OpenText opens with a compliance finding priced at full list, plus back maintenance, plus the cost of the audit. We are the firm that takes that number apart. Founded in 2020 by former vendor compliance leadership. Buyer side only. Not affiliated with OpenText Corporation.
Seven days notice, one controlled channel. We take over first contact, scope, and the NDA so nothing reaches the vendor unmanaged.
We rebuild the effective license position against entitlements and the Additional License Authorizations before any vendor script runs.
Every line of the finding is challenged on metric definitions, indirect access, and non production use. This is where the number falls.
We settle on the buyer's terms and convert forward into a clean OpenPass agreement with audit protections written in.
The Micro Focus acquisition gave OpenText one of the widest estates in software, each product with its own metric. Breadth creates overlap, and overlap is where the opening number inflates.
A shortfall is deemed acquired at list, plus back maintenance, plus audit costs. One finding becomes three charges. We unstack it line by line until only the defensible figure remains.
Founded in 2020 by people who ran vendor compliance, we know how every finding is assembled. Nothing in the opening number is a mystery to us, so nothing in it survives unexamined.
Forty pages on the seven day notice window, the Additional License Authorizations, metric traps across ECM, Fortify, ArcSight, ALM and COBOL, indirect access, and converting a finding into an OpenPass agreement on the buyer's terms. Written by former vendor compliance leadership.
Read the playbook →The first week after a notice lands sets the whole number.
Read →The authorization clauses that inflate the opening finding.
Read →Scan submitters, not repository access, define the seat count.
Read →Burst versus sustained, and where the finding overreaches.
Read →Sent when OpenText audit activity moves, when Micro Focus authorizations change, when a metric definition shifts under a product line. No schedule, no filler. Read by general counsel, procurement, and software asset managers across thirty countries.