5 AI Tools Cutting SaaS Costs for IT and Marketing Teams in 2026
SaaS sprawl has become one of the quieter budget problems inside IT and marketing departments. Every team picks up a new tool to solve an immediate problem, nobody audits the stack regularly, and eighteen months later finance is asking why the software budget has ballooned while adoption of half those tools sits in single digits. AI tooling has followed the exact same pattern over the past two years, arguably faster than any other category before it.