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Application Waste Calculator

Four questions, an honest number, and no form to fill in. It runs entirely in your browser — your answers never reach us, which is why we can afford not to ask for your email.

Is it worth it

Four questions, and you have a number.

Scaled to your size and built on published benchmarks. We show what the waste is — how much of it you remove is your decision, not our promise.

How many employees?
1–500501–2,5002,500+
Roughly how many tools do you pay for?
Under 150150–350350–650650+ or unsure
How complete is your visibility into what you own?
CompletePartialLimited
How controlled is your software spend?
Tightly governedReviewed at renewalLargely uncontrolled
Estimated annual software spend —
Estimated annual waste —
What that is worth annually
If you act on 30% of it —
If you act on 50% of it —
Answer the four and this fills in.
Built on segment benchmarks — $3.8M average annual waste for companies under 500, $9.5M for mid-market, $21M for enterprise (Zylo, 2025). Some waste is structural: spare licenses, deliberate redundancy, contracts you cannot exit yet. The rest is your call, and how much you act on is genuinely up to you. Left alone it compounds — software spend per employee rises about 22% a year before AI is counted.

A benchmark is not your number.

This is what companies your size typically carry. Your real figure comes from your own systems — and finding it is the first thing Odau does.