We cut
the fat.
We read every invoice, find where your money leaks, and help you keep it. Big-hotel purchasing discipline for independents: run by a luxury-hotel purchasing director, powered by software that never gets tired of line items.
Sound familiar?
You didn't open your doors to audit invoices. That's our job.
Where the fat hides
A purchasing department, without the payroll.
- Every invoice read line by line, by software built to catch price creep.
- A real operator reviews every recommendation before you see it.
- A quarterly report that shows what you actually saved, not what we promised.
- Group-purchasing rebates set up by someone who has run Avendra and Hilton Supply Management programs, and checked so the money actually arrives.
How it works
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1Start here · FreeSend 30 days of invoices
Forward them, snap photos, or give us read-only access. Your free Spend Snapshot shows your top three leaks.
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Baseline & Savings Roadmap
We clean 90 days of purchases into one price history and hand you a plan, ranked by dollars.
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We make the cuts
Vendor bids, contract fixes, group-purchasing rebates and a waste plan. You approve; we do the legwork.
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We keep watching
Every new invoice gets checked. Prices creep back, you hear about it that week.
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Quarterly report & review
Dollars saved and what's next, as a video you watch anytime: quarterly on Watch, monthly on Partner and Group, with a call with Josh on request.
Pick your cut
Automated price watching for a single location.
- Price-drift and invoice-error alerts
- Monthly spend dashboard
- Quarterly report + video walkthrough
We watch and we do the cutting for you.
- Everything in Watch
- Vendor bid rounds and contract tracking
- Rebate enrollment and waste program
- Monthly video report + quarterly call on request
Two to five locations, one set of books.
- Everything in Partner, across sites
- Two locations included, up to five
- Location-by-location price comparison
- Monthly video report + quarterly owner call on request
Annual plans are a 12-month term, billed monthly, and renew for another 12 months unless you cancel at least 30 days before the term ends. We email you a reminder with the new price at least 60 days ahead. Leaving early costs two months of fees.
The butcher's guarantee
Ninety days after your Savings Roadmap, we measure your yearly savings against a target of three times your onboarding fee. If we fall short, we refund one-third of the shortfall, up to your full onboarding fee. Plain-English terms, no fine-print games.
Hey, I'm Josh. I've sat on your side of the invoice.
For more than a decade I've run purchasing for hotels and restaurants where every case, every contract and every fee had to earn its place.
Luxury resorts in Miami. A 685-room golf resort. Today, one of the most decorated inns in the country. I know how distributors build a price, where contracts hide their escalators, and which fees nobody remembers agreeing to. I've run the big group-purchasing programs and built the receiving checks that stop you paying for product that never came off the truck.
Here's what bugs me: the chains get all of that. Independent owners get a sales rep and a stack of invoices. I started The Cost Butcher to give the independents, the ones that will never have a purchasing department, the same edge.
- You approve every cut. Nothing changes without your OK.
- Savings are proven on your own invoices, not promised on a slide.
- Your pricing stays yours. Never shared, never sold.
Questions before the first cut?
Do I have to switch distributors?+
No. We start with the vendors you already use and get them to sharpen their pencils. We only suggest a switch when the savings are real, and only with your OK.
How much of my time does this take?+
About an hour to get going: send invoices or give read-only access, then one 60-minute Roadmap review. After that, it's video you watch anytime: a quarterly report on Watch, a monthly one on Partner and Group. Partner and Group clients can book a 30-minute call with Josh each quarter whenever they want one.
What if you don't find savings?+
Then the butcher's guarantee kicks in. Ninety days after your Roadmap, we measure the savings: price cuts on the same items, times what you actually buy in a year. If that doesn't reach three times your onboarding fee, we refund one-third of the shortfall, up to your full onboarding fee. Miss completely and you get the whole fee back. Savings you chose not to act on still count, and market-wide price shocks (think egg shortages) don't count against us.
Am I locked in?+
Pick month-to-month and you can leave with 30 days' notice. Annual plans cost about 20% less and run 12 months, then renew unless you cancel at least 30 days before the end. We email you a reminder at least 60 days ahead with your next year's price and a year in review, so a renewal never sneaks up on you. If you need out of an annual plan early, it's two months of fees, or whatever's left in the term if that's less.
Will my price go up?+
Annual prices are locked for your first 12 months. At each renewal, and on each anniversary for month-to-month plans, the price rises 4%, and we tell you in writing at least 30 days before. Any other change needs your written OK.
Is my data safe?+
Your invoices live in your own secure folder. We never share or sell them, your vendor pricing stays confidential, and we delete them within 90 days if you leave.
Do vendors pay you?+
Sometimes, and we tell you up front. A few programs we may recommend, like group-purchasing organizations or card processors, pay referral fees. Those fees help us keep your price low. Not every consultant discloses them; we put every one in writing before you join a program that pays us. Our recommendations come from your invoice data, never from who pays us. You keep every rebate. If a card processor pays us a monthly share of your fees, we credit every cent back to you for as long as you're a client. Referral fees are icing on the cake, not how we make our living.
Why a butcher?+
A good butcher trims the fat and leaves the good stuff. Same idea, applied to your invoices. (Also, "Procurement Optimization Partners" didn't fit on the apron.)
Get your free Spend Snapshot
Tell us a little about your place. We'll send instructions for forwarding 30 days of invoices, then a one-page report of your top three leaks within 2 business days of receiving them.