Find out what you are buying twice.

Software spend creeps. A team buys a point solution, another team buys something overlapping, a third inherits a tool from an acquisition, and three years later the same capability is being paid for in several places without anyone holding the whole picture.

The usual response is a rationalisation exercise: a spreadsheet, a round of interviews, a vendor checklist that does not know what you actually run. It produces an opinion. The renewal conversation then turns on whose opinion carries further, because nobody can point at the overlap and show it.

Every connected provider is scored for overlap against every other, by the entity types they share. Where two systems both hold customers, orders, or products, the relationship is drawn and weighted. That is the Stack Map, and Consolidation is what it makes possible.

Where two providers cover the same ground — the same entities, the same job — Inferrex says so, and flags the candidates you could merge, retire, or replace. Grounded in the real overlap between your systems rather than a generic checklist.

The Stack Map shows the overlap. The Stack Bloat Report says what to do about it — the pair that overlaps most, the consolidation it would recommend, and where to start. The insight becomes a decision instead of another item on the someday list.

Inferrex does not cancel your contracts, and it does not know what a tool costs you or which team would revolt. What it produces is the thing those conversations have always lacked: a list of overlaps drawn from the systems themselves, with the shared entities named, so the discussion starts from what is true rather than from who remembers what.

Consolidation is one of eight lenses that become available once the platform has comprehended a stack. The others — dark data, activation, enrichment, migration — answer different questions from the same understanding.