The advisory layer for data centers — connectivity, colocation, power & cooling, security, hardware. We benchmark the contracts, the vendors pay the bill, and the operator pays $0.
You just make the introduction. We do the rest — and it pays you a recurring book on every contract, evergreen.
Capacity is scarce, power is the new bottleneck, and operators are signing connectivity, colo, and hardware contracts faster than they can benchmark them. That speed is exactly where the overspend hides — auto-renewals, unbenchmarked circuits, and cross-connects nobody re-bid. Get in early as the credible advisor and the account compounds: every contract you fix surfaces the next one.
Three parties, three wins, one mechanism. We benchmark spend the operator already has — nothing gets ripped out, nothing costs them upfront.
We benchmark connectivity, colo, power and managed contracts and recover 15–20% of reviewed spend — without changing a working setup. Net cost to them: $0. Every engagement runs the same way — savings-share, no retainer, no upfront cost. The work funds itself out of what we recover.
A re-bid usually buys more than a lower bill — tighter SLAs, real redundancy, cleaner cross-connects, and a security posture that passes the next audit. The operator ends up more resilient, not just cheaper.
A recurring commission on every contract under management, every month, for as long as the account runs. Telecom and managed-service residuals are evergreen — one facility becomes a check that never resets.
You're not a salesperson. You make one warm introduction to an operator who trusts you — Ad Astra runs everything after. Stay as involved as you want, or hand it off. The residual is the same either way.
The work is real — and none of it is yours to do.
You don't need to be a network engineer. You need one thing — operators who trust you. We handle the rest.
VARs, MSPs, electrical & mechanical contractors, commercial real-estate & brokers, hardware reps, former DC operators — anyone with relationships inside facilities and a name worth trusting.
No technical knowledge. No selling. No managing the engagement. You open the door — we walk through it together.
You own your clients — always, full stop. We carry the same values you did when you made the introduction.
No rip-and-replace, no commitment. We map what the facility already spends and benchmark it against the market we buy in every day. Here's what the first pass covers:
Transport, IP transit, dark fiber, waves and cross-connects — re-bid against carriers we already hold paper with.
Rack, cage and suite rates, power draw, and cross-connect fees — benchmarked against current market per-kW.
Energy procurement, PUE, and monitoring — turn the second-biggest line into measurable savings.
SOC 2 / PCI / ISO readiness, DDoS, and physical security — priced and re-bid where it's overpriced.
Hybrid cloud, backup & DR, NOC and remote-hands contracts — consolidated and benchmarked.
We need only the invoices and contracts. No downtime, no change to a working environment to get the number.
A complement, never a teardown. The audit shows the operator exactly where the money is leaking, and — like everything we bring — it's built to give the facility's team time and budget back, not replace them.
This is the calculator you run live, on their real spend, on the first call. Drag their monthly IT & connectivity number and watch the recovery land. The punchline never changes: it costs them nothing.
Your first introduction pays you every month — for one conversation. You earn 40% of our margin on every contract under management, recurring, for as long as the account runs. Telecom and managed residuals don't reset. Sign the operator, and the book is yours, compounding across the facilities you know.
Make the intro and stay in: 40%. Simply hand it off: 30%. Either way it recurs every month the account runs.
The IT audit gets you in the door. The same operator buys a dozen other things — and you're already the call they make. Every silo behind the wedge is backed by a signed, vetted bench: we bring the providers, you never source a thing.
We lead with the connectivity audit because it's the easiest yes — it hands the operator money on the first call. But facilities bleed in places worth listening for — catch one of these and you've found the next door.
"Power is our biggest line and it's only going up." Energy procurement, PUE and monitoring turn the largest cost in the building into measurable, recurring savings.
"Half these circuits auto-renewed and nobody re-bid them." The cleanest first win — transport, transit and cross-connect fees re-bid against carriers we hold paper with.
"The next SOC 2 / PCI audit is going to hurt." Readiness, DDoS, and physical security re-priced and re-bid — de-risks the operator and recovers overspend.
"Lead times are brutal and we're overpaying for gear." Servers, storage, network and the refresh cadence — procurement programs cut unit cost and shorten the wait.
"We can't keep NOC and security techs." Payroll, workers' comp and a real benefits plan — better take-home and care for hard-to-retain technical staff, off the same relationship.
The audit gets you in. But one facility buys a dozen things you can fix. Toggle the services, set their spend, and watch two numbers grow together: what they save and what you earn — every year, evergreen. We target ~15% savings per line; across lines, engagements average 15–20% of reviewed spend. You earn 40% of our margin on every line — 30% if you simply make the intro and hand off.
The money's real — but it isn't the whole reason. AI is squeezing the people who do the actual work, and platforms hoard the margins. We're building the opposite: a network where the people with the relationships own the upside, and one honest introduction pays for years.
No hidden fees, no fine print — the commission's on the contract. Turns out honesty is a competitive advantage.
Every match is a three-way win — the operator gets a partner, the provider gets demand worth having, and you earn on the trust between them. When the network wins, everyone in it wins. Tired of 3% commissions? Same.
AI is the tool, not the replacement — leverage for good people, not a way to need fewer of them. We right-size it to what actually pays back — no hype, no headcount math. Built, not bought.
Ad astra — to the stars.
They don't care how you started. Only that you showed up.
The questions every operator asks first. Short answers you can say in your own words.
"There's a commission in every vendor deal — most people hide it. Ad Astra puts theirs on the contract, in writing. The vendor funds the work, so it costs you nothing, and you see exactly what they make."
"Keep them. Ad Astra benchmarks whether what you're getting is actually market — usually the fastest win is re-bidding a circuit or cross-connect that quietly auto-renewed. We're the second set of eyes, not a replacement."
"No. The audit is read-only — invoices and contracts. We only re-bid the lines that are overpriced, and nothing changes in a working environment without your sign-off. No downtime to get the number."
"We need spend and contract terms, not access to your systems. It's handled under NDA, and we never touch the production environment to run the benchmark."
"I make the introduction; if it turns into something, I earn a transparent, ongoing piece — disclosed, on the contract. I only do this for groups I'd actually vouch for."
"Can I introduce you to the people who benchmarked our connectivity and colo spend and cut it — at zero net cost?"
Nobody says no to a free second opinion on their biggest contracts.
Make the warm introduction — then hand them to us. Ad Astra runs the audit, the numbers, the proposal, and the close. You don't sell a thing; you just opened the door.
Stay as involved as you want. Sit in or step back — either way the residual is yours. "They handle a dozen things — want me to connect you on power procurement too?"
You forward; you don't recite. Copy either one, drop in the operator's name, hit send — the link does the explaining.
Subject: a free second opinion on your DC contracts Hey [First name] — quick one. We started working with a group that benchmarked our connectivity, colo and power spend and cut it at basically zero net cost, and they quietly handle the rest too — security, hardware, managed services. Worth a 2-minute look: https://adastra-advisory.io/data-centers Want me to introduce you? Costs you nothing — the vendors fund it.
Hey [First name] — that group I mentioned that benchmarked our connectivity + colo spend and cut it at zero net cost. Want an intro? Costs you nothing, vendors fund it. 2-min overview: adastra-advisory.io/data-centers
Have an operator in mind already? Send us the name → — we'll prep the intro for you.
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