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You see the pattern first.
The MSP invoice that creeps, the renewal quote that tracks nothing but CPI, the licence spend that scales faster than headcount. Accountants see it before anyone else.
Sector · Accounting & CFO advisory
Fixed-fee · In writing
The instrument for the IT spend conversation.
Accountants notice the pattern first — the invoice creep, the CPI-only renewal, the licence spend scaling faster than headcount. Adeo is the independent technical reference that turns what you have noticed into a number the client can act on.
Measured againstACSC Essential Eight · APES 110 · professional-body AI guidance · your insurer's control set
Why now
Sector pressure points
Why accountants refer us.
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"Ask your MSP" is a dead end.
Without an independent technical reference, you end up asking the party that set the pattern to assess it.
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Independence sits where yours does.
Adeo takes no commissions, no resale margin, no referral fees — the same professional-ethics posture CPA and CA firms hold themselves to.
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One instrument, fixed fee.
The MSP Value & Performance Quick-Scan — days, not weeks, ending in a single readable deliverable your client can use in a renegotiation.
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Findings are quantified in dollar terms.
Where the scan finds licence leakage, off-contract invoice items, or vendor markup, the deliverable itemises each in dollar terms — line by line, with evidence — in the shape an accountant uses in a renegotiation.
Engagements
Fixed-fee, in writing, before work begins
How Adeo works with partners.
№ 01 · Entry
Quick-Scan
Scoped to one domain · days, not weeks
№ 02 · Flagship
Baseline Audit
Scoped to the engagement
№ 03 · Ongoing
Technology Advisory
By tier · sized to headcount
Recurring · Artefact
Adeo Pulse
By subscription · monthly
Full engagement details live on the Services page. Every proposal is written in advance; there are no retainers, renewals, or recurring charges without your signature.
First engagement
What the brief typically surfaces
What the scan is built to itemise.
On an MSP Value & Performance Quick-Scan of a 40 – 75 staff client, the deliverable is engineered to surface and quantify:
- 01M365 licence position — wrong-tier assignments, dormant seats, mis-applied add-ons — itemised in dollar terms, line by line.
- 02Invoice items that don't map to contract — recurring charges for discontinued services, or out-of-scope work that was never pre-approved in writing.
- 03Roadmap commitments made six or twelve months ago, against current state. Where there's a gap, it is named explicitly with date.
- 04Resold-product markup over list pricing — Microsoft, security tools, hardware. The number, with evidence, on every resold line.
The output is not an attack on the MSP. It is a document the client can use in a professional renegotiation — or, where the pattern is structural, a tender.
For partner firmsNo-cost, no product pitch
The CPD option.
For firms of six or more partners, Adeo delivers a 45-minute CPD-accredited lunch-and-learn at the firm's office: Essential Eight for your business clients — what to tell them in their 2026 audit letter. No cost, no product pitch. Adeo brings printed one-pagers; the firm brings lunch.
Independence, plainly
Adeo's only source of revenue is the fee your organisation pays us.
That limits what we can earn. It is also the product. No vendor commissions. No MSP referral fees. No resale margin. In either direction.
What we will not do
- × Run helpdesks, desktop management, or production systems.
- × Resell software, hardware, or licences.
- × Take commissions from any vendor, MSP, or insurer.
- × Brief a board without the engagement sponsor in the room.
Next step
A thirty-minute conversation, at no cost.
Email contact@adeo.au. Reply within one business day.
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