ValueXPA pricing for the fixed-scope Margin Drift Diagnostic, AP recovery audit, contract compliance audit, and Finance Processes Managed Services. Not contingency-fee — clients retain 100% of recoveries.
Three principles govern ValueXPA pricing across every service line. First, fixed-scope wherever possible — clients should know the exact engagement cost before signing rather than discovering it through a contingency calculation after value has been delivered. Second, no idle-time billing — managed-services engagements are priced per transaction or per process, not per full-time-equivalent, so clients never pay for unused capacity. Third, complete recovery retention — when the Margin Drift Diagnostic identifies dollars that should not have left the business, clients keep 100 percent of those dollars. We charge for the work to find them, not for the dollars themselves.
The Margin Drift Diagnostic is fixed-scope and quoted per engagement. Engagement size depends on annual service vendor spend, number of vendor categories audited, ERP complexity, and contract repository maturity. Most diagnostics for $30M to $150M industrial manufacturers fall within a defined band that we share transparently on the scoping call. The diagnostic is not contingency-fee — clients retain 100 percent of recoveries. Typical engagement timeline is two to four weeks from kickoff to findings readout. Payment terms: 50 percent at signature, 50 percent on findings delivery. No additional fees, no surprise success components, no scope-creep change orders unless the client expressly requests additional vendor categories mid-engagement.
Finance Processes Managed Services is SLA-driven and priced by transaction volume and process scope rather than headcount. Sample pricing units include per invoice processed for accounts payable, per reconciliation completed for month-end close, per dunning cycle for accounts receivable collections, and per management report produced for controller-level reporting. This means the client only pays for work actually delivered against agreed SLAs — there is no idle-time bill for hours not consumed. Pricing scales linearly with volume and is reviewed jointly with the client at six-month intervals. Onboarding fee covers process documentation, parallel-running, and SLA baseline establishment.
XP&A engagements run in two phases. Phase one is a fixed-scope build (typically six to ten weeks) priced per engagement based on driver complexity, data-source count, and scenario coverage. Phase two is an optional managed-service retainer where ValueXPA operates the planning cycles each month or quarter — priced monthly at a level reflecting the cadence and depth of the planning support requested. No enterprise EPM software license is required; we work within the planning tooling clients already own.
Advanced Analytics and BI engagements also run in two phases. Phase one is the fixed-scope build (typically four to twelve weeks depending on data-warehouse scope) priced per engagement. Phase two is an optional managed-service retainer covering dashboard refresh, data-quality monitoring, and ongoing report extension — priced monthly. BI platform licenses (Power BI, Tableau, Looker) are passed through at cost.
FynFlo, our proprietary AI-native invoice validation product, is priced by monthly invoice volume processed through the platform. Three plan tiers cover the typical $30M to $150M middle-market band. Implementation fee covers contract ingestion, rate-card encoding, and integration with the client ERP and accounts-payable workflow. No per-seat licensing — every user inside the finance team has equal access at no incremental cost.
Travel and out-of-pocket expenses for client-site visits are passed through at cost with prior approval. Third-party software licenses (BI platforms, planning tools, ERP modules) are passed through at cost where applicable. Engagements requiring forensic-grade legal evidence assembly beyond the standard diagnostic exhibit pack are quoted separately. Litigation support and expert-witness testimony are out of scope for standard diagnostics and quoted separately when required.
No. The diagnostic is fixed-scope priced per engagement. Clients retain 100 percent of recoveries. We charge for the work to find leakage, not for a share of the leakage we find.
By transaction volume and process scope — per invoice processed for AP, per reconciliation for month-end close, per dunning cycle for AR collections. Not by FTE, so clients never pay for idle time. Pricing scales linearly with volume and is reviewed at six-month intervals.
No. Every engagement is priced upfront on a fixed-scope or per-transaction basis. No success components, no contingency fees, no surprise back-end billing.
Recovery audit firms typically charge 25–50 percent of recoveries on a contingency basis, often with a 24-month claim window. For a typical $30M to $150M industrial manufacturer, our fixed-scope diagnostic costs a fraction of what a recovery audit firm would take, and clients retain the full recovery amount.
Yes. For first-time clients we offer a single-category pilot diagnostic (typically freight or MRO) that runs in one to two weeks at a reduced fixed fee. If the pilot identifies meaningful leakage the client can scale to a full multi-category diagnostic with the pilot fee credited against the larger engagement.