Free Tool

Free software stack audit: find duplicate and unused tools.

Find what is duplicated, what is dormant, and what is quietly draining budget and attention. Usually takes half an hour and pays for itself immediately.

Nobody sets out to buy four tools that do the same job. It happens one reasonable decision at a time, and then nobody looks at the whole picture.

Build your software inventory

Add a row per tool. The audit flags category duplicates and anything dormant as you go, and totals what you are spending.

Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, saved, or transmitted, so use real numbers.

Tool Primary job Cost / month Owner Last real use Flags Remove
How To Use It

How to run a tool stack audit in four steps.

  1. List everything you pay for. Pull three months of card and invoice statements. Include the subscriptions one person expenses quietly, which is where most of the surprises live.
  2. Give each tool exactly one job. Anything you could file under three categories is usually the source of your overlap.
  3. Record cost, owner, and last real use. Real use, not last login. A tool someone opens weekly out of habit is still dormant.
  4. Act on the flags. Consolidate any category holding more than one tool. Cancel or explicitly justify anything dormant past ninety days.

The point of this audit is rarely the money, though the money is usually startling. It is the attention: every tool in the stack is a place someone has to look, a login someone has to keep, and a set of notifications competing for the same finite focus.

Work With Lexi

The audit finds the overlap. Deciding what replaces it is harder.

Cancelling a subscription takes five minutes. Working out which tool should have been the system of record, migrating what matters, and making sure the thing that was falling through the gaps stops falling, is a different job. That is the work behind XecuSion™.

Bring your inventory. If the answer is simply cancel three things and carry on, I will tell you that and it costs you nothing.

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