We are a team of senior consultants in business energy, telecoms, water, merchant card services, business rates appeals and business water. Every engagement is delivered in-depth, fully compliant with sector regulators, and quality-checked before it leaves our desk.
/ Our Mission
Business-Utility is the UK's end-to-end overhead consultancy. We forensically audit your invoices across electricity, gas, water, telecoms, card processing, insurance and business rates — clawing back up to six years of supplier overcharges as a lump-sum capital injection. We then re-tender every contract whole-of-market to slash your ongoing costs, enforce fair billing practices that lock in the charges your supplier actually agreed to, and put your suppliers under continuous regular performance audit so billing errors, sneaky uplifts, disputed charges and out-of-contract rates can never bleed your business again — eradicating supplier complaints for good.
Our consultants work from a single floor overlooking the City — close to the suppliers, acquirers and regulators we negotiate with daily. Every client file is opened, audited and quality-reviewed in-house, not outsourced.
The same specialists behind our live chat — real people, real desks, real case files.
Head of Energy Procurement
Former trading-desk analyst at a Big Six supplier. Leads our electricity & gas tender book and negotiates flexible and fixed contracts for multi-site portfolios.
Senior Telecoms Consultant
Ex-BT enterprise account director. Audits line rental, SIP, mobile fleet and WAN spend; recovered six-figure overcharges on legacy carrier billing.
Connectivity & Broadband Lead
Designs leased-line and full-fibre rollouts for SMEs and franchises. Specialist in circuit consolidation and SLA-backed migrations.
Head of Water Services
Chartered water auditor. Leads our business water switching and wastewater reclaim work — including surface water drainage rebates and trade effluent reviews.
Merchant Services Director
20+ years inside card acquiring. Strips out IC++ markups, scheme fee padding and PCI charges; benchmarks against direct acquirer pricing.
Commercial Insurance Specialist
Cii-qualified consultant. Reviews property, liability and fleet covers; restructures programmes to remove duplicate covers and recover consultant commission.
Waste & Recycling Consultant
Negotiates DMR, glass and food-waste contracts across hospitality and manufacturing. Specialist in lift-charge audits and weight reconciliation.
Procurement Consultant
Runs print, stationery and consumables tenders. Implements catalogue controls that hold supplier pricing for the life of the agreement.
Fleet & Fuel Card Lead
Former fuel-card BDM. Removes transaction fees, network surcharges and tied pump pricing across mixed HGV and van fleets.
SaaS & Licensing Auditor
Microsoft, Adobe and Salesforce true-up specialist. Reclaims over-licensing and renegotiates enterprise agreements at renewal.
Cloud Cost Engineer
AWS & Azure FinOps practitioner. Reserved-instance planning, idle-resource sweeps and committed-use discount negotiation.
Banking & Finance Fees Lead
Ex-business banker. Recovers unauthorised charges, FX margins and arrangement fees; benchmarks facilities against challenger banks.
Logistics & Carrier Consultant
Audits DHL, UPS, FedEx and pallet-network invoices line-by-line. Specialises in fuel surcharge recovery and zonal rebanding.
Marketing Spend Auditor
Reviews media agency contracts, programmatic spend transparency and search account waste. AVB and rebate recovery specialist.
Head of Business Rates Appeals
RICS-qualified rating surveyor. Leads our Check, Challenge, Appeal work — rateable value reductions, MCC claims and empty-rates mitigation.
HR & Payroll Services Consultant
Benchmarks payroll bureau and HRIS fees; renegotiates per-payslip pricing and removes legacy module charges.
Facilities Management Lead
Tenders cleaning, security and M&E maintenance contracts. Specialist in TUPE-safe rebids and KPI-linked pricing.
Legal Services Cost Consultant
Reviews panel-firm hourly rates, secondments and retainer structures. Negotiates fixed-fee and capped arrangements.
Accountancy Fees Specialist
Benchmarks compliance, audit and advisory fees. Restructures scopes of work so businesses only pay for what they use.
Head of Cost Review & Compliance
Oversees our cross-category audits, file quality and regulatory compliance (Ofgem, Ofwat, Ofcom and FCA-aligned conduct).
Every file is opened by a named specialist, reviewed by our compliance lead, and benchmarked against live market data before any recommendation reaches you. We hold full LOAs, audit-trailed supplier correspondence, and a no-savings/no-fee position on reclaim work — so you only ever pay when we deliver a measurable result.
