IT Investment Check · Financial services
Is Your Firm Paying Too Much for Its IT?
Regulated firms tend to pay more for IT than their peers, and often can't tell whether the premium is buying genuine operational resilience or simply reassurance. In under five minutes, this benchmarks your firm's IT investment against what a practice of your size should be spending — and checks whether it covers what the FCA, your PI insurer and client due diligence now expect.
Check My IT InvestmentFree · under five minutes · no technical knowledge needed
What you get
Three answers, not a sales brochure
Your report arrives by email as soon as you finish, with your headline result on screen straight away.
What you should be paying
A benchmark built from your own numbers — headcount, servers, offices — against Little Big Tech's standard commercial rates. Support, licences, network and the project and hardware budget most contracts leave out entirely.
What that money should buy
Twelve plain-English questions on what you're actually covered for. Price on its own proves nothing: a cheap contract that leaves you exposed is not a saving, and an expensive one is not automatically a bad deal.
Where you stand, and what to do
Your investment position, the specific gaps we'd prioritise, and how each one maps to your Technology Resilience Score™ — so you know exactly which conversation to have with your provider first.
Why it's a hard question
Nobody publishes what IT should cost
Financial services IT quotes are close to impossible to compare directly. Platform integrations, back-office systems and compliance tooling all get bundled differently, and the underlying managed service — the part that determines your actual resilience — is usually the least clearly priced element of the lot.
Price is also only half the question when you're regulated. Operational resilience expectations mean the cost of a gap includes regulatory exposure and client detriment, not just disruption. So this check looks at what you pay and what it genuinely covers, together.
Why this matters for a regulated firm
Questions people ask first
How long does it take?
Under five minutes. Three short steps: your setup, what you pay today, and twelve questions on what that covers. Estimates are fine throughout — the comparison holds up on approximate figures.
Do I need to know technical details?
No. Every question is written for a business owner or finance director, not an IT manager. "Not sure" is an available answer on all twelve coverage questions, and it's a useful one — if you can't confirm you're buying something, that's worth knowing in itself.
Is this a sales pitch?
It's a benchmark, and it can just as easily tell you that you're getting good value. Roughly speaking, if you're paying a fair rate and receiving a full service, the report says so and recommends you verify quality rather than change provider.
What if my provider does things differently?
Then the report will tell you where and by how much, which is the point. It's an indicative benchmark rather than a quotation — it can't account for something specific to your contract that we haven't asked about. What it does do is give you a defensible basis for the conversation.
What happens to my figures?
They're used to build your report, which is emailed to you. We don't share your data. If you'd like us to walk you through the result we'll offer a call, and you're free to decline it.
What's the difference between this and the Technology Resilience Score assessment?
This answers a commercial question: am I paying the right amount, and getting the right things? The Technology Resilience Score™ assessment answers a quality question: how well is each of those things actually working? Most people start here and move on to the assessment once they've seen where the gaps are.
Does this cover our platform or back-office system?
The benchmark covers the managed service, licensing, network and infrastructure underneath your systems, plus a project and hardware refresh allowance. Platform and back-office licensing is specific to your provider and sits outside the comparison — the report says so plainly rather than quietly absorbing it.
Worth reading first
The things the check asks you about
If any of the twelve questions leave you unsure, these explain why the element matters and what good looks like.
Already know your costs are fine?
The Technology Resilience Score™ assessment answers the other half of the question: not what you're paying for, but how well it's actually working. It measures your ability to prevent, withstand and recover from technology and cyber risks, and gives you a baseline you can improve against.
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