We correct energy cost mistakes that shouldn’t still exist — and make sure they don’t come back.
A time-bounded intervention for UK mid-market companies where energy costs, risk, or renewals have gone structurally wrong.
Not brokerage.
Not consultancy.
Not ongoing energy management.
This usually starts the same way
- Something in the energy costs doesn’t reconcile
- No one can explain it cleanly
- Fixing it internally would be politically awkward
- There is risk if it’s questioned
- And there is pressure to resolve it properly
If this feels familiar, this work is designed for that situation.
What we do, in a single sentence
We correct energy cost structures that shouldn’t exist, remove the risk those corrections create, and ensure the next contract cannot recreate the same problem.
How the engagement works
This is a controlled journey, not a bundle of services.
Phase 1 — Energy Cost Correction
We identify where the money is wrong, challenge suppliers directly, secure refunds, credits, or corrected pricing, and verify the correction through invoices or binding contract terms.
Paid only on verified correction.
Phase 2 — Risk, claims & exposure correction (conditional)
If the correction affects sustainability claims, disclosures, or audit exposure, we remove that risk and produce defensible documentation.
Paid as a fixed risk-resolution fee.
Phase 3 — Renewal control (preventative)
We prevent the same structural failure from reappearing at renewal by locking assumptions, eliminating ambiguity, and verifying implementation.
We do not broker or run tenders.
Paid as a fixed preventative fee.
What this is not
To avoid confusion, we are explicit.
We do not provide:
- Benchmarking
- Price comparison
- Free analysis
- Ongoing energy management
- Competitive tendering
- Advisory retainers
This is corrective and preventative work — not optimisation.
When we engage
We only engage when all three exist:
- Discomfort — a real issue, not curiosity
- Authority — the decision owner is involved
- Urgency — a reason it needs resolving now
If those conditions are not present, this is not the right solution.
Who typically engages us
- CFOs and Finance Directors
- Board-level decision owners
- Authorised advisors acting under mandate
Most engagements involve multi-site or contract complexity and annual energy spend above £500k.
The operating reality
In plain language:
We go into the contract, find where the money is wrong, fix it, make sure the fix shows up on the bill, remove any exposure created, and stop it happening again.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
Why “paid only on verified correction” matters
We don’t invoice for hours, workshops, or recommendations. Phase 1 is paid against a verified outcome — a credit on the account, a corrected invoice, a revised contract term. If nothing is wrong, you owe nothing. That’s not a promise; it’s how the fee is structured.
What correction looks like
A multi-site portfolio, inherited through acquisition, had no reliable record of what it was paying for.
Site details were incomplete. Suppliers were unclear. Contracts were missing. Physical meters didn’t match what was being billed.
A full audit of every site and every bill found address errors, incorrect meter references, wrong meters, excess capacity charges, and multiplier errors — recovering £218,000 in verified credits and refunds in the first year.
Delivered by our team prior to CostMaster’s formation. See our full track record →
Next step
If there is a defined problem, authority to act, and a reason it matters now, the next step is a confidential 20-minute call — not a sales call, a scoping conversation to establish whether this is correction work or something else.
No obligation. No proposal deck. If it’s not a fit, we’ll tell you directly.