Pricing
A Pricing Model Designed for Executive Sponsor Governance
Pricing is designed for clarity, predictability, Sponsor-Side control, and broad organizational alignment.
Alentra's pricing model reflects the same discipline that governs Sponsor Intent: clear responsibilities, transparent scope, separation of duties, and defined outcomes. Every offering is structured so Executive Sponsors understand exactly what they are purchasing, why it matters, and how it supports their ability to govern Sponsor Intent throughout the Enterprise Transformation Program lifecycle and ongoing operations.
Pricing is based on governance capabilities, governance complexity, and defined outcomes rather than staffing levels, utilization rates, seat consumption, or time-and-materials consulting labor. There are no retainers, no blended-rate structures, and no hidden services. Every engagement and subscription has a defined purpose, defined scope, and defined pricing model.
The pricing model also reflects a deliberate separation of responsibilities. Strategy firms create strategy. Implementation partners implement. GRC platforms govern controls. The CFO-TA is the Executive Sponsor Platform. It helps Executive Sponsors govern Business Intent, Scope Intent, and Transformation Approach Intent, the three Sponsor-owned responsibilities that together form Sponsor Intent, the Executive Sponsor-owned expression of purpose and foundation of the Transformation Definition.
The license is not priced as implementation labor, software consumption, or advisory time because it serves a different purpose. It establishes, preserves, validates, monitors, improves, and proves Sponsor Intent, the governing artifact against which future software, delivery, governance, operational, and AI decisions are ultimately evaluated.
Who This Pricing Is For
Our pricing is designed for organizations that want a structured approach to governing Sponsor Intent rather than a traditional consulting relationship.
It is appropriate for Executive Sponsors, transformation leaders, and Business-Side stakeholders who want greater clarity regarding governance, accountability, alignment, and intended outcomes while maintaining independence from software vendors, implementation partners, and delivery incentives. Business Intent Design should be performed independently from software selection, contracting, implementation, and governance tooling. The objective is preserving alignment between organizational intent and organizational execution.
Organizations seeking labor-based consulting, staff augmentation, or outsourced delivery services may find traditional consulting models a better fit. Organizations seeking Intent Governance, Sponsor Intent clarity, and predictable investment structures are typically a stronger fit for The CFO-TA.
Understand the Value Behind the Platform
The CFO-TA supports twelve integrated value opportunities across the Transformation Program lifecycle. Clients receive the complete Executive Sponsor Platform and focus first where stronger Sponsor governance can create the greatest immediate value.
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The Pricing Architecture
Alentra's pricing is organized into five offering categories. Each category serves a distinct purpose within the overall governance model and can be engaged independently or combined based on organizational needs.
The CFO-TA Trial
The CFO-TA Trial provides a practical, low-risk way to experience The CFO-TA before broader adoption.
Delivered through SILMS within the client's environment, the Trial allows Sponsors and Business-Side leaders to evaluate both the platform and the Intent Governance approach while creating meaningful Sponsor Intent Assets (SIAs) within one or more selected operating domains. The Trial is a bounded engagement with defined operating domains, defined functionality, defined deliverables, and a defined evaluation period designed to provide sufficient time and capability for meaningful evaluation while preserving a clear decision point regarding broader adoption.
Pricing is determined primarily by the number of operating domains included in the Trial and the scope of Business Intent Design activities being performed. Trial fees are fixed, prepaid, and fully credited toward The CFO-TA Platform license.
The Trial is designed to answer a simple question: "Should we adopt The CFO-TA?"
The CFO-TA Platform
The CFO-TA Platform provides access to The CFO-TA and Sponsor Intent Lifecycle Management Studio (SILMS), a major platform capability used to establish, preserve, validate, monitor, improve, and prove Sponsor Intent. Together they provide Executive Sponsors with a durable Business-Side capability for governing Sponsor Intent throughout the Enterprise Transformation Program lifecycle and ongoing operations.
