About This Skill

Most AI power users now quietly spend $100–300/month spread across ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Perplexity, ElevenLabs, Midjourney, and a half-dozen others — and suspect they're wasting money on tools that overlap. This skill turns that messy pile of subscriptions into a clear, itemized cut/keep/downgrade plan with a real dollar figure attached. How it works: 1. Intake — You list each tool, its plan tier, monthly price, and how you actually use it (the skill asks one quick round of follow-ups if anything's missing). 2. Capability mapping — Each tool is bucketed by the job you hire it for, using a built-in capability map. This is where the redundancy hides: a general assistant you already pay for often covers the text jobs of separate writing and research tools. 3. Overlap detection — Within each job group it picks the strongest "keeper" and flags the redundant payers, with explicit rules for when a general assistant can (and can't) absorb another tool's job — it won't, for example, pretend Claude replaces in-IDE coding, pro-grade image generation, or voice models. 4. Verdict — Every tool gets a CUT, KEEP, or DOWNGRADE call with a one-line reason and a dollar impact, plus downgrade paths like cheaper tiers, annual billing, or free plans. 5. Bottom line — A line-by-line monthly and annual savings total, plus a shareable summary line ("This audit found $87/month in redundant AI spend"). The savings number is deliberately conservative and traceable: it uses only the prices you provide, flags anything unknown separately, and never inflates the headline. It's budgeting guidance for your own tools — not financial advice — designed to pay for itself in the first month. What's included: a lean SKILL.md orchestrator plus a bundled REFERENCE.md containing the tool capability map, the overlap-detection logic, the cut/keep/downgrade rubric, and a ready-to-fill report template.