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What is my biggest waste this month?

Audit your spending in 5 minutes. Cancel the dumb stuff. Done by lunch.

Business insightFinanceMonthly on the 1st. Mid-month emergency report if waste exceeds $2K threshold.
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Free to startNo credit card requiredUpdated Apr 2026

You'd think you'd have to dig through 80 Stripe charges and bank statements — Astra does it in 5 minutes and tells you exactly what to cancel.

The short answer

Astra audits your monthly spend across 4 dimensions and surfaces the top 5 wastes with cancel-now actions. (1) SaaS subscriptions: she pulls every recurring charge from Stripe, Brex, and your business credit card, cross-references with active user data from each tool's API, and flags subscriptions where active users < 50% of seats paid for. (2) Ad spend: pulls Google Ads + LinkedIn + Meta + GA4 conversion data, computes blended CAC per channel, flags any channel where CAC > 2× LTV. (3) Vendor contracts: scans QuickBooks for vendors that haven't been actively used (no invoice activity, no Slack mentions) in 60 days. (4) AWS/GCP/Vercel: pulls cloud cost reports, identifies idle resources, oversized instances, and forgotten dev environments. Top 5 wastes get a Lark report monthly on the 1st with one-click cancel actions and projected annual savings. Most teams find $2-8K/mo of waste in the first audit.

How Astra actually does it

  1. 1
    Audit SaaS subscriptions for unused seats

    Pull all recurring charges from Stripe, Brex, business credit card. For each tool, query its API for active users in last 30 days. Flag tools with utilization <50%.

    StripeBrexQuickBooks
  2. 2
    Compute blended CAC per ad channel

    Pull Google Ads, LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit ad spend + GA4 conversions + Stripe payment data. Compute true CAC by channel. Flag any channel CAC > 2× blended LTV.

    Google AdsLinkedInMetaGA4Stripe
  3. 3
    Find dormant vendors

    QuickBooks vendor list cross-referenced with last invoice + last Slack/email mention. Vendors silent 60+ days flagged for cancellation.

    QuickBooksSlack
  4. 4
    Audit cloud waste

    AWS Cost Explorer / GCP Billing / Vercel reports. Identify idle EC2 instances, oversized RDS, forgotten dev environments, untagged resources, no-traffic CloudFront distributions.

    AWS Cost ExplorerGCP BillingVercelDatadog
  5. 5
    Deliver top 5 wastes with cancel actions

    1st of month Lark report: top 5 wastes ranked by $$, one-click cancel button per item (or who to email), projected 12-month savings.

    Lark

What it looks like in chat

What's my biggest waste this month?
Astra
Top 5 wastes I just found ($6,840/mo total = $82K/yr): 1. **Notion: 24 seats paid, 8 active** (from Notion API). $384/mo waste. **Action: downgrade to 10 seats.** Save $4,608/yr. 2. **LinkedIn Ads campaign 'Enterprise SDR Q2'** — $2,400/mo spend, 0 conversions in 6 weeks. CAC = ∞. **Action: pause now.** Save $28,800/yr. 3. **Datadog APM** — $890/mo, but you only check the dashboard 2x/month per Slack data. Probably overspec'd plan. **Action: downgrade to Pro.** Save $4,440/yr. 4. **AWS staging cluster** — c5.4xlarge running 24/7 since March, 4% avg CPU. **Action: downsize to c5.large + auto-stop nights/weekends.** Save $7,200/yr. 5. **Loom Enterprise** — $156/mo, 3 of 8 seats used in last 30 days. **Action: downgrade to Business.** Save $1,344/yr. **Reply 'cancel all' for one-click execution, or pick the ones you want.** I'll handle each via the right channel: Notion via API, LinkedIn via campaign pause, AWS via console, Datadog/Loom via support email.
What you get back

Monthly Lark report on the 1st: top 5 wastes ranked by $$, cancel actions ready, projected 12-month savings. Auto-execute on approval.

Cadence

Monthly on the 1st. Mid-month emergency report if waste exceeds $2K threshold.

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Frequently asked questions

What if a tool doesn't expose active-user data via API?

She falls back to a usage proxy (Slack mentions, Google Workspace OAuth tokens, last login if exposed) plus a quarterly Slack poll asking each team 'do we still use X?'. Less precise but still catches obvious waste. Tools without any signal get flagged for manual review.

Can she cancel things automatically?

Default is one-click approval, not auto-cancel — too risky to delete a tool you actually need. You can flip auto-execute on for specific categories ('auto-pause any LinkedIn campaign with 0 conversions in 30 days'). Strategic spend always requires your sign-off.

What if my biggest waste is something I can't cut (legal, accounting)?

She'll flag it but route the action differently — instead of 'cancel,' she'll suggest 'renegotiate' or 'switch vendor' with 3 alternatives quoted. For locked-in annual contracts, she'll add a calendar reminder for the renewal window so you can act when it matters.

How often will she find new waste after the first cleanup?

Year 1 of audits typically finds $5-15K/mo of waste in the first 3 months, then $1-3K/mo of new waste each month after as new tools are added and old ones go dormant. Ongoing audits prevent the slow creep that kills startup margins.

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