Yep, never underestimate the power of CYA... Also, depending on the company, most consultants can be paid for out of CapEx (depending how you word the contract

Yep, never underestimate the power of CYA... Also, depending on the company, most consultants can be paid for out of CapEx (depending how you word the contract), but you'd have a hard time convincing accounting that a SaaS service billed periodically is anything but OpEx...