Add up what you're really renting

A free, interactive SaaS teardown. Tick the tools you pay for, set your seat count, and see the yearly total, how much of it sits on idle licences, and how much is replaceable with tools you own outright. It runs in your browser and sends nothing anywhere. No pitch, just the math.

How the teardown works

Select the categories you subscribe to — CRM, project management, e-signature, scheduling, team chat, docs, helpdesk, dashboards, HR and payroll, automation, email marketing, and accounting. Per-seat tools scale with your headcount; the total is annualized so you see the real yearly commitment.

Why shelfware matters

Around a third of the average company's SaaS apps go unused. The teardown estimates that waste on top of your total, so the number you see is the money leaving every year for software nobody has to keep renting.

Tools we are most often asked to replace

• Replace DocuSign (E-signature)
• Replace Calendly (Scheduling)
• Replace Zapier (Automation)
• Replace Monday.com (Project & ops management)
• Replace HubSpot (CRM)
• Replace Typeform (Forms & surveys)
• Replace Zendesk (Helpdesk)
• Replace Mailchimp (Email marketing)
• Replace Salesforce (CRM)
• Replace Asana (Project & task management)
• Replace Slack (Team chat)
• Replace Notion (Docs & knowledge)
• Replace QuickBooks (Accounting & operations)
• Replace Gusto (HR & payroll)
• Replace Intercom (Customer messaging)
• Replace Dropbox (File storage)

Frequently asked questions

What is a SaaS audit, and how is it different from this teardown?

A SaaS audit is a full inventory of every tool a business pays for, what each one actually does, who uses it, and which of them overlap or sit idle. The teardown on this page is the fast, self-serve version: you tick the categories you subscribe to and see the yearly total and the waste inside it. A full audit goes further, sitting with the people who use each tool, mapping the workflow it supports, and separating what genuinely has to be rented from what is only rented out of habit.

How is the yearly SaaS total calculated?

Each selected tool uses the vendor's published list price for the tier a small business usually lands on. Per-seat tools multiply by the seats you pay for, flat-rate tools do not, and the monthly sum is multiplied by twelve for the annual figure. It runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you tick is sent anywhere. It shows the shape of the spend, not a formal quote.

What is shelfware?

Shelfware is software you pay for but barely use. If you tell the teardown how many seats your team actually uses, it measures the idle licences exactly. If you do not, it shows a range, assuming 25 to 40% of per-seat licences go unused, and says so on screen rather than printing one confident number.

What does it cost to own the same capability instead?

Owned systems replace recurring per-seat licenses with a system you build once and keep, removing renewals and seat fees. The teardown contrasts the rented yearly total against owning the same capability outright.