Quantify the Integration Tax
See what a fragmented vendor stack costs in direct spend and staff overhead — and what a single accountable operating relationship could save under the model assumptions. Adjust the sliders; run the model on this page.
Run the numbers ↓Interactive Tool
Model the real cost
of vendor sprawl.
Adjust the sliders to match your current stack. We will calculate the annual Integration Tax you are paying to run fragmented tooling — and potential savings from a single Managed Intelligence Provider relationship under the assumptions below.
Annual Integration Tax
$644,400
The hidden cost of running a fragmented vendor stack — direct spend plus the staff time consumed managing it.
Methodology
How the numbers work.
The ROI calculator models two cost categories. Direct vendor spend is the sum of all monthly invoices your organization pays across its fragmented IT and security stack. Staff management cost is the loaded hourly cost of the internal time consumed managing those vendors — escalations, integration work, invoice reconciliation, executive reporting.
Consolidation savings model. The calculator assumes a 25% reduction in direct vendor spend and a 70% reduction in staff vendor-management cost. These are illustrative scenario inputs, not verified typical client results or guaranteed savings. Actual savings depend on your contracts, baseline, transition costs, and agreed scope.
Conservative assumptions. The calculator deliberately excludes harder-to-quantify benefits: reduced MTTR during incidents, lower insurance premiums, improved compliance posture, and the opportunity cost of executive attention freed from vendor management. These are real, but we do not claim them in the model.