Solutions
Two paths.
One route.
Interact Verify is the self-serve software and tooling that evidences a decision and optimises spend through data.
Interact Advisory is the senior engagement that builds on it, where we interpret the data and align the decision. Same dataset, same authority underneath each.
Interact Verify is the tooling: self-serve software and products for observability, change, and understanding what to do next. It simulates and models the spend behind a decision, optimises on-prem and data-centre spend through the research, and is the engine that also powers Interact Advisory.
Verify is about where you are and what your next move should be. It comes at two levels, both self-serve. The first gives a quick read against your workloads and your estate. The second runs full configuration modelling, showing what changes if you go a generation older, newer, denser or wider, against the measured behaviour of comparable kit in comparable environments.
What you get
- An independent measurement-based view of the decision in front of you
- Scenario modelling against your own real workloads
- A written recommendation you can take to your finance or procurement board
- The figures behind it, defensible, auditable, repeatable
- Delivered in days, with the modelling in near real time
Where it fits
Verify is most impactful when the deal is large enough that being wrong has a real cost, typically anything from a single rack refresh through to multi-site estates. What sets the threshold is the consequence of getting it wrong.
Why this matters
Verify starts with what we have already measured, and the recommendation is whatever the data says, including, sometimes, that the right answer is to keep what you have. Evidence first, the decision follows.
The deliverable, in detail
What you actually receive at the end of a Verify engagement. The exact format evolves with the work; the structure does not.
01 · Methodology
A one-page summary of how the measurement was run, against what workload profile, and the dataset basis behind every figure in the report.
02 · Scenario modelling
Like-for-like, denser, and wider configurations evaluated against your real workload. Each scenario shows projected cost, power, footprint and headroom.
03 · Recommendation
A written recommendation we stand behind, built for the right decision first time. Includes the reasoning behind the answer, and holds up to procurement audit.
04 · Board pack
A board-ready PDF for finance or procurement sign-off, with the audit trail built in.
Interact Advisory is senior, relationship-led engagement, built on what Verify reveals. Verify is the tooling; Advisory is the interpretation and the strategic alignment. We help you read the data, decide what to do, and bring procurement, finance, engineering, leadership and sustainability to one set of measured numbers.
It is the same advisory work we do at government level, where the real question is usually what to do with the measurement. Advisory stays close enough to support implementation, helping align every stakeholder, from the engineers weighing the technical detail to the executives who need the numbers framed for a board.
What you get
- A standing senior counterpart who knows your estate
- Interpretation of the Verify data, turned into a clear decision
- Strategic alignment across procurement, finance, engineering, leadership and sustainability
- Implementation support, from recommendation to executed change
- Governance against IT efficiency, measured on your own agreed metrics
Where it fits
Advisory suits organisations refreshing on a rolling basis, banks, governments, large operators, where the procurement function is making non-trivial calls often enough that getting them right structurally beats getting them right one at a time.
Why this matters
A single evidenced decision is good. A buying motion where the whole group reads the same evidence and acts on it is a different kind of asset. Advisory is how you build the second one.
The grading underneath
A+ to F, per configuration.
Every Verify and Advisory analysis lands on a single rating Interact built for measuring real-world efficiency: A+ at the top to F at the bottom, in transactions per Watt. We calculate it against the actual configuration running on site, so the same server model in two configurations can fall several grades apart in measured efficiency. That variance is exactly what procurement decisions depend on.
For the methodology in detail, see How we grade: the A+ to F scale underneath every analysis →
The toolkit behind the evidence
The instruments underneath Verify and Advisory.
Verify and Advisory are how you engage. Underneath both sits a set of measurement instruments, drawn from the same dataset, that produce the evidence. You do not buy these separately; they are what the work is made of.
The measurement engine
Server efficiency measurement
The dataset and machine-learning model that grade every server A+ to F in transactions per Watt, against its actual configuration. This is the evidence that sits under everything else.
The live view
IT performance dashboard
For Advisory customers, the grading, consolidation opportunities and footprint sit in a dashboard that updates as the estate changes. Measurement as an ongoing capability that stays live.
Model before you move
Hardware digital twin
A digital twin of the estate lets you test refresh, consolidation and migration scenarios against measured data before any hardware is bought or moved. See the outcome before you commit the capex.
One score, every decision
Procurement balanced scorecard
Cost, performance, energy and carbon for a buying decision in one view, so finance and IT sign off the same number. Turns the dataset into a procurement decision framework.
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