The CFO-TA is the Executive Sponsor Platform. It is a Business-Side platform purpose-built for Executive Sponsors responsible for major transformation investments. The platform helps Executive Sponsors govern their three Sponsor-owned responsibilities: Business Intent, Scope Intent, and Transformation Approach Intent. Together these form Sponsor Intent, the Executive Sponsor-owned expression of purpose and foundation of the Transformation Definition.
Organizations use The CFO-TA Platform to establish, preserve, validate, monitor, improve, and prove Sponsor Intent while maintaining alignment between leadership intent and operational reality. SILMS serves as the authoritative Sponsor Intent repository and governance workspace through which approved Sponsor Intent can be structured, governed, maintained, referenced, and operationalized.
The platform is typically licensed through six-month or twelve-month subscription terms. The subscription includes The CFO-TA, SILMS, Leadership Signals (Micro-Videos), platform updates, customer support, and governance support within the licensed scope. Pricing is determined primarily by governance complexity, operating domains, lifecycle coverage, subscription duration, governance participation, and the scope of Sponsor Intent Lifecycle Management being supported.
Governance authority remains intentionally concentrated. Sponsor Intent visibility may be broadly distributed.
If a subscription is not renewed, access to The CFO-TA Platform and SILMS governance functionality ends at the conclusion of the licensed term. Prior to expiration, the client receives a static export of Sponsor Intent artifacts and a current extract of SILMS contents. The client retains these materials, but active platform functionality, SILMS capabilities, updates, and ongoing support cease unless the subscription is renewed.
Organizations may renew, expand, or modify their subscription at the conclusion of any licensed term.
Transformation Accelerators
Transformation Accelerators are focused, fixed-scope engagements designed to provide targeted support within a bounded business challenge, operating domain, transformation activity, or governance need.
Accelerators help organizations accelerate progress, improve readiness, strengthen alignment, clarify decisions, or address specific business issues without requiring a larger engagement. The Business Intent Design Accelerator is one example. Additional Accelerators may address other specialized challenges as organizational needs evolve.
Pricing varies based on the specific Accelerator, the scope selected, and the complexity of the situation being addressed.
Executive Advisory Blocks
Executive Advisory Blocks provide fixed-fee Sponsor-Side leadership support for significant decisions, governance questions, escalation events, partner requests, alignment challenges, executive preparation, and other situations where additional leadership guidance is valuable.
These engagements are intentionally flexible and can be activated when needed without requiring a broader consulting engagement. Executive Advisory Blocks provide access to experienced transformation leadership while maintaining a clear distinction between governance guidance and delivery execution.
PM+ (Project Management Plus)
PM+ provides execution-oriented support for coordination, documentation, meeting facilitation, planning activities, RAID management, and related Transformation Program support activities.
PM+ exists to supplement execution capacity while keeping governance responsibilities and delivery responsibilities clearly separated. Organizations may engage PM+ independently or alongside other offerings depending on their needs.
CFO-TA Pricing Parameters
Alentra pricing is determined by governance complexity, not company size.
While each offering has its own pricing model, four common factors influence overall scope and investment.
1. Governance Complexity
Pricing scales with the governance surface area that must be supported.
Complexity may be influenced by:
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Number of operating domains
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Number of business processes involved
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Number of systems affected
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Depth of integrations and dependencies
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Breadth of governance participation
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Volume and criticality of Sponsor-Side decisions
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Complexity of accountability requirements
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Complexity of evidence requirements
The greater the complexity, the greater the level of structure, governance, alignment, and support required.
2. Lifecycle Coverage
Organizations may engage The CFO-TA across one or more lifecycle phases.
Examples may include:
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Plan Phase (Transformation Strategy)
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Source Phase (Solution Selection)
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Implement Phase (Govern Implementation)
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Value Realization Phase (Prove Outcomes)
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Operations Phase (Sustain Intent for AI & Operations)
Some organizations begin with a single phase while others engage across multiple phases. Broader lifecycle coverage generally increases governance scope and support requirements.
3. Subscription Duration
For platform-based engagements, pricing also reflects the duration of the licensed term.
