A live software-cost teardown
Bring One Renewal.
A private 60-minute working session for four to eight CEOs and operators. Three people bring one upcoming software renewal. The room turns four redacted facts into a next action, an owner, and a date.
Pilot 01
60minutes- Cases
- 3
- People
- 4 to 8
- Documents
- 0
The simplest description: three real software decisions, worked in the room.
The actual thing
This is a working room.
Each case starts with four facts: vendor, annual cost, paid seats, and renewal month. The participant explains the workflow. The room tests usage, operating dependence, switching effort, commercial leverage, and whether ownership deserves investigation.
Contracts stay private. The session produces a working answer and the next internal conversation. Legal, procurement, finance, and security review still happen in the company.
A sample case
Work the decision, not the document.
Current working answer
Renegotiate
The workflow still matters, but the commercial shape no longer matches actual use.
This click-through shows the structure. A live room reaches the answer from usage, dependence, switching effort, commercial leverage, and internal ownership.
The software budget is a decision system.
The 60 minutes
A hard clock. Six moves.
Frame the decision
Keep, renegotiate, replace, or investigate owning.
Set the room rules
No contracts, screenshots, recording, or sales pitch.
Work three live cases
Twelve minutes per case, with one decision at a time.
Compare the cases
Name the fact that changed each working answer.
Hand off the tools
Each participant leaves with a marked worksheet and reusable templates.
Close the room
Confirm the next conversations and return every marked worksheet.
The prepared opening case
The cash and the valuation never get added together.
The opening teaches the room how to separate steady-state savings, calendar timing, and potential enterprise value before a participant case appears on screen.
The steady-state division recovers a $500,000 build after about 6.5 months of full savings. A project-level payback must also show when contracts roll off and costs are paid.
The room promise
Bring the facts. Keep the contract.
- 01Only four facts arrive before the session.
- 02Company name stays optional.
- 03Contracts and screenshots stay with the participant.
- 04The first room is not recorded.
- 05Sam collects no participant contact information.
- 06This review packet stores nothing; any separate intake-retention promise still needs approval.
- 07There is no Runpoint pitch in the room.
The first-room hypothesis
Free once. Learn fast. Price the proven version.
The first host supplies a private room, screen, three complete four-line intakes, and a candid 20-minute debrief. Sam supplies the preparation, facilitation, and participant tools.
- First room
- Free
- Later price test
- $4,500
- Travel
- Separate
Review this version
Five decisions before anyone sees an invitation.
- 01
Does the session itself make sense?
- 02
Keep “Bring One Renewal” or rename it?
- 03
Approve the free first-room terms?
- 04
Make seven-day intake deletion a public promise?
- 05
Choose the first host only after the format is approved.