Proof in Dollars
Customers already pay for this outcome today. Here's the evidence in real money.
The strongest answer to "will anyone pay for this?" is "they already do." Two proof points — one a live VisiCore customer, one VisiCore-delivered result.
Quest — paying for this outcome right now
~$1M+/yr of Splunk
Quest runs roughly 435 SVCs of Splunk. Reducing SVC consumption is the core so this is a seven-figure annual spend.
$36K for 96 hours → ~15% cut
Quest pays Cribl $36K for 96 hours of a Resident Services Consultant to reduce consumption ~15% — roughly $150K/yr saved.
That's roughly 4:1 first-year ROI on the consulting spend — and the savings recur every year. This is not a hypothetical willingness to pay. A real customer is writing the check today, to someone else, for exactly the outcome we deliver.
Why it matters for us: the AI-assisted X10 version delivers the same SVC reduction faster, with senior review, and turns a one-time 96-hour engagement into continuous, subscription optimization — the Assess → Enable → Subscribe motion.
SVC = Splunk Virtual Compute (Splunk Cloud's workload-pricing unit). The Quest figures ($36K / 96h / ~15%) are from Jacob's direct knowledge of the account — confirm against the Cribl Resident Services Consultant solution brief before quoting externally.
HEB — a VisiCore-delivered result
VisiCore's own Cribl optimization work for HEB saved approximately $2.1M. That is not a vendor case study — it is our team, our methods, our outcome.
~$2.1M saved
Delivered by VisiCore engineers. The proof that we can find and cut this waste, not just talk about it.
The method codifies
The first engagement took ~40 hours; once the method is codified the next is a fraction of that — the foundation of declining hours per outcome.
And it's conservative
Public Cribl material supports meaningful ingest reduction, including a 2025 retail case with approximately 25% lower daily Splunk ingest. Treat the Quest and HEB numbers as the stronger internal proof points until the exact RSC economics are independently confirmed.
The throughline
Demand is proven
Quest pays for it. The market pays for it. The only question is who captures it.
We can deliver it
HEB proves we already have. Adding AI makes it faster and recurring.
Sources
- Quest account figures (~$1M+/yr Splunk; Cribl RSC $36K/96h → ~15%): VisiCore internal — confirm against the Cribl Resident Services Consultant brief.
- HEB ~$2.1M: VisiCore internal.
- Splunk SVC unit cost varies significantly based on volume and customer agreements.
- Cribl public ingest-reduction example: American Retailer case study, 2025.