With the NexaStack Independence Audit you find out right away which of your tools have a business-threatening hold on you — and what to do about it. Flat fee: $590.
Over the years, services pile up: a cloud storage tool here, a SaaS app there, a subscription nobody questions anymore. Eventually no one knows exactly which data lives where, what an outage would cost, or how expensive it would be to leave. By that point, you're locked into your current IT.
When your most important tools are no longer under your control, every problem instantly becomes a business problem. Five typical consequences:
Price increases hit you with no real negotiating position. You either keep paying or scramble to switch.
Leaving is often harder than expected, because exports, formats, permissions and processes were never cleanly documented.
If a vendor suspends or cancels your access, part of your operation instantly hangs on their decision.
When something breaks, you can often only wait — instead of getting yourself back up and running.
With third-party providers it can also be unclear who can legally access which of your data — and under what terms.
Another company decides the fate of what your business runs on — and there's nothing you can do about it. As long as everything's fine, most companies don't give it a thought. Which is exactly why it hurts so much more when things aren't fine anymore:
Dependent businesses are tied to services they don't control — and the longer it goes on, the more expensive and harder leaving becomes. Until, eventually, the quiet question hangs in the room: who really owns the business.
We review your most important software services and translate the details into a plain-language report: What's critical? What does it cost? What should be clarified or changed first?
| CAD/PLM cloud | SaaS | 9 |
| Microsoft 365 | SaaS | 9 |
| CRM | SaaS | 6 |
| File sharing | SaaS | 4 |
| ERP / Inventory | Self-host | 3 |
| Website hosting | Self-host | 2 |
You get a complete map of your external dependencies — vendor, location, data types, annual cost. All on one page.
Every dependency is scored by the same rules. No vague expert opinion, no AI black box, and no product recommendation under sales pressure.
The result is a prioritized action list: clarify now, plan for the mid-term, or deliberately leave as is. And you can act on every recommendation without us.
You're not buying a consulting call — you're buying a finished report that leadership, IT and outside providers can use right away.
Without testimonials, the product has to speak for itself. So you can look at a sample report and decide whether this style of analysis is useful to you. The data in the sample is fictional.
An example report with a plain-language verdict, next steps, an action list, vendor questions and a cost picture.
Some things in good shape, some to clarify. A second sample report is coming as soon as several variants are cleanly prepared.
An example that the audit doesn't automatically sell a rebuild. This variant is being prepared as a sample report too.
One unnecessary SaaS month, one unplanned vendor switch, or half a day of management debate often costs more. The audit gives you a solid basis for the decision beforehand.
A structured assessment of your services, a finished report with an action list, vendor questions and a cost picture. Turnaround about 1–2 weeks from when we receive your details.
Fully delivered. Fully yours.
Yes — our core offering is making companies digitally independent. And so, naturally, we also offer to implement the measures you'll find in the report. That means we're not neutral.
But that doesn't apply to our Independence Audit:
The scoring follows an openly documented logic you can check yourself.
The recommendations are categories, not products — usable by your team or a third party too.
Audit and implementation are separate products. The audit stands on its own. You're under no obligation to keep working with us afterward.
More than that: the audit is built so you can put it on another provider's desk tomorrow. That's exactly what it's for.
Request the intake form. You'll first see what details we need. Once it's filled in, the audit begins.
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