Replace your SaaS,
one product at a time.
We're not software. We're a managed service that uses AI to build custom software in your name — one product at a time, shipped in weeks, owned by you. We replace the SaaS platforms you're renting with apps your business actually owns.
Your software bill stopped making sense.
A 50-person firm now pays between $9,000 and $22,000 a month across 12–30 SaaS tools. Most are 30% used. Many duplicate each other. None of them are yours.
That used to be fine, because building custom software cost $200,000 and took nine months.
It doesn't anymore.
- CRM (Salesforce + Outreach + Apollo)$4,800
- PM (Monday + Asana + ClickUp)$1,900
- Docs & intake (DocuSign + Formstack)$1,400
- Billing (Bill.com + Stripe)$900
- HR (BambooHR + Lattice)$1,600
- Analytics (Looker + Mixpanel seats)$1,800
- Other (LMS, scheduler, Zapier, etc.)$2,100
Every 90 days,
one SaaS subscription disappears.
Four steps, repeated every quarter. The platform does the heavy lifting. A named engineer owns the outcome.
Send us your last three months of software invoices. We produce a ranked kill-list with the dollars behind each one — same week.
AI generates, our senior engineer reviews every commit. You see the working app on a staging URL by week two. Your feedback shapes it live.
We migrate your data and flip the switch. You cancel that subscription the same day. The code lives on your infrastructure — you own it.
Next quarter, the next tool. By the end of year one you've shipped four custom apps and the SaaS bill is a fraction of what it was.
See your real number.
Check the categories you pay for. Set your headcount. Watch Clearloom flatten the bill.
- $4,800
- $1,900
- $1,400
- $900
- $1,600
- $1,800
- $2,100
- Clearloom subscription (flat)$8,000
- Tools you keep (QBO, Slack, Gusto)$3,200
You own everything we ship.
Fire us and keep it all.
SaaS ends and your data leaves in a CSV. With Clearloom, the workflows are the code — and the code is yours.
We write in your GitHub organization from commit one. Every line of code is on your account the moment it's written.
We deploy to your Vercel, AWS, or GCP — your keys. Daily Postgres snapshots land in your storage, not ours.
Sixty days of transition. Two hours of named-engineer handover. Any developer on earth can pick up the code. No hostage.
Clause 4.3Every MSA“All source code, schemas, and configurations developed for Client are the sole property of Client upon payment. Upon termination, Client receives the git repository, database snapshots, and hosting credentials within 30 days.”
Built for teams tired of expensive software that doesn't deliver.
No more paying per-seat for tools half the team hates. No more renewal shakedowns. We replace the platforms that are bleeding you with software you actually own.
Clio, NetDocs, iManage, Formstack
Matter CRM, intake portal, conflict checker, referral attribution
Karbon, Canopy, client portals
Client portal, engagement workflow, deadline radar, e-sign
Harvest, ClickUp, Notion, status tools
Client dashboard, time tracking, retainer burn-down, async status
EMR add-ons, forms, scheduling, analytics
Intake, eligibility checker, ops dashboard, referrals
SaaS sprawl across holdings
Template stack deployed per portco, portfolio-level BI
ERP add-ons, CPQ, QA trackers
Order-to-ship, quote config, QC checklist, shop-floor app
Builders, not account managers.
No BDRs. No solutions consultants. Senior engineers who ship code with your name on it — and who answer the phone.
Started Clearloom after a decade in enterprise software. Believes most SaaS is a spreadsheet wearing a nice jacket.
Runs engineering and the private-cloud deployment pipeline. Makes sure our velocity doesn't come at the cost of durability.
Owns the first 12 weeks of every engagement. Makes sure the product that ships matches what you actually do — not what you told us on a call.
Reverse-engineers the 12 tools a firm uses today into the 2 apps they actually need. Former product lead at a vertical SaaS company.
Writes the boring, durable parts: auth, billing, integrations — the stuff that still works three years later.
The single number you call. Keeps the roadmap honest and the velocity visible. Came from the ops side of a law firm, so she speaks the language.
Lives in your GitHub. Two commits before lunch, four before dinner. Formerly at a legal-tech startup where he counted seat licenses and wept.
Designs UIs a 52-year-old partner can use without a training deck. Believes the best interface is one you forget you're using.
SOC 2, HIPAA BAAs, SSO, audit logs. Was a CISO at a regional accounting firm — which is why your auditor will love him.
