Cancel the subscriptions. Keep the software.
CNL rebuilds the tools your team rents by the seat as one system made for your industry. You pay once to build it and a flat fee to run it. The code, the data and the servers are yours.
Fixed quote. No seats. Yours to keep.
Your software bill
- Salesforce Sales CloudCore, 12 seats × $195$2,340Owned
- Zendesk SuiteProfessional, 6 agents × $115$690Owned
- HubSpot Marketing HubProfessional, 3 seats$800Owned
- monday.comPro, 40 seats × $19$760Owned
- DocuSignBusiness Pro, 4 users × $45$180Owned
- Every month$4,770$1,140
That is $57,240 a year, and every hire adds seats.CNL: $30,000 once, then $990 a month plus about $150 hosting. Pays back in 9 months.
List prices billed yearly, October 2026. Seats assumed: 30% of the team on CRM, 15% on support, 10% on e-signature, everyone on projects.
The bill only goes one way.
yearly rise in SaaS prices, measured in September 2026 (preliminary), against 3.7% for US consumer prices. Vertice SaaS Inflation Index; US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
of SaaS licenses sit unused on average, per Zylo's 2026 SaaS Management Index.
SaaS spend per employee at small businesses in one year, Q1 2024 to Q1 2025, per Vertice.
The same lines on the card statement every month, each one priced per seat. These are the ones we rebuild.
From rented to owned, in five steps.
- 1
Show us what you rent
Two ways in. Pick the tools you want to replace and how many people use each one, or send us your invoices and we map everything for you.
Picking takes about five minutes. Your audit comes back within five business days.
- 2
We map what you use
Every screen, field and automation your team touches in a normal month goes on the list. The rest stays behind.
Pendo's 2019 Feature Adoption Report found 80% of features in a typical software product are rarely or never used.
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Built around your industry
One system with your job types, your price book, your approval steps and the words your team already uses. AI agents take the routine work: triage, follow-ups, first drafts.
Three to ten weeks, depending on the plan.
- 4
You export, we import
You export your data from each old tool, with a step-by-step guide we send for each one, and share the files with us. We import everything into your new system and check it record by record.
Your old tools keep running until switch-over day.
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You keep the difference.
We run it from here. Hosting, security patches, backups and fixes are covered by a flat monthly fee. New features are priced before we start. Cancel the old subscriptions the day you go live.
Example month, using the bill in the hero.
Rebuilt for your own industry
Dispatch board, Tuesday
Booked today, review texts queued18
Booking, dispatch, quotes and review requests in one system. Add a technician and the price stays the same.
Three years. Two bills.
to rent the five tools in the bill above for three years, at today's list prices.
to own them: the $30,000 CNL fee, $990 a month to run it and about $150 a month of hosting.
kept by the business, before a single SaaS price rise.
Method: the 40-person bill in the hero, at list prices billed yearly in October 2026, held flat for 36 months. CNL Whole stack plan paid upfront, plus a $150 a month hosting assumption. Not a client result: your audit replaces every number with yours.
Yours, down to the last line.
Renting means the vendor sets the price, the roadmap and the exit. With CNL, the code sits in your accounts from the first commit, and every term below is in the contract.
Your codeIn your GitHub from day one.
Fixed CNL feeSet before we start. Overruns are ours.
No per-seat pricingHire ten people and your CNL bill stays exactly the same.
Payback guaranteeNot paid back within 12 months of going live? The monthly fee is waived until it is.
No surprise risesYour monthly fee is fixed for two years.
Leave any timeThirty days' notice. You keep everything.
Hosting at costBilled to you by the provider. We never resell it.
Every update checkedTested and scanned before it goes live, and rolled back if it fails.
CNL against renting.
A subscription costs more every time you hire, and stops working the day you stop paying. Software you own costs the same at ten people or a hundred.
| For the tools you run on | CNL | SaaS subscriptions | Dev shop, hourly | No-code builder |
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Columns describe kinds of options, not named products. “Varies” means it depends on the firm or the plan.
Pay once. Then a flat fee.
One tool
Replace your priciest subscription with one system built for you.
$6,000CNL fee, once$530a month for 12 months
Fixed quote after your audit. From this price.$6,360 in total, 6% more than paying upfront.
$290a month to run it
Book a free auditCore stack
Two to four tools merged into one system your whole team uses.
$18,000CNL fee, once$1,590a month for 12 months
Fixed quote after your audit. From this price.$19,080 in total, 6% more than paying upfront.
$590a month to run it
Book a free auditWhole stack
Five tools or more, plus AI agents that take the routine work.
$30,000CNL fee, once$2,650a month for 12 months
Fixed quote after your audit. From this price.$31,800 in total, 6% more than paying upfront.
$990a month to run it
Book a free auditUpdates, priced before we start.
Nothing is billed by the hour. Core stack includes one small update a month, Whole stack two.
- $450Small update
A field, a report, a form or an automation rule. Live in two business days.
- $1,900Standard update
A new workflow, screen or integration. Live within two weeks.
- QuotedMajor update
A new module, or another tool brought in. A fixed quote, priced like a CNL fee.
| What you get | One tool | Core stack | Whole stack |
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Straight answers.
What does the CNL fee pay for?
The rebuild itself: the audit, design, build, testing, moving your data, training your team and the switch-over day. It is a fixed quote, set before we start. If the build takes longer than planned, that cost is ours.
What does the monthly fee cover?
Everything that keeps the system running: hosting set-up and monitoring, security patches, backups, library and AI model upgrades, and bug fixes. Core stack includes one small update a month and Whole stack two. The fee is locked for 24 months, and it never goes up when you hire.
How are updates priced?
From a fixed list, quoted before we start: $450 for a small update such as a field, report or rule, $1,900 for a new workflow, screen or integration, and a fixed quote for a new module. Nothing is billed by the hour.
Can you really replace Salesforce or HubSpot?
We rebuild the part your team uses, not the whole product. Pendo's 2019 Feature Adoption Report found that 80% of features in a typical software product are rarely or never used. The audit lists what you rely on, and if you depend on something we cannot match, we say so and that tool stays.
What if it does not pay for itself?
We only start when the audit shows the rebuild paying for itself within 12 months of going live, measured against the invoices it replaces. If it has not by month 12, the monthly fee is waived until it has. When the numbers do not work, the audit says so and we tell you to keep renting.
Who owns the code, and what if CNL disappears?
You do. The code lives in your GitHub, the data in your cloud account, and every system ships with its documentation, so any capable developer can take it over. Leave with thirty days' notice and we hand everything over.
Where is it hosted, and is it secure?
In a cloud account you own, billed to you by the provider at cost. Every system ships with single sign-on, roles and permissions, encrypted backups and an audit log, and security patches are part of the monthly fee.
Are other companies really doing this?
Yes. In Retool's 2026 Build vs Buy report, 35% of the 817 teams surveyed, all Retool users, had already replaced at least part of a SaaS tool with software they built. AI coding tools have made owned software far cheaper to build and to keep running.
What will you not rebuild?
Email, accounting ledgers and payroll. Tax rules, bank feeds and filings change too often to be worth owning, and some tools are simply cheaper to rent. The audit says which ones.
How long until we switch over?
Our targets: about three weeks for one tool, six weeks for two to four, and ten weeks for a whole stack. Your old tools keep running until the new system is live.
Show us your bill.
Within five business days you get a line-by-line rebuild plan, a fixed CNL fee and the month it pays for itself. The audit is free, and the plan is yours either way.