Most people are paying $20/month for ChatGPT, $20/month for Cursor, $100/month for JIRA, $30/month for Figma, $15/month for Confluence, $20/month for Notion. That's $205/month in subscriptions, and you're still context switching 50 times a day. Mike Bal runs product at David's Bridal from two tools. Cursor and Claude Desktop. Everything else connects through MCP. The time savings isn't what makes this interesting. It's the compounding cost structure. Every tool you log into separately has a switching tax. Average PM loses 23 minutes per day to context switching according to recent studies. That's 92 hours per year just moving between UIs. Mike's team ships at quarter the size of comparable teams. One morning building a colorization app that saves $0.04 per image versus agency pricing. Few hours migrating content to Sanity CMS that would've required engineering weeks. The delta isn't the tools. It's the abstraction layer. Here's the hidden insight from this podcast. Mike showed design validation that used to take 1-2 hours. He prompted "Find my Confluence doc about Feature X, load this Figma design, compare them and tell me what I missed." 30 seconds. Claude pulled the PRD through Confluence MCP, loaded the design through Figma MCP, returned the gap analysis. That's not automation. That's eliminating the need for automation. The operating system approach means you don't need 20 different integrations. You need one interface that talks to everything. Corporate IT can't block this. You already have access to Cursor or Claude Desktop. You already use JIRA, Figma, GitHub. You're just connecting them through a better interface. No new tool approvals. No enterprise license negotiations. Just better architecture. ...