The Hidden Cost of Tool Sprawl Isn’t the Subscription
Tool sprawl gets budgeted like a subscription problem, and that’s exactly why it keeps getting worse. Every renewal cycle, someone runs the math on a spreadsheet: forty-one SaaS tools, average $38/seat/month, multiply by headcount, present the total as “the cost of tool sprawl,” and propose consolidating six of them to shave the line item. The…