This is a private briefing, prepared for investment and finance leaders by invitation.
Optint is the Value Creation platform for Private Equity Portcos and Enterprise.
Up to 51% of SaaS licenses sit unused — the highest rate ever recorded (2026). Dead seats, duplicate tools, shadow AI on corporate cards — invisible to IT, plain in the finance data. One read-only export. No agent. Nothing for your security team to approve. Scan results in days, savings verified as they land in your ledger.
No Agent
No System Access Needed
No Downside
🔒 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 duplicate found, every dormant seat surfaced — then reconciled monthly against a signed baseline.
70%
Client Net Capital
30%
Optint
Verification
Zero-Risk ROI
Verified, Invoiced, Banked
Nothing found, nothing paid. Everything found is hash-stamped to the ledger — reproducible, auditable, disputable by no one.
51%
Of SaaS licenses sit unused — 2026 industry data
A$144K+
Average annual waste per 1,000 employees
Days
To first finding — 100% out-of-band, zero IT involvement
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The Problem
IT controls only a fraction of what a company actually spends on software — the rest moves through expense reports and corporate cards, invisible to any identity-based tool.
Shadow AI
38%
Unused Seats
28%
Duplicates
21%
Dormant
13%
Source: Gartner · industry SaaS management data, 2026 · Optint analysis
In dollar terms, that’s up to 30% of total SaaS spend wasted — and roughly half of it enters through expense channels, bypassing IT entirely.
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Organizational Drift
What Optint finds is the result of organizational drift, the natural process every organization goes through, where systems and practices gradually, invisibly diverge from their original design. Not through anyone's failure, good intentions, layers built by people trying to solve a real problem at the time, that later just quietly stopped being relevant. Shadow AI and SaaS waste are its clearest signal, in software spend specifically, and it's the one we currently find and fix. It's part of doing business. We bring it back into your control.
Zero blame
Drift is a byproduct of growth, not incompetence. Your IT team secures core infrastructure, and does it well. Roughly half of software spend happens on corporate cards and expense accounts, structurally invisible to anything IT can see, not because of a gap in their work.
Zero friction
We run a financial reconciliation, not an IT audit. We don't critique the tech stack, evaluate architecture, or second-guess a single decision anyone made. We read the ledger and recover the cash.
The Gain-Share Invoice
Discovery needs nothing from IT, no login, no integration, no review. If a specific finding later needs a hand, a access grant to execute one cancellation, say, that's a small, named ask, never a review of anything they've built.
We hold no commercial relationship with any vendor whose spend we evaluate. We don't sell software, resell licenses, or earn commission on what you keep. The same principle your external auditor operates under, independence from anything they're reviewing, is the principle we operate under too. And because 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, just what the numbers actually say.
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The Cost
Move the slider to your estimated annual SaaS waste per company. See recovered EBITDA and enterprise value uplift at your exit multiple.
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The Solution
No agent, no integration, no live connection to anything. One export, read once, reconciled monthly.
Discovery
Financial-First Discovery
Every vendor resolved across AP, card, and expense data. Duplicates, dormancy, and shadow AI surfaced from the ledger itself.
The Baseline
The Signed Baseline
Findings are locked against a jointly-signed baseline before anything is billed — the reference point for every future month.
Verification
The Gain-Share Invoice
Each month’s file is reconciled against the baseline. Only confirmed, sustained savings are billed — hash-stamped and reproducible.
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
We lock a signed baseline and bill only on what we verifiably save.
Then mandate one export per entity — and the same audit runs everywhere from a single instruction.
The zero-risk commercial model
30% gain-share. Billed only when savings are verified, sustained, and reconciled against a jointly-signed baseline. No retainer. No setup fee. No licence. If we find nothing, you pay nothing.
70%
Client Keeps
30%
Optint
invoice
stamped with signed-charter hash · reproducible
Reads what your finance team already exports — from any ERP or bookkeeping system
Xero
MYOB
NetSuite
SAP
QuickBooks
Ramp
Brex
Corporate Cards
05
Coverage
Whether you run one company with six departments or a fund with fifteen portfolio companies, the constraint is the same: not enough people to chase spend everywhere at once. Optint does not ask you to add headcount to add coverage, one export instruction runs the same audit everywhere.
