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Stack sprawl

Get your Stack Sprawl Index.

Five quick questions, about 90 seconds. Score your tool count, SaaS spend, lock-in risk, and AI-readiness gaps before booking a deeper audit.

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What does your SaaS stack cost each month?

Include website tools, CRM, automations, plugins, reporting, and AI tools. One total is enough.

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What does "support" cost each month?

Developers, designers, ops, agencies, or internal time billed to keeping the stack running.

$

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How much work still happens by hand?

Follow-ups, data entry, reports, routing leads, and spreadsheet glue work.

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How locked-in is the current stack?

We look for hard-to-export data, vendor-specific workflows, and whether your AI can actually read the systems that run the business.

Your Stack Sprawl Index

Estimated annual SaaS + ops drag

$0

Your stack looks manageable. Small integration wins may still be worth a look.

Monthly operating cost$0
Stack Sprawl Index0 - Clean stack

Based on SaaS spend, tool count, manual work, lock-in, and AI readiness.

Email the scored report

Prefer a conversation? Book a CallWe reply within 24 hours, then a scoping call, then a fixed-scope proposal.

Note: Directional estimate only, meant to surface where sprawl may be hiding, not replace your books.

Field note

What the Stack Sprawl Index actually measures

Most teams feel the drag of too many tools long before they can name it. The Stack Sprawl Index turns that feeling into a score you can act on, without a spreadsheet or a sales deck.

Why stack sprawl is expensive

Stack sprawl is what happens when a marketing site, CRM, automation layer, forms, analytics, and agency retainers grow one subscription at a time. Each tool looks cheap alone. Together they create lock-in, duplicate data, and hours of glue work every week.

A Stack Sprawl Index score looks at tool count, SaaS spend, people cost to keep the stack running, lock-in risk, and how hard it is for AI to operate on your real systems, not just chat about them.

How to read your score

A lower score usually means a tighter stack and clearer ownership path. A higher score signals renewals, integrations, and manual work that are compounding. Rough numbers are fine, the point is direction, not accounting precision.

Use the result as a triage signal: keep what still earns its seat, consolidate what overlaps, and flag what should be rebuilt into an owned system before the next renewal cycle.

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Stack sprawl FAQ

Questions about the Index.

What is a Stack Sprawl Index?

It is a directional score of how fragmented and expensive your software stack has become: covering tool count, spend, support cost, lock-in risk, and how ready the stack is for AI execution.

Do I need exact SaaS invoices to use the calculator?

No. Rough monthly totals and tool counts are enough. The calculator is built for a fast pass, not a finance audit. You can refine numbers later with the stack cost tool.

Is a high score always bad?

Not automatically, some teams need specialized tools. A high score becomes a problem when spend, lock-in, and manual middleware keep rising while the stack still cannot talk to itself.

What should I do after I get a score?

Read the score guide, run the cost calculator if spend is unclear, then use the audit checklist to mark keep / consolidate / cut / rebuild. Book an audit review if cut + rebuild outweigh keep.

Is this free? Do you store my answers?

The calculator is free to run. Core results stay on screen. Emailing a report is optional and only sends what you choose to share.

Next step

Turn the estimate into a plan.

Bring your stack to a free call. We will map what should stay, connect, or be replaced.

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We reply within 24 hours, then a scoping call, then a fixed-scope proposal.