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Slack · Team Communication

You're paying Business+ rates so daily standups can land in a $15 seat.

Slack is fine — until you're 200 seats at £12/user and most of what you actually do is post in #general, search for that one Figma link and join a huddle. We rebuild the chat, search and integrations you actually use — and you own all of it.

Your Slack contract

You currently pay
£28,800 / year
Estimated savings with a rebuild
-£25,600
over 3 years
Over 5 years
£4,000
Pays for itself in
57 months

Based on a one-time rebuild of £70,000 plus £14,000/yr hosting & maintenance. A precise quote follows your audit.

Get your detailed savings report & a fixed-price quote.

Why Slack is costing you

The Slack features people actually complain about

We've mapped each core Slack feature to what users gripe about — and how a tailored rebuild fixes it. Click any card for sources and the deep-dive.

Trusted by teams who stopped renting

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Don't take our word for it

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“We were drowning in per-seat renewals for tools we half-used. The rebuild gave us exactly the workflow we needed — and we own it outright now.”
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Eric Fourrier
Co-founder · GitGuardian
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“They cut through the bloat, shipped the 20% we actually relied on, and our annual software bill stopped climbing every renewal.”
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Anna Rossin
Operations · Sidecare

How a rebuild plays out

The problem, our process, the implementation and how we run it.

Replacing a £99k/yr CRM with software they own

50-person B2B SaaS company

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≈ £150k saved over 3 years · paid back in under 11 months
  1. 1The problem

    The team was on Salesforce Enterprise at ~£99k/year but used only contacts, a deal pipeline and a handful of reports. Every renewal climbed, and a simple workflow change meant booking a consultant. Most seats sat idle.

  2. 2The process

    Over a two-week audit we shadowed sales, ops and leadership, logged every feature actually touched in 90 days, and cut the 80% nobody used. We produced a fixed-price quote and a 3-year savings projection before a line of code was written.

  3. 3The implementation

    We rebuilt contacts, a custom-stage pipeline, activity logging, email sync, dashboards and role-based permissions as a bespoke app. Their historical data was migrated and validated, and we ran the new system alongside Salesforce until the team signed off.

  4. 4The run

    We host, monitor and maintain it on a flat annual fee — no per-seat tax, no renewal uplift. New workflow tweaks ship in days, not consulting engagements. They own 100% of the code and data.

Killing the contact-tier tax on a marketing stack

E-commerce brand, 40-person marketing team

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Bill no longer scales with contacts · six-figure 3-year saving
  1. 1The problem

    HubSpot Marketing Hub costs scaled with a growing contact list, not usage. A 40% renewal jump — driven purely by list size — forced the conversation. They used landing pages, forms, email campaigns and basic automation; everything else was shelfware.

  2. 2The process

    We audited the live campaigns, forms and workflows, mapped the data model, and scoped a replacement covering exactly those features. The quote was fixed and the savings modelled against their projected contact growth.

  3. 3The implementation

    We rebuilt the contact database with segmentation, landing pages and forms, email campaigns and sequences, automation workflows, lead scoring and campaign analytics. Contacts and campaign history were migrated, with a parallel run before cutover.

  4. 4The run

    Flat hosting and maintenance means their bill no longer grows with their list. They own the data and the code, and we handle deliverability, uptime and changes.

How it works

A proven path from overpriced SaaS to software you own.

1. Audit

We map the features your team actually uses in your current SaaS — and ruthlessly cut the 90% you don't. You get a fixed-price quote and a savings projection.

2. Rebuild

We build a bespoke replacement around your real workflows. Same outcomes, none of the bloat, fully owned by you.

3. Migrate

We move your data across, run both systems in parallel until you're confident, then flip the switch with zero downtime.

4. Host & maintain

We deploy, host, monitor and maintain it on a flat annual fee. No per-seat tax, no surprise renewals, no vendor lock-in.

The team behind it

Senior engineers and designers who've shipped this dozens of times.

David Geismar

David Geismar

Product

Leads product and discovery — maps the 10% of your SaaS you actually use and turns it into a lean spec your team will love.

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Jasbir Singh

Jasbir Singh

Engineering

Leads the build — designs, ships and maintains the bespoke replacement, including hosting, security and reliability.

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Questions, answered

Aren't you about to break our team's main comms tool?+

Honestly — Slack is mission-critical and we treat it that way. The default plan is a parallel run: the new app mirrors your active channels for 60-90 days, we move integrations and automations across one by one, and Slack stays live and authoritative until you sign off the cutover. If anything in the new system wobbles, you fall back to Slack instantly.

What about mobile push and our existing integrations?+

Mobile ships as a thin React Native / Expo app with APNs and FCM push handled by Expo's notification service or OneSignal. Integrations like GitHub, Linear, Sentry, PagerDuty and Google Drive are wired via their webhook APIs — we typically port the 10-20 your team actually uses, not the long tail.

How long does the rebuild take and what's the risk?+

Typically 14-18 weeks: 2 weeks discovery and message-pattern audit, 8-10 weeks building chat, search, huddles, integrations and mobile, then 4-6 weeks of parallel-run with Slack before cutover. The real risk is search quality on day one — we de-risk it by importing your last 12 months of Slack history into the new index before users ever log in.