About P3 Cost Analysts

We Help Businesses Stop Wasting Money

P3 Cost Analysts is a performance-based cost reduction consulting firm that helps businesses save millions in indirect operational expenses without adding overhead or risk. Through deep forensic audits of recurring vendor costs, we uncover billing errors, overcharges, and inefficiencies in categories like waste, utilities, telecom, merchant processing, and more.

We’ve served thousands of locations across industries like manufacturing, restaurants, retail, healthcare, property management, auto dealerships, schools and universities, and many other types of organizations, delivering verified savings with zero upfront cost.

Our mission is simple: Make the backbone of America and its businesses more competitive by maximizing every dollar they spend.

Why Clients Choose P3

Most CFOs and executives suspect they’re overpaying—but lack the bandwidth, category expertise, and data to properly investigate. Others don’t realize the problem until they see the savings we uncover. Here’s why we’re different:

Contingency Based Model:

No savings = no fee. We only get paid if we find you money.

Forensic Expertise:

30+ years of industry experience and deep vendor knowledge.

Vendor-Side Contract Auditing:

We go where software and generalist consultants can’t.


Proprietary Benchmark Data:

We leverage our national database of vendor benchmarks to get our clients best in class pricing.

US-Based, Long-Standing Team:

Having been in business over 30 years, we’ve been doing this longer than almost all of our competitors.

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Our Core Offer: Risk-Free Expense Auditing

We analyze your vendor spend across waste, telecom, utilities, uniform and linen, and more then implement savings and monitor for ongoing optimization. We handle the heavy lifting; you get measurable results.

Why Clients Choose P3:

Leadership That Delivers Results

For 30+ years, our U.S.-based team has gone toe-to-toe with vendors to uncover hidden savings for our clients. We don’t offer advice, we deliver results. Our team digs deeper, negotiates harder, and ensures you only pay what’s fair.

With franchise offices across the U.S., our U.S.-based team of industry-leading auditors digs into expenses like utilities, telecom, waste and recycling, merchant processing, uniform and linen, managed print, shipping, and property tax. We don’t just review invoices, we forensically analyze them, benchmark costs across industries, and negotiate directly with vendors on your behalf. That is why over 90% of the thousands of companies we have served, from small businesses to Fortune 500s, have realized real refunds and sustainable savings, many in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. And because our model is 100% risk free, you only pay if we deliver results.

Aaron Stahl

CEO
Aaron founded P3 Cost Analysts at just 22 years old with a simple mission: help businesses stop overpaying and keep more of their hard-earned profits. What began with helping clients uncover savings on waste expenses has grown into a national firm serving thousands of organizations across multiple industries.

Scott Swearingen

Vice President
Scott joined P3 Cost Analysts in 2008 and quickly became a driving force in the company’s growth. With a background working for one of the nation’s largest waste haulers, he brought insider knowledge to P3 that has since helped thousands of clients uncover overcharges and save millions.

Colby Ezell, CFA

CFO
As CFO and partner at P3 Cost Analysts, Colby brings more than a decade of financial leadership and hands-on cost reduction expertise to the firm. Since joining P3, he has led audits for more than 100 clients, uncovering significant savings and strengthening financial performance across industries.

Who We Serve Best

Our ideal clients include:

Any business or organization spending above our category minimums

CEO’s, CFOs, VPs of Finance, and Controllers under pressure to improve cash flow

Those who value ROI, financial clarity, and strategic vendor management

Clients who value focusing on their core competencies while we drive value for them by focusing on ours.

“We found 22% in savings without changing a single operational process.” – Actual client

Not a Fit?
We’ll Tell You.

We’re not for everyone. While we love small enterprises and the mom and pops businesses out there, we can’t work with everyone. If you are spending above our category minimums, we are a fit and it’s certainly worth letting us take a look. If you aren’t spending above those minimums though, then we aren’t a fit.

About P3 Cost Analysts

(It’s Not About Us. It’s About Your Bottom Line.)

Most companies unknowingly waste 20–40% of their spend. We exist to stop that.
With 30+ years of exposing hidden costs, P3 Cost Analysts has helped thousands of businesses keep millions in profits that vendors tried to quietly take.

Mission

We empower executive teams to boost cash flow by deploying our proprietary vendor benchmarks and category expertise to expose and eliminate needless vendor costs in 90 days, turning cost control into a strategic advantage that outpaces competitors.

Vision

Empower 10,000 enterprises to reclaim $1 billion in overhead spend and double their capacity to grow and retain employees.

What Makes Us Different

P3 Cost Analysts combines detailed invoice audits, proprietary vendor benchmarks, and strategic vendor engagement to uncover hidden costs fast, delivering measurable savings in as little as 90 days. Our risk-free approach helps clients reduce overhead without operational disruption.

Join Us As a Client or Franchise Partner

P3 is the only cost reduction firm offering a U.S. franchise model, giving entrepreneurs a chance to build recurring revenue by helping businesses save.

If you’re a company ready to stop overspending or a driven professional looking to launch your own consulting firm we should talk.

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