Software is easy to buy. The hard part is deciding what should stay.

AlignCube turns a software and AI stack into a set of decisions, with the cost, evidence, owner, and next step attached to each one. Every tool lands in one of four calls:

I work in software sales. I kept seeing the same operating problem: a team can add a tool in a day, but months later nobody owns the question of whether it still earns its place. AlignCube is how I make that review concrete: fast, evidence-backed, and honest about what it doesn't know.

Why a decision record, and not another dashboard

Most tools in this space make spend visible. Visibility was never the hard part. The invoice already tells you what you pay. The hard part is that a charge sits there for another quarter because no one can say who owns it, whether anyone still uses it, or what was promised when it was bought. A dashboard shows you the number again. A decision record answers the question and keeps the answer.

So the unit here is not a chart. It is a call, keep, cut, review or consolidate, with the cost, the evidence, the owner and the next step attached, in a form you can hand to a board or an auditor six months later and still defend.

Three money figures, never one

Every tool in this category wants to show you a single savings number, because a single number is easy to put in an ad. It is also the number most likely to be wrong, and finance leaders know it. AlignCube reports three, and keeps them separate on purpose:

Figures from the sample stack used across this site. The gap between them is the point: collapsing all three into one headline number is the failure this product exists to avoid, and it is the first thing a CFO will test you on.

What it refuses to do

For a product that issues verdicts about other people's money, the refusals matter more than the features.

• It will not cut a tool on a hunch. A Cut verdict requires evidence specific to that tool. Without it the call comes back Review, naming the exact check that is missing even though Review is the less impressive-looking answer.
• It will not call flagged spend "savings." Money is reviewable until a change is confirmed, and the wording never drifts.
• It will not take a commission from any tool it scores. You pay us, not the vendors. A scoring engine paid by the things it scores is a rebate program wearing a lab coat.
• It will not make the call for you. A person decides, and the record shows who and on what basis.
• It will not pretend to know your usage. There are no vendor logins and no integrations, so it works from what you already have, and says so when it is guessing.

Why me

I have spent my career in software sales, which means I have been on the other side of this problem: I know how a tool gets bought, who signs, what gets promised in the room, and how rarely anyone revisits it once the invoice becomes routine. The renewal arrives, nobody can reconstruct the original reasoning, and it renews.

I built AlignCube because the review that should happen is not hard. It is just nobody's job. This makes it concrete, fast, and honest about what it does not know.