Your stack is more expensive than your junior consultant.
Agencies and consulting firms pay for CRM, project management, time tracking, billing, design tools, and collaboration. The compounding monthly SaaS bill often eclipses a junior consultant's salary. Self-hosted alternatives give you the same workflows without the tax.
R 277K
Typical annual licence spend
Across 8 common professional services tools
R 249K
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
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Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The professional services stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical professional services firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Professional Services stack
8 tools · R 277K/yr in licences
Replace
DocuSign
E-Signatures · R 60K per year
With
DocuSeal
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 54K
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 277K
Estimated OSS hosting
R 28K
Annual savings
R 249K
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where the professional services bleed starts
Three things we hear on every professional services discovery call.
Per-seat everything, priced for billable rates
Slack plus Asana plus Salesforce plus Adobe plus Figma plus Zoom. A ten-person agency spends R50k per month on SaaS before office rent.
Client data across a dozen foreign vendors
Every SaaS vendor holds a slice of client data. Hard to tell clients where their information lives, and harder to answer POPIA data-subject requests.
Design-tool licence shock on junior staff
Adobe Creative Cloud for a mid-sized agency is a meaningful line item. GIMP, Inkscape, and Penpot deliver 90% of the work for 0% of the subscription.
How we handle the professional services edges