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💳 Add Up What Subscriptions Really Cost

Build the calculator you keep rebuilding in a spreadsheet, then put it on a link anyone can use. These prompts turn a formula into a working app: clean inputs, a result people trust, a saved record of every calculation, and an assistant that explains what the number means. Useful on your own desk, and useful in public as the page that brings people to you.
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Add Up What Subscriptions Really Cost

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I have no idea what we spend on software in total. Build me a subscription cost calculator. Keep one record per subscription with the vendor, what it is for, the plan, the billing cycle, the cost, the number of seats paid for, the number of seats actually in use, the renewal date and the internal owner. Normalize everything to a monthly and an annual figure so the total is comparable regardless of billing cycle. Show total spend, spend per department, spend per employee, and the value of seats paid for but not used. Add an AI agent that reviews the list, identifies tools that appear to overlap in purpose, names the subscriptions with the worst seat utilization, and estimates what could be saved. Automate a scheduled alert thirty days before each renewal and a monthly total spend report. Two logins: an owner who sees all costs, and a department lead who sees only their own.

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Add Up What Subscriptions Really Cost

Total every recurring subscription monthly and annually, compare seats paid against seats used, and surface unused spend.

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Subscriptions arrive one at a time and are never totalled. This adds them up, works out cost per person, and shows the ones nobody has opened.

What's Included

  • Every subscription in one total monthly and annualised.
  • Cost per seat and per active user which are rarely the same number.
  • Usage against what you pay for so unused seats surface.
  • An assistant that finds duplicate tools and dead seats.

How To Use

  1. Include the ones on personal cards. That is where the surprises live.
  2. Compare seats paid against seats used, not against seats assigned.
  3. Annualise everything. Monthly figures hide the real number.
  4. Review before each renewal date, not after the charge.

Track the renewals with compliance prompts, and feed the total into the break-even calculator.

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