Owns the bridge to Salesforce, QBO, Stripe, HubSpot, and the 40 API nightmares nobody talks about. Ran data eng at a PE portco rollup.
Full-stack, quick, unflappable. You'll see his name in your commit log more than anyone else's.
Embeds with your team for the first two weeks. Watches the work, then builds software that actually matches it.
The person you talk to before you meet Stephen. Ex-McKinsey, reformed. Will tell you if we're not a fit.
Flat monthly. Never per-seat.
Twelve-month minimum. Month-to-month after that. You own the code the day we write it.
- Quarterly SaaS audit
- 1 product shipped per quarter (4/year)
- Unlimited changes to shipped products
- Hosting, backups, monitoring
- 99.5% uptime SLA
- Weekly 30-min call with named engineer
- Everything in Starter
- 2 products per quarter (8/year)
- Salesforce, QBO, Stripe, HubSpot integrations
- Dedicated success engineer
- Cross-app BI dashboard
- 99.9% uptime SLA
- Quarterly executive business review
- Unlimited products and velocity
- Private cloud or on-prem deployment
- Dedicated 2-person pod
- SOC2, SSO, audit logs, HIPAA BAA
- 24/7 on-call coverage
- Direct founder access
The real numbers behind killing SaaS.
Writing on SaaS economics, ownership, and why the old build-vs-buy math is wrong.
Your SaaS Stack Charges You More Every Time You Hire. Here's the Exit Math.
Per-seat pricing feels reasonable the first time you sign a contract. It stops feeling reasonable around year three, when your headcount has grown 40 percent and your software bill has grown right along with it.
We Audited a 50-Person Firm's SaaS Stack. The Number Was $238,000. Nobody at the Firm Knew.
Somewhere between the COVID-era scramble to go remote and this morning's credit card statement, your firm quietly became a SaaS company that also does professional services. The math, when you finally run it, is almost always worse than you expect.
The SaaS Ratchet: Why Professional Services Firms Keep Paying More for Software That Does Less
The average 50-person professional services firm is spending somewhere between $180,000 and $240,000 a year on software. Most of that spend is not a deliberate choice; it is an accumulation of decisions nobody made together.
Answers.
01Is this AI-generated slop code?+
No. AI accelerates our engineers, it doesn't replace them. Every line of production code is reviewed and owned by a named senior engineer before it touches your infrastructure. You get their name and GitHub handle on day one.
02What happens if Clearloom disappears?+
You already have everything. From day one: GitHub organization ownership, database snapshots to your cloud, hosting credentials in your name. If we vanish, any developer on earth can pick it up — these are small, clean codebases, not platform mysteries.
03How fast does the first product ship?+
Two to four weeks from kickoff. First release lives on a staging URL by week two. We target every 90 days after that. If we miss the quarterly ship, that month is free.
04Can you integrate with what we already use?+
Yes — Salesforce, QuickBooks, Stripe, NetSuite, HubSpot, Gusto, Google Workspace. Most clients keep 3–5 anchor SaaS tools and replace the other 10+. We build the bridges.
05How is this different from a dev agency?+
Agencies sell projects with SOWs, fixed scope, and a huge upfront invoice. We sell a relationship. No SOW per app. No change orders. Four products a year and unlimited changes for one predictable monthly fee.
06Why $8,000 a month minimum?+
Below that, we can't afford to staff a senior engineer on your account and your savings wouldn't justify the switch. If your SaaS bill is under $5k a month, you're not our ICP yet. Come back when you've grown.
07Is our data secure?+
Infrastructure runs in your region. Encryption at rest and in transit. SSO on request. Daily backups. SOC2-aligned practices at Pro tier; formal SOC2 by end of year one. HIPAA BAAs available at Enterprise tier.
08Do we have to commit for 12 months?+
Yes for the initial term. It's how a managed service works — predictability both ways lets us invest in your stack. Month-to-month after that. Any time you leave, the code goes with you.
09Who decides what gets built next?+
You do. Each quarter we run a planning session, map your remaining SaaS pain to the next build, and get your sign-off. Nothing ships without your approval.
010What if we hate what you build?+
We iterate until you don't. Unlimited changes means we rebuild features inside the same month at no extra cost. That's the whole point of a managed service versus a project.
Audit my
SaaS stack.
Send your last three months of software invoices. We come back with a ranked kill-list and your real savings number — same day. Keep the one-pager either way.