ROI · Cost of delay

The review pauses the deal. Not the cost.

A deal that sits in security review does not pause its cost. Each week ties up pipeline and burns engineering time answering the same questionnaire. Put in your numbers and see the annual figure, then see what a signed evidence report changes.

Runs in your browser Conservative defaults Every assumption labeled
01 / The calculator

Your numbers, your figure.

Four inputs on the left, the annual cost and savings on the right. Nothing is sent anywhere; the model runs live on this page.

in / your numbers

A typical deal you sell into the enterprise. Use your median, not your best.

How many deals a year reach a buyer security review.

Calendar weeks from first questionnaire to a cleared review today.

Hours your team spends per deal on questionnaires, evidence, and review calls.

Assumptions you can change

These four defaults drive the calculation. They are deliberately conservative. Adjust any one to match your own business, and the results update with it.

Salary plus overhead, per hour. Default 120, a common loaded rate for senior engineers.

Each extra week in limbo carries a chance the deal slips a quarter or is lost. Default 1.2 percent of the deal value per week, applied across the review length.

Default 0.6 weeks, about three business days, the time a buyer needs to verify a signed report and trace the findings.

The evidence is already gathered and signed. Default 6 hours to pull logs, run the audit, and hand off the report.

out / what it costs, what it saves

Annual cost today

$161,280

Review friction, current process

Annual cost with kolm

$34,008

Friction plus Full Readiness

Estimated net savings per year

$127,272

About 8.5x the $15,000 Full Readiness fee

Where the cost sitsTodayWith kolm
Deal value at risk in review$103,680$10,368
Engineering time on reviews$57,600$8,640
kolm Full Readinessnone$15,000
Total per year$161,280$34,008

Payback vs the $750 report

2 days

A single Signed Readiness Report at $750 is covered by the friction it removes in roughly 2 days.

Payback vs $15,000 Full Readiness

5 weeks

The $15,000 Full Readiness package is covered in about 5 weeks of the savings it creates.

This is an estimate, not a quote or a guarantee. It is built only from the numbers you enter and the labeled assumptions above. Deal slippage and review length vary by buyer, sector, and quarter. kolm does not warrant any outcome, and the pricing on this page is the flat, published fee. Use this to frame the conversation, then check the real figures against your own pipeline.

02 / The model

Two clocks, one annual figure.

A review stalls on two costs at once. The calculator adds them, applies them across your deals, then re-runs both with the review compressed to days.

Cost one

Deal value at risk

Each extra week a deal sits in review carries a small chance it slips a quarter or is lost. We multiply the contract value by a conservative weekly risk and by the number of weeks in review. Shorten the review and that exposure shrinks with it.

contract value x weekly risk x weeks

Cost two

Engineering time

Every review pulls engineers off the roadmap to answer questionnaires, assemble evidence, and join review calls. We price those hours at a fully loaded rate. A signed report that ships the evidence up front cuts the hours per deal.

hours per review x loaded rate

The comparison

Then add the fee

The projected side keeps a short review and a few hours per deal, then adds the published kolm fee so nothing is hidden. Net savings is today minus that total. Payback is the published fee divided by the friction the report removes.

today minus (friction + fee)

CUMULATIVE COST / 12 MONTHSlive
cost to date M3 M6 M9 M12 current process with kolm
PAY ONCE fee up front, then flat gap = cumulative saving
Pay once, climb slowly. Staying on the manual review accrues friction every month; with kolm the running total flattens after the up-front fee, and the gap is the cumulative saving.

The same audit that drives this estimate ends in an Ed25519-signed report your buyer verifies offline. See how it works, or open a sample report.

03 / Why it holds up

Conservative on purpose.

A calculator only helps if a buyer's finance team would sign off on it. Each default is set low, and each is yours to override.

No inflated win-rate

Risk, not certainty

We never assume a stalled deal is lost. The model applies a small per-week probability to the deal value, so a long review only ever puts a fraction of pipeline at risk.

No free lunch

The fee is in the total

The published kolm fee is added to the projected side before savings are shown. The number you see is after paying for the report, not before.

No hidden hours

kolm reviews still cost time

The compressed path keeps real engineering hours and a real review window. We shorten the clock, we do not zero it out.

Want the figures behind the published prices instead? Every fee is flat and listed on the pricing page.

Run the scan. Shorten the clock.

Start with a free signed scan, then hand your buyer a report they verify in their own browser. The review takes days, not weeks.

Ed25519-signed Offline-verifiable Sample report

Caveats: Scope is contractual. Permission posture, redaction and audit-trail integrity are assessed. Injection is tested and reported, not warranted.