Tier 1 · The wedge

Upload your contracts. Get back savings.

Vendor Intelligence is the lowest-friction way to see what Sidecar does. Send a few contracts, invoices, or renewal notices. In return you get a Vendor Review: risks, duplicate or unused spend, and a defensible savings range — each finding with the next action attached.

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Vendor Review — Shopify Partner Apps

4 findings · $7K–$10.5K/yr identified

AllDuplicate spendUnusedRenewalHigh priority

RefObservationImpactPriorityConfidence

VI-0412Yotpo and Stamped both billed for loyalty + reviews+$4,668/yrHigh91%

VI-0231Klaviyo renews on a 250K tier at 142K active profiles+$10,600/yrHigh88%

VI-0088Postscript and Attentive run SMS marketing in parallel+$3,000/yrMedium78%

VI-0105Zendesk seat dormant; Gorgias is the active helpdesk+$852/yrMedium90%

How it works

Four steps, no integrations.

Upload

Drop in contracts, invoices, or renewal notices — PDF, Word, Excel, or CSV. Nothing to connect.

Sidecar reads

Each document is parsed and analyzed against your business context and anything Sidecar already remembers about your vendors.

You get a Vendor Review

Contract risks, renewal traps, and duplicate or unused spend — each with the clause cited, a savings range, and a recommended action.

You decide

Every finding becomes a tracked recommendation. Mark it planned, in progress, or done — and capture the savings.

Where the savings hide

The waste you can't see in a billing export.

Duplicate platforms

Two tools quietly doing the same job — loyalty, SMS, helpdesk — adopted by different teams and never reconciled.

Unused licenses

Seats and tiers you're paying for above what you actually use, renewing on autopilot.

Renewal escalators

Un-negotiated price increases buried in a notice window that closes before anyone reads it.

Dormant subscriptions

Line items with no owner and no usage, surviving one billing cycle at a time.

The Recommendation framework

Not a flag. A decision.

Every Vendor Intelligence finding lands as a Sidecar Recommendation — the same six fields, every time. You see what was found, why it matters in dollars, and exactly what to do about it.

ObservationWhat was found.
ExplanationWhy it's happening.
ImpactThe dollars at stake.
RecommendationThe action to take.

Sidecar Recommendation

VI-0231

Observation

Klaviyo renews on the 250K-profile tier, but only 142K profiles are active.

Explanation

The notice window closes May 17. The renewal letter quotes a 16.7% increase on unused headroom.

Impact

Avoid a $10,600/yr increase; a right-sized tier could reduce spend by $20K+.

Recommendation

Push back before May 17, or downgrade to the tier that matches active profiles.

PriorityHigh

Confidence88%

What you get back

A review you can act on the same day.

→A Vendor Review summarizing every document you sent
→Contract risks and renewal traps, each with the clause excerpted
→Duplicate-platform and unused-license findings with a savings range
→A tracked recommendation for every finding, ranked by impact and confidence
→Durable vendor facts added to your Business Memory for next time

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