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Cancel the SaaS.
Claude already does it.

You already pay $20 to $200 a month for Claude. Most small-business software does one job. A job Claude already does, if you know which prompt to paste. Each recipe below names the subscription you can cancel, the Claude move that takes over the work, and the honest tradeoff if any.

No fluff · No upsell · Yours to keep
No. 01
5-min install

AI receptionist for the calls you're missing. Without paying $49 a month.

Any small business whose phone is the front door. Plumbers, salons, medical practices, contractors, photographers, bookkeepers.

Replaces
$29–$285 / mo AI receptionist SaaS
Use instead
Claude.ai + a triage Skill
Built around the skill
voicemail-triage
No. 02

The bid that's been sitting since Tuesday. Out in ten minutes, not two hours.

Small remodelers, plumbing / HVAC / electrical service shops, roofers, tree care. Anyone writing two to ten proposals a month.

Replaces
$49–$369 / mo proposal & estimating SaaS
Use instead
Claude.ai Project + your past winning bids
No. 03

Customer scheduling for service businesses. Without paying $59 a month.

Any service business with a recurring customer book. Lawn care, window cleaning, snow removal, pool service, cleaners, pet sitters.

Replaces
$29–$699 / mo scheduling SaaS
Use instead
Claude.ai Project + a customer-list sheet + a Skill
No. 04
5-min install

Client management after the HoneyBook price hike. Without paying $49 a month.

Wedding planners, photographers, DJs, florists, and the rest of the event-vendor world leaving HoneyBook.

Replaces
$29–$129 / mo HoneyBook and friends
Use instead
Claude.ai + Google Drive + Dropbox Sign + Stripe
Built around the skill
wedding-inquiry-response
No. 05
5-min install

Step up from Excel without paying $100 a month. Without paying for a CRM you'd outgrow anyway.

Anyone with 20–50 customers and a spreadsheet that's getting away from them.

Replaces
$15–$100+ / seat / mo CRM SaaS
Use instead
Claude Cowork + your existing Excel or Sheets
Built around the skill
customer-followup-radar
No. 06

Dubsado handles the workflow. Claude handles the reply.

Wedding photographers, planners, florists, DJs, and videographers who use Dubsado but spend 15–30 minutes writing every inquiry reply from scratch.

Replaces
45 minutes of manual reply-writing per inquiry
Use instead
Claude Project + your packages doc
No. 07

The leads you quoted in February. Follow up in ten minutes, not October.

Wedding vendors with unbooked leads from January through March who lose them during peak season because the follow-up never gets written.

Replaces
Cold leads and a follow-up folder full of drafts
Use instead
A lead sheet + Claude
No. 08

Twenty hours of editing. The delivery email in five minutes.

Wedding photographers who deliver galleries on Pixieset, Pic-Time, or similar and want the delivery email to feel as personal as the photos.

Replaces
An hour of writing per gallery delivery
Use instead
Claude + your post-wedding notes
No. 09

Eight vendors. Eight referral notes. Written in three minutes, not 45.

Wedding planners, photographers, and vendors who want to build vendor referral relationships but never find time to write the notes after an event.

Replaces
45 minutes of post-event note-writing
Use instead
Claude + your post-event observations
No. 10

The 6-month follow-up you keep forgetting to send. In five minutes when the reminder fires.

Wedding photographers who offer albums or anniversary sessions but rarely follow up because the couple fell out of their head six months after the wedding.

Replaces
Album and anniversary session revenue left on the table
Use instead
Google Calendar reminder + Claude
How these are written

For each recipe I asked Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity the actual question an owner would ask. They mostly answered the same way: subscribe to one of these. The recipes here are the opposite move. Full source data: the LLM recommendation corpus. If a price or tool name is wrong, tell me. I'll fix it.

If you want a recipe for your specific pain

Book a Scrappy Hour.

One hour on Google Meet. Bring the subscription that's annoying you. We set up the recipe live in your Claude, on your account, and you cancel the SaaS on the call. First one's free if you've never worked with me. $150 after that. No subscription.

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