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 audit 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
You raised the fund. You bought the company, or carved it out of one. The first hundred days are for clearing out what the last owner left behind, legacy systems, orphaned licences, tools nobody remembers approving. Then comes the hold period, where value actually gets made, quarter after quarter. Then the exit, where every dollar of it gets multiplied.
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, verify it, and it lands directly on the P&L, month after month.
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's one question every fund actually asks: how much more money will this make us. Optint is a direct, verifiable answer to that question, sitting inside data you already own.
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Every Stage Of Ownership
Optint reads twelve months of your company’s finance data and shows exactly what’s recoverable, days, not weeks. No permission needed from anyone outside the business you already run.
Right Now
You already have the authority.
Whoever runs finance, for one company or across a portfolio, export the ledger and we show you what’s recoverable within days. No third party, no board approval needed to just look. 30% gain-share, billed only once a saving is verified.
Exit Prep
Clean the story before someone else finds the mess.
Ahead of your own exit, we tighten spend and document a clean, verifiable cost story, every dollar of recovered EBITDA carries your exit multiple with it.
Before You Buy
Diligence, once we’ve earned it.
Once we’ve saved real money on what you already own, some clients bring us into the room for their next acquisition, the same engine, run one stage earlier. Not our opening offer. Earned, not pitched.
Same Ledger · Same Evidence · Every Stage You Already Own
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For Private Equity
PE Operating Partner View
Everything above works the same whether you run one company or a fund. This is the version in your language, for when you’re showing it to your partners.
01
The operator supply gap is real
Funds have committed to operational value creation faster than they’ve hired the operators to deliver it. One export instruction gives every portco the same audit, without adding a single headcount to your team.
02
Per portco, modest. Across the fund, material
One company’s waste rarely moves a deal. Twenty companies’ waste, aggregated, is a real EBITDA line, and it compounds again at every exit.
03
Mandate it, don’t sell it
You already have board influence over every portco. This isn’t a vendor pitch to the CEO, it’s one instruction from you: send the export.
04
Start with one, prove it fund-wide
Pick the portco with the messiest spend. One result is what gets this into every board pack across the portfolio.
The Fund-Level Arithmetic
Per Portco, Typical Waste
A$150K–450K
Across 20 Portfolio Companies
A$3M–9M
Client Keeps (70%)
A$2.1M–6.3M
EV Uplift At 8–12× Exit
A$17M–76M
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The Outcome
This is what changes for the portfolio once Optint is running.
EBITDA, banked
Every verified saving lands directly on the P&L, real margin, not a projection, and it's the number your exit multiple gets applied to.
8–12× at exit
Recovered EBITDA carries the exit multiple. A$150K of verified savings per company becomes A$1.2M–A$1.8M of enterprise value at sale.
One export, every entity
The same audit runs everywhere from a single instruction — no new process per company.
Optional Path
Companies that choose to redeploy their savings into Microsoft 365 E7 can consolidate collaboration, Copilot, and Agent 365 governance under one licence. Optint surfaces the savings; the choice is yours.
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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, awarded after Microsoft reviewed our business model and platform. It runs alongside our 100% Azure-native build, on Australian infrastructure.
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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 portfolio company, 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.
At the end of the day, there's one question every fund actually asks: how much more money will this make us. Optint is a direct, verifiable answer to that question, sitting inside data you already own.
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.
How is the diligence fee different from your gain-share model?
Gain-share is 30% of verified savings, billed only when money is confirmed saved — for portfolio companies you already own. Diligence is a fixed fee, paid either way, like any other diligence workstream — for a company you're considering buying.
What happens if the deal doesn't close?
You still pay the diligence fee — the same way you'd pay for a Quality of Earnings report whether or not the deal proceeds. You're paying for the truth about the asset, not the outcome.
Do you need access to our systems?
No. Out-of-band, always. One read-only finance export. No agent, no integration, no security review.
How do you prove Optint caused a saving — versus something we were already cancelling?
Every saving is checked against the exact baseline you sign, hash-verified, and traced back to a specific approved action taken through the engagement. If it isn't clearly caused by that, we don't bill it.
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.
One conversation. One export. Waste identified in days, savings verified as they land — and you keep 70% of every dollar.