Most SaaS overspend doesn't come from one bad decision. It comes from five small, repeatable mistakes made by almost every growing team.
Buying for the team you'll have in a year, not the one you have now. Enterprise tiers for future scale sit half-used for months while you pay full price today.
Never auditing seat usage. Licenses assigned to people who left, switched roles, or simply stopped logging in quietly bleed budget every month.
Stacking overlapping tools. It's common to find three different apps in one company doing the same job, each purchased by a different team that didn't know the others existed.
Skipping the free-tier stress test. A lot of teams jump straight to paid plans without actually hitting the free tier's real limits first, and end up over-provisioned from day one.
Ignoring migration cost in the comparison. The cheapest tool on paper isn't cheap if switching costs you three weeks of team time and broken integrations.
None of these require a finance team to catch, they require actually comparing tools properly before committing. That's what we built StakDock for: https://stakdock.com
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