SeatMap.AI
Week 43, 2026 · 2026-10-19 → 2026-10-25

Week 43, 2026: Airtable tops the SaaS-waste board at 44% ghost seats

Median ghost seats
27.4%
Median reclaimable
$8.5k/yr
Workspaces audited
457
Reclaimed this week
$143k

Across 457 workspaces audited this week, the median team is sitting on 27.4% ghost seats — about $8,466/year of reclaimable spend per company.

Airtable led the waste board at 44% inactive seats, driven by trial creep and stalled cross-team pilots. Slack came in at 23.3%, Microsoft 365 at 22.6%, and Salesforce at 19.3%.

SeatMap.AI operators reclaimed a combined $142,614 in annualized spend the week of 2026-10-19 — most of it from routine contractor and role-change cleanup, not one-off big wins.

Vendor movers this week

  • Dropbox+3.8% ghost-seat rate
  • Figma−3.3% ghost-seat rate
  • Salesforce+1.2% ghost-seat rate

Category breakdown

Median ghost-seat rate by tier-1 vendor this week.

Slack23.3%
Microsoft 36522.6%
Salesforce19.3%

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