Most Microsoft 365 estates leak 15–30% of their licence spend — and roughly two-thirds of Copilot seats generate nothing at all. We find exactly where your money is going, and we fix it — right-size the tiers, reclaim the dead seats, and move light users to consumption-based Copilot instead of full monthly seats.
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Ten working days, read-only access, one clear report: where every Microsoft licence rupee goes, what's wasted, and exactly what to change.
Especially if you've bought Copilot, haven't reviewed licences in 12 months, or have a renewal coming up.
A CFO-ready number, a prioritised action list, and our help executing it — including driving adoption on the seats worth keeping.
None of these are exotic. They appear in almost every Microsoft 365 tenant we audit, because licenses get assigned once and then nobody revisits them. A proper license audit finds all six.
Bought in a wave of enthusiasm, assigned broadly, then never opened. Enterprise activation averages around 35.8% — the rest is pure cost.
~$360/yr per idle seatE5 assigned to people who send email and join meetings. E5 genuinely earns its price for only 15–25% of a workforce.
E5 → E3 → Business PremiumDisabled accounts holding paid licences because nobody told HR to tell IT to tell the licence admin. The most common leak of all.
Found in nearly every tenantTeams Premium, Intune Suite, Power BI Pro, Visio, Defender P2 — bought for a project that ended, still billing every month.
Silent recurring costPurchased but never allocated. They generate charges from the day you buy them and appear nowhere in anyone's workflow.
Pure waste, easily reclaimedLocking in a full term at the wrong moment — after a price rise, before a right-sizing. Weeks of timing can cost six figures.
Renewal-window planningCopilot is the newest, most expensive and least examined line in your Microsoft bill. It's also where the biggest single pool of waste now sits — and where a generic licence report won't look.
Here's the part that matters: the fix isn't only cancelling seats. It's reclaiming the dead ones and making the rest actually get used. A dashboard can tell you 640 seats are idle. It can't make 640 people productive. We do both — because Copilot adoption is what we do.
The biggest structural saving isn't cutting people off — it's matching how someone actually uses AI to how you pay for it.
Fixed scope. No open-ended consulting. You get a number and a plan.
A scoped reader role via Microsoft Graph. We read licence, sign-in and usage reports — never file or mailbox contents.
Every SKU, every assignment, every seat's real activity — including Copilot usage bucketed by active days.
We price the waste against your actual agreement and build a prioritised list: reclaim, downgrade, re-tier, restructure.
A CFO-ready report and a working session. You leave knowing your number and exactly what to do about it.
You're letting someone look inside your tenant, so you should know exactly what that means. The audit runs on read-only reporting access through Microsoft Graph — the same data your own admins see in the admin centre.
Access is scoped, time-limited, and revoked when the audit completes. We'll provide the exact permission set for your security team to review before we begin.
The audit pays for itself or it doesn't — you'll know within ten days.
// Indicative ranges by tenant size. We'll confirm on a short scoping call — and tell you honestly if we don't think there's enough waste to justify it.
Ten working days, read-only access, one number. If we don't find enough to justify the fee, we'll tell you that too.
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