Aaron Stahl
Founder
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 b...
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:
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Contingency Based Model:
No savings = no fee. We only get paid if we find you money.
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Forensic Expertise:
30+ years of industry experience and deep vendor knowledge.
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Vendor-Side Contract Auditing:
We go where software and generalist consultants can't.
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Proprietary Benchmark Data:
We leverage our national database of vendor benchmarks to get our clients best in class pricing.
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US-Based, Long-Standing Team:
Having been in business over 30 years, we've been doing this longer than almost all of our competitors.
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 while you get measurable results.
✓ Category experts with decades of expertise
✓ Performance based model
✓ Long term track record of success
✓ Savings found for 90% of clients
✓ Savings identified within 30 days and delivered within 90 days
✓ Average savings between 20 and 40 percent
✓ No impact to current operations
The result is a cleaner operating cost structure, better vendor leverage, and a finance team that can focus on growth instead of line-item firefighting.
Leadership That Delivers Results
For 30 plus years, our U.S.-based team has gone toe-to-toe with vendors to uncover hidden savings for clients. We do not offer advice, we deliver results.
With franchise offices across the U.S., our auditors dig into utilities, telecom, waste and recycling, merchant processing, uniform and linen, managed print, shipping, and property tax. We benchmark costs, challenge vendors directly, and keep the engagement performance based from start to finish.
Mark Cottle
CEO
As CEO of P3 Cost Analysts, Mark Cottle brings more than two decades of experience helping businesses improve financial performance and drive sustainable gro...
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 w...
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 join...
Who We Serve
Who We Serve Best
Our ideal clients have enough recurring vendor spend to make expert auditing meaningful and measurable.
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Category minimums met
Any business or organization spending above our category minimums.
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Finance leaders under pressure
CEOs, CFOs, VPs of Finance, and Controllers who need stronger cash flow without adding overhead.
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Teams that value ROI and clarity
Organizations that want real vendor visibility, cleaner reporting, and strategic cost control.
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Operators focused on core work
Clients who would rather run the business while we handle the recurring spend fight.
"We found 22% in savings without changing a single operational process." - Actual client
Qualification
Not a Fit? We’ll Tell You.
We are not for everyone. While we love small enterprises and mom and pop businesses, we cannot work with everyone. If you are spending above our category minimums, it is certainly worth letting us take a look. If you are not, then we are not a fit.
About P3 Cost Analysts
(It is not about us. It is about your bottom line.) Most companies unknowingly waste 20 to 40 percent of their spend. We exist to stop that. With 30 plus 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
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 are a company ready to stop overspending or a driven professional looking to launch your own consulting firm, we should talk.
