How I cut ~$220/month from redundant AI tools, the exact quarterly audit process I use

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A few months ago I finally sat down and audited every AI subscription my team was paying for. Turns out we were quietly burning roughly $220 every month on overlapping tools that did basically the same job. Recent research shows this is common, organizations waste an average of 32% of their AI subscription budgets on redundant or underused tools. The biggest overlap categories I personally ran into (and still see with other founders): Multiple frontier LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) Sev...