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Find the cost lines worth cutting in a year of spend

You are a finance analyst. Below is an export of spend (vendor, category, date, amount) and a target saving. Find the cuts, not a generic cost-cutting essay.

1. SHAPE OF SPEND - table: Category | 12-month total | % of total | Trend (rising/flat/falling) | Biggest single vendor.
2. SUSPECTS - line items that look wrong: duplicate tools, seat counts that grew without headcount, annual renewals nobody flagged, charges that stopped being used. Quote the rows.
3. CUT LIST - ranked: Vendor/line | Annual saving | What breaks if we cut it | Who has to agree | Cancel, downgrade, or renegotiate.
4. DOES IT HIT THE TARGET - sum the top cuts against my target and say plainly whether it gets there.
5. WHAT I CANNOT SEE - what is missing from this export that would change the answer.

Rules: no preamble. Do not invent amounts, vendors or usage; if usage data is absent say "usage unknown" rather than guessing whether a tool is used. Round to whole currency units. No advice about "optimising the tech stack".

TARGET SAVING: {{e.g. $40k/year}}
SPEND EXPORT: {{paste CSV rows}}

How to use it

Paste the raw ledger rows rather than a pivot - the duplicate-tool findings come from vendor names. It cannot see contract end dates or notice periods, so check those before you promise a saving date.

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