DebugInit
Reduce unnecessary SaaS dependence—responsibly.
Identify overlapping or low-differentiation applications, quantify five-year economics and selectively replace them with customer-controlled internal software.
Start with evidence, economics and operational risk—not technology hype.
When this fits
Four signals. If none of them describes your estate, this is not the engagement you need — and we would rather say so now.
Overlapping tools
Three subscriptions each cover part of one process, and the seam between them is a spreadsheet.
Low differentiation
You pay a per-seat premium for software that does something generic, badly, for your specific case.
Lock-in pressure
Renewal terms, data-export limits or pricing changes have started to shape decisions that should be operational.
Shelfware
Licences renew because cancelling them requires knowing who uses them, and nobody does.
Method
Evidence, then economics, then a decision per system. In that order, because reversing it is how portfolio-wide replacement programmes start.
- 01
Inventory
Every application, its owner, its cost, its contract dates and who genuinely uses it. Most engagements find tools nobody could name.
- 02
Map to process
Which business process each tool actually serves, and where two tools serve the same one.
- 03
Five-year model
Licence, implementation, integration, migration, internal effort and exit cost — for keeping it and for replacing it.
- 04
Decide per system
Retain, integrate, consolidate, replace or retire. Each decision is made on its own evidence, not on a portfolio-wide policy.
- 05
Sequence
Order the changes by risk and contract date, so the first move is reversible and the savings land before the disruption does.
Deliverables
What you have at the end of the assessment, whether or not you continue with us.
- Application inventory
- Owner, cost, usage, contract dates and renewal exposure — yours to keep whether or not you engage us further.
- Process overlap map
- Where multiple tools serve one process, and what the seam between them costs in manual work.
- Five-year economic model
- The comparison, with its assumptions written down so you can challenge them.
- Recommendation per system
- Retain, integrate, consolidate, replace or retire, with the reasoning attached to each.
- Sequenced plan
- What to do first, what it depends on, and what would make us stop.
The inventory and the economic model are yours. If they lead you to a different vendor, they were still worth doing.
Technology approach
Where replacement is justified, the replacement is a DebugInit internal system: your workflows on the core platform, reusing identity, workflow, documents, audit and AI rather than rebuilding them per tool.
Where it is not justified, the work is integration — connecting the system you keep into the same operational flow, so consolidation of process does not require consolidation of vendors.
Outcome measures
Baselined during the assessment and re-measured after. These are the measures; the results are yours and are published only with evidence behind them.
Software spend
Which subscriptions were retired, and what replaced them.
Process cycle time
Whether the consolidated process is faster than the fragmented one.
Manual reconciliation
Hours previously spent moving data between the tools.
Licence utilisation
Seats paid for against seats genuinely used.
Integration count
Connections you maintain, before and after.
Exit exposure
What it would cost to leave each remaining vendor.
What we will not do
Our incentive and your interest diverge in predictable places. These are the ones that matter.
- Recommend replacement without the model
- No system is proposed for replacement without a five-year economic and operational assessment. Replacement is the most expensive option available and often the wrong one.
- Promise a savings figure up front
- Any number before the inventory exists is a guess dressed as an analysis. You would be right not to trust it.
- Call it free
- License independence reduces avoidable third-party subscriptions. Infrastructure, AI usage, implementation and support remain real costs, quoted openly.
- Replace a system that works
- If the fit is good and the economics hold, the recommendation is to keep it and connect it — even though that is the smaller engagement for us.
If an assessment concludes that the honest recommendation is to change nothing, that is a valid result and we will say it.
Start with the inventory
A fixed-scope assessment producing an application inventory, an overlap map and a five-year model you can challenge.