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01 · Packages · Capture is our full modelStart with a lighter touch.
Each package unlocks one more layer of your should-cost. Fees credit forward, so the next step up is always the cheapest one.
Before any package: a free BOM X-ray, on a call.
Bring a costed BOM and a drawing or photo of your most expensive part. On the call we tell you whether we think there's real opportunity to save, and how much conviction we have. If there isn't, we say so and stop. No savings, no fee; that's the whole model.
Spot
We price the raw-material floor on one high-spend part (often a big lever on its own) and flag the top ways to cut it.
- The raw-material floor (V0), one number
- Material-change ideas to bring that floor down
- The gap between it and the price you're quoted
- 3–5 prioritized levers, each tagged to its owner
Who it's for: early-stage founders who suspect a key part is overpriced and want proof before spending real money. We find it, you implement.
Start a Spot →Audit
We tear one product line down to its make-cost: material, processing and scrap, before packaging and freight.
- Everything in Spot
- Your make-cost (V2): material, processing, scrap / yield
- 6–12 specific cost-down opportunities with $ ranges
- The total we think you can cut, as a dollar range
Who it's for: founders or small teams on relatively simple hardware, pre- or early-revenue, who want a real make-cost teardown before a negotiation or a raise.
Start an Audit →Deep
We model your whole category or BOM, current versus optimized, with a roadmap.
- Everything in Audit
- Full landed should-cost (V3): material through freight
- All four discipline lenses applied at once
- Prioritized savings roadmap: quick wins and structural
- A written findings report for your team or board
Who it's for: teams on more complex hardware, or lean teams in volume production (roughly $1M+ / yr) who need the whole BOM worked.
Book a call →Capture
We build the full line-by-line model and go capture the savings for you.
- Everything in Deep
- The line-by-line model: machine rates, process build-up
- Implementation: RFQs, supplier moves, negotiation cover
- Savings captured & verified, paid on results
Who it's for: companies in volume production with serious spend on the line: the pay-on-results model we run across the rest of the site.
Book a call →Spot sizes it · Audit details it · Deep plans it · Capture does it.
Bigger or more complex than that? A larger or heavier BOM is a custom scope. We size it on a call, as a fixed fee or on contingency. Talk to us →
How deep your should-cost goes.
Your should-cost comes in depths. V0 is the simplest cut, just the raw material, and on many parts that alone is one of your biggest levers. V2 adds processing and scrap; V3 builds up to the full landed cost. Deeper is more complete, but every level is actionable. Below is one real example part, quoted at $500.
| Depth | What it includes | Example part (quoted $500) |
|---|---|---|
| V0 · Raw-material floor | Just the material, often a big lever on its own | $120 |
| V2 · Make-cost | + processing and scrap / yield (ex-works) | $290 |
| V3 · Full landed should-cost | + tooling, logistics, packaging: the complete picture | $410 |
On this example part you're quoted $500. The raw material is $120, about 30% of the true cost and a real lever on its own. The full landed should-cost is $410 (V3), and the gap to that quote is what we negotiate. Capture goes one level deeper still, to the line-by-line build behind every layer.
Illustrative costs for one sample hardware part, not OLV's fees or rates. Our pricing is the four packages above.
The depth ladders as you climb.
| Deliverable | Spot $1.5K | Audit $6K | Deep $18K | Capture · contingent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Should-cost floor + ratio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cost-model depth | material (V0) | + processing (V2) | full category (V3) | line-by-line |
| Category breakdown | 🔒 | make-cost | ✓ | ✓ |
| Actionable cost-down ideas | 3–5 | 6–12 | roadmap | full |
| $ savings range per idea | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cross-discipline coverage | top angle | pick focus | all four | all four |
| Current-vs-optimized + roadmap | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Line-by-line should-cost model | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Warm supplier introductions | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Implementation & execution | – | – | – | ✓ we make the moves |
| Fee credits toward next step | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | n/a |
| Turnaround | 1 week | 3 weeks | 6–8 weeks | variable |
We audit four places cost hides.
A design shop stops at the drawing. The biggest savings live in the seams between your engineer, your CFO, your logistics lead, and your sourcing lead. On our model, one team works all of them at once.
Engineering
Should-cost floor, over-spec & tolerance teardown, material and process substitution, design-for-cost, margin-stacking.
You walk away with: a per-part should-cost and a ranked list of redesign levers, each with a savings range.
Operational / Financial
Carrying cost, cash-conversion cycle (DPO / DIO / DSO), working capital in parts, landed vs ex-works, tooling amortization.
You walk away with: a cost-of-capital view of the BOM and the terms levers that free up cash.
Packaging & Freight
Chargeable-weight (volume→mass), packaging redesign and cube efficiency, Incoterms / DDP unbundling, mode and lane consolidation.
You walk away with: a freight-and-packaging savings map by lane, with the quick wins flagged.
Sourcing & Supplier
Should-cost-backed benchmarking, rebidding targets and negotiation scripts, vetted alternate-supplier shortlists, quote normalization.
You walk away with: hard negotiation targets and a shortlist of qualified alternate suppliers.
Send us your part.
Send us one part and we'll show you where the money's hiding. Start with a Spot; every fee credits forward, so going deeper is always the cheapest move.
Fees credit forward · No obligation