Kastro is a one-person independent technology practice. For advisory work, the value is clarity: what you pay for, what you actually use, where vendors have you trapped, and which changes are worth the risk.
The IT cost and vendor review is one concrete entry point: a practical review of licenses, cloud and hosting bills, MSP retainers, backup promises, renewals, and duplicate tools. You get a decision pack you can use with management, vendors, or your board.
This is not a migration sales pitch. Kastro recommends keeping what works, renegotiating what is bloated, cutting what is unused, and only replacing platforms where there is a clear business case.
what we deliver.
License and Seat Right-Sizing
Review Microsoft, Google, SaaS, security, backup, and line-of-business subscriptions for unused seats, expensive bundles, duplicate features, and renewal traps.
Cloud and Hosting Bill Review
Map workloads, hosting invoices, storage, backups, domains, monitoring, and support costs so you know what is necessary, oversized, or unclear.
MSP Contract Sanity Check
Read the support and security promises against the practical reality: response scope, backup ownership, reporting, exclusions, and renewal pressure.
Renewal and Lock-In Mapping
Build a simple register of contract dates, exit paths, data portability concerns, and the vendors that should be renegotiated first.
Backup Cost Validation
Check whether backup spend matches the systems that matter, whether restore expectations are documented, and where assumptions need testing.
Duplicate-Tool Consolidation
Find overlapping tools across email, storage, chat, CRM, automation, security, reporting, and support before adding another platform.
Negotiation Talking Points
Turn findings into plain-language arguments for vendor calls: what to cut, what to downgrade, what to challenge, and what to defer.
Savings Roadmap
Prioritized keep, cut, renegotiate, replace, and defer recommendations with practical next steps instead of a dramatic transformation plan.
real-world scenarios.
Microsoft Spend Reality Check
A 45-person professional-services firm has Microsoft 365, add-on security tools, backup licensing, and several unused SaaS subscriptions renewing at different times.
Kastro reviews license exports, invoices, renewal dates, and usage signals, then delivers a cut/keep/renegotiate roadmap before the next renewal cycle.
MSP Contract Review
A growing office pays a monthly MSP retainer but still does not know who owns backups, incident response, device security, or restore testing.
Kastro translates the contract into practical coverage, identifies gaps, and prepares questions the client can take back to the provider.
Cloud Bill and Backup Check
A small SaaS team has hosting, object storage, monitoring, and backup costs that grew quietly after launch.
Kastro maps the bill to actual business systems, flags oversized resources and unclear backup assumptions, and separates quick savings from risky changes.
ready to find the waste?
Book the IT Cost & Lock-In Review and get a plain-language decision pack before the next renewal catches you.