• 75% of IT professionals lose 6-15 hours per week to tool sprawl ($50K per developer annually) • Each tool switch costs 23 minutes of focus time—teams navigate 7.4 tools just to ship code • AI tools are compounding the problem: organizations adding 8-10 AI tools on top of existing DevOps stack • 66% spend MORE time fixing AI-generated code than writing it themselves • 53% of organizations solved this with Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) like Backstage • IDPs make sense at 50+ engineers with 5+ tools—below 20 engineers, overhead exceeds benefit • Port (commercial) offers fast time-to-value; Backstage (open-source) provides deep customization • 90-day playbook: audit tool usage (days 1-30), run POC (31-60), roll out to 20% of team (61-90) • Monday action: measure tools touched per day, calculate annual waste, pilot Backstage over weekend