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IT Waste Hunter

UllC · DVSG Toolkit · Field Edition

For SMEs · 50–500 staff
Consultant Mode · hidden control layer

Lead intelligence & AI reply engine

This panel is hidden for prospects. Use it to generate the unlock code, a tailored reply, the full diagnostic payload and a suggested commercial next step.

Total visible recovery€0
Dominant signal
AI Act signal
Suggested offer
Mini CRM · local only

Lead capture snapshot

This creates a local lead record from the current browser state. No telemetry, no backend. Use this for manual follow-up or export.

Consultant mode active
Koen-only helper · AI-style reply

Generate reply from scan data

Paste the diagnostic data from the unlock request email. This generates a commercial reply with the unlock code, dominant narrative, and suggested 30-min Value Scan angle.

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Unlock code generator

Paste the Request ID and email address from the prospect’s unlock request. This generates the exact code the page will accept.

Open this helper by adding ?admin=1 to the file URL.

A field kit by UllC

Where is your IT budget leaking money?

Most SMEs lose 10–30% of their IT spend — without knowing where.

Not because of bad decisions… but because value is invisible.

10–30%
Of IT spend · Wasted invisibly

"Traditional governance can consume approximately 99 hours per month, per provider, just in recurring meetings." — DVSG Framework, Ch. 1

The 6:30 story

The diagnosis
This is not an execution problem.
It's a value governance gap.

If this feels familiar…
you're already seeing the problem.

The 2-week Value Scan

In two weeks, you get clarity.

A structured assessment of where your IT spend creates value, where it doesn't, and exactly what to do about it. No 200-page report — just a decision-ready verdict.

Full visibility on IT value vs cost

Every meeting, vendor, licence, and approval queue mapped to its actual business contribution.

Clear decisions: stop / keep / invest

Each spend category gets one of three verdicts. No more endless "let's review it next quarter" loops.

A concrete roadmap

Prioritised by financial impact ÷ effort. Quick wins for week one, structural changes for month three.

New SME trigger · AI governance without the fear theatre

You are not non-compliant first.
You are blind first.

Most SMEs already use AI through ChatGPT, Copilot, Notion AI, CRM assistants, HR tooling, automated emails and embedded analytics. The real problem is not only regulation. The real problem is that nobody has a clear inventory of where AI is used, what decisions it influences, and whether those decisions create value, risk or waste.

01 · Inventory Which AI tools are actually in use?

Map sanctioned and shadow AI usage across people, tools, vendors and workflows.

02 · Transparency Where does AI touch decisions?

Identify AI-generated outputs in emails, analysis, hiring, service flows, customer communication and governance reporting.

03 · Value Governance Which AI usage creates value?

Separate useful AI enablement from invisible risk, duplication, tool sprawl and unmanaged decision automation.

AI is not your biggest risk. Invisible decisions are. DVSG turns AI usage into visible value decisions: stop, keep, govern or scale.
Do you know which AI tools your employees use outside approved platforms?
Do you know where AI-generated outputs influence business decisions?
Do your vendors use AI inside services delivered to you?
Can you explain your AI usage to management, customers or auditors in one page?
Ask for AI Shadow Usage Scan
For intro calls

Start the call with your own numbers.

Complete the IT Waste Hunter before our conversation. Then we do not start with generic intake questions — we start with your estimated recovery potential.

No intake form. No obligation. Just 30 minutes and you know where your money is going.

Or run the self-scan now

Six diagnostics, thirty minutes, one verdict. The same framework — done by you, for you.

Step One

The 12-question audit

Yes/no diagnostic — pinpoints which categories of waste deserve your attention first.

Step Two

The meeting calculator

Cost out your CABs, stand-ups, status reviews. The number will surprise you.

Step Three

Vendor value map

List every service contract; rate actual consumption, business impact, and contractual lock-in.

Step Four

Licence reality check

Seats purchased vs. seats actually used.

Step Five

Change-approval friction

How much engineering capacity is being burned waiting for approvals?

Step Six

The verdict

Heatmap, prioritised actions, total euros at stake.

Step One · Symptom check

The twelve-question audit

Each "Yes" is a flag, not a sentence. You're scanning for low-value patterns — answer for the company you actually work in.

Step Two · The meeting bill

What do your recurring meetings actually cost?

Use a fully-loaded hourly rate. For Western Europe, €75/h is conservative for senior engineers; €110/h for managers.

