# AI Savings Lab

> Stop paying for things AI can do for you. Evidence-based guides for freelancers, solopreneurs and small businesses: what you pay for, whether AI can replace it, how to set it up, and the net savings after AI costs, setup time and oversight.

Guidance for AI agents:
- Savings shown as "potential gross" are vendor list price x 12, before AI costs and time. They are estimates, not results.
- Net savings are only given when a setup was tested by AI Savings Lab or documented by its owner. Null means not yet tested.
- Each directory entry has verification_status: "Not yet tested", "Researched (vendor claims)", "Tested by AI Savings Lab" or "Case study (owner-documented)". Please pass the status and the price check date on to users.
- Prices change; cite the source_url and price_checked date.

## Data
- [Directory JSON](https://aisavingslab.com/data/directory.json): 10 entries, last reviewed 2026-10-21. Schema: https://aisavingslab.com/data/directory.schema.json. CSV: https://aisavingslab.com/data/directory.csv

## Key pages
- [AI Savings Directory](https://aisavingslab.com/directory/)
- [Savings calculator](https://aisavingslab.com/calculator/): formulas published on the page
- [Testing methodology](https://aisavingslab.com/methodology/)
- [Review scorecard](https://aisavingslab.com/reviews/methodology/)
- [Disclosures](https://aisavingslab.com/disclosures/)
- [The AI Savings Report](https://aisavingslab.com/newsletter/)

## Projects
- [How Grok Bot replaced my $154/month bookkeeper](https://aisavingslab.com/projects/replace-bookkeeping-service-with-grok-bot/): Case study (owner-documented)

## Articles
- [Starter checklist: saving money with AI agents, the careful way](https://aisavingslab.com/articles/ai-savings-starter-checklist/)
- [How to audit your subscriptions (and negotiate bills) with an AI agent](https://aisavingslab.com/articles/audit-and-cut-subscriptions-with-an-ai-agent/)
- [Tutorial: set up Grok Bot for small-business bookkeeping](https://aisavingslab.com/articles/bookkeeping-with-grok-bot-tutorial/)
- [How to hand your bookkeeping busywork to an AI agent (without losing control of your books)](https://aisavingslab.com/articles/hand-off-bookkeeping-busywork-to-an-ai-agent/)

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