Cleansheet Solution

Transform cost transparency into product optimization, resilience, and negotiation power

Cleansheet Solution is McKinsey’s AI-powered should-costing platform that supports transparency-driven decision making around design, cost, and CO₂. By breaking down products and services into their core components, we help you identify design improvement and cost reduction opportunities to unlock sustainable value.

Impact Stories

We helped a US discount retailer achieve $500M savings in their apparel and footwear spend through parametric modeling within our Cleansheet Solution.

A major oil and gas player identified $75M savings opportunity in contract labor and rental equipment spend across multiple refinery sites.

A life sciences player achieved $20M savings on CMO spend by leveraging Cleansheet Solution in their negotiations.

We supported a global restaurant chain in identifying a 20-35% cost reduction opportunity in their processed poultry products category.

By the numbers

How we support you

Leverage Cleansheet Solution's calculation engines dedicated for manufacturing, pharma, apparel, services and more.

Access a curated cost database of over 50,000 data points across material, labor, utility, and overheads rates.

Build a cost-centric organization and in-house should-costing capability with our expert support.

Key features

Create cost structures

Gain transparency into granular cost and carbon elements through our gen-AI powered modeling archetypes

Generate reports

Get board-level dashboards and reports with key output metrics on cost and carbon structures curated by Cleansheet experts

Scale fast

Scale Cleansheet analyses across complex product and service portfolios and supplier bases with our parametric should-costing capabilities

Cleansheet Solution

Impact Stories

By the numbers

How we support you

Key features

Create cost structures

Generate reports

Scale fast

Resources

Introduction to Cleansheet

What should it cost?

Should-cost modeling for everyone: The power of the parameter

Make cost saving continuous for years to come

Learn more on how Cleansheet Solution can help your organization