Daily Prompt Pack: Tool Stack Audit – Cut the tools bleeding your budget

Most SaaS stacks grow by accident. Someone adds a tool for a project, the project wraps, and the renewal quietly bills for another year. Three prompts to fix it: an audit, a decision table, and a tracker you can run from any browser tab.

[Claude]

Paste your full list of paid tools with monthly cost and last-used date. Ask it to audit the stack. For each tool, output monthly cost, days since last use, what it replaces, and a redundancy flag if another tool already covers the same job. Rank everything by cost-per-use and mark the bottom 20% as cut candidates. Export the full audit as a CSV with columns: tool, cost, last_used, redundancy, verdict.

[ChatGPT]

Act as a lean-ops consultant. Feed it your tool list with monthly costs and your top 3 business goals. Have it produce a keep / cut / upgrade decision table. For each tool: verdict, one-line reason, and a cheaper or free alternative if one exists. Group by category (marketing, sales, ops, dev) and end with a 5-step 30-day reduction plan that targets the biggest savings first. Output as a markdown table plus the plan.

[Cursor]

Have it build a single-file HTML tool inventory tracker for your SaaS stack. Give it your list of tools with monthly cost and renewal date. Generate a self-contained index.html with: a table of all tools, a total monthly and yearly spend summary, a sortable cost column, a ‘last used’ date field, and localStorage persistence so edits survive a refresh. Flag any tool over $50/month. Vanilla JS, no frameworks, under 250 lines. Output the complete file.

I run an audit like this on my own stack every quarter. It hurts every time, but the last pass killed four seats and saved me $1,400 a year. Tradeoff: you have to actually spend the hour doing it.

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