Own your stack.
Stop renting it.
We help Australian small and medium businesses replace costly SaaS subscriptions with proven open-source platforms, customised and connected for how your team works. Lower costs, better tools, and data you actually own.
Sound Familiar?
The same five problems eat into almost every team's week, and the SaaS tools sold to fix them keep getting more expensive.
Drowning in email & Teams
Hours a day spent triaging messages, chasing threads and answering the same questions twice.
Booking external meetings
Endless back-and-forth to find a time with clients, candidates and partners across time zones.
Platforms that don't talk
Copy-pasting between CRM, finance, spreadsheets and inboxes because nothing is connected.
Meetings without memory
Decisions and action items lost because nobody had time to take notes or write the summary.
Knowledge scattered everywhere
Docs buried in drives, chats and people's heads, out of reach for new hires and for AI.
The Open Stack
Mature, widely used open-source alternatives that match or beat the SaaS they replace, once they're customised and connected. Where a tool isn't strictly open source, we say so.
Scheduling & Bookings
Self-hosted booking pages for clients and partners, synced with your calendars. Reminders, follow-ups and CRM updates run through your workflow engine.
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Workflow & Integration
Visual workflows that connect any API, with no per-task pricing. Run thousands of automations for the cost of a small server.
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Meeting Notes & Transcription
Record, transcribe and summarise internal meetings on your own hardware with local AI models. Recordings and transcripts never leave your network.
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Knowledge Base
One searchable home for policies, processes and project notes, kept in plain Markdown or exportable to it, so AI can read it natively.
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Private AI Assistant
A company assistant that answers from your own knowledge base, using local or hosted models you choose.
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Inbox & Chat Triage
Topic-threaded chat plus AI flows that sort, summarise and draft replies so people only see what needs them.
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And much more
Nearly every SaaS category now has a strong open-source alternative.
| Category | Instead of | Open-source option |
|---|---|---|
| CRM | Salesforce, HubSpot | Twenty, EspoCRM |
| Dashboards & BI | Power BI, Tableau | Apache Superset, Metabase |
| Customer support | Zendesk, Intercom | Zammad, Chatwoot |
| Projects | Jira, Asana | OpenProject, Plane |
| Forms & surveys | Typeform, SurveyMonkey | Formbricks |
- CRMInstead of Salesforce, HubSpotTwenty, EspoCRM
- Dashboards & BIInstead of Power BI, TableauApache Superset, Metabase
- Customer supportInstead of Zendesk, IntercomZammad, Chatwoot
- ProjectsInstead of Jira, AsanaOpenProject, Plane
- Forms & surveysInstead of Typeform, SurveyMonkeyFormbricks
Many of these are open-core: the core is free, while extras such as enterprise single sign-on or white-labelling can need a paid licence. Tools marked fair-code or source-available are free to self-host but aren't open source in the strict sense. We flag all of this in your free audit and include any licence costs in our proposal, so there are no surprises.
Built for SMEs
We focus on the everyday tools that make work easier, not the systems your business can't afford to lose. That keeps projects quick, affordable and low-risk.
A great fit
- Bookings, scheduling and reminders
- Internal workflows and connecting the tools you already use
- Meeting notes and internal knowledge bases
- Team chat, dashboards, forms and project tracking
- Teams of roughly 5 to 50 people
Not what we do
- Mission-critical systems your business can't run without for a day, like payments, billing or core accounting
- Anything holding sensitive data: health records, payment card or bank details, government IDs or passwords
- Regulated systems that need formal certification or audits
For mission-critical or sensitive systems, we recommend established vendors with dedicated security teams, and we can connect your new tools around them.
Why Open Source?
The benefits of building your own tools, without starting from scratch
No per-seat tax
Core open-source licences cost nothing, so costs don't climb with every hire. You pay for hosting and our work, not seats.
Built around you
We customise and extend each platform to fit how your team actually works, not the other way round.
Your data, your servers
Everything runs in your cloud or on-premises, which makes privacy and compliance far simpler.
No lock-in
Open code and open formats. If we part ways, you keep everything and anyone can maintain it.
What Are You Paying For?
A rough estimate of your annual seat spend. Adjust the prices to match your invoices.
The open-source equivalents have no per-seat licence fees. You pay for hosting, typically a small fraction of this, and a fixed price for the change, based on what it's worth to you.
Check My Numbers for FreeDefault prices are illustrative; plans vary by vendor and tier. Hours saved are not included.
You Name the Value
Your first 30 minutes are free. Then you tell us what the change is worth to your business, and our team assesses whether we can deliver it for that.
Free 30 minutes
A no-obligation stack audit. You leave with a clear list of what to replace, what to keep, and the likely savings.
- Tool and cost review
- Top three quick wins
- No commitment
Tell us what it's worth
Put a value on the change: the licences, hours and hassle it would save your business. That's your budget, not our price list.
- No hourly rates
- Based on your own numbers
- No obligation
We assess feasibility
Our team checks whether we can deliver it well for that value and comes back with a yes, a smaller first step, or an honest no.
- Fixed price, agreed up front
- Clear scope and timeline
- Optional support plan
How to put a value on a change
Subscriptions you could cancel or downgrade. Check your invoices, or use the calculator above for a quick estimate.
Hours your team spends each week on scheduling, notes or copying data, multiplied by their hourly cost. Even a few hours a week adds up over a year.
How It Works
Start small, prove the value, then expand
Free 30-min Stack Audit
We map your tools, costs and biggest time sinks, and point out the quickest wins.
Name the Value
You tell us what the change is worth to your business. We assess feasibility and send a fixed-price proposal.
Customise & Connect
We tailor the right open-source platforms, connect them and migrate your data.
Deploy & Train
Rolled out in your environment with secure sign-in, backups and team training.
Support & Improve
Optional support for updates, backups and monitoring, plus a check-in on the savings you're seeing.
Questions
For the work that makes it useful: choosing the right platforms, customising them, connecting them to your systems, migrating data, hosting and support. You tell us what a change is worth to your business, and if we can deliver it for that, we agree a fixed price up front. You never pay per seat for the core software.
Your First 30 Minutes Are On Us
Bring your list of subscriptions and your biggest time sinks. We'll show you what open source can replace and what it could save.
Book Your Free Stack AuditGet In Touch
Tell us which tools are costing you the most, and we'll book your free 30 minutes.