u/Mammoth_Turnip_1757

While looking into how different teams manage their SaaS tools, one thing stood out to me:

There’s usually no single “owner” of the stack.

What ends up happening:

• Devs introduce tools for specific needs
• Marketing adds their own tools
• Sales brings in something else

Each decision makes sense locally, but globally it creates:

• Overlapping functionality
• Redundant tools
• Hard-to-track subscriptions

The interesting part is that this isn’t really a technical problem it’s more of a visibility and ownership problem.

Once the stack grows past a certain point, it becomes difficult to answer simple questions like:

• “What tools are we actually using?
• “Which ones overlap?
• “What can be safely removed?”

I’ve been exploring ways to map and categorize tools to make this easier, but I’m curious:

How do you handle SaaS stack ownership in your projects?
Is it centralized, or just evolves organically?