Fees and conflicts
How OpEx Agent is paid, and who it works with
Requesting an audit costs nothing, and the free tools cost nothing. The terms of an audit are set out in writing in the reply to your request, before you send any documents; nothing is reviewed or billed until you agree. One relationship matters: requests are passed to Repackify, a sibling packaging supply and recycling business that can quote on some findings.
What is free?
- The savings estimator, the invoice check and the renewal clock. No sign-up, no email gate.
- Every guide, the glossary and the letter template.
- Sending an audit request and getting the reply.
How are audit terms set?
After you send a request, the reply sets out the scope (categories, sites, months), how documents are handled, and the terms, in writing. You can stop there. OpEx Agent is in early access, and terms are agreed per request rather than published as a price list.
How do other cost-reduction firms charge?
Knowing the common models helps you compare any offer, including ours:
| Model | How it works | What to ask |
|---|---|---|
| Contingency / shared savings | A share of measured savings for a set period; nothing if none are found. | How is a saving defined, against which baseline, and for how long is it shared? |
| Flat audit fee | A fixed price for a defined scope, whatever is found. | What exactly is in scope, and what is a follow-up worth? |
| Subscription or software | A recurring fee for ongoing checking, often per invoice or per month. | What volume makes it pay, and what does onboarding take? |
More on the arithmetic in contingency-fee consultants: how the fee math works.
Who else is involved? The Repackify disclosure
OpEx Agent’s audit requests are passed to Repackify, a sibling business that supplies packaging and pallets and buys back or recycles used packaging. That matters because some audit findings could lead to buying or selling exactly those things: recycled pallets instead of new, a buy-back route for pallets or gaylords, a packaging rebid.
- Where Repackify could quote on a finding, the finding says so.
- Every report carries this disclosure.
- You are never required to use Repackify. Each finding names the action and who could carry it out, including your current vendor.
- Freight and waste-hauling findings are about your carriers’ and haulers’ invoices and terms.