL extracts. No agent, no install, no live connection.
The Optint Ledger
Discovery + Verification
Every vendor resolved, every signal surfaced, checked again each quarter.
Zero-Risk ROI
Verified, Invoiced, Banked
Nothing found, nothing paid. Everything found is hash-stamped to the ledger — reproducible, auditable, disputable by no one.
USD $9,455
Median SaaS spend per employee, per year. Zylo, 2026
267%
Growth in expense-based software buying, year on year. Zylo, 2026.
48 Hours
48 Hours · To your Optimization Scan result — 100% out-of-band, zero IT involvement NEEDED.
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The Problem
Business units now control 81% of software spend. It moves through expense claims and corporate cards, and almost none of it is visible to the tools built to watch software.
Shadow AI
Fragmented Spend
Duplicates Tools
Ghost Subscriptions
Source: The patterns Optint finds, all provable from payment data alone. Relative proportions illustrative.
In dollar terms, that’s up to 30% of total SaaS spend wasted — and according to Gartner, and roughly half of it enters through expense channels, bypassing IT entirely.
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FIVE OPTIMIZATION SIGNALS
Ghost Subscriptions Charges still running after the person or cost centre behind them stops appearing anywhere else in company spend. Often someone who's left, for your team to confirm.
Duplicate tools Two vendors invoiced for the same job. Different teams solving the same problem, neither aware of the other, both renewing on schedule.
Fragmented spend One supplier billed across dozens of separate cards and cost centres instead of a single account. Nobody designed it that way, and it is usually the difference between retail and enterprise pricing.
Shadow AI AI tools bought on a card, never through procurement. Never touched IT, never registered with single sign-on, never appeared on any inventory.
Price creep A vendor's charge climbing period over period, renewal after renewal, with no review ever triggered.
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Organizational Drift
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The Solution
Discovery
Financial-First Discovery
Every vendor resolved across AP, card, and expense data. Duplicates, fragmentation, price creep and shadow AI surfaced from the ledger itself.
The Baseline
The Signed Baseline
The Total · You see the total optimization identified, free, before anything is agreed. This will be the reference point for every future month.
Verification
When We Invoice
The Itemised List · If it's worth acting on, the full vendor-by-vendor list unlocks on a fixed fee from our published table.
1
We talk
A short conversation on scope and what you’re trying to recover.
2
You export
One read-only finance file. No installs, no access to live systems.
3
We show you
Exactly where the savings are, within days — not weeks.
4
You approve
You decide if you want to see the full list for a fixed fee, including four scans across the year
Then mandate one export per entity — and the same scan runs everywhere from a single instruction.
Works from standard finance exports, including — from any ERP or bookkeeping system
Xero
MYOB
NetSuite
SAP
QuickBooks
Ramp
Brex
Corporate Cards
05
Coverage
Whether you run one organisation with six departments, a university with twelve faculties, or a fund with fifteen portfolio companies, the constraint is the same: not enough people to chase spend everywhere at once.
Vendors, Typically Unseen In One Place
Departments Or Entities Buying Independently
Export ("send the finance data")
One CFO covering a whole business, or one operating partner covering a whole fund, the same scan runs from a single instruction, no new hires, no new process, no IT project anywhere.
Built for finance teams where the constraint isn’t ideas, it’s people.
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Value Creation
Every organisation carries spend it inherited rather than chose. Systems from a previous structure, tools from a project that ended, subscriptions from people who moved on. It accumulates quietly, and it never announces itself. Finding it is not a cost-cutting exercise, it is budget you already had, returned to you.
IF YOU ARE A PRIVATE EQUITY OWNER
First 100 Days
Every acquisition inherits software waste from the previous owner. We surface it in days, alongside your existing integration plan, not instead of it, so it's documented before anyone else has finished reading the data room.
Hold Period
This is where the value actually compounds. Every portfolio company, or every growing business, quietly accumulates wasted spend during ownership. We find it, every quarter, and you decide what to act on.
Pre-Exit
Clean the technology story before a buyer's own diligence team finds the waste first. Every dollar removed compounds straight through your exit multiple, at the exact moment it matters most.
At the end of the day, there is one question every organisation actually asks: how much of this money could we be using for something else. Optint is a direct, verifiable answer, sitting inside data you already own.
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WHO IT's FOR
The shared trait is not an industry. It is many cost centres buying their own tools, often on cards, in an organisation that has grown or reorganised. We see it most in finance, health, education, government and technology.
