The Business Case
What Concord replaces.
When it pays for itself.
No jargon. No hand-waving. The ROI numbers your CFO needs to approve the budget and your board needs to understand the case.
The Cost of Doing Nothing
Your current tool sprawl is not free. You are paying for it in labor, missed threats, and compliance overhead — you just cannot see the invoice.
$200K+
Annual analyst labor wasted on manual correlation
Your security analysts spend 3-5 hours per incident copy-pasting between tools. At 10 incidents per week, that is 150-250 hours per year per analyst. At $80/hr fully loaded, you are burning $12K-$20K per analyst per year on data assembly instead of threat hunting. A 3-person team wastes $36K-$60K. A 5-person team: $60K-$100K. Add fraud and compliance analysts doing the same thing and the total easily exceeds $200K.
2-4 weeks
Audit prep time — every cycle
Your compliance team spends 2-4 weeks assembling evidence from multiple systems before every regulatory audit — FFIEC exam, SOC 2, HIPAA assessment, NAIC review, CMMC. Screenshots, spreadsheets, manual cross-references. Then the auditor asks one follow-up question and the whole process starts over. This happens every 12-18 months. Forever.
Up to 60%
Of alerts go completely uninvestigated
Not because your team is lazy. Because there is no way to tell which alerts matter without manually checking every tool. The ones that slip through are the ones that cross tool boundaries — which is exactly where real attacks live. (Industry studies, 2024.)
$2.9B
Annual Business Email Compromise losses (FBI)
The FBI IC3 reports $2.9B/year in BEC losses across US organizations. These are exactly the attacks that slip through when tools don't share context: the security tool sees the login anomaly, the email tool sees the impersonation attempt, the fraud tool sees the wire — and nobody connects the dots in time.
What Concord Delivers
Three configurations scaled to your stack complexity and team size. Annual license, fully inclusive — no hidden professional-services fees.
Core
Tech scale-ups, smaller regional banks
- 10 vendor integrations
- 1 compliance framework
- Semantic translation + entity resolution
- Plain-English narratives
- 5 user seats
- Business-hours support
Pro
Mid-market banks, insurance, health tech
- 20 vendor integrations
- 2 compliance frameworks
- Advanced correlation + historical analysis
- 24/7 priority support
- 15 user seats
- Quarterly business review
Enterprise
Upper-mid regulated, pre-IPO tech
- Unlimited integrations
- Unlimited frameworks
- Custom vendor mapping (SLA)
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager
- Unlimited seats
- Audit-ready evidence packages
| Included With Every License — No Hidden Costs | Details | |
|---|---|---|
| Implementation | Included | 1-3 weeks. No professional services fees. |
| Training | Included | Concord outputs plain English — your team reads stories, not raw data. |
| Hardware / Infrastructure | Included | On-prem: runs on existing hardware. Cloud: hosting included. No new servers required. |
| Ongoing Dedicated FTEs | 0 | No dedicated FTE required. Your analysts use it in their normal workflow. Quarterly tuning review: 2 hours. |
| Annual Maintenance / Upgrades | Included | Vendor mapping updates, engine improvements, and new integrations included. |
Pricing is configured to your stack size, compliance frameworks, and user count.
Concord is the only platform covering security, fraud, and compliance in a single translation layer. First 10 customers receive Founders Program pricing with 3-year locked terms.
Request PricingOptional add-ons (configured to your needs)
Contact us to scope add-ons into your license.
When It Pays for Itself
Concord replaces $310–500K per year in defensible annual cost per customer (manual correlation labor + compliance prep + tool consolidation). Even the Enterprise tier captures less than half of that value back in license spend.
Conservative
4–9 months
Labor recovery plus compliance consultant avoidance. Team-level analyst time reclaimed from manual correlation ($36–100K/year at typical team sizes, per the cost math above) plus audit-prep consulting spend avoided ($50–100K/year) = $86–200K/year recovered. Payback spans the tier range. No fraud prevention or tool retirement counted.
Realistic
3–6 months
Analyst time + exam prep reduction + one avoided compliance finding. Regulatory findings cost $25K–$100K to remediate. Avoiding a single one covers months of Concord across every tier.
