100 licences. 42 people logging in.

That's the sort of number that turns up the first time a finance leader gets a proper look at their company's software. Spend keeps rising and tool stacks keep fragmenting, and finance is expected to make sense of it, often without knowing what's being paid for or who owns it.

Join us for a free breakfast at The Riding House Café in Fitzrovia, hosted with Dragonfly. They bring finance, HR and access data together into one view of a company's tool stack, and they don't take referral fees from vendors, so their advice isn't tied to what anyone wants to sell.

This breakfast is for finance leaders talking to each other about their vendor sprawl. Come with a renewal that caught you out or a bill you didn't see coming, and hear how other people handled theirs.

Who's this for?
Fractional and in-house CFOs, FDs and finance leaders who end up in the middle of software spend. You're asked to control it and make it more efficient, often without a clear view of what tools exist or who owns them.

Stepping into a client with limited context and no clear source of truth? That's who this is for. One business where this is a live problem is enough.

What you'll leave with
Finance leaders will be comparing notes on how they track software usage and who decides whether a tool stays. Everyone comes from a different seat, fractional and in-house, and the conversation is shaped by what the room has seen - both success and war stories alike. Expect to hear approaches you haven’t tried, and to bring a few of your own. A short recap of the room’s takeaways follows afterwards.

Agenda

08:00 Welcome and intros
Who you are, the businesses you work with, and where tool spend is causing the most friction.

08:30 Small-group discussion
→ Where software spend is getting away from you
→ How you track usage across tools, and where that breaks down
→ Who decides whether a tool is cut or kept

09:00 Whole-table discussion
→ Is your problem visibility or overspend?
→ Spend vs usage: do you know who's actually logging in?
→ Who decides what gets bought: you, IT, or whoever the vendor reached first?
→ How far software has crept into your remit, from vendor selection to security checks

09:30 Open discussion and wrap-up

Breakfast is on us, and the menu is below. Please share any dietary requirements when you register. Numbers are limited, so register early.

For a backstory on Dragonfly and the problem they're solving, check out the webinar that Dragonfly hosted for the enki community: From Spreadsheets to Real Visibility on Software Spend.