For most companies, people, technology, AI, and service providers represent some of the largest, and fastest-changing, areas of OPEX. Yet leadership often lacks a reliable way to understand where that spend is generating value, where productivity is improving, and where cost can be removed without hurting execution.
TargetBoard creates a trusted operational intelligence layer across company systems to connect cost, activity, productivity, delivery, quality, and AI adoption, helping management increase output while controlling OPEX.
Understand where people, AI tools, tokens, vendors, and other resources are being consumed, and whether the investment is producing measurable impact.
Illustrative example: A company spends $3M annually on AI tools and infrastructure. TargetBoard identifies $450K of spend concentrated in teams with low adoption and no measurable productivity improvement, enabling licenses and budgets to be reallocated or eliminated.
Identify structural inefficiencies before resorting to broad cost-cutting: duplicated work, low-utilization teams, excessive management overhead, expensive bottlenecks, poor vendor performance, and resources allocated to low-priority initiatives.
Illustrative example: A 600-person technology organization costs $90M annually. Better allocation and elimination of only 3% of inefficient capacity represents $2.7M in potential annual value, without an indiscriminate headcount reduction.
Measure whether AI, process changes, and operating initiatives are actually increasing velocity and capacity.
Illustrative example: A 200-person engineering organization improves effective delivery velocity by 12% after AI adoption and workflow changes. Instead of adding 24 people to meet increased demand, the company absorbs the growth with its existing team, avoiding approximately $4M+ of incremental annual payroll expense.
Automate the manual collection, reconciliation, and interpretation of operational data used for management reviews, QBRs, planning, financial analysis, and Board reporting.
Illustrative example: 20 executives, managers, analysts, and operations employees spend an average of five hours per month preparing and reconciling reports. At a blended loaded cost of $120/hour, automating much of this process saves $144K annually, while providing faster and more reliable information.
Late projects, poor predictability, quality problems, rework, and unresolved dependencies consume capacity that rarely appears as an explicit financial line item.
Illustrative example: TargetBoard identifies that one platform team is creating a recurring bottleneck that adds two weeks to several strategic initiatives. Correcting the constraint reduces cycle time by 15%, releases engineering capacity, and accelerates multiple revenue-generating initiatives.
Apply consistent economics to internal teams, outsourced teams, vendors, business units, or portfolio companies, comparing cost against actual output, quality, velocity, and business impact.
Illustrative example: Two service providers cost $4M annually. One delivers 30% less output at similar cost and generates materially more production issues. Management now has objective evidence to renegotiate, consolidate, or replace the provider.
TargetBoard helps leadership answer the questions a CFO and Board actually care about:
TargetBoard gives management a continuously updated, independent view of the economics behind how the company operates, turning fragmented operational data into actionable decisions about where to invest, where to optimize, and where to cut.
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