Stop the $1.2M Valuation Leak.
Most mid-market staffing firms operate with a 5% EBITDA drag due to unmanaged SaaS debt. Amplify Operations performs IT auditing for Law and Staffing firms. We identify the structural leaks to reclaim your enterprise value.
Protect your margins. Reclaim your time.
The Aggregate Liability Gap
Unmanaged tech stacks create a massive, compounding liability.
A $1.5M Gap exists where systems lack gatekeeping. This figure represents the collision of three specific triggers: compounding operational friction, Shadow IT non-compliance, and vendor billing errors. These aren't possibilities, they're invoices waiting to hit your desk. We find the leak. You keep the capital.
- Zylo SaaS Management Index (2026).
- Flexera State of the Cloud (2024-2025).
- Zylo: SaaS IBM Security: Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024/2025.
Restore Your EBITDA. Multiply Your Value.
Our 14-Day Structural Roadmap identifies the immediate cash leaks. By moving waste back into profit, we apply a conservative market multiplier to your valuation.
The Process
14-Day Structural Audit
A forensic protocol to identify, stop, and recover the leaks in your EBITDA.
01
Discovery
A deep-layer scan of your primary tech stack, expense logs, and Shadow IT permissions.
02
Utilization Analysis
Identifying Zombie Seats and feature overlaps that erode your bottom line.
03
Liability
We audit your data-handling protocols against the $1.2M actuarial risk floor and vendor audit traps.
04
Recovery Blueprint
Set up your tools to work together
Audit & Capital Recovery Roadmap
The 14-day dive into the marrow of your tech stack to find the rot. You receive a surgical roadmap of exactly where your capital is leaking. No fluff, just the math.
Operational Restoration
Once the leaks are identified, we execute the roadmap. We prune the vendors, tighten the SOPs, and recover your capital.
The Principal Auditor
Mid-market leaders rarely lack vision. They lack the operational bandwidth to enforce it. Amplify Operations was founded by Lanni Colebank to bridge the gap between strategic intent and technical reality.
Using a surgical approach to tech stacks (Bullhorn, Salesforce) and human capital workflows, we identify the zombie seats and application toggling erosion that's slowing your firm. We provide the Auditing and Gatekeeping necessary to protect your EBITDA and clear the path for high-velocity growth.
Our Engagement Philosophy: We are attentive, surgical, and focused on ROI. We don’t manage projects. We perform the forensic deep-dives required to surface the opportunities your team is currently too buried to identify.
We don't ask your team to work more. We make the system work better.
"Working with Lanni was a great experience. She was attentive, asked the right questions, and made recommendations that were practical and directly tied to process improvement."
(Atria Consulting)
FAQs
How does a Structural Audit restore my firm’s Valuation?
Every dollar of SaaS waste, whether it’s Ghost Seats or Price Drift, is a dollar of lost EBITDA. By extracting that waste, we turn it back into profit. At a standard 4x multiplier, recovering just $100k in annual waste adds $400,000 in Enterprise Value to the firm. We provide the mathematical bridge between your current spend and your true market value.
What is the Minimum Viable Size for an audit to make sense?
While waste exists at every level, our Structural Audit is engineered for firms with at least 50 seats. At this scale, departmental silos have usually formed, and the Double-Tax of redundant software becomes a significant drag on EBITDA. If an organization is managing 50 or more credentials, the audit typically identifies enough Trapped Value to pay for itself within the first 30 days.
When is the Audit Trap most dangerous?
Usually 90 to 180 days before a major renewal. Vendors like Salesforce or Microsoft perform "True-Up" scans, billing you for every unmanaged seat at full retail price. Our 14-day triage identifies these contractual landmines before the vendor captures the renewal, keeping your seat at the table.
What is SaaS Gatekeeping?
Most firms suffer from Shadow IT, unvetted tools purchased on staff expense cards. This creates a massive security hole and redundant spend. Gatekeeping is the protocol we install to stop new leaks at the source, ensuring the tech stack stays lean and secure
What is Excessive Agency and why is it a risk?
Excessive Agency happens when an AI tool is given the power to act on your firm's data without a human review gate. We treat this as a binary risk: the door to your data is either locked, or it’s open.
Our audit identifies these open doors where AI has the permission to edit or delete sensitive records autonomously. By flagging these vulnerabilities, we prevent a hidden security flaw from becoming an unmitigated risk that could devalue your firm during a sale or funding round.
How is Amplify Operations different from other IT consulting firms?
Traditional consultants usually add more software, which adds more complexity. We do the opposite. We are Forensic Auditors. We don't ask the team to work more. We make the system work better. We have a surgical mandate: identify the rot, extract the waste, and secure the valuation. We focus on capital recovery, not billable hours.
Why can’t my internal Finance or IT team just do this audit?
Your team is focused on maintenance, not forensics. Internal teams are often too close to the vendors and the existing workflows to see the drift. We bring an objective, 3rd-party lens and a proprietary benchmark database. We aren't here to replace your team. We’re here to provide them with the high-level leverage they need to win at the negotiation table.
Will this process disrupt my team’s daily operations?
No. Our audit is a Non-Invasive Extraction. We don't require lengthy interviews or all-hands meetings. We work primarily with your billing exports and system logs. Our goal is to hand leadership a finished roadmap, not a new list of chores for the staff.
What if the organization has already performed a cleanup recently?
Most internal cleanups focus on the surface, canceling obvious, unused subscriptions. A Forensic Audit goes deeper into the structural layers, such as contractual erosion and agentic AI risk. Industry data from Gartner and Zylo indicates that even in lean organizations, significant trapped value often remains hidden in seat right-sizing and price drift that a standard administrative review simply isn't equipped to identify.
What is the ROI on your Engagement Fee?
Phase 1: The 14-Day Forensic Audit: This is the diagnostic phase where we provide the roadmap of your operational leaks. We specifically target a 10x ROI in identified annual waste. At the end of this phase, you own the map. You can choose to execute the recovery internally or have us take the wheel.
Phase 2: Operational Restoration: This is the execution phase. We perform the surgical cleanup, pruning vendors, renegotiating contracts, and automating friction. This phase includes a Success Fee structure, meaning our incentives are directly aligned with yours. If we don’t identify and recover the waste, you don’t pay the success fee.
How long does this take?
We deliver the full Liability Gap Analysis in 14 days. If leadership chooses to move into the Restoration Phase, the cleanup typically takes 90 days. This covers everything from terminating dead licenses to installing your new gatekeeping SOPs.
How do we get started?
High-stakes operations require a precise fit. Use the form below to request a Diagnostic Consultation. If we identify a path to a significant ROI win, we’ll move straight into the triage phase.
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