The CFO-TA Platform is typically licensed through fixed-term subscription periods of six or twelve months. Longer subscription terms provide extended access to The CFO-TA Platform, SILMS functionality, Leadership Signals (Micro-Videos), updates, customer support, and governance support.
Trial engagements, Transformation Accelerators, Executive Advisory Blocks, and PM+ are fixed-scope engagements and are not priced using subscription terms.
4. Governance Participation
The CFO-TA Platform supports multiple participation models because governing Sponsor Intent and consuming Sponsor Intent are different responsibilities.
Governance Participants are licensed users who create, review, approve, validate, maintain, and govern Sponsor Intent. These participants use The CFO-TA, SILMS, Leadership Signals (Micro-Videos), Sponsor Intent Lifecycle Management processes, and AI-assisted governance capabilities.
Contributor Participants may contribute evidence, business knowledge, operational context, validation support, and domain expertise without governing Sponsor Intent. These participants assist governance activities but do not receive authority to create, approve, modify, or govern Sponsor Intent.
Reference Participants may consume approved Sponsor Intent outputs and governance artifacts. This may include approved Sponsor Intent Assets (SIAs), approved Sponsor Intent Test Cases (SITCs), approved Sponsor Intent Validation Plans (SIVPs), Conditions of Success, accountability requirements, evidence requirements, Core Business Definitions, and approved governance boundaries.
Approved External Reference Participants may include implementation partners, consulting firms, auditors, regulatory reviewers, outsourced service providers, testing teams, and other stakeholders who need visibility into approved Sponsor Intent. These participants may receive controlled access to approved outputs while remaining outside the governance environment itself.
Pricing reflects Governance Participants and the governance complexity being supported. Pricing is not primarily driven by broad organizational visibility of approved Sponsor Intent.
Why Broad Visibility Matters
Sponsor Intent creates value when it becomes the authoritative reference point used by the people responsible for consequential decisions. Executive Sponsors govern Sponsor Intent through The CFO-TA and SILMS, but successful execution depends on broader organizational alignment. Approved Sponsor Intent outputs are therefore intended to support implementation activities, Solution Selection, testing activities, operational decisions, governance reviews, value realization activities, and AI-enabled operations.
Approved SITCs illustrate this philosophy. SILMS can generate SITCs from approved SIAs, creating a structured set of Sponsor Intent-derived validation activities that can be shared with business testers, PMOs, implementation partners, systems integrators, operational leaders, and other stakeholders. SITCs are not intended to replace the broader testing program. They are intended to ensure that the specific conditions deemed material by the Executive Sponsor are visible, understood, and validated.
Broad visibility strengthens alignment while governance authority remains concentrated within licensed Governance Participants.
What Pricing Does Not Reflect
Alentra pricing is not primarily based on company size, revenue, headcount, broad employee populations, time-and-materials consulting, or traditional software consumption metrics.
Pricing reflects what must be governed rather than how large the organization is. You are not paying for consulting hours. You are investing in a governance capability designed to help leadership maintain alignment between approved Sponsor Intent and future business decisions as complexity and execution pressure increase.
You are also investing in independence. The software vendor should not be the sole authority defining the Sponsor Intent against which its software will be evaluated. The implementation partner should not be the sole authority determining whether implementation remains aligned with Sponsor Intent. Governance platforms should not become the authoritative source of the Sponsor Intent they later govern.
How Pricing Works
Leadership Intensity Drives Price
Pricing reflects the level of leadership and governance support required, not the number of hours spent.
Leadership intensity increases as complexity grows, risks escalate, stakeholder alignment becomes more difficult, accountability expands, and decisions become more consequential. Sponsors pay for governance capability at the moments that require it rather than labor consumption across the moments that do not.
Governance and Execution Remain Separate
Governance activities and execution activities are intentionally separated.
Governance-oriented offerings include:
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The CFO-TA Platform
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The CFO-TA Trial
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Transformation Accelerators
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Executive Advisory Blocks
Execution-oriented support is provided through:
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PM+
This separation preserves Sponsor independence, reduces ambiguity, and ensures accountability remains clear throughout the lifecycle.
