The year runs you

Every renewal lands at once, and the year runs you instead of the other way around. React, renew, regret, repeat.

So Vera plans the year around leverage. The state of the stack comes first: what you own, what it costs, and where the pressure is building.

Then category strategies, one per spend area: consolidate here, contest the uplift there, run a competitive bid where the market gives you room. The year gets a thesis instead of a to do list.

The vendor calendar lays out the twelve months ahead, every renewal and notice window in the order they arrive.

And it tracks the vendors' own clocks too: fiscal year ends, quarter closes, the weeks a seller needs the deal more than you do. Time the ask to their calendar, not yours, and the same request costs less.

Work the plan and the year compounds: fewer surprises, better timing, and leverage saved for the deals that deserve it.

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