Facilities & Services
Waste, uniforms, maintenance, pest control, security, landscaping, janitorial, and recurring site services.
Expense intelligence for mid-sized businesses
Find the costs hiding in plain sight.
Glades Road Advisory helps businesses uncover unnecessary operating expense, vendor leakage, and overlooked savings opportunities—without creating a massive consulting project for your team.
Fixed feeFocused scopePractical output
FocusedStart with a small number of categories
IndependentNo software platform or product to sell
Low liftBegin with AP exports, invoices, and contracts
ActionableFindings ranked by value and practicality
The offer
Expense Reduction Assessment
A focused review of your existing spend to identify where money may be leaking out through fragmented vendors, inconsistent pricing, duplicate services, unnecessary fees, and contracts that no longer fit.
We look for
- Duplicate or overlapping vendors
- Unexpected increases, fees, and add-ons
- Inconsistent pricing across sites or departments
- Underused subscriptions and recurring services
- Contracts that have drifted above market
- Spend categories that never had a clear owner
Where opportunity often hides
Start outside your core strategic purchasing.
Many organizations manage their largest direct purchases closely. The overlooked opportunity is often in the recurring, indirect spend scattered across functions, sites, and contracts.
Technology & Telecom
Software, licenses, phones, internet, devices, managed services, and overlapping subscriptions.
Fleet & Logistics Support
Fuel programs, maintenance services, rentals, tolls, telematics, and non-core logistics expenses.
Administrative Spend
Insurance, office services, temporary labor, merchant fees, print, shipping, and other indirect categories.
How it works
A small engagement designed to produce useful answers quickly.
Share the data
Provide recent spend history, invoices, contracts, or AP exports. Together we choose the categories worth investigating.
Map the spend
Organize vendors and expenses, flag anomalies, and identify where the biggest questions and potential opportunities sit.
Investigate
Review pricing, terms, duplication, usage, and alternatives with attention on the areas most likely to matter.
Prioritize action
Receive clear findings, estimated opportunities, supporting detail, and recommended next steps.
Who it’s for
Especially useful when complexity has grown faster than oversight.
Multiple locations or business unitsSpend can fragment and pricing can drift.
Growth or recent acquisitionsLegacy vendors and contracts often survive integration.
Lean finance or procurement teamsImportant categories may be nobody’s full-time job.
Margin pressureReducing avoidable expense can be faster than chasing equivalent new revenue.
About Glades Road
Built from an operator’s point of view.
Sean Grandfield is an engineer and operating leader whose experience spans biotech R&D, industrial engineering, continuous improvement, pricing, cost-to-serve analysis, and cross-functional special projects.
Glades Road Advisory is built around a simple idea: use the information a business already has to uncover practical savings opportunities without creating a second full-time job for the client.
Glades Road is named for a family beach house—a reminder to provide clarity, direction, and a steady point of reference.
What to expect
A focused first engagement.
Is this a long consulting engagement?
No. The initial Expense Reduction Assessment is a fixed-fee engagement with a defined scope and timeline.
Do you need access to every system?
Usually not. The work can start with straightforward exports, invoices, and contracts already available to your team.
Do you replace procurement or finance?
No. The goal is to complement internal teams by focusing on indirect categories and investigations that often fall between functions.
What happens after the assessment?
You can execute recommendations internally or discuss additional support. There is no required follow-on engagement.
Start small
See whether the opportunity is worth pursuing.
A short conversation is usually enough to determine whether an Expense Reduction Assessment makes sense for your business.
Email Seansean@gladesroadadvisory.com