EDUCATION, HEALTH & GOVERNMENT
Built for decentralised buying.
Faculties, districts, agencies and departments all buy their own tools, by design. That is exactly where this accumulates, and exactly what a single central view has never been able to see. No integration, no procurement to start.
ENTERPRISE & FINANCE
Budget you already had.
Every dollar recovered funds something that matters instead of something forgotten. No new budget request, no business case. Whoever runs finance exports the ledger and we show you what is recoverable within days.
PRIVATE EQUITY & RESTRUCTURING
EBITDA that carries the multiple.
Recovered EBITDA is real margin, and it carries your exit multiple with it. In restructuring and turnaround, it is cash you can stop paying out this month, mapped in 48 hours instead of weeks of manual ledger work.
Same Ledger · Same Evidence · Every Stage You Already Own
08
The Outcome
This is what changes once Optint is running.
EBITDA, banked
Budget recovered · Every dollar identified is yours to redirect, to the bottom line. Real margin, not a projection, and it's the number your exit multiple gets applied to.
8–12× at exit, if you're heading for one
Recovered EBITDA carries the exit multiple. A$150K recovered per company can mean A$1.2M–A$1.8M of enterprise value at sale.
One export, every entity
The same scan runs everywhere from a single instruction — no new process per company.
Microsoft 365 E7 launched in May 2026 at US$99 per user per month, bundling Copilot, Entra Suite and Agent 365.For a large organisation, the step up from E5 is a material new budget line that has to come from somewhere.
Optint does not sell Microsoft licences and takes nothing from Microsoft. We show you what you are already spending that's no longer earning its place. The customer decides where the money goes. Our part is showing them it was there.
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Security & Trust
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100% Agentless
No installs. No endpoint agents. Zero impact on any device, ever.
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Read-Only Financial Export
We never touch live systems, and never see payroll or network data. One file, read-only.
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Azure-Native Data Sovereignty
Hosted on Australian Azure infrastructure. Your data never leaves your jurisdiction.
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Cryptographic Baseline
Every saving traces back to a hash-stamped, auditable baseline — the same one you signed.
Microsoft's Own Review, Not Just Ours
Optint holds Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub’s top-tier grant status, and is 100% Azure-native on Australian infrastructure.
11
Questions
Why would we hand our finance data to a company we've just met?
You wouldn't — and we don't ask you to. Start with one entity, one read-only AP export, under NDA, hosted on Australian Azure, deleted after the scan. If the findings don't justify going further, nothing else ever leaves your building.
Is this a criticism of our IT team?
Not at all. Your IT team secures your core infrastructure, and does it well. But roughly half of software spend happens on corporate cards and expense accounts, outside anything IT can see, what we call organizational drift, decentralized buying growing naturally alongside the company, not a failure by anyone. We run a financial reconciliation, not an IT audit, no system access needed to find it.
Are you truly independent, or do you have vendor relationships behind the scenes?
Fully independent. We hold no commercial relationship with any vendor whose spend we evaluate, we don't sell software, resell licenses, or earn commission on anything you keep. The same principle your external auditor operates under applies to us too. And since we're only ever paid on savings your own ledger verifies, there's no upside in exaggerating a finding either. Nothing to protect, nothing to inflate.
You're pre-launch — why should we trust the model behind this?
Because we're not the only ones who've checked it. Optint holds Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub's top-tier grant, awarded after Microsoft reviewed our business model and platform, not just an application form. That review sits alongside our own security posture below.
We already use an MSP or a SaaS management tool — why would we need this too?
Those tools see what's connected to your identity system. We read the finance data — the roughly half of spend that never touches SSO, including AI tools bought on personal cards. Different data, different question.
What about spend locked in annual contracts?
Every finding is split into "cancel now" and "capture at renewal." The renewal calendar becomes part of the deliverable — money scheduled, not money oversold.
We don't mandate vendors on our portfolio companies.
We don't ask you to. Pick the two entities with the messiest software spend and introduce us. If those two results don't sell the rest of the portfolio for you, nothing we say will.
How do you know a subscription is waste if you only see the payment?
Because the payment history proves it on its own. Two vendors invoiced for the same function is a duplicate. Forty-one separate charges to one supplier is fragmentation. A card that has stopped appearing anywhere else in company spend, with one subscription still billing, is a person who left. A cost climbing year on year with no renegotiation is price creep. None of that requires knowing who logged in. Where spend concentration suggests a licence review is worth doing, we flag it as exactly that, for your team to confirm.