4 hours for $3.2M in enterprise value creation
Initial audit: UPS & OnTrac contracts + 13 weeks worth of billing data. 5 minute pull. Audit walk-thru another 30 minutes.
Negotiation: Rate Shepherd writes all outreach. Shipper reviews and sends. 3–4 rounds. ~2 hours.
Post-contract monitoring: Rate Shepherd monitors billing. Ops reviews if something's flagged. ~30 mins.
Total: ~4 hours of ops team time over 2–4 months.
What that produces on a $2M/yr portco at our average savings rate:
$2M × 16% = $320K EBITDA
$320K × 10x = $3.2M in enterprise value
Fee structure: contingency only - zero fee until savings are realized
The objection is almost never the fee. It's the time.
The time is 4 hours.