Bespoke Software · SaaS Replacement Boutique

A product of your own, in months, not years

Stop paying compounding per-seat rent for bloated SaaS features you never use. We build clean, enterprise-grade custom software in our autonomous AI factory — with senior engineers verifying every gate and 100% of the code in your repository.

✓100% IP & Code Ownership
✓AI Factory + Senior Engineers
✓Zero Per-Seat Escalation
✓AWS Serverless Ready

01 // Why Own Instead of Rent

Renting SaaS vs. Owning Your Product

Traditional SaaS made sense when custom engineering took years. With an AI software factory, owning a tailored platform pays back in months.

Features
Renting SaaSPay for 100% of a bloated multi-tenant suite while your team uses 15–20%.
Owning Your ProductKeep only the capabilities you use, drop the clutter, and add your custom workflows.
Pricing
Renting SaaSPer-seat licensing that penalizes growth plus 8–12% annual renewal hikes.
Owning Your ProductOne-time build investment + predictable, low monthly cloud infrastructure run cost.
Data & IP
Renting SaaSCustomer data locked behind vendor APIs, rate limits, and egress fees.
Owning Your Product100% of source code, schemas, and data live in your GitHub and AWS account.
Roadmap
Renting SaaSDictated by the vendor’s enterprise mass market; your requests wait in a backlog.
Owning Your ProductEvery sprint and feature is driven strictly by your internal operational priorities.
AI
Renting SaaSForced AI add-on tiers (+$30/seat/mo) with generic prompts and opaque data policies.
Owning Your ProductNative AI agents tailored to your domain, running on models and keys you control.

02 // 6-Stage Delivery Pipeline

Autonomous Speed. Humans at the Gates.

Every stage combines AI factory throughput with mandatory human sign-off gates so no unverified code ever reaches production.

Principle: Humans at the gates
STAGE 01

Market Research

Analyze the reference SaaS landscape, extract core domain workflows, and identify license bloat.

🔒Gate 1: Scope & Benchmark Sign-off
STAGE 02

Capability Menu

Interactive selection: keep essential features, drop unused bloat, and add custom workflows.

🔒Gate 2: Capability Menu Sign-off
STAGE 03

Prototype

Clickable UX wireframes, High-Level Architecture (HLD), and ADRs verified before code generation.

🔒Gate 3: Architecture & UX Approval
STAGE 04

Build

Autonomous AI factory executes atomic TDD plans with continuous unit and integration testing.

🔒Gate 4: Senior Engineer Code Review
STAGE 05

Harden

End-to-end Playwright verification, security scanning, accessibility (WCAG AA), and performance budgets.

🔒Gate 5: Security & Release Gate
STAGE 06

Handover

Deploy to your AWS account with full repository ownership, CI/CD pipelines, and runbooks.

🔒Gate 6: Ownership Acceptance

03 // The Solution & AI Factory

How Shiftin Replaces Bloated SaaS with Software You Own

Five deliberate moves from SaaS dependency to full software ownership, governed by five engineering principles.

Our Offer — The 5 Moves

01

Study the market

We dissect leading SaaS tools in your category to map standard workflows, data models, and edge cases.

02

Pick from the menu

You choose what to keep, what bloat to drop, and what bespoke capabilities your business actually needs.

03

Build in our AI factory

Specialized AI agents generate specs, tests, and implementation plans under strict architectural guardrails.

04

Own everything

Zero vendor lock-in. Clean TypeScript/Python source code, IaC, and tests are delivered directly to your repository.

05

Keep the factory

Evolve your product continuously with the same spec-driven AI pipeline or run it with your internal engineering team.

Engineering Principles

Inspired, never copied

Clean-room architecture built from first-principles specifications—never scraped or cloned code.

You own the stack

Deployed on your AWS infrastructure (S3, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Lambda) with transparent, predictable run costs.

Factory, not heroics

Repeatable upstream specifications, atomic TDD plans, and automated quality gates replace ad-hoc guesswork.

Humans at the gates

Principal architects and security engineers review and approve every specification, PR, and release gate.

Built to be reused

Modular design tokens, clean API boundaries, and full test coverage make every component easy to extend.

04 // Interactive ROI Calculator

Calculate Your SaaS Rent vs. Own Savings

Compare compounding per-seat SaaS renewals against a one-time AI factory build and low cloud run cost.

3-Year Projection$3,000/mo current SaaS base

Cumulative SaaS Rent (3Y)

$116,870

Own Build + AWS Run (3Y)

$52,200

Estimated Net Savings (3 Years)

$64,670

Break-even timeline: 15 months

Illustrative estimate, based on assumptions (8% annual SaaS price escalation, 12x monthly spend build factor, 15% infrastructure run cost).

05 // Map Your SaaS

Request a Custom Replacement Blueprint

Tell us which SaaS tool you want to replace. We will map your capability menu, 6-stage delivery timeline, and fixed build estimate.

Direct Executive Contact

Prefer a direct conversation?

Reach out directly to Iuliia Gailova via email or use the intake form above.

✉sales@shiftin.dev