Independence Matters
Alentra does not accept software referral fees, implementation commissions, reseller incentives, vendor compensation, or technology-placement payments.
Pricing remains aligned to Sponsor interests rather than vendor interests or implementation incentives. Independence is not simply a commercial preference. It is a governance principle. Sponsor Intent is too important to be defined, interpreted, implemented, and evaluated by the same parties.
Software vendors sell software. Implementation partners implement. GRC platforms govern controls. The CFO-TA helps Executive Sponsors establish, preserve, validate, monitor, improve, and prove Sponsor Intent throughout the Enterprise Transformation Program lifecycle. Separation of responsibilities strengthens transparency, accountability, evidence quality, and the credibility of validation throughout the transformation lifecycle.
No Retainers. No Hidden Labor.
Alentra does not use retainers, hour banks, rolling balances, ambiguous support arrangements, or open-ended consulting structures.
The CFO-TA Platform is licensed through fixed-term subscriptions. Other offerings operate as fixed-fee, clearly scoped engagements. Every engagement is fixed-fee, clearly scoped, and intentionally designed to provide predictable investment levels.
There is no hourly billing, no burn-rate risk, and no change-order-driven business model.
Payment is required before engagements begin or platform capabilities are provisioned.
Why Sponsors Prefer This Pricing Model
Many Sponsors prefer this pricing approach because it emphasizes clarity and predictability rather than consulting consumption.
The model helps organizations understand what they are purchasing, what outcomes they should expect, and how governance investments align with broader transformation objectives. Because offerings are modular and clearly defined, organizations can start small, expand thoughtfully, and engage only the capabilities appropriate for their situation.
Because pricing is aligned to governance scope rather than software utilization, organizations can concentrate licensing on Governance Participants while making approved Sponsor Intent available to a broader audience of Contributor Participants, Reference Participants, implementation partners, auditors, operational leaders, testing teams, and other approved stakeholders. Approved Sponsor Intent is designed to be broadly consumable because alignment improves when stakeholders operate from the same governing artifacts.
The result is a pricing structure that supports Sponsor-Side governance while remaining transparent, predictable, and easy to understand.
Protected Intellectual Property
Organizations are encouraged to distribute approved Sponsor Intent outputs broadly within the boundaries of their governance model. Approved SIAs, SITCs, SIVPs, Conditions of Success, accountability requirements, and other Sponsor Intent outputs are intended to support organizational alignment and operational decision making.
The CFO-TA methodology, Business Intent Design methods, Leadership Signals (Micro-Videos), AI-assisted governance capabilities, Sponsor Intent Lifecycle Management processes, validation methods, and SILMS functionality remain protected intellectual property. Stakeholders benefit from the outputs of the system without requiring access to the underlying methods used to create, govern, validate, and maintain those outputs.
This approach maximizes alignment, preserves Sponsor authority, and protects the methodologies that differentiate The CFO-TA and SILMS.
Included Customer Support
All customers receive access to live support from experienced transformation professionals who understand both the Intent Governance discipline and The CFO-TA platform.
Support is designed to help organizations answer questions, address governance challenges, and make effective use of the capabilities they have engaged. Customers may also submit enhancement requests. Alentra evaluates enhancement opportunities as part of ongoing platform evolution while preserving stability for organizations actively using the platform.
Need a budgetary estimate?
If you are evaluating The CFO-TA Trial, The CFO-TA Platform, Transformation Accelerators, Executive Advisory Blocks, or PM+, we can provide Sponsor-aligned budgetary guidance based on your intended scope.
Even if requirements are still being refined, an initial discussion can help identify the most appropriate starting point and the pricing model most closely aligned with your objectives.
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Note: Final pricing depends on your transformation phase, leadership intensity, and delivery model. We will include links to relevant offerings and invite further discussion if helpful so you can see exactly how each component aligns to your mission.