Every audit notification, across every publisher inside the firm's fourteen practices, is intercepted inside forty-eight hours. A counter-scope letter is on file before any data flows to the publisher. The named senior advisor holds the engagement through to the closing settlement memorandum. The discipline is identical whether the notification arrives from Oracle LMS, Microsoft SAM, SAP Global Audit, IBM ILMT, or any other publisher inside the firm's coverage.
The first written artefact in any audit engagement is the counter-scope letter, on file before any deployment data leaves the buyer. The letter sets the audit perimeter, the data set, the timeline, and the publisher's audit-clause anchor. Every subsequent transmission is held to that perimeter.
Audit Defence is the most common engagement opened across the firm. A publisher audit notification arrives in the buyer's inbox in any month of the year. Oracle's License Management Services, Microsoft's Software Asset Management programme, SAP's Global Licence Audit team, IBM's ILMT enforcement, Salesforce's audit-clause exercise, ServiceNow's licence true-up, Broadcom's post-acquisition audit programme. The shape of each engagement is the same: a forty-eight hour written interception, a counter-scope letter on file before any data flows, a named senior advisor through to closing settlement memorandum.
The first call with the senior advisor reads the notification, the publisher's audit-clause posture, the buyer's deployment profile, and the audit-history precedent for that publisher. The conversation produces the audit perimeter and the scope letter inside the forty-eight hour window. Admodum is independent: not a partner, reseller, or affiliate of any software vendor. No audit subcontract from any publisher. No referral commission. The audit defence fee is paid by the buyer and never offset against the vendor relationship. Forty percent of the firm's engagement book is opened under the Audit Defence programme.
The first conversation is held inside the forty-eight hour window from notification. The buyer reads the publisher's notification email or letter, the contract reference, the audit-clause text, and the publisher's named auditor. The conversation produces the perimeter scope, the counter-scope letter draft, the named advisor, the partner countersigner, and the closing posture target. The scope letter is filed inside seventy-two hours and the counter-scope letter is on file to the publisher inside the forty-eight hour notification window. The engagement opens under a Fixed Fee shape for a single named audit, or under the Annual Retainer shape for continuous interception across the publisher landscape.
Audit Defence carries a written exposure baseline at engagement open: the publisher's claimed exposure, the buyer's deployment-evidence position, the contract entitlement, and the audit-clause architecture. The closing comparable at settlement is filed against that baseline. The closing settlement memorandum is signed by the named advisor and the partner countersigner. The buyer holds two named signatures on every position transmitted through the audit cycle and the closing position is held in the buyer's record for the five-year retention period.
An audit notification can be intercepted inside the next forty-eight hours. The named senior advisor, the partner countersigner, the counter-scope letter, and the engagement perimeter are set inside the first conversation. The scope letter follows inside seventy-two hours.