Zero-Overhead AI: Run Agents Without Subscription Bloat The hidden cost of AI tools isn't the AI — it's the subscriptions stacking up behind it. The Bloat Is Real You started with one AI tool. $20/month. Reasonable. Then you needed a coding assistant. $49/month. Then a research tool. $39/month. Then a writing tool. $29/month. Then a workflow automator. $99/month. Before long, you're spending $300, $500, $800/month just to keep your AI stack online. Not for the AI itself — for the privilege of accessing it through each vendor's interface. This is subscription bloat. And it's the worst kind of waste because every dollar you spend on markup is a dollar you can't spend on actual AI compute, actual talent, or actual product development. What Zero Overhead Actually Means Zero overhead doesn't mean "free AI." It means the tool you use to manage your AI workforce doesn't add cost on top of the AI itself. Think of it like a phone. You buy the phone once.…