Find the 10–30% of SaaS spend you can cut this quarter.
CIO Lens scores every application across risk, cost, strategic value, security, and adoption — then hands you a board-ready rationalization plan and the savings to fund what's next. In weeks, not a six-month rollout.
The mid-market alternative to Zylo & Productiv — no six-month rollout
Your software stack is quietly hiding your AI budget.
The waste is structural, not a one-off — and it's invisible until the renewal lands. The average mid-to-large company runs ~291 apps and spends ~$4,830 per employee on SaaS (Zylo 2025).
of licenses go unused
More than half of SaaS licenses sit idle. You're paying full price for seats nobody logs into.
Zylo 2025 SaaS Management Index
wasted per year
Companies with 1,000+ employees waste roughly $21M a year on unused licenses alone. For the mid-market, that's typically $1–3M of recoverable spend.
Zylo 2025
AI budgets rise, IT stays flat
AI budgets climb year over year while IT budgets hold flat. The waste in your stack isn't a rounding error — it's the AI budget you don't have yet.
Gartner 2026 CIO Agenda
Three steps. Weeks, not months.
Start with a free scan, see the shape of the opportunity in minutes, and — if it's worth it — turn it into a verified, board-ready plan.
Run your free scan
Send your app list — a CSV, an expense export, an SSO app report, whatever you have. We help you load it. No agents to deploy, no integrations to wire, no IT ticket.
Get an instant waste estimate
CIO Lens scores every app across risk, cost, strategic value, security, and adoption, and shows you a preliminary SaaS-waste estimate — the shape of the opportunity, labeled as an estimate.
Book a Sprint for the board pack
A fixed-scope Sprint verifies everything against your real portfolio and delivers a board-ready pack with a live readout — within 14 days of receiving your data. Savings guaranteed.
One lens for risk, cost, and strategic value.
Not another FinOps feed. CIO Lens speaks the language of the boardroom — and turns a scattered app estate into decisions you can defend.
Score every app the way the board thinks.
CIO Lens scores every application across risk × cost × strategic value × security × adoption — not just spend. You get one defensible number per app and a portfolio heatmap that shows, at a glance, what's carrying its weight and what isn't.
Decisions, not dashboards.
The Sunset Engine ranks exactly what to cut, retire, or renegotiate — each with projected savings. Vendor-concentration and renewal-leverage views show where you're over-exposed and where you hold the cards. Rationalization typically recovers 20–40% of software spend (Apptio / LeanIX / Zylo).
Bring shadow AI under governance — before the audit.
The same scoring model surfaces and scores shadow-AI and net-new AI tools across risk, data classification, and compliance. 98% of organizations report unsanctioned AI use, but only 37% have an AI policy (Forcepoint / CIO.com 2026). CIO Lens turns "we're not sure what's out there" into a ranked, governable inventory.
Walk into the board with the portfolio under control.
One click produces a board-ready pack — executive summary, top-10 savings actions, sunset shortlist, and a transparent methodology page — plus a live presentation mode for the readout. You don't leave with a dashboard login; you leave with a decision your board can sign off on.
Numbers your board can question — and that hold up.
Every recommendation ships with its rationale: the score, the inputs behind it, and a transparent methodology page. And we're honest about certainty — the free scan is a preliminary estimate; the Sprint verifies against your real portfolio.
Defensible scoring
One score per app across risk, cost, strategic value, security, and adoption — with the methodology written down, so the number survives a board question.
You keep control of your data
We work from an export you send — no credentials, no production access — and can run your assessment in a dedicated, per-client instance. We send a data-handling one-pager before you share anything, and work under your NDA.
Honest about estimates
The free Risk Scan gives a preliminary estimate from limited inputs; exact savings are verified against your real portfolio in the Sprint. Every estimate is labeled as one. Precision is the point.
The Portfolio Rationalization Sprint.
In three weeks, we'll show your board where 10–30% of your SaaS spend is recoverable — or you pay nothing.
A fixed-scope engagement that uses CIO Lens as the engine. We ingest your portfolio, score every app, rank what to sunset with projected savings, flag shadow-AI and vendor-concentration risk, and deliver a board-ready pack with a live readout. A mid-market firm at ~$10M SaaS spend, with half its licenses unused, is typically sitting on $1–3M of addressable waste. The Sprint fee is a rounding error against it.
Three guarantees
After the Sprint
Continue on a Govern subscription so the review becomes a quarterly ritual, start smaller on Assess, or simply take the board pack and act. No per-seat tax on read-only board viewers.
The mid-market alternative to heavyweight SaaS-management suites. No agents. No six-month rollout. A board pack in two weeks.
The lightweight alternative to the heavyweight suites.
Enterprise SaaS-management platforms are dashboards that need agents, SSO wiring, and a six-month rollout before they show you anything. See how CIO Lens compares.
Solcio vs. Zylo
A board-ready decision in weeks versus a six-month dashboard rollout — at a mid-market price.
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Strategic value and risk, not just engagement analytics — scored for the boardroom, not the app owner.
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From "here's your shadow IT" to "here's the board pack and the savings plan" — decisions, not discovery feeds.
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Reclaim the budget hiding in your software stack — and fund your AI roadmap with it.
Start with a free Portfolio Risk Scan. See where your spend is leaking in minutes, then decide if a Sprint is worth three weeks. No agents. No commitment.
Questions? support@solunites.com