Creative teams on enterprise-tier everything.
Publishers, newsrooms, and content studios run creative stacks (Adobe, DAM, headless CMS) plus the usual office SaaS. The subscriptions compound as editorial teams grow, and most of the core workflows have open source equivalents that do the job. GIMP, Inkscape, Penpot, Ghost, and WordPress self-hosted power serious publications worldwide.
Three pains specific to media.
Adobe Creative Cloud per-seat across the team
Editorial, design, video, social — every role needs a licence. A team of 10 on the full suite is a six-figure annual bill.
DAM and asset management subscriptions
Digital asset management platforms priced per asset or per user. Self-hosted alternatives have no ceiling.
CMS lock-in and migration cost
Years of content trapped in proprietary CMS schemas. Self-hosted WordPress or Ghost uses open formats and exports cleanly.
Your typical stack
About R190 368 a year.
Media firms typically run this stack. Click any tool to see the open source replacement and the migration plan.
What we do for media
Savings is just the start.
Mediafirms also come to us for the security, compliance, and build work that goes with the stack swap. Here's what that usually looks like.
The things your sector cares about.
POPIA for reader and subscriber data
Newsletters, paywalls, comment systems. Every subscription is personal information under POPIA.
ECTA for digital contracts and ads
Advertising terms, syndication deals, creator contracts. We configure digital contract workflows that meet ECTA.
Copyright and licence tracking
Stock imagery, music licences, syndication rights. Self-hosted DAM makes rights management visible and auditable.
Free audit. No pitch.
A 30-minute call. We look at your current stack, your headcount, your compliance posture. You get a written assessment with exact Rand numbers. You decide from there.