Co-Founder

Fredrik Filipsson

Independent Autodesk audit defense and license negotiation advisor. Two decades of operator experience across enterprise software licensing — Autodesk, Oracle, SAP — on both the vendor side and the buyer side. Co-founded AutodeskAudits to build the only Autodesk advisory firm with zero commercial relationship with the vendor.

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Background

Fredrik has spent twenty years working inside the enterprise software licensing market. His early career was on the vendor side — at Oracle — where he learned how software audits are constructed, how renewal cycles are engineered, and how license compliance is monetized. He moved into independent advisory because he came to believe the buyer side of the table was chronically under-represented by counsel who actually understood how vendors think.

Since then he has advised Fortune 500 enterprises across AEC, manufacturing, media, energy, and government on software licensing strategy, audit defense, and vendor negotiations — with a particular focus on Autodesk, Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft. He is a frequent speaker and writer on enterprise software economics, and has published hundreds of articles on licensing strategy.

What Fredrik leads at AutodeskAudits

Fredrik personally leads the firm's most senior engagements: active Autodesk audits in Fortune 500 AEC and manufacturing enterprises, multi-year EBA evaluations, and the hardest renewal negotiations where the commercial exposure is above $5M. He sets the firm's methodology for how findings are challenged, how scope is limited, and how settlements are structured.

He is also the firm's primary author on long-form research — including the 2026 Autodesk Overpayment Index and several of the firm's most-read blog pillars. His byline appears on approximately half of the firm's published content.

How Fredrik works

Fredrik's style is precise, data-driven, and blunt. He does not negotiate on emotion. He builds commercial and legal positions that are defensible on paper, then executes them in writing with a paper trail. He is the advisor clients call when the finding letter is on the table and the vendor has set a deadline — and when the CFO wants a number, not a narrative.

Selected writing

Independent — by design. Fredrik and Morten built AutodeskAudits as a deliberately independent advisory. There is no commercial relationship with Autodesk, Inc. No reseller margin. No partner tier. The only incentive is the client's outcome.

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If you are facing an Autodesk audit, renewal, or strategic licensing decision — and you want a senior, independent perspective before the next vendor conversation.

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