Answer

How do I calculate ROI on a SaaS audit tool?

Short answer

Multiply your total annual SaaS spend by the industry ghost-seat rate (20–30%), then subtract the audit tool's annual cost — that's your first-year ROI floor.

Details

A $500k/year SaaS spend with a 25% ghost rate hides $125k/year of reclaimable waste. A $6k/year audit tool that reclaims even 10% of that returns 8x in year one.

Include soft ROI too: hours saved on manual offboarding, faster renewal negotiations, and audit-defensible access reviews.

Automate this with SeatMap.AI

The audit path above works. It also takes hours per month per tool. SeatMap.AI runs it on a schedule, stages the reclaim actions for review, and shows you the annualized savings in real dollars.

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