Speaker one-sheet / Sam Gaddis
Keynote or executive session
Flagship talk
The 90% Software-Cost Teardown
A guided teardown of what a company rents, what it should keep, and what has become cheaper to own.
- Format
- Industry keynote, association session, or portfolio briefing
- Length
- 30 minutes plus guided Q&A
- Designed for
- Industry associations, private-equity portfolios, CEOs, CFOs, and operating partners
The question
Which subscriptions have become economically indefensible?
Mid-market companies accumulated software one department and one renewal at a time. AI changed the cost of replacing narrow systems, but it did not make every replacement sensible. This session opens the stack, follows the money, and shows where replacing a rented system can cut cost without creating a maintenance burden.
Main example
A guided contract hunt through SaaSassin.
I walk the audience through the game we built to find contracts across a fictional company. The dossier becomes a serious software audit: annual spend, renewal dates, workflow importance, and a short list of systems worth examining.
What people take home
The Software Ownership Calculator
- 01
Sort the software stack into systems worth keeping, replacing, consolidating, or leaving alone.
- 02
Calculate the real replacement case using subscription cost, integration drag, labor, and switching risk.
- 03
Sequence one high-confidence replacement without putting a core operation at risk.