Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Redress Compliance today announces the launch of Vendor Benchmark LLC, an independent company providing buyer side benchmarking across more than 500 tier 2 and tier 3 software publishers, cloud providers, and managed services vendors. The full catalog is now live at vendorbenchmark.com.
Redress Compliance has launched Vendor Benchmark LLC, an independent buyer side company that benchmarks more than 500 tier 2 and tier 3 software, cloud, and services vendors, with the full catalog published at vendorbenchmark.com from today.
Key takeaways
Redress Compliance today launched Vendor Benchmark LLC, a separately incorporated Florida company that publishes buyer side benchmarks for tier 2 and tier 3 enterprise vendors. The catalog opens at vendorbenchmark.com with coverage of more than 500 publishers.
The launch is the formal answer to a request that Redress clients have raised consistently since 2024. Buyers want benchmark depth on tier 2 and tier 3 vendors that sits outside the eleven core practices, on the same buyer side terms as the rest of the Redress firm.
The opening catalog reflects three years of benchmark research that Redress Compliance has accumulated through client engagements, renewal cycles, and parallel market research. The numbers below are the entity launch numbers, not projections.
Statement from Fredrik Filipsson, Co Founder and Group CEO
"Our clients have been asking for tier 2 and tier 3 benchmark coverage on the same independent terms as the eleven core practices. A separate company is the cleanest way to deliver that. Vendor Benchmark LLC is buyer funded, buyer governed, and has its own editorial line. The catalog is live at vendorbenchmark.com from today."
The Redress Compliance firm anchors its work on eleven vendor practices: Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce, IBM, Broadcom, AWS, Google Cloud, ServiceNow, Workday, and Cisco. The work is deep, multi year, and shaped by named publisher relationships.
Tier 2 and tier 3 vendors do not fit that shape. The research cadence is faster, the contract terms move more quickly, and a single buyer often touches forty or fifty of these vendors at once. A separate company isolates that work cleanly.
The catalog opens with four coverage areas. Each has a defined vendor list at launch and a quarterly intake process for additions. Subscribers can request new vendors through the catalog.
Launch catalog by coverage area
| Coverage area | Vendors at launch | Example categories | Benchmark detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application software | 180+ | HR tech, finance tech, CRM adjacent, ITSM adjacent | Per seat pricing, discount range, renewal motion |
| Infrastructure software | 120+ | Security, observability, DevOps, data platforms | Per node pricing, commit tiers, renewal clauses |
| Cloud and hosting | 90+ | Regional clouds, specialty PaaS, hosting providers | Commit pricing, egress terms, renewal floors |
| Managed services | 110+ | SI services, BPO, managed security, support contracts | Day rates, retainer bands, scope clause libraries |
Every vendor in the catalog carries three benchmark layers. The free layer is published openly. The subscriber layers unlock with a paid plan.
The two companies have separate legal entities, separate balance sheets, and separate editorial control. They are linked through shared founder ownership and an explicit referral framework.
Redress clients can draw on the Vendor Benchmark catalog inside an active engagement without a separate subscription fee. Vendor Benchmark subscribers can engage Redress when they want a benchmark applied inside a live negotiation. The two motions stay independent.
Redress engagement data does not enter the published Vendor Benchmark catalog unless the client explicitly opts in. Aggregated, anonymized benchmark inputs flow from Redress engagements to Vendor Benchmark only with opt in consent recorded in the engagement letter.
Subscribers to Vendor Benchmark can opt in to share their deal data into the catalog for credit against subscription fees. The contribution program is voluntary, anonymized, and run by the Vendor Benchmark editorial team rather than the Redress practice teams.
Vendor Benchmark LLC is owned by the same founder group that owns Redress Compliance. Fredrik Filipsson and Morten Andersen sit on the board of both entities. A dedicated benchmarking research team runs the catalog day to day.
Source: Redress Compliance advisory engagement file and Vendor Benchmark LLC launch catalog, 2024 to 2026.
"The eleven core publisher practices are not going anywhere. What we did not have was a clean home for the benchmarks on the next 500 vendors that sit underneath them. Vendor Benchmark LLC is that home, and it stands on its own."
The launch is a working catalog from day one. Buyers can act on it immediately rather than wait for a follow up release.
Vendor Benchmark LLC is an independent company launched by Redress Compliance to provide buyer side benchmarking for tier 2 and tier 3 software publishers, cloud providers, and managed services vendors. The company operates separately from the eleven core vendor practices and publishes its own benchmark catalogs at vendorbenchmark.com.
Tier 2 and tier 3 vendors require a different research cadence than the eleven core practices. A separate legal entity isolates the benchmark data, keeps editorial control independent of any single publisher relationship, and lets buyers subscribe to benchmarks without engaging the full advisory firm.
The catalog covers more than 500 tier 2 and tier 3 enterprise vendors at launch. Coverage spans application software, infrastructure software, cloud platforms, managed services, security tools, and observability tools. Coverage expands quarterly based on subscriber requests.
The Redress Vendor Benchmark Program is a managed advisory engagement for clients negotiating with tier 2 and tier 3 vendors. Vendor Benchmark LLC is a separate company that publishes the underlying benchmark data. Buyers can subscribe to the catalog directly, or engage Redress to apply the benchmarks inside a live negotiation.
Vendor Benchmark LLC operates under shared founder oversight from Fredrik Filipsson and Morten Andersen. A dedicated benchmarking research team runs the day to day catalog. The legal entity is owned by the same founder group as Redress Compliance, with a Chinese wall separating client engagement data from the published catalog.
The full catalog is published at vendorbenchmark.com. Free benchmarks cover headline pricing bands and discount ranges. Subscriber benchmarks add unit price detail, contract clause libraries, and renewal motion data. Redress clients receive access bundled with active engagements.
No. The company is funded entirely by buyer subscriptions and benchmark catalog sales. There is no vendor sponsorship, no reseller margin, and no listing fee. The independence policy mirrors the Redress Compliance buyer side rule that has anchored the firm since founding.
Existing clients keep the same engagement model, the same advisory team, and the same Vendor Shield, Renewal Program, and Benchmark Program subscriptions. The launch adds a deeper tier 2 and tier 3 benchmark catalog that those programs can draw on without a separate engagement fee.
The managed benchmark program for tier 2 and tier 3 vendor renewals. Renewal motion. Discount ranges. Clause libraries. Run as a subscription advisory across the renewal cycle.
Used across hundreds of tier 2 and tier 3 renewals. Independent. Buyer side.
Renewal in twelve months. Audit notice in the inbox. RFP on the desk. We start where you are.
Catalog refresh signals, tier 2 and tier 3 renewal motion signals, multi vendor audit readiness signals, and cross vendor licensing leverage signals.
