A Family Office Club company 19 Years Operating· 300 Community Events· 16 Million Registered Members· $1 Billion+ in Transactions

Sunlight is the best cost disinfectant.

5-minute diagnostic. No risk. Save $50,000–$500,000+. Zero upfront cost. First savings within 30 days. Our only fee: 11% of money saved over 3 years.

  • 19years
  • 16Mmembers
  • $1B+community txns

From our Family Office Club parent.

I. Engagement model Contingent · No-risk

How the model works.

The first audit is 15 minutes of your time. We pick 2–3 focused areas, dig in, and come back with what we found. Fee applies only to verified savings.

i.

Diagnostic

Statements and invoices reviewed against benchmarks across 55+ cost categories. Findings returned within ten business days.

ii.

Renegotiation

Specialist partners renegotiate vendors with outside counsel beside them. The client approves every change before it ships.

iii.

Verified savings

Realized savings are tracked monthly. Fee applies only to reductions that have hit the client’s bank account.

iv.

30-day exit

Walk away with thirty days’ notice. No early-termination fees. Year-1 share is calculated only on savings already deposited in the client’s account — never on projections.

Year 1 to client 80%
Year 2 to client 90%
Year 3+ to client 95%
Estimator

Three questions. A savings range.

Move the sliders, pick a sector. The estimate updates against current benchmark data across 55+ cost categories. We will follow up with a written, category-itemised version sent to your inbox.

i. Annual vendor spend$1.5M
$250K$20M+
ii. Active vendors40
5200+
iii. SectorReal estate
Estimated Year 1 identified savings

$248K$413K

Modeled at 15–25% of vendor spend, weighted by sector and vendor density. First audit covers 2–3 focused categories.

Year 1 share to client80%
Year 1 net to client$198K–$330K
First savings identified~30 days

Estimates are illustrative, derived from category benchmarks and industry rate data. Actual results depend on vendor stack, contract maturity, and category mix. No commitment of any kind is created by using this tool.

II. Backed by Family Office Club · Est. 2007

16 million registered members across 300+ communities now sit behind every engagement.

Nineteen years of operating discipline, three hundred-plus institutional events, and a sixteen-million-member community now back every Expense Audit file. The diligence stack on the analysis side is the same one used to vet investments for $100M+ net-worth families.

  • 19 Years operating Founded 2007. Privately held. No outside capital.
  • 300+ Investor events held From New York and Miami to Riyadh and Singapore.
  • 16M Registered members Operators, founders, and family-office principals.
  • $1B+ Community transactions Cumulative deal volume sourced through the network.
III. Approach Aligned · Senior · Light-footprint

Audit, renegotiate, verify. Then we get paid.

Every engagement is contingent. We do not invoice for analysis, vendor work, or implementation. Our fee applies only to savings the client has verified in their own bank account.

i. Aligned incentives

Our share sunsets. Yours does not.

Twenty percent of verified savings in Year 1, ten in Year 2, five from Year 3 forward. Our share sunsets so the savings keep compounding to your bottom line.

ii. Specialist execution

Category-specialist negotiators on call.

Vendor renegotiation is delegated to a curated bench across merchant processing, healthcare, telecom, tax, banking, and insurance. Never generalists.

iii. Client-controlled change

Nothing changes without sign-off.

Every statement, contract, and savings report is reviewed line by line, in plain English, before any new vendor language ships.

iv. Light operational footprint

15 minutes to start. We do the rest.

The first audit takes 15 minutes of your time, just enough to send us financials and basics. We pick 2–3 small areas, dig in, and come back. No software to install. No team to retrain.

Hard rules

What we will not do.

  • We will not move forward without your sign-off. Every renegotiation, contract revision, and vendor change is reviewed and approved by you before anything is sent.
  • We will not touch your team, benefits, or recommend layoffs. Headcount is not a category we audit. Ever. Period.
  • We will not require new software or integrations. No platform to install. No team to retrain. No IT lift on your side.
  • We will not gainshare on revenue-touching spend. No fees on cuts to R&D, marketing, growth, or anything that drives top-line. Vendor invoices only.
IV. · The promise

Zero risk.
Real dollars back to your bottom line.

If we find nothing $0 you owe nothing
If we find savings 80% to client, Year 1 — rising to 95%
Industry benchmark 85%+ of expense audits surface recoverable savings
V. Engagement Four steps · 15 minutes to start

Four steps. First savings within 30 days.

The first audit is small and focused: send us financials, we pick 2–3 areas to dig into, and come back with what we found. Fifteen minutes is all we ask of you to begin — most clients see their first verified savings hit the bank within thirty days of engagement.

  1. i. Step One

    Send

    Statements, invoices, and current vendor contracts uploaded to a secure portal. Mutual NDA executed.

    Client time ~10 min
  2. ii. Step Two

    Analyze

    AI scans every line item against benchmark data across 55+ cost categories. Overpayments, duplicates, and unused subscriptions surfaced.

    Turnaround 10 business days
  3. iii. Step Three

    Execute

    Specialist partners renegotiate or replace vendors. Outside counsel sits beside them. Every change is queued for client approval.

    Client time ~2 hours
  4. iv. Step Four

    Save

    Realized savings are tracked monthly. Client keeps 80% of verified savings in Year 1. We earn nothing if we find nothing.

    Year 1 net 80% to client
VI. Sectors Healthcare · Real estate · Operating co.

Typical engagement modeling shows $80K to $1M+ in Year-1 identified savings.

Three core client profiles produce the highest realized savings against effort — from operating companies to family-office platforms and individual principals. Each carries a dense vendor stack with predictable categories of leakage.

i. Healthcare

Medical practice groups & physician platforms

$80K – $250K Typical Year 1 savings

Multi-location practices and physician groups. Predictable category mix with high concentration of recoverable spend.

iii. Family office & operating co.

