Independent technology audits · Australia
We find the money hiding in your technology bills.
Symmetriq audits what Australian companies spend on cloud, software and data. We show you what you are paying for but not using — in writing, in dollars, in two weeks.
Request a technology auditWhat we audit
Five places technology money quietly stops working.
Cloud infrastructure
Commitments bought against forecasts that never happened, and capacity still running for a launch that finished.
Software licensing
Seats assigned to people who left, duplicate tools, and tiers bought for a single feature.
Data platforms
Warehouses sized for a peak, and queries scheduled hourly to serve a dashboard opened monthly.
Observability
One tag that turned a metric into four hundred thousand, and logs retained because a default said so.
Vendor contracts
Renewals nobody diarised, and entitlements that stopped matching deployment two years ago.
Essential Eight
The other reason people call: a date.
Cost work is elective — you do it when someone notices the bill. Compliance work arrives with a deadline attached: an insurance renewal, a tender, or a client security questionnaire. Usually with about three weeks' notice.
We score you against all eight ASD controls, show the evidence behind each score, and give you a costed roadmap to the level your insurer or your next tender actually requires — plus an honest read on whether your policy would pay out today.
ML1
The practical floor, and where cyber cover becomes obtainable
ML2
Increasingly the baseline most underwriters and panels reference
ML3
Critical infrastructure, defence supply chain, regulated industries
The problem
Technology spend is rarely as simple as the invoice suggests.
29%
of public cloud spend is wasted
Flexera · 2026 State of the Cloud
46%
of SaaS licences sit unused
Zylo · 2026 SaaS Management Index
A$33.6b
Australian public cloud spend, 2026
Gartner · May 2026
Published research, not our estimate. What the figures establish is that the problem is real and measured — not what your own environment will yield. That is what an audit is for.
How it works
Evidence first. Nothing changed until you decide.
Read-only access
Named platform policies, scoped to the engagement and revocable by you at any moment. Nothing in your environment can be altered.
Twelve months of evidence
Billing records, resource inventory, utilisation, licence assignment and contract terms — read against a year of data rather than a snapshot.
Every finding priced
Current cost, expected cost after the change, hours to capture it, and the risk of doing so. Ranked by return per hour of work.
A plan you own
A roadmap your engineers can run, or a fixed quote if you would rather we did. You keep the report whether you continue or not.
Evidence
What a finding actually looks like.
Illustrative composite, not a client result — approximately 21%
annualised.
One line is always left alone. Not every number is worth chasing.
Trust
We don't need control of your environment to understand it.
Send one month of billing data.
Fifteen minutes and a cost export is enough to know whether an audit pays for itself. If it doesn't, we'll say so — that's a short conversation and it costs nothing.
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