How an Ambitious SaaS Team Broke Under Eight Vendors — and What Replaceability Fixed

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How a $3.8M ARR SaaS Company Got Drowning-Level Complexity from Vendor Sprawl BrightPath (name changed) was a growth-stage SaaS company with $3.8 million in annual recurring revenue and 64 employees