Cut your SaaS bill before renewals

Founder/COO with 50+ subscriptions · First full audit in 60-90 min once spend exports are ready; repeatable in <30 min on subsequent quarters.

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Not financial, tax, or accounting advice. This recipe produces drafts and analyses — have a CPA or accountant review anything you file or report.

step 1connector

Export spend data from finance sources

⚡ bring your own tool

step 2ready

Categorize spend and detect recurring vendors

procurement-optimizer

step 3ready

Score each vendor on value, utilization, and risk

vendor-management

step 4partial

Cross-check cloud and infra spend for overlap

ops-revenue

step 5ready

Build ranked savings recommendations

procurement-optimizer

step 6partial

Draft cancellation and renegotiation emails

renewal-churn-save

step 7connector

Human review and execution

⚡ bring your own tool

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What you get

▸Vendor audit table: all recurring vendors with monthly/annual cost, category, and YoY price change
▸Scored vendor scorecard with tier-1/2/3 classification and utilization notes per vendor
▸Ranked savings recommendations table with estimated annual impact per action
▸5+ draft cancellation or renegotiation emails ready for light editing and send

tools: Spend export from Brex/Ramp/Mercury (free export); AWS Cost Explorer (~$0.01 per API call); no paid SaaS required for the audit itself

tokens: ~$2-5 per audit pass over 50-100 vendors

≈ One-time or quarterly — $2-5 per audit run; no ongoing subscription cost for the harness

What stays yours

· Export spend CSVs from finance tools — no skill can pull live bank or card data autonomously
· Review and edit draft emails before sending, especially renegotiation openers where tone and leverage matter
· Execute cancellations and negotiate directly with vendors — contract changes require human authorization

The problem

When I have 50+ SaaS and vendor subscriptions renewing throughout the year, I want a structured audit that surfaces redundant, underused, and overpriced tools — so I can cancel, downgrade, or renegotiate before the renewal date and reclaim budget without guessing.

Cybernetic layers

Memorybyo

Vendor audit history (prior-year spend, prior verdicts, negotiation outcomes) is not tracked by any library artifact yet. Use a Google Sheet or local CSV as the running record between quarterly audits.

Background-schedulinggap

No harvested skill triggers this audit automatically before renewal dates. A cron job or calendar reminder 60 days before each renewal is the practical substitute — a renewal-calendar ingestion skill would close this gap.

Harnessready

Claude Code is the runtime. Drop procurement-optimizer, vendor-management, ops-revenue, and renewal-churn-save into ~/.claude/skills/ and invoke sequentially.

Click any step to see what fills it — and the ranked alternatives you can swap in.