In our previous articles on the 6 GenAI spend traps, we've covered model routing, hybrid pipelines, pilot overload, and output quality driving rework.

This article focuses on Spend Trap #5: duplicate AI tooling.

If the previous traps were about how you build and run AI, this one is about what you buy. It's less technically interesting but not everyone wants to geek out on this - and there's serious value at stake. You don't need to refactor a single pipeline with this, you just need to find out what you're actually paying for and whether anyone's using it.

This sounds like it should be straightforward...