Buy vs build
LeakIQ vs building it in-house.
You could build your own revenue-leak detection and recovery tooling. Here is what that really involves, and how it compares to a maintained platform that is live in a day.
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The headline figures, then every finding with its amount, the customers affected and the source records behind it.
The real cost of building it yourself
A proof of concept is quick; a dependable system is not. Connectors break when providers change their APIs, detection rules need tuning to avoid noise, and finance will ask for approvals, permissions and an audit trail before they trust it. That is an ongoing product with an owner, a roadmap and on-call, competing with the work your engineers were hired to do.
When building in-house is the right call
If revenue recovery is your core product, or you have highly unusual systems and a team ready to own the tooling indefinitely, building can make sense. For most finance and operations teams, the leak is real today and the fastest path to recovering it is a maintained platform, not a multi-quarter internal build.
What you still control with LeakIQ
Your systems stay the source of truth, LeakIQ never writes back to them. You set approval thresholds, roles and workspaces, decide which recoveries to action, and export the full audit trail whenever you want. You get the control of an in-house tool without owning the build and upkeep.
Frequently asked questions
We already have engineers, why not build it?
You can, but you'd be maintaining connectors, detection logic, approvals and an audit trail indefinitely, work that competes with your actual product. LeakIQ ships all of that maintained, for a flat monthly fee, so your team stays focused.
How long until LeakIQ pays for itself versus a build?
LeakIQ is £5,000 per workspace per month and is live in a day. An internal build is typically a quarter or more of engineering before its first recovery, plus ongoing maintenance, so LeakIQ usually pays for itself before a build would even ship.
Can we start with LeakIQ and build later?
Yes. Many teams use LeakIQ to recover revenue now and prove the value, then decide. Because LeakIQ only ever reads your systems and exports your data and audit trail, you are never locked in.
Is our data safe with a third-party platform?
Connections are read-only and scoped, credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM, every action taken in a workspace is logged to a tamper-evident audit trail, and enterprise SSO and MFA are supported. See the technical documentation for the full security posture.
See exactly what's leaking in your own data.
Tell us which systems you use and we'll produce a free revenue leakage report from your own data, yours to keep.