The Economic ModelCommercial-Operational Symmetry
Set a Not-To-Exceed (NTE) cap so you never blow your budget. Pay only for 15-minute increments of actual execution. If we're efficient, you keep the savings—not us.
The CFO Question
FTE Run Rates vs. Consulting Fees — why you're likely overpaying by 40%
The Law of Cost Entropy
The CFO's Blind Spot
Traditional IT retainers create a perverse incentive structure. Your provider is paid the same whether they solve 10 tickets or 100. Whether they automate or maintain tribal knowledge. Whether they compress costs or expand scope.
This is the "Capacity Illusion"—the gap between what you pay for and what you actually receive. Research shows 35-45% of IT capacity is consumed by unplanned work, toil, and "ghost tasks" that never appear on invoices.
The Aligned Cost Model
Fixed Headcount Model
- ✗Capacity fixed regardless of demand
- ✗No bandwidth to automate
- ✗Hidden costs in context switching
- ✗Headcount never scales down
Capped-Consumption Model
- ✓Budget Cap (NTE) - never exceed your limit
- ✓Pay Actuals - 15-min increments of execution
- ✓OpenBook™ - Budget vs. Actuals visibility
- ✓You keep the savings - 81% of Cap proven
In Capped-Consumption, we are incentivized to eliminate work, not perpetuate it. When we automate a task, your costs drop—and you keep the savings. Site HT-2025 paid 81% of their cap, achieving 19% Year-1 cost compression.
Stop Paying Consulting Premiums for Operational Work
Principal Engineering at FTE Run Rates
Traditional firms force a false tradeoff: Pay $200-300/hr for "consultants" on projects, or $80-100/hr for "staff aug" on maintenance. Neither works.
Allari deploys Principal Engineers (100+ competencies) at FTE Run Rates:
- ✓No hourly markup for "consulting"
- ✓No scope change orders for complexity
- ✓No "out of scope" handoffs to your team
The False Tradeoff
Principal Engineering at FTE Run Rates
| Attribute | Big 4 Consulting | Staff Aug Vendor | Allari |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hourly Rate | $250-400/hr | $80-120/hr | FTE Run Rate |
| Scope | Defined Project Only | Task-Limited | Unbounded |
| Incentive | Extend Engagement | Minimize Effort | Velocity |
| Scope Changes | Change Orders | Out of Scope | Included |
| Knowledge Transfer | At End (Maybe) | None | Dynamic Runbook™ |
Result: Senior execution capability at operational expense rates. No hourly markup for "consulting." No scope change orders for complexity. No "out of scope" handoffs to your team.
Cost Compression in Action
Forensic Analysis: Site HT-2025
ANOMALY
16.42 Day
Ticket Aging (Latency)
STABILIZATION
1.77 Day
Ticket Aging (-89%)
YIELD
19%
Year-1 Cost Compression
Primary Obstacle: Site HT-2025 was trapped in a Fixed-Fee MSP model that incentivized slowness—the vendor profited from prolonged resolution, not velocity.
Intervention: Power of 15™ neutralized perverse incentives. OpenBook™ proved they were paying 81% of their cap—the 19% savings flowed back to them, enabling systemic recovery of execution capacity.
OpenBook™ Transparency
Capital Efficiency: The TBM Framework
Aligning With FinOps Principles
TBM/FinOps Alignment
Where Does Your IT Budget Go?
Most organizations spend 70% on "Run"—but pay consulting premiums as if it were "Transform."
Operational maintenance, support, infrastructure upkeep. Where Allari compresses costs.
Incremental improvements, minor enhancements, efficiency projects.
Strategic initiatives, digital transformation, innovation investments.
The Allari Pivot
We compress RTB costs by 19%+ so you can reallocate budget to GTB and Transform—without increasing total spend. That's Capital Efficiency.
Technology Business Management (TBM) frameworks segment IT spend into Run, Grow, and Transform categories. Most organizations spend 70% on "Run"—operational maintenance—but pay consulting premiums as if it were strategic transformation work.
Allari positions as your Capital Efficiency Partner: we compress RTB costs so you can reallocate to GTB and Transform initiatives—funding innovation with friction savings, not new budget.
OpenBook™ as Your AI Bill of Materials
The Compliance Audit Trail for the Agentic Era
As AI agents execute more IT operations...
Regulators, auditors, and boards will ask: "What did your AI do? How do you prove it?"
OpenBook™ Telemetry provides the sovereign audit trail for the Agentic Enterprise. Every action, every decision, every cost—visible and attributable.
When Human-Verified AI executes a runbook, OpenBook™ captures the complete lineage: what triggered it, what it did, who approved it, and what it cost. This isn't just transparency—it's compliance insurance for the AI era.
THE PATH TO SELF-HEALING OPERATIONS
How visibility, standardization, and automation compound to compress your Total Cost of Ownership.
VISIBILITY
We use OpenBook™ to identify 'Toil'—high-volume, low-value work that burns engineering hours. We don't hide the waste; we expose it.
Learn MoreSTANDARDIZATION
You cannot automate chaos. We use The Dynamic Runbook to capture the specific logic required to solve the issue, converting 'Tribal Knowledge' into a 'Known Good State'.
Learn MoreCOST COMPRESSION
Once the logic is captured in the Runbook, we hand it to Human-Verified AI. Variable labor costs are replaced by fixed automation. Your TCO drops as we move from 'Renting People' to 'Owning Automation'.
Learn MoreTCO Compression Through Owned Automation
Stop renting engineers. Start owning automation. The Dynamic Runbook converts variable labor costs into fixed automation assets that compound over time.
Find your true run rate
The Execution Drag Calculator reveals hidden capacity leaks in your IT operations—and quantifies the savings.