Upside
Under 2 months
Organizations that retire overlapping SIEM/SOAR license spend often cover Concord on Day 1. The FBI IC3 reports $2.9B/year in Business Email Compromise losses alone — preventing a single cross-domain incident covers years of any tier.
* Payback ranges are based on Concord license pricing. Request a custom ROI analysis for your organization.
The value stack per customer (what Concord replaces annually)
Total defensible value replaced: $310–500K/year per customer.
What Improves — With Numbers
Metrics you can track from day one. Report these to your board quarterly.
Alert Investigation Rate
Your team investigates 3x more alerts without adding headcount.
Mean Time to Detect (MTTD)
Cross-system threats that took days to surface are caught in hours.
Mean Time to Respond (MTTR)
Correlated context eliminates the investigation assembly step.
Regulatory Narrative Prep
Concord drafts the narrative from correlated incident data — SAR for banks, breach notifications for healthcare, incident reports for tech. Your officer reviews and files.
Audit Evidence Assembly
Evidence collects automatically as events flow through. No more screenshot marathons.
False Positive Triage
Cross-tool correlation eliminates noise. Real threats surface. Noise drops.
Board Reporting Prep
One unified risk dashboard instead of reconciling three conflicting departmental reports.
Analyst Burnout / Turnover
Analysts investigate threats instead of assembling data across 6 dashboards.
Implementation — What It Actually Takes
No 12-month implementation project. No consultants. No migration. No disruption.
Week 1
Connect
Point your existing syslog and API feeds at Concord. Your IT team spends 2-4 hours configuring connections. Concord reads — it does not write to your systems. Zero risk to existing operations.
Week 2
Tune
Concord auto-detects your vendor stack and applies pre-built mappings. Your team reviews the first correlated incidents and adjusts priority thresholds. 1-2 hours of analyst time.
Week 3
Live
Full production. Correlated incidents, plain-English narratives, and audit evidence flowing. Your team uses Concord as their primary investigation surface. No parallel-run period needed.
What your team provides:
1 IT resource for 2-4 hours (Week 1 — syslog/API config)
1 security analyst for 1-2 hours (Week 2 — threshold review)
Existing syslog infrastructure (you already have this)
No new hardware, no new software, no new agents
Ongoing Resources — What You Need to Run It
| Resource | Time Required | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Dedicated Concord Administrator | 0 FTEs | Concord is self-maintaining. No dedicated FTE required. |
| Daily usage | Part of existing workflow | Your analysts use Concord as their investigation surface. It replaces dashboard-hopping, not their job. |
| Quarterly tuning review | 2 hours | Review correlation thresholds, check new vendor mappings, adjust priority rules. |
| Vendor mapping updates | 0 hours (automatic) | When CrowdStrike or Okta changes their log format, we update the mapping. You do nothing. |
| New tool integration | 30 minutes | Adding a new tool to Concord: point the syslog feed and the engine auto-detects the format. |
Bottom line: Concord does not create work. It eliminates it. Your team's time goes from assembling data to acting on it.
What Your Board and Auditor Care About
For your board
- One unified risk number — not three conflicting departmental reports
- Real-time risk dashboard updated continuously, not quarterly
- Clear ROI: quantified time savings + risk reduction
- Investment justified by operational savings alone — threat prevention is upside
For your auditor
- Automated evidence collection mapped to your vertical's frameworks — FFIEC/BSA/NCUA, SOC 2/ISO 27001, HIPAA/HITRUST, NAIC, or CMMC
- Control effectiveness documentation generated as events flow through
- Audit trail from raw data → correlated incident → action taken
- When the auditor asks a follow-up question, the answer is already documented
90-Day Pilot. Zero Risk.
We do not ask you to commit until you see results. The pilot runs for 90 days at no cost. We define measurable success criteria upfront — if Concord does not meet them, you walk away with zero obligation. If it does, you have the business case to present to your board already built from real data.
No cost for 90-day evaluation
Deployed in 1-3 weeks
Success criteria defined upfront
No contract until you see results
Full production data — not a demo
Your data never leaves your environment