You know your technology is costing you money. You just can't prove how much.
Most technology audits produce a binder full of recommendations and no action plan. Caxy's Technology Assessment puts a dollar figure on every finding - the $500K in annual manual workarounds, the $1.2M migration risk sitting in your legacy stack, the $300K you are overspending on cloud infrastructure. In 6 weeks, not 6 months, you get a prioritized roadmap with hard numbers your CFO can act on.
Your technology stack is bleeding money in places nobody is measuring.
Your operations team runs 47 spreadsheets to compensate for system gaps. Your developers spend 30% of their time on maintenance instead of features. Your cloud bill grows 20% year over year but nobody can explain why. These are not IT problems - they are P&L problems hiding in your technology stack. The challenge is that nobody has translated them into dollars. Our Technology Assessment does exactly that. We examine your architecture, infrastructure, team workflows, and vendor contracts, and we quantify every inefficiency we find. Typical assessments uncover $500K to $5M in addressable waste, redundancy, and risk.
From audit to action plan in 6 weeks, not 6 months
Traditional technology assessments take 4-6 months and cost $200K+ in consulting fees before you see a single recommendation. Our process is built for speed without sacrificing depth. Week 1-2: architecture and infrastructure deep dive. Week 3-4: team workflow analysis and vendor contract review. Week 5-6: financial modeling, prioritization, and executive presentation. Every finding includes a dollar estimate, an effort estimate, and a recommended timeline. You walk away with a board-ready document, not a shelf-ready binder.
Our Technology Assessments are built for operations leaders and executives at companies doing $10M-$500M in revenue who suspect their technology is holding them back but lack the internal expertise to quantify the problem. If your IT budget keeps growing without measurable business improvement, if your teams rely on manual workarounds that nobody has time to fix, or if you are evaluating a major platform investment and need an independent second opinion - this assessment will give you the financial clarity to make a decision.
You'll have a value stream map of how your company uses its technology. We'll identify and quantify what it costs to not fix the hot spots along with a concrete plan to optimize them.
What to know about technology assessments
A technology assessment evaluates your entire technology ecosystem - architecture, infrastructure, team productivity, and vendor relationships - against business outcomes. Traditional IT audits focus on compliance and security checklists. Assessments quantify business impact in dollars, identifying how much your technology decisions cost or save. The output is a financial roadmap, not a compliance report.
Technology assessments range from $40K to $200K+ depending on scope and firm. Large consultancies charge $150K-$300K for 4-6 month engagements. Caxy's 6-week assessment is priced between $50K-$85K depending on the number of systems and teams involved. The assessment typically identifies 10-50x its cost in addressable inefficiencies, making it one of the highest-ROI investments an operations leader can make.
Key indicators include IT spending growing faster than revenue, manual workarounds that bypass your primary systems, inability to get reliable data from your technology stack, frequent project delays or overruns, and vendor lock-in concerns. If your team cannot confidently answer "what does our technology cost us per transaction," an assessment will provide that clarity.
Technical debt is the accumulated cost of shortcuts, outdated components, and deferred maintenance in your technology stack. It manifests as slower feature delivery, higher bug rates, increased security risk, and developer turnover. Studies show that engineering teams spend 33% of their time managing technical debt. In dollar terms, a $2M annual engineering budget loses roughly $660K to debt-related work annually.
We measure four categories: direct cost savings from eliminating redundant systems and manual processes, productivity gains from reduced workarounds and faster workflows, risk reduction from addressing security vulnerabilities and compliance gaps, and revenue enablement from capabilities your current stack cannot support. Each finding is modeled with conservative, moderate, and aggressive estimates.
We assess cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), application architecture, databases, integration layers, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and observability, vendor contracts, team workflows, and development practices. We have direct experience with 50+ enterprise platforms including Salesforce, NetSuite, SAP, Shopify, and custom-built systems. If it affects your technology P&L, we evaluate it.
You receive an executive presentation, a detailed findings document, and a prioritized roadmap. Most clients implement recommendations in phases over 6-18 months. Caxy can execute on the roadmap, or you can use any engineering team - the deliverables are vendor-neutral. Roughly 70% of our assessment clients engage us for at least Phase 1 implementation because we already understand their systems.
Yes. We conduct technology due diligence for private equity firms and acquiring companies evaluating target acquisitions. The assessment identifies hidden technical debt, infrastructure risks, integration complexity, and true cost of ownership. For PE firms, this data directly affects deal valuation, post-acquisition integration budgets, and go/no-go decisions on technology-dependent acquisitions.
We analyze your cloud billing data at the resource level, comparing actual utilization against provisioned capacity. Typical findings include oversized instances running at 10-15% CPU utilization, unused storage volumes, unoptimized database configurations, and missing reserved instance commitments. Most companies overspend on cloud by 25-40%, and we quantify exactly where the waste sits.
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