Software estate · ROI worksheet

What your estate costs, and what we can take off it.

Put your own numbers in. The worksheet values what a mid-market software estate costs to run today and what portion Weezzi can credibly absorb — and it shows the amounts we deliberately refuse to claim, with the reason. Every term is explained; hover any i or turn on plain-language mode.Every term used on this page is defined in the legend at the back.

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Engagement

Companies
Agencies
Mid-market construction, hospitality or real-estate group (~650 employees). In-house developers, meaningful legacy + SaaS estate. Base-case assumptions; setup included in the PoC.
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Current annual estate spend

€ / year
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Capacity and delivery

not counted as cash
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What Weezzi can absorb

Base case is the default when you pick a profile — credible for a first conversation. Switch to Conservative if the room is sceptical, or Full consolidation only when every cancellable contract is actually on the table. Every percentage stays editable, but two lines are constrained regardless of the setting, and those constraints are the reason a finance director will believe the rest.
Spend lineAddressableValue
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Builder seats

drives the licence
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150100150200
PlanSeatsAnnual licence€/seat/mo
A builder seat is someone who creates and changes applications. Everyone else uses what gets built — operators editing content, staff using the apps, customers on portals — and is not counted here. Size the seats to the people who would otherwise be raising a ticket or writing a spec.
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Weezzi commercials

on-premises
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SIFIDE II state recovery

Portugal only
0%32.547.56582.5%
How the rate is built. SIFIDE II gives a base deduction of 32.5% of eligible R&D spend, plus an incremental 50% on the amount by which this year's spend exceeds the average of the previous two years. A company already spending at this level recovers 32.5%; a first-time claimant with no prior R&D spend can reach 82.5%. Portuguese SMEs in their first two years of activity that do not use the incremental rate get 47.5%. Everything between those points is a question of how much of the spend is genuinely incremental — which is why the rate is a slider, not a promise.
What it is not. This is a deduction against corporate income tax, not a discount on our invoice and not a cash grant. It only converts to cash if there is IRC to deduct it from; unused credit carries forward to later years. Weezzi holds the Selo I&D (ANI, 2025) and supplies the technical documentation for the submission — eligibility, the qualifying amount and the applicable rate are confirmed by the client's own accountant, and the claim is filed with ANI by the end of May following the year of the spend.
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Basis of preparation

challenge these
Schedule A — three-year position

Software estate

Mid-market · on-premises deployment
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Net cash position over three years, after everything paid to Weezzi
Payback—
Year-one net—
Net present value —
Same figure with no SIFIDE claim—
Cumulative cash position, months 1–36
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Addressable run-cost removed
Annual run-rate saving—
Weezzi cost
Year one, cash out—
Year two onward, recurring—
State recovery, received later—
Net position
Year one—
Year two—
Year three—
Three-year total—
Cost per head
Estate today—
Weezzi, recurring—

If the savings land short

The same model with the annual saving scaled down. A board will ask this question; better to answer it on the page.

Savings realisedYear oneThree-year netPayback

What this model refuses to count

Every ROI calculator inflates. These are the amounts we could have claimed and did not, with the reason. Shown in accounting convention, where brackets mean a figure taken away.

Capacity released — not cash

Real value, deliberately excluded from the figures above. Nobody is made redundant; the same people build instead of maintaining.

Basis of preparation. Savings are modelled as cash removed from the run-rate, not as productivity gains. One-time fees fall in month one; the licence is billed annually.

Builder seats. The licence is a seat-banded annual fee covering unlimited applications. Only people who build and change applications need a seat.

Productivity suite. Capped at 20% because enterprise agreements are bundled. Replacing a workflow tool does not reduce the bill — only moving a user to a lower tier or off the suite does.

ERP. Fixed at zero. Core financials and statutory reporting are outside scope.

SIFIDE II. A deduction against Portuguese corporate income tax on the qualifying share of the engagement, not a discount on the fee and not a grant. The headline also carries the same position with no SIFIDE claim at all, which is the number to use outside Portugal or where there is no IRC to deduct against.

Status. Indicative worksheet for discussion. Figures are confirmed in a written proposal following the estate assessment.

Legend

Every term on this page, in plain language.

Nothing here assumes you have bought software like this before. If a word on the worksheet is doing work you cannot see, it is defined below — and the same definition appears wherever the term is used.