Family offices, PE portfolios & multi-entity platforms

$150K – $1M+ Typical Year 1 savings

PE portfolio companies, family-office multi-entity platforms, founders running multiple operating businesses. Cross-entity leakage is the rule, not the exception.

VII. Your team 16 operators · 28-attorney law firm · Specialist bench

Who you’ll work with.

Sample team members from our 16-person operating team plus our vendor partner network. Your specific engagement is staffed based on the cost categories where we identify savings opportunities. Final team assignments confirmed at engagement scoping.

category. Plus a 28-attorney law firm that sends every vendor negotiation letter on official legal letterhead.

Richard C. Wilson
Richard C. Wilson CEO & Founder
Tabatha
Tabatha East Director, Expense Audit
Ellie
Ellie Hojabri Vendor Negotiation Lead
Daphny
Daphny Obregon Data & Cost Analysis
Kevin
Kevin Coulston Chief Technology Officer
Jenn
Jenn Meyers Energy & Real Estate
Rachel
Rachael Merkel Venue & Event Costs
Vanessa
Vanessa Casal Engagement Ops

Specialists assigned per engagement. Your team will be a subset of the above plus relevant vendor partners.

Outside counsel

Every vendor letter goes out on a 28-attorney law firm’s letterhead.

Through our Family Office Club parent, we have worked with the same outside counsel for years across well over 100 matters and dozens of entities. When the renegotiation calls for it, the letter goes out under their seal. Vendors take the call differently.

Meet the full team
The moat Your CFO can read invoices. Your CFO cannot put a 28-attorney law firm’s letterhead on a vendor letter, and your CFO is not backed by a 16-million-member operator network feeding live benchmark data. The team, the firm, and the network are the moat.
VIII. Results Modeled · Year One

Modeled engagement returns.

Illustrative engagement scenarios, modeled against current benchmark data. Actual results vary by vendor stack, contract maturity, and category mix.

Client annual vendor spend Typical savings rate Identified Year 1 savings Year 1 net to client
$500K 15 – 25% $100K $80K
$1M 15 – 25% $200K $160K
$3M 15 – 25% $600K $480K
$5M+ 15 – 25% $1.0M+ $800K+

Net to client reflects Year 1 retention of 80% of verified savings. Years 2 and 3+ rise to 90% and 95%, respectively. Our share sunsets so recovered dollars compound to the bottom line.

IX. Origin of the name Brandeis · Harper’s Weekly · 1913
Subject
Louis D. Brandeis (1856–1941)
Source
Library of Congress · Public domain
Date
c. 1916, Harris & Ewing
Where “Sunlight” comes from

The 113-year-old quote behind our name.

To find hidden costs, sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Louis D. Brandeis, “What Publicity Can Do,” Harper’s Weekly, December 20, 1913. Republished in Other People’s Money and How the Bankers Use It, 1914.

Brandeis wrote this line in 1913 about the banking industry. He had spent a decade exposing how banks were quietly charging hidden fees, self-dealing, and skimming from clients who had no way to see what was happening. His argument was simple: when light hits the books, the rot stops growing.

A century later, Brandeis would have been astonished at how little has changed for operating businesses. Most companies still overpay vendors by 15 to 40 percent, and nobody is going line by line through the invoices to catch it. The fees keep growing in the dark.

That is why we built Sunlight, our AI cost-audit engine. It scans every line of operating spend across 55+ categories. It finds the leaks, surfaces the duplicates, flags the overcharges, and benchmarks every contract against current market rates. Then we negotiate the savings on the client’s behalf.

Brandeis was right. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. We just made it easier to point.

X. Operator questions Most-asked · Plain English

Questions operators and principals ask first.

If we have not addressed yours, write directly to the team and we will respond within one business day.

Direct line. Tabatha, Director of Expense Audit, replies to every inbound personally during scoping. Clients@ExpenseAudit.com

Q.i What does the engagement actually cost?

Nothing upfront. Nothing for analysis or vendor work. Our fee applies only to savings the client has verified in their own bank account. In Year 1 the client retains 80% of those verified savings; the structure steps to 90% in Year 2 and 95% from Year 3 forward.

Q.ii How is this different from a procurement consultant?

We do not bill hourly and we do not produce reports. We are accountable for realized dollar reductions, not advice. The work is executed by specialist partners who own the long-term operational relationship downstream.

Q.iii How long does a full engagement take?

The first audit takes just 15 minutes of your time, enough to send us financials and the basics. We then pick 2–3 focused areas, dig in, and come back with findings. Fee applies only when verified savings hit your account.

Q.iv What is the minimum spend you work with?

For operating companies, the economics work best at $1M and above in annual revenue. For individual investors and family-office principals, we engage at $10M+ in net worth where wealth-management, advisory, banking, and insurance fees create comparable savings categories. We will accept smaller engagements selectively where the category mix is favorable.

Q.v Who actually does the renegotiation?

A curated network of category specialist partners assigned to each file. We coordinate. They execute. Our outside counsel sits beside them. The client approves every change.

Q.vi What happens after Year 3?

The client keeps 95% of every dollar saved, perpetually. Our 5% share runs alongside it, structured so recovered dollars compound to your bottom line year after year. Our incentive is to keep finding new categories to audit so the relationship continues to compound.

XI. · Free diagnostic

5‑Minute Diagnostic: Save $50,000 – $500,000+

No risk. No obligation. Our only fee is a small percentage of money we actually save you. Tell us about your business and we will come back with a specific savings estimate within 24 hours.

Your information stays confidential. We never share or sell. You will hear back from us within 24 hours.