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Prune

Automated SaaS spend control for high-growth finance teams

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Finance and IT executives lose over $30k monthly on ghost SaaS licenses, duplicate dev tools, and unallocated seats across decentralized teams.

Prune connects directly to enterprise Google Workspace, Okta, and corporate credit cards to map every active software login against billing records. It automatically detects overlapping app categories, alerts department leads to inactive seats, and executes one-click license revoking workflows. By turning hidden software creep into immediate cash recovery, companies recover up to 28% of their annual cloud budget within 30 days.

Prune is building the autonomous financial defense layer for modern digital enterprises.

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Problem
  • When I manage mid-market corporate budgets, I want to eliminate redundant software subscriptions, but decentralized purchasing leads to over $50k in annual ghost spend.
  • Why Now: Enterprise SaaS adoption has surged past 100+ tools per company, making manual license tracking across remote teams completely unmanageable.
  • When I audit software access during quarterly reviews, I want to reclaim inactive seats, but manual SSO log analysis takes over 40 hours per audit cycle.
  • When I prepare for annual vendor renewals, I want clear usage data to renegotiate contracts, but lack of visibility results in paying for unused enterprise tiers.
  • Existing Alternatives: Manual Google Spreadsheets, static annual finance audits, or basic credit card aggregators that lack login activity telemetry.
Solution
  • High-Level Concept: Enterprise SaaS optimization engine for finance and IT leaders.
  • Deep API integrations with Okta, Google Workspace, Azure AD, and financial ledgers to map every app login against actual invoice line items.
  • Automated seat reclamation engine that identifies 30-day inactive users and sends automated Slack or Teams de-provisioning workflows.
  • Vendor redundancy detection that categorizes overlapping software tools to consolidate tech stacks.
Distribution
  • Early Adopters: Series B to Series D CFOs, VPs of Finance, and IT Operations Leads managing 100 to 2,000 employees.
  • Outbound executive LinkedIn sequences targeting newly appointed VPs of Finance auditing modern tech stack expenses.
  • Direct partnerships with enterprise IT managed service providers (MSPs) and fractional CFO agencies who manage software expenses.
  • Co-marketing campaigns with SaaS procurement advisory groups offering free initial SaaS audit reports.
Pricing
  • Value Ladder: Free Tier ($0/mo for up to 25 seats audit)
  • Growth Tier ($499/mo up to 250 employees)
  • Enterprise Tier ($1,500+/mo custom volume and custom SSO integrations).
  • One Metric That Matters [OMTM]: Total annualized SaaS dollars saved per active customer account.
  • Market Sizing: SAM of 45k mid-market tech companies; targeting 1% market share (450 customers) at $12k ARR average yields $5.4M ARR in year 1.
Scale Costs
  • Maintaining deep API integrations and compliance security certifications (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001) for enterprise authorization.
  • High-frequency data ingestion pipelines processing enterprise SSO login streams and banking webhook connections.
  • Dedicated customer success engineering team to support complex enterprise custom SSO connector development.
Expert Opinions
Avg: 9.3
  • FinOps Architect with 15+ years managing $50M+ enterprise SaaS budgets
    9
  • Chief Information Security Officer at a Fortune 500 tech firm
    10
  • Managing Director at an enterprise SaaS venture capital firm
    9
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