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.
Three pains specific to professional services.
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.
Your typical stack
About R276 600 a year.
Professional Services firms typically run this stack. Click any tool to see the open source replacement and the migration plan.
What we do for professional services
Savings is just the start.
Professional Servicesfirms 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.
Client confidentiality and NDAs
Self-hosted collaboration keeps client materials out of foreign data stores. Clean answer for NDAs and client security questionnaires.
Time-and-billing integration
Self-hosted Kimai + Odoo ties timesheet to invoice without paying two vendors. Integration we control, not rent.
Brand asset management
Open source DAM (ResourceSpace, Pimcore) organises a decade of brand work without per-asset fees.
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.