adeo
For advisory firmsAustralia
Sector · Accounting & CFO advisory Fixed-fee · Transparent

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 makes the observation actionable.

Why now Sector pressure points

Why accountants refer us.

№ 01

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.

№ 02

"Ask your MSP" is a dead end.

Without an independent technical reference, the conversation ends with the same party who set the pattern being asked to assess it.

№ 03

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.

№ 04

One instrument, fixed fee.

The MSP Value & Performance Quick-Scan. Five business days, from A$3,500, a single readable deliverable your client can use in a renegotiation.

№ 05

Savings often fund the fee.

Typical first-scan findings include A$1,500–A$3,000/yr of M365 licence leakage, plus one or two off-contract invoice items. The scan pays for itself in year one more often than not.

Engagements Fixed-fee, in writing, before work begins

How Adeo works with partners.

№ 01 · Entry
Quick-Scan
From A$2,400 · five days
№ 02 · Flagship
Baseline Audit
A$7,500 – 15,500
№ 03 · Ongoing
vCIO Retainer
Quoted per engagement
Recurring · Artefact
Adeo Pulse
A$550 – 850 / month

Full engagement details and fees 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 typically surfaces in a first scan.

Patterns we see on a first MSP Value & Performance Quick-Scan of a 40 – 75 staff client:

  1. 01A$1,500–A$3,000 / yr of M365 licence leakage — wrong-tier assignments, dormant seats, mis-applied add-ons.
  2. 02One or two invoice items that do not map cleanly to contract — usually recurring charges for a service discontinued or out-of-scope work never pre-approved in writing.
  3. 03A roadmap item committed six months ago that has not been progressed.
  4. 04A vendor markup in the 30–60% range above list pricing on at least one resold product.
  5. 05A restore-test schedule without logged evidence — a cyber-insurance renewal exposure waiting to surface.

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 with "Accountant referral" in the subject line. Reply within one business day.

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