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What is your IT estate
actually costing you?
Five questions about your estate. An indicative £ figure your executive team can act on. Enter your email at the end to see the full breakdown by cost category.
Your IT invoices show what you pay. The Technical Debt Burden is the cost they do not show. It appears in your management accounts as separate line items: emergency contractor cover, IT project overruns, insurance claims that did not need to happen and the daily cost of staff working around systems that no longer integrate properly.
This estimator puts a single annual £ figure against your estate's fragility. It asks five questions about the size and condition of your IT environment, then models the structural cost categories that compound over time: emergency response, productivity drain, insurance exposure, and deal risk.
The figure it produces is illustrative: a model output and not an audit. It gives you an order of magnitude and a basis for a more serious conversation. If you want a precise, evidence-based figure your executive team can hold and act on, that is what the Sovereignty Index® produces. The result page tells you what that involves.
Your estimated Technical Debt Burden
per year
Illustrative estimate based on your answers. Actual figures vary by estate.
| Cost source | Estimated annual cost |
|---|---|
| Total Technical Debt Burden |
None of this appears as a single line in your management accounts. It is spread across emergency IT fixes, insurance renewals, deals that stall for reasons that are not traced back to the estate, and the daily drain of staff working around systems that do not integrate properly.
The Sovereignty Index® produces a precise, evidence-based version of this figure and a prioritised roadmap for reducing it.