Stop renting software you could own.
Per-seat SaaS costs more every year you grow. For the tools your team uses a sliver of, a fixed-fee replacement you own costs less than two years of the rent. For the duplicates you don’t need at all, I cut them, guaranteed: 3× the fee in cuts within 6 months, or you pay nothing.
- OwnProject tracking, support desk and scheduling: $94.2k/yr of rent ends for a one-time $47.5k–$90k. Paid back in ~11 months.
- CutDuplicates in 11 categories: $176k–$385k/yr recoverable.
- Keep3 categories that are cheaper to rent: payroll, accounting, identity.
Modeled from public list prices, not a client result. Your own numbers come from the free verdict on fatsaas.
Some SaaS is worth replacing. Most isn’t.
The line between them is payback: a build has to pay for itself inside 24 months of the rent it ends, at your seat count. Below that, the verdict says keep, and so do I.
Own itWorth owning, at the right size
- Schedulingsmall build · from $7,500Booking pages on your own domain, round-robin across the team, reminders, and two-way calendar sync.
- Project / Work Mgmtmedium build · from $15,000Boards, lists and timelines with your own statuses and fields, your history imported, and single sign-on.
- Support / Helpdeskmedium build · from $15,000A shared inbox with assignment, SLAs and saved replies, plus a help centre and customer portal on your domain.
- Analytics / BImedium build · from $15,000The dashboards and scheduled reports your team actually opens, on your own data, with no per-seat licence.
KeepCheaper to rent than to own
- Docs / WikiGeneral-purpose docs are hard to beat for the price.
- Office / Email SuiteMail and office suites are infrastructure: cheaper to rent than to run.
- Team ChatChat is a network: everyone you talk to is already on it.
- Video ConferencingReal-time video is infrastructure: cheaper to rent than to run.
- File StorageStorage is a commodity; the saving is in consolidating it.
- CRMA system of record for your pipeline: consolidate it, don’t rebuild it.
- Marketing AutomationEmail deliverability is infrastructure you don’t want to own.
- DesignProfessional creative tools: nothing to gain by rebuilding them.
- Dev / Source ControlSource control is infrastructure: cheaper to rent than to run.
- HR / PeoplePayroll and HR carry compliance you shouldn’t own.
- Finance / AccountingAccounting carries audit and tax obligations you shouldn’t own.
- E-SignatureSignatures carry legal weight; keep them with a provider that stands behind them.
- Password / IdentityIdentity and passwords are security products: never rebuild them.
A verdict, a fixed quote, then software you own.
Verdict
Free, on fatsaas, in two minutes: every line of your stack gets keep, cut or own, with the reason and the numbers.
Fixed quote
Scope, fee and timeline in writing before any work starts. Builds typically ship in 2–3 weeks (small) to 4–6 weeks (medium); cuts start the same week.
You own it
Your data migrated, the code and hosting in your name, and an MCP server so your AI tools can use it on day one. An optional care plan covers hosting, fixes and small changes.
What the verdict finds at three sizes
Typical stacks priced from public list prices, not client results. The line moves with headcount: rent grows with every seat, a fixed fee doesn’t.
a year less once it’s done, on $208k of modeled spend.
Own the project tracking: $17.5k/yr of rent ends for $15k–$30k once, paid back in ~24 months. Cut duplicates in 12 categories.
a year less once it’s done, on $672k of modeled spend.
Own the project tracking, support desk and scheduling: $94.2k/yr of rent ends for $47.5k–$90k once, paid back in ~11 months. Cut duplicates in 11 categories.
a year less once it’s done, on $2.74M of modeled spend.
Own the project tracking, support desk, reporting and scheduling: $526k/yr of rent ends for $116k–$225k once, paid back in ~5 months. Cut duplicates in 11 categories.
On cuts: if I don’t identify at least 3× my fee in cuttable software spend within 6 months, you pay nothing.
On builds: a fixed fee, quoted in writing before any work starts, and the code is yours. Vendor-neutral: I don’t resell anyone’s software, so the only number I’m chasing is yours. I take a limited number of clients, and only ones whose stack I’ve already diagnosed, so I never guarantee blind.
Three separate tools, one operator.
Each is bought, priced and run on its own, and each is worth doing by itself — none of them is a prerequisite for another, and there's no order you have to follow. Together they compound: every replacement ships agent-ready, and the rent a leaner stack stops paying funds the agents that work on it. That's an option, not a gate.
Diagnose
Free · 2 minutes · no account
Detect the tools you actually run, model the rest, and get a verdict on every line: keep it, cut the duplicates, or replace what you overpay to rent.
Stands alone: take the verdict into your own renewal review and stop there.
fatsaas.com →Replace
Fixed-fee builds · 3× the fee in cuts, or you pay nothing
Fixed-fee replacements you own for the tools you overpay to rent, and a consolidation plan for the duplicates you don’t need at all.
Stands alone: it ends when the software ships and the savings land. Nothing obliges you to connect an agent afterwards.
Automate
Free scan, results in seconds · you own the code
The agentic layer for your business: scan free to see what AI agents can already reach, then get the connections and workflows that put them to work.
Stands alone: no audit and no cuts required first. Bring the stack you already have.
cloudmcp.net →One person, start to finish.
Luke Wade LinkedIn ↗
Eleven years across data and enterprise software, the last seven in solutions engineering: scoping integrations, building proofs of concept against real customer systems, and getting buyers confident in new software. Knowing exactly how a stack gets sold is what lets me see the overlap inside one. I scope it, build it, hand you the code, and back the cuts with a guarantee.
Get your number first
Every engagement starts with the verdict. Give fatsaas a work email or just your company website: your stack is modeled in two minutes, you come straight back here with your plan, and you decide whether to apply.
Vendor-neutral inside every category: no preferred CRM, no preferred storage vendor. Where a tool is worth keeping, the plan says keep it; where it’s worth owning, the fee is fixed before any work starts.