Inputs

Add one line per recurring meeting.

MeetingPeopleHoursPer€/yr
Annual cost — all recurring meetings
€0
Add meetings to see the total mount up.

Total person-hours / year0 h
Equivalent FTEs consumed0.0
Likely waste (low-decision share)€0
Recoverable if reduced 70%€0

Uses 70% as conservative recoverable target.

Step Three · Supplier portfolio

Map every vendor. Score the value.

Score service contracts 1–5 on actual consumption, business impact, and contractual lock-in.

Usage

How much is this service contract actually consumed?

1 = rarely used · 3 = regular consumption · 5 = daily essential
Business Impact

What happens if this service disappears?

1 = minor inconvenience · 3 = noticeable disruption · 5 = critical for continuity
Contractual Lock-in

How hard is it to exit or renegotiate?

1 = easy exit · 3 = moderate dependency · 5 = painful exit with data, skills or integration dependency
Adjust Usage, Business Impact and Lock-in to see the diagnostic signal before adding the service contract.
DVSG signal: value misalignment = spend × low usage/impact × lock-in friction
Vendor€ / yrUseImpactLock-inValue IndexVerdictContract
No vendors yet. Start with your top 5 by spend.
Step Four · Shelfware

Licences bought. Licences used.

Pull figures from your SaaS admin consoles or last invoice.

SoftwareBoughtActiveUtilisation€ / yrWasted €
No licences yet. Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Adobe, Atlassian, Zoom — start there.
Total annual licence leak
€0
Inactive seats × cost per seat.
Total seats purchased0
Total seats active0
Average utilisation
Tools below 60%0
Step Five · Governance structure

What does your governance really cost?

Map recurring governance forums, steering committees, CABs, reporting rituals and approval structures. This turns “governance maturity” into a visible cost and value signal.

Governance forums

Decision value = does this forum make real decisions? Outcome trace = can decisions be traced to measurable outcomes?

ForumPeopleHoursPerDecisionTrace€/yrWaste
No governance structures yet. Start with steering, CAB, portfolio, architecture board and vendor review meetings.
Annual governance cost
€0
Recurring governance forums × senior attendance cost.

Estimated low-value governance€0
Governance effectiveness
Forums mapped0
Recoverable / redesign potential€0
Governance signal

Add governance structures to see whether you have value governance or governance theatre.

Step Five · The CAB tax

How much engineering time evaporates waiting?

Estimate the drag from low-risk changes passing through heavy approval funnels.

Inputs

Estimated annual change-friction cost
€0
Wait-state engineering + CAB time + rework.

Low-risk changes / yr
Hours blocked / yr
CAB cost / yr
Recoverable€0
Step Seven · Separate paid entry product

You don’t have an AI problem.
You have a visibility problem.

Map where AI is used, where it influences decisions, and where value, risk and accountability disappear. This is the AI Shadow Usage Scan: a paid entry product that turns AI uncertainty into a decision-ready visibility map.

AI visibility questions

Score each area from unknown to clear. This is not a compliance audit; it is a visibility scan for AI-driven decisions.

AI tool inventoryDo you know which AI tools are actually used across the organisation?
Shadow AI usageDo employees use AI outside approved platforms?
Decision influenceWhere does AI-generated output influence business decisions?
Vendor AI usageDo suppliers use AI inside services delivered to you?
One-page AI policyCan employees explain what is allowed, what is not, and when to disclose AI use?
Transparency statementsAre AI-generated customer-facing outputs disclosed where needed?
Audit trailCan you evidence how AI is used in important workflows?
AI Visibility Score
0%
AI visibility not yet mapped.

Answer the questions to reveal whether AI is visible, partially governed or operating in the shadows.

AI inventory
Shadow usage
Decision influence
Vendor AI
Transparency
Audit trail
EU AI Act readiness · risk versus penalty

You do not need to build AI to be exposed to AI regulation.

The EU AI Act uses a risk-based model. For SMEs, the practical question is not “do we have AI?” but: where does AI influence decisions, and could that usage become prohibited, high-risk, transparency-sensitive or minimal-risk?

