Blog
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Seat Reclamation: Finding the Licences You Are Already Paying For
Unused seats are usually worth more than any discount, and reducing quantity needs nobody’s approval. How to count purchased, assigned and actually used, and why the timing decides whether it counts.
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Auto-Renewal and Uplift Clauses: The Four Contract Lines That Set Your Next Price
Four clauses decide your next renewal price: the uplift cap and the word it modifies, SKU continuity, notice on tier retirement, and the auto-renewal window. How to read them in your own contract.
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The SaaS Renewal Timeline: What to Do at 180, 90, 30 and 7 Days Out
Renewals are decided before anyone negotiates. What to do at 180, 90, 60, 30 and 7 days out, starting with the notice window that renews you automatically if you miss it.
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Microsoft End of Support 2026: July Has Passed, October Has Not
SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019, SQL Server 2016 and Project Server went out of support on 14 July 2026. What that means if you are still running them, and the dates still ahead.
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Opsgenie End of Life: The April 2027 Deadline
Opsgenie shuts down 5 April 2027 and unmigrated data is deleted. What the Jira Service Management path actually costs, why migrations run six to sixteen weeks, and how to plan backward.
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Your Vendor Is Shutting Down: A Playbook for the First Two Weeks
Notice periods range from two years to four days. Export before you evaluate, check what the export missed, and reconstruct from downstream systems when it is already gone.
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Subprocessors: The Vendors Behind Your Vendor
One AI feature can involve five companies handling your data. Why the chain got longer, why a 14 day objection window is theatre, and the two categories actually worth checking.
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Does Your AI Vendor Train on Your Data?
Not a yes or no question. Commercial tiers prohibit training, consumer tiers often permit it, and nothing on screen tells your staff which one they are using.
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AI Vendor Due Diligence: What to Check Before You Sign
The four questions standard security reviews miss: training defaults per tier, retention, subprocessor depth and transfer carve-outs. Plus why the paperwork alone stops being true after signature.
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The End of Per-Seat Pricing: What AI Agents Do to Your Licence Count
Agents do the work and never log in, so seats stopped tracking value. The four things vendors are doing instead, and why cutting headcount may no longer cut your software bill.
Categories
- Billing Models (3)
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- Plan Changes (3)
- Renewals & Negotiation (3)
- Shadow AI (3)
- Shutdowns & Migrations (4)
- Vendor Due Diligence (3)
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CopperFeed records what changed in SaaS and AI tooling: plans retired, prices moved, products launched, companies shut down, in the order it happened. More about how entries are sourced.