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YOU'RE PAYING $100+ A MONTH FOR AI TOOLS YOU DON'T NEED.


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This week on FAQ Friday: Sarah's business credit card statement is a crime scene. $19 for a PDF chatbot. $29 for a copywriting bot. $15 for a resume builder. $10 for a headshot generator.

Total: $100+ monthly in AI subscriptions.

The dirty truth? Most of these are "Wrappers"—pretty websites that resell GPT-4 and Claude at 500% markup.

Sarah's paying for electricity. The startup is just changing the battery.

The Subscription Audit—Cancel These Three:

❌ PDF Chatbot ($19/month) → Use Claude free or ChatGPT-4o. Drag and drop. 200k token context window. Handles entire novels and contracts. Free.

❌ "Marketing Copywriter Suite" ($50/month) → Build a Custom Instruction in ChatGPT instead. Spend 10 minutes writing: "You are a direct-response copywriter using AIDA framework. Tone: punchy, empathetic." Save it. Now every post uses your voice. Free.

❌ Resume & Grammar Tools ($15/month) → Use Claude raw. Upload your messy draft. "Act as a Harvard Career Counselor. Rewrite these bullet points for impact and metrics." Done. Free.

The Real Math:

One $20/month ChatGPT Pro subscription replaces six niche tools. You get a copywriter, coder, analyst, PDF reader, and image generator in one.

Sarah just saved $1,000 annually.

The Frontier Test:

  1. Open your bank statement
  2. Highlight every single-use AI tool
  3. Try it in free Claude or ChatGPT
  4. If it works—cancel

Stop paying the lazy tax. Stop buying wrappers. Consolidate to frontier models.

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AI Authority EdgeBy Al Kushner