SAAS ALTERNATIVES

Own your software instead of renting it.

These are SaaS alternatives you own, not rent. The tools below charge you again for every person, every month — and your data sits on their servers. We replace them with custom software that's yours: the code, the data, all of it.

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WHY OWN IT

Renting costs you more than money.

Ownership

Your code, your data, your setup. When you leave, you take all of it.

Lower cost

One flat price for the whole company. No fee per person. Up to 70% less.

Built for you

Tell us what you need. The fields, steps, and workflows that power your business.

Safe by default

Strong encryption, audit trails, and single sign-on come built in.

The shift

Owning your software no longer means maintaining it.

The Old Model

Rent SaaS

  • Pay for bloated features you never use
  • Bend your workflow to fit their product
  • Per-seat pricing that's anti-growth
  • Price hikes you can't control

Build with a Devshop

  • High maintenance cost — forever your burden
  • $200K–$1M+ and 6–18 months up front
  • Every change is a new invoice
The New Model

With

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  • You own everything — code, data, and infrastructure
  • One flat price. No per seat.
  • Change it in plain English, anytime
  • Bank-level security, built in.
  • We build it and run it — the maintenance isn't on you

BUILD VS. BUY

There's a third option: own it.

Buying rents you a tool that never quite fits and never becomes yours. Building from scratch is slow and costly. Owning is the path in between — built around your work, and yours to keep.

1

Start from a proven template

You don't start from a blank page. We begin from the same foundations our own products run on.

2

Shape it to your work

Tell us what you need in plain words. The fields, steps, and screens match how your business runs — our team helps, or we build the whole thing.

3

Own it for good

You keep the code, the data, and where it runs. We keep it running for one flat fee. Leave anytime and keep everything.

WHAT WE REPLACE

Browse the SaaS alternatives you can own instead.

Per-seat pricing punishes you for growing, and the free plans are a trial in disguise. Pick the tool you'd rather own outright — each page shows what you'd save.

CRM & Sales

Stop renting a CRM. Own one built around your pipeline.

Pipedrive logoPipedrivealternative→Salesforce logoSalesforcealternative→HubSpot logoHubSpotalternative→Zoho logoZohoalternative→

Field Service

Software for the trades, built for how your crews really work.

ServiceTitan logoServiceTitanalternative→Jobber logoJobberalternative→Housecall Pro logoHousecall Proalternative→

Internal Tools

We build the internal tool. You own it — no platform to rent.

Retool logoRetoolalternative→

ALREADY BUILT, READY TO OWN

Our own products show what owning looks like.

These are live tools you can try today — the same kind of software we build for you to own.

e-SignaturesGoSign↗ReplacesDocuSignDocuSignSign and send unlimited documents. Own it, no fee per person.SchedulingKalendar↗ReplacesCalendlyCalendlyBooking pages for the whole team, with no fee per person.FormsOnForm↗ReplacesTypeformTypeformBuild and share forms without per-response caps.
HRHRMSoonReplacesBambooHRBambooHRRun your people and HR in a tool you own. Coming soon.

Owning your software — your questions, answered.

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STOP RENTING. START OWNING.

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