A lot of the software you pay for bills you again every time you hire. We build you one owned system on your own cloud that does the same job at flat cost. It is yours to keep, your data lives with you, and once everything is in one place you can ask it questions and get answers from your own history.
Most business software is rented by the head. It works fine at ten people. At forty, the bill has quietly tripled, and you are paying every month for something you will never own. Grow, and it costs more. Stop growing, and it still costs more next year.
Runs $125 to $550 per user, every month, forever.
Customers woke up to overnight price shocks after the buyout.
Being added as another per-seat line that never goes away.
None of that is a scandal. It is just what renting looks like once you are locked in.
The question worth asking is a quiet one: which of your tools has a bill that climbs every time you take someone on? That is usually the one you have outgrown, the one you keep paying for out of habit more than love.
We build you one owned operational system that does the job of the per-seat tool you have outgrown. We assemble it from a small set of mature, license-checked open-source building blocks (things like ERPNext, NocoDB, Chatwoot, Cal.com, Metabase and Postgres), then add a custom layer built around the way your business actually works. It runs on your own cloud, under your account.
An asset you keep, with no per-seat licence ticking up as you hire.
Stored and indexed on your own cloud, under your control.
It is your account, your cloud, your keys. If we ever part ways, it stays running.
This is done for you, by the people who build and run it. Not a self-serve product you have to configure and babysit. We assemble it, wire it to how you work, and hand it over set up. A Care Plan retainer keeps it patched, fed and answering well, so it stays looked-after without pulling you into maintenance.
Once everything lives in one place, you can ask it questions in plain language and get answers from your own history. That sits on top as a feature of the owned system, not the reason to build it.
Where your data lives: it is stored and indexed on your own cloud. Only your question and a short snippet ever leave, when the system looks something up for you.
This makes sense when one rented tool has quietly become a real line on your budget, roughly ten thousand dollars a year or more, and it grows every time you add a person. It works best when it is a tool you have outgrown or resent, not one you love. Something you have quietly wished you owned.
A few things we will steer you away from, honestly: tools you are required to run for compliance or by a franchise, and anything mature that your team genuinely loves. We are not here to rip out what works.
If that sounds like one of your tools, the next step is a short conversation where we work out the real number together.
Tell us which tool keeps climbing with headcount. On a short call we will map what it would take to own an equivalent on your own cloud, and what you would actually stop renting. No pitch, no obligation. If it does not pencil out, we will tell you.
Prefer to write first? Email sunny@rippledesign.co with the tool that keeps getting more expensive.
Building something for your business? Let’s talk. No pitch, just a conversation.