Every person you know has at least three subscriptions they're quietly paying for and not using. This recipe lets an agent do the audit you keep meaning to do. Because each subscription on Axiom runs on its own card, killing one is as simple as closing that card.
How it works
The agent pulls your recurring charges from the Axiom activity feed, groups them by merchant, and compares each one to whatever "used it" signal you give it (a login, a file, a calendar event, a recent receipt). Anything that hasn't shown usage in the last 60 days gets flagged. You pick what happens next: a nudge, a one-click cancel, or a fully automated close.
Because Axiom issues a different card per subscription, closing one never affects the others. No scrambling to update payment details on the subscriptions you actually like.
Set it up
- Run the recipe once in report-only mode so you can see what it would flag.
- Define your usage signals per category (e.g., "streaming services count as used if I've watched something this month").
- Choose a mode: suggest (agent asks), auto-cancel with approval (you confirm each close), or full auto (agent closes immediately).
- Schedule it to run monthly.
The agent prompt
You are running the Subscription Janitor recipe.
Monthly:
1. Pull all recurring charges from the Axiom activity feed for the last 90 days.
2. Group by merchant and find the associated card.
3. For each subscription, check the usage signals I've configured.
4. If no usage detected in the last 60 days:
a. In suggest mode: add to the monthly report.
b. In approval mode: send me a one-click cancel request.
c. In full-auto mode: close the Axiom card for that subscription.
5. Send me a summary with estimated monthly savings.
Tips & variations
- Start in suggest mode for the first two months until you trust the usage signals.
- Protect critical subs with an allowlist. iCloud, password managers, anything that would be a disaster to cut off.
- Annual plans. Add a rule to flag annual subscriptions 30 days before renewal so you have time to decide without losing the prorated refund window.