Where is the margin hiding?
Margin expansion, measured to the dollar.
Aria finds waste the org chart can't see — duplicated work, idle tooling, coordination tax, manual effort ripe for automation. Then Aria deploys the agents that eliminate it and proves the savings.
What Aria does in Cost Takeout.
- 01 / 04CapabilityWaste, itemized
Waste, itemized
Every dollar of operational waste tagged to a specific workflow, with the assumptions and evidence that size it.
- 02 / 04CapabilityROI-ranked, not politics-ranked
ROI-ranked, not politics-ranked
The takeout backlog is ordered by dollar impact per week of effort — not by who in the org is loudest.
- 03 / 04CapabilityDeployed, not recommended
Deployed, not recommended
Aria deploys the agents against the top items. The deliverable is a lower cost base, not a slide deck.
- 04 / 04CapabilityAudit-ready proof
Audit-ready proof
Before and after, with methodology disclosed, ready for an operating partner or audit committee to interrogate.
How Aria runs Cost Takeout, end to end.
- Assessment
Observe where the cost actually lives.
Aria watches where time, effort and tooling-spend actually accrue — not where the budget says they should. Read-only, systems-of-record, full audit trail.
Artifact · Live cost observationLive cost observationObserving- Customer-onboarding KYC duplication$2.8M · 112 hrs
- Quarterly forecast reconciliation$2.1M · 76 hrs
- Vendor-invoice coding$1.7M · 58 hrs
- Waste inventory
Itemize the waste with its methodology.
Every dollar of waste tagged to a specific workflow, with the sizing assumptions and benchmark sources disclosed. No mystery numbers, nothing to take on faith.
Artifact · Methodology-backed waste inventoryMethodology-backed waste inventoryMapping- Quarterly forecast reconciliation$2.1M · 76 hrs
- Vendor-invoice coding$1.7M · 58 hrs
- Employee provisioning$1.4M · 44 hrs
- ROI prioritization
Rank the takeout backlog.
Ordered by dollar impact per week of effort. The protected-by-politics items become visible and the easy wins get sequenced first.
Artifact · Ranked takeout backlogRanked takeout backlogRanking- Vendor-invoice coding$1.7M · 58 hrs
- Employee provisioning$1.4M · 44 hrs
- Quality inspection batching$1.3M · 38 hrs
- Agent deployment
Deploy agents against the top items.
The deliverable is a lower cost base, not a recommendation memo. Agents replace the work that doesn't need a human, with auditing and a kill switch.
Artifact · Deployed takeout agentsDeployed takeout agentsDeploying- Vendor-invoice coding$1.7M · 58 hrs
- Employee provisioning$1.4M · 44 hrs
- Quality inspection batching$1.3M · 38 hrs
- Savings tracker
Prove the savings, audit-style.
Before-and-after telemetry with methodology disclosed — ready for an operating partner, audit committee or CFO to interrogate in detail.
Artifact · Board-grade savings reportBoard-grade savings reportProving- Vendor-invoice coding$1.7M · 58 hrs
- Employee provisioning$1.4M · 44 hrs
- Quality inspection batching$1.3M · 38 hrs
“Waste is an engineering problem, not a political one. Rank the items, disclose the methodology, let the dollars decide.”Aria methodology · Cost Takeout
What Aria ships.
Every engagement surfaces as a live Synapse workspace. The readout below is how Cost Takeout looks the week it ships — scenario data from the published live demo.
- Customer-onboarding KYC duplicationCriticalThree systems recompute the same check$2.8M · 112 hrs
- Quarterly forecast reconciliationCriticalManual roll-up across six spreadsheets$2.1M · 76 hrs
- Vendor-invoice codingWatch80% invoices fit five GL patterns$1.7M · 58 hrs
- Employee provisioningWatch12-step ticket flow across 4 owners$1.4M · 44 hrs
- Quality inspection batchingOn trackLot-size policy outdated since 2019$1.3M · 38 hrs
Setting a new standard for operating intelligence.
“The findings were gold.”VP · Electric Grid Operations
- Client
- Fortune 500 energy utility
- 20,000+ employees · U.S. regulated utility
- Scope
- Electric Grid Operations
- Three-week diagnostic
- What Aria found
- Fifteen automations identified. Eighty percent of operational time mapped to repetitive work — all sized, ranked and handed off to the operating team.
What you leave with.
Artifacts that outlive the engagement — every deliverable grounded in the operating model Aria builds during the assessment, maintained live after close.
- Ranked waste inventory with sizing methodology
- Automation candidate roadmap
- Deployed agents against top-ranked items
- Savings tracker fit for operating partner review
Explore the surfaces behind every engagement.
Every Aria engagement rides on the same four product surfaces — whichever solution you scope, you get the same assessment cadence, agent deployment, interview system, and research model.
- Operating readoutOperating readout
Assessment & Diagnosis
The six-week operational intelligence assessment behind every engagement.
Explore - Autonomous agentsKYC triage agentLiveThroughput+38%Cycle time−44%Exceptions2Running
Agent Deployment
Custom AI agents that ship against measured waste — success criteria up front.
Explore - Conversation intelligenceARA
Stakeholder Interviews
Aria runs targeted operator interviews to close the gaps the systems can't fill.
Explore - ResearchMcKinsey 7SSCORPorter 5FBLSFREDIBISWorldAPQC PCF
Aria V1 Research Model
Twelve industries, forty-plus frameworks, eighteen named benchmark sources.
Explore
The questions buyers ask before signing.
If the answer isn't here, ask Aria in the live demo — Aria will answer with the same benchmark discipline the engagement uses.
How do you define “waste”?
Workflows where the inputs don't produce a corresponding output of value — duplicated work, coordination tax, idle tooling, manual effort ripe for automation. Sizing uses sector benchmark panels cited in-line.What if the waste is politically sensitive?
Aria ranks by dollars with methodology visible. You decide what to deploy against. The ranking is the argument; the deployment is a separate call.How conservative is the sizing?
Every claim has its assumptions and benchmark source visible. The same item can be stress-tested at conservative, base-case and aggressive sizings without rebuilding the analysis.Does this conflict with programs already in flight?
Usually it reinforces them — Aria provides the dollar sizing and operational evidence those programs have typically been asked to provide but never quite could.How do you stop savings from being reclaimed elsewhere?
Every takeout item ships with a monitoring agent that watches for regrowth — the same workflow under a different label. Regrowth above a threshold alerts the operating partner with the evidence attached.Does this work on complex cost structures — allocations, shared services?
Yes. Aria models waste at the workflow level, which lets you trace it through allocations to the consuming cost center. The methodology is disclosed, so the CFO's team can challenge any assumption in-place.What's the commercial model?
Fixed-fee assessment. Agent deployment priced per workflow with success-based sizing — if the deployment doesn't meet declared savings criteria, it doesn't renew. Savings are tracked independently by finance against the baseline.
Margin expansion, measured to the dollar.
Book a demo and see how Aria works through Cost Takeout.