Employment / HR decisions AI used for recruitment, selection, evaluation, promotion, scheduling or performance signals.
Credit, pricing or eligibility AI used to score customers, decide eligibility, pricing, fraud or risk treatment.
Customer-facing AI / chatbots Users interact with AI or receive AI-generated advice, messages or recommendations.
Vendor AI inside services Suppliers use AI inside managed services, HR tools, CRM, support, SOC, marketing or analytics.
Biometric / surveillance use AI used for identification, monitoring, access, behaviour analysis or safety/security surveillance.
Documentation and human oversight Can you document purpose, owner, data, human oversight and decision accountability?
Risk class signal Unknown
Readiness score 0%
Penalty exposure band
Answer the AI Act questions to classify the risk signal and link it to readiness, timing and penalty exposure.
Feb 2025Prohibited AI practices apply.
Aug 2025GPAI model obligations started.
Aug 2026Annex III high-risk and transparency rules apply.
Aug 2027High-risk systems in regulated products phase in.
Paid entry product

AI Shadow Usage Scan

€1.500

A focused scan that produces a one-page AI usage inventory, decision-influence map, transparency gap view and practical governance actions.

Book AI Shadow Usage Scan →
Step Eight · Operating context visibility

Your tools are probably not the problem.
Your integration tax is.

Most SMEs and GTM teams do not lose money because of software alone. They lose money because operational context is fragmented across disconnected systems.

Integration visibility scan

Score the operational drag created between systems. This is not an architecture audit; it is a visibility scan for disconnected context, duplicated work and decision latency.

Duplicate systems Do multiple systems store overlapping customer, operational or reporting data?
Manual reconciliation How often do teams manually compare, export or reconcile data between tools?
Disconnected reporting Are dashboards, KPIs and operational reports fragmented across systems?
Context switching Do users constantly switch between platforms to complete one workflow?
Workflow orchestration Are workflows automated through one connected orchestration layer?
Vendor integration complexity How dependent are operations on custom integrations, exports and APIs?
Integration Tax Score
€0
Operational fragmentation not mapped yet.

Complete the scan to estimate hidden operational integration cost.

Duplicated systems
Manual reconciliation
Disconnected reporting
Context switching
Workflow orchestration
API / vendor fragility
DVSG Insight

Integration tax is governance tax.

The real cost is usually not the tooling itself. It is the hidden operational drag between systems:

  • duplicated reporting
  • manual reconciliation
  • workflow fragmentation
  • decision latency
  • context switching
  • integration maintenance
Sovereignty lens · EU sovereign cloud readiness

Sovereignty is not nationalism.
It is operational control.

Cloud dependency becomes a governance issue when you no longer know who controls the data, the keys, the exit path, the AI processing layer or the jurisdictional exposure.

Non-EU hyperscaler dependencyHow dependent are critical workloads on non-EU hyperscaler platforms?
Data residency clarityDo you know where operational, customer and AI-related data is stored and processed?
Encryption key ownershipWho controls encryption keys for critical data and backups?
Exit cost and portabilityCan you move away without excessive migration friction?
SaaS data exportabilityCan you export business-critical SaaS data in usable formats?
AI processing locationDo you know where prompts, outputs, embeddings or AI data are processed?
Foreign jurisdiction exposureCould foreign legal orders or extra-EU dependencies affect access/control?
EU sovereign alternativesHave EU-based or sovereign alternatives been assessed?
Sovereignty riskUnknown
Control score0%
Sovereignty drag€0
Answer the sovereignty questions to estimate how much strategic flexibility may be lost through cloud dependency, unclear data control and weak exit options.
DataWhere is it?
KeysWho controls it?
ExitCan you leave?
AIWhere is it processed?
ContinuityCan you keep operating?
Advisory entry product

EU Sovereign Cloud Readiness Scan

€2.500–€5.000

A focused scan of data residency, key control, SaaS portability, AI processing location, jurisdictional exposure and EU sovereign alternatives.

Paid diagnostic product

Integration Tax Diagnostic

€2.500

A focused diagnostic that maps operational context fragmentation, integration drag and workflow simplification opportunities.

Book Integration Tax Diagnostic →
Step Six · The board pack

The verdict — and what to do Monday

Synthesised from everything you entered. Print this page or screenshot it; it stands on its own.

Total recoverable annually — your number
€0
Sum of meeting recovery + licence leak + low-value vendors + change friction.

Waste heatmap

Each cell is one waste category, scored on the data you entered.

Prioritised actions

Ordered by financial impact ÷ effort. Start at the top.

Talking points for the board

Estimated waste
€0