Microsoft 365 Optimization

We find and kill the 5–6 Figures of waste hiding in your Microsoft bill

A single optimization platform for the entire Microsoft ecosystem - M365 licensing, storage, Azure consumption, and Marketplace commitments. Built for organizations with 200+ seats or $50K+ in annual Microsoft spend.

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Reclaimable / year
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1,204 seats analyzed · 40+ patterns
Right-sized Waste found
~32%

of the average tenant's Microsoft 365 spend is quietly wasted.

The waste is rarely a handful of inactive accounts. It's oversized licenses on active people who never touch the premium features, overlapping SKUs stacked on the same user, forgotten add-ons, and Copilot seats sitting idle.

Admin-center reports show you who signed in - not who actually uses what they're paying for. So the real cost hides in plain sight, and most teams only find it at renewal. By then, it's already billed.

$30M+
reclaimed to date
15 min
to connect, read-only
48 hrs
to your first results
Proven in real tenants

The 32% Isn't Theoretical

Same read-only scan, same 48-hour turnaround, across every industry we've connected. Different tenants, same story - the waste is already there.

+30
industries assessed
+250K
seats analyzed
+$30M
identified across them

Figures are annualized savings identified at assessment, named down to the individual user and SKU, across 34 completed tenant assessments. Industries we've assessed more than once are shown as a single combined row. Client names withheld under NDA.

Under the hood

Chronom Turns Scattered Signals into Savings

Chronom reads live signals across every M365 service through the Microsoft Graph API - read-only - and maps your entire tenant to show what's paid for versus what's actually used.

Every User Group License SKU Mailbox Site is evaluated.
Inactive users consuming licenses
entity · users
Detected from
No sign-in activity Zero service usage Still SKU-assigned
24%
of recoverable spend
Overprovisioned seats
entity · users · SKUs
Detected from
Feature usage below tier E5 used like E3 Premium features untouched
38%
of recoverable spend
Overlapping licenses
entity · SKUs
Detected from
Entitlement graph Capability billed twice - E5 + Power BI
16%
of recoverable spend
Idle Copilot seats
entity · add-ons
Detected from
Copilot assigned Interaction telemetry ≈ 0
13%
of recoverable spend
SharePoint storage bleed
entity · sites
Detected from
Storage growth Quota overage charges Orphaned sites
9%
of recoverable spend
These five sit inside 40+ patterns Chronom checks. Percentages are an illustrative mix - your report shows the exact split, tied to each named user.
The payoff

What Optimization Actually Returns

Not a report you file away - measurable savings, defensible decisions, and a tenant that stays lean all year.

ROI

Cut spend, fast

Recover up to 30% of your M365 bill inside 90 days - not next fiscal year, and without touching what your teams actually use.

per user

Decisions you can defend

Every recommendation names the user, the SKU and the exact annual cost - so approvals are quick and audits are painless.

Renew from strength

Walk into your EA or CSP renewal knowing precisely what to drop, downgrade or keep - and negotiate on data, not vibes.

Savings that actually land

Optional managed cleanup means Chronom's team executes the changes - findings turn into realized savings, not a backlog.

24/7

Stay lean all year

Continuous anomaly detection catches new drift the moment it appears - so waste never quietly rebuilds between renewals.

read-only

Zero risk to your tenant

Chronom connects through the Graph API in read-only mode. Nothing moves, nothing changes - until you approve it.

Who it's for

Built for the People Who Answer for the Spend

IT, finance and partners all get the same evidence - so the licence conversation stops being a debate about whose numbers are right.

  • Walk into the renewal with a defensible number - vendor-agnostic, dollar-level visibility you can put in front of the board.

  • See licence sprawl in numbers you can act on - unused, duplicated and over-provisioned seats surfaced without another spreadsheet marathon.

  • Make cost accountability a habit, not a fire drill - shared data and clear owners keep spend under control between renewals.

  • Turn savings into a repeatable service - channel-friendly by design, so partners can deliver measurable results as a margin lever.

CIO / VP of IT IT Director / Ops FinOps / Finance MSPs & Partners
$ per seat one shared view CIO IT & Ops FinOps MSPs

Frequently asked questions.

The things IT and finance teams ask before connecting a tenant.

Admin-center reports tell you who signed in. They don't tell you who actually uses what they're paying for. Chronom reads feature-level usage across every M365 service - so an E5 user who never touches a premium feature shows up as an E3, and a Copilot seat with no interaction telemetry shows up as recoverable. That's the gap where most of the ~32% hides.

We connect through the Microsoft Graph API in read-only mode - about 15 minutes to set up. We read usage signals and resource metadata, never your emails, files, or workloads. Nothing in your tenant moves or changes until you approve it.

48 hours from connection. You get an exact dollar figure, broken down by named user and SKU, showing where the waste sits and how long each item takes to recover - not a range or an industry estimate.

Around 32% of the average tenant's Microsoft 365 spend is wasted, and most organizations recover up to 30% of their bill within 90 days. We've reclaimed over $30M to date. Your assessment gives you your own number before you commit to anything.

No. We cover five domains where Microsoft money leaks: M365 licensing, SharePoint and OneDrive storage, Copilot and metered AI, cloud consumption across Azure and AWS, and agreements, commitments and Marketplace spend.

Only if you want to. Every finding names the user, the SKU and the annual cost, so your team can act on it directly. Or Chronom's team executes the changes for you - so findings turn into realized savings instead of a backlog. Either way, continuous anomaly detection catches new drift so waste doesn't quietly rebuild before your next renewal.

Chronom is built for organizations with 200+ seats or $50K+ in annual Microsoft spend. Below that, the recoverable number usually isn't worth anyone's time - and we'll tell you so. The assessment is free either way, and our fee comes out of what we actually recover.

One Audit. Real Savings.
Zero Risk.

Get a comprehensive audit of your environment and see exactly how much you can save in under 15 minutes.

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