We rebuild the tools you rent into products you own.
Not a clone, and not a platform — your tool. We take the rented software at the center of your work, keep only what your team actually uses, rebuild it around your real workflows, and transfer everything to your name. First version in 1–3 months. No subscriptions, no per-seat tax, no lock-in.
Three moves, no ceremony.
We sit with your team and find the 20%.
Not a discovery workshop — an observation. We watch the work happen in the tool you rent: which screens stay open all day, which features nobody has clicked since onboarding, where the workarounds live. The output is blunt: a keep list, a cut list, and a build plan with a fixed price on it.
- A keep list — the features that earn their place
- A cut list — the rent you’ve been paying in disguise
- A fixed-scope plan, or an honest “keep renting”
- Two weeks, fixed scope — and the audit is yours to keep even if you walk away
- Counts toward the build if you continue
A senior team rebuilds it around you.
No junior pyramid, no account managers. Builders with serious AI tooling, shipping into your real workflows from the first week. Your data comes in early, so the tool is tested against your actual work — not a demo dataset. You see a working build every week, and you steer it.
- Weekly working demos inside your real data
- Your workflows as the spec — not a market segment’s
- Deliberately boring tech underneath — easy to run for a decade
We hand you the keys and leave.
The repo transfers to your organization. The deploy runs under your name. The documentation assumes nothing, and your team is trained on the internals — not just the interface. From that day the meter reads zero, permanently.
- Repository, data, and infrastructure — all under your name
- Documentation and training for your engineers
- Want us on call afterwards? A retainer you can cancel — not a subscription you can’t
A dozen rented bricks, collapsed into one you own.
~20%
of a rented tool’s features see regular use on a typical team. The rest is somebody else’s roadmap — and it’s all on your invoice. Run your cursor down the ledger and shed what you never touch.
- Board & viewskept · daily
- Advanced Roadmaps$12/seat
- Portfolio Analytics$18/seat
- Docskept · daily
- Custom Workflows Pro$15/seat
- Enterprise SSO$11/seat
- Searchkept · hourly
- AI Insights Add-on$20/seat
- Resource Forecasting$14/seat
- Comments & mentionskept · daily
- Premium Support$25/seat
- Audit Log Premium$9/seat
- Storage Tier IV$8/seat
- Sandbox Environments$10/seat
Illustrative tiers and prices — yours get itemized in the audit.
Renting never ends. Owning never asks again.
Illustrative: a 30-seat team at $115/seat/mo across its stack. Where the lines cross depends on the build — after that, the gap only widens.
What renting costs that team
0/year
After a decade
0 — and counting
What owning costs after the build
$0/month, forever
What does your stack burn?
Tick what you rent, set your team size — and watch what walks out the door every year. Every one of these numbers reads $0 the day you own the tool.
List prices, per seat, today — your invoice may be worse. All of it stops on handover day. And you don’t need the money up front: keep paying monthly, like you already do, until the build is paid off.
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No per-seat tax
Headcount grows. Your software bill doesn’t. Seat 31 costs exactly what seat 1 did: nothing.
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No feature landfill
Every feature exists because your team uses it. Nothing else made the cut — so nothing else is on the bill.
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No lock-in
The code lives in your repo, the data on your terms. Leave us whenever — it’s yours either way.
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No lump sum required
Pay the build in full, or keep paying monthly — the way you already do — until it’s paid off. Then the meter stops, and the product is yours.
The code never lives anywhere you can’t reach. You watch it grow commit by commit.
Everything built so far stays yours — code, data, documentation. No exit fee, no hostage.
If something we built breaks, we fix it. That’s not billable — that’s the build.
Keep paying monthly — like rent — until the build is paid off. Then $0, forever.
The questions we’d ask if we were you.
When is renting actually right?
Often. Commodity tools far from the center of your work, things you’ll outgrow in a year, anything where the network is the product. We build for the one tool your team lives in — and if the audit says renting wins, the audit says so in writing.
Who maintains it after you leave?
Your engineers — that’s the point of the boring tech choices, the documentation, and the training. If you’d rather have us on call, that’s a retainer you can cancel, not a subscription you can’t. One is a service; the other is a leash.
What exactly do we receive?
The repository, transferred. The data, in your storage. The deployment, under your accounts. The documentation, the training, the licenses to every dependency. We call it the deed — when we leave, nothing of ours remains in your stack.
How is a custom build affordable now?
Because the cost of building collapsed and the price of renting didn’t. A senior team with serious AI tooling ships in weeks what used to take quarters — and we’re building your tool, not a platform for a thousand hypothetical customers. That’s most of the discount.
Is it secure enough for serious work?
More controllable than the alternative: the code is auditable line by line, it runs on your infrastructure under your policies, and your data never sits in a vendor’s multi-tenant cloud. Security review happens on your terms, before handover — not in a vendor’s press release after a breach.
Why not low-code, or building it ourselves?
Low-code platforms are rent with extra steps — you still pay monthly, and now your workflow lives in their abstractions. Hiring your own team works, but takes quarters. We’re the third option: built like in-house, delivered like a product — then it is in-house.
What about the data in our current tools?
Migration is part of the build, not an add-on. We export, map, and verify your history — tickets, files, records, comments — before the old tool is cancelled. Nothing gets cancelled until your data is home.
What happens when our needs change?
You change the tool. It’s yours — extend it, gut it, hire anyone to work on it, call us back, or never call again. Your software evolves when your work changes, not when a vendor’s roadmap does.