We never audit a vendor we work with.

Why the rule exists

Audits, due diligence and vendor advisory are only worth buying if the answer is not for sale. A firm that audits a company on Monday and subcontracts to it on Tuesday has an opinion, not a verdict — whatever its report says.

What it means in practice

• If a delivery partner of ours appears in an evaluation, audit, or due diligence you hire us for, we disclose the relationship and decline that part of the engagement.
• We hold cloud certifications and technology partnerships where they serve delivery. They never earn us a commission on advice — no referral fees, no resale margins on recommendations, no kickbacks.
• When we recommend our own services — for example, the managed platform after a repatriation audit — the report says so explicitly and always prices at least one alternative we don't profit from.
• If a conflict emerges mid-engagement, you hear it from us first, in writing, with the choice of how to proceed.

What it costs us

Engagements, regularly. That is the point: a policy that never costs anything isn't a policy. We would rather lose an audit than sell you a conflicted one — the audits we do deliver are worth something precisely because of the ones we turn down.