The stack
Everything I pay for, and everything I cancelled.
Updated whenever the invoice changes. The killed list is longer than the kept list, and that is the honest shape of this work.
still in the stack
05Reporting agent
GBP 180 / moPulls the weekly numbers and drafts the commentary. I still sign it off.
Finance
Meeting notes
GBP 22 / seatTranscribe, summarise, assign. The only tool the team adopted without being asked.
Team
Proposal drafting
GBP 60 / moFirst draft in minutes. Cuts a two-day job to half a day.
Sales
Payroll agent
GBP 240 / moSix weeks in. Two approvals stay manual, permanently.
Finance
Inbox triage
GBP 40 / moSorts and drafts. Saves an hour a day, misses about one thing a week.
Ops
killed
03Prospecting bot
GBP 390 / moVolume up, replies down. Cost us reputation, not just money.
Sales
Internal chatbot
GBP 150 / moNobody asked it anything twice. Our documentation was the real problem.
Team
Auto-scheduler
GBP 29 / moBooked meetings nobody wanted. Removed after nine days.
Ops
Hear the reasoning
Why each of these got kept or killed.
Most of these decisions get talked through on the podcast, with the invoice in front of me. Play the episode or read the transcript.