One Login vs a Twelve-Person Bench: The Real Cost of Running Delivery

Here is the uncomfortable arithmetic of running delivery the traditional way. To turn ideas into funded projects, keep the commercial numbers straight and feed the board, you staff a bench — a financial modeller, a feasibility analyst, a bid manager, a PMO analyst, a BI analyst, a document controller, a quantity surveyor, a commercial manager, a planner, a risk manager, a management accountant, a governance analyst. Twelve specialists. Then you buy the tools they each live in. VERYX produces the same monthly output from one login.

You don't need twelve tools and twelve people to know where you are. You need one system that already does.

The cost nobody adds up

Take twelve mid-level specialists at UK averages. Base salary alone lands around £48,000 a month for the bench. Fully loaded — employer NI, pension, bonus, car allowances, software seats, workspace, recruitment and cover — it's comfortably £60,000+ a month, well over £700,000 a year. (Figures are illustrative UK averages; your own will differ by region and seniority.) That is before the integration tax: the time lost reconciling ten tools that never quite agree.

What one platform stands in for

VERYX isn't a to-do app. It runs the whole arc — strategy to delivery — and produces the deliverables those roles spend their month on:

• The studies — bankable feasibility from a document.
• The board packs — drafted from live numbers, not last week's slides.
• The live margin — forecast final cost and exposure across every project, now, not at month-end.
• The bids — tenders scored and a structured response drafted.
• The control — portfolio to work package on one spine, with earned value rolling up automatically.

The honest framing: this is *equivalent capacity*, not "fire everyone overnight." Some work VERYX produces outright; some it does the heavy lifting on while your expert validates and decides. Either way, a lean team on VERYX produces what a large one used to.

Right-size the price to the team

The plan that seats a twelve-person operation isn't the top tier — it's the one whose user cap covers your headcount. That's measured in the low hundreds of pounds a month, against a bench that costs five figures. Put bluntly: the software that seats the whole team costs less than a single day of one of them. Even maxed out, the most expensive plan is a fraction of the payroll it stands in for.

Want the exact numbers for your org? Book a demo and we'll model your bench against the plan that fits it — then you keep the difference. See also what VERYX does, end to end.

Keep reading

Related reading: The hidden cost of disconnected systems — and how one OS pays for itself · The benefits in numbers: faster delivery, lower cost, total control · One source of truth: a Work-Centric Common Data Environment for the whole enterprise.