One rented system retired, one application you own in its place, built on your accounts and running live before we leave. $22,000, one time, no retainer.
AI-Native Revenue MicroSaaS is a 10-week build that replaces one rented system with one application the client owns: the repository, the deployment on the client's own accounts, the migrated data, and the build operating system that produced the code, transferred with documentation and 30 days of defect fixes after go-live.
The unit definition, published: one build equals one application replacing one rented system, or serving one high-value workflow named in the BRD. A second application is a second engagement.
Hiring engineers is a six-month journey, and an agency build leaves your IP on someone else's laptop. What gets installed here is an autonomous software org you talk to in plain language. Submit a request. It scopes, builds, reviews, tests, deploys, and replies when it is done.
Greenleaf is a 60-person real-estate investment group operating across eight southeastern states. They replaced their Salesforce CRM with a custom application built in 25 hours at a build cost of $150 to $200, saving over $100,000. DocuSign alone had reached $25,000 a year. Five more applications followed at 10 to 25 hours each. (source: Replit customer story, as of 2026-07)
Greenleaf did not rebuild Salesforce. They built the workflow the business runs on and left the commodity parts alone.
We run what we sell. Every product below shipped from the build system we install for clients, no headcount added. Two of them, the signal engines, run inside the flagship revenue engine, productised. All ten confirmed demoable by the owner on 2026-07-26.
Every one of these is demoable on a 15-minute call. Ask for the one closest to your business.
This is why feature two costs a fraction of feature one.
| Component | What you own after transfer |
|---|---|
| Proven framework | The build system: architecture patterns, code standards, test and deploy commands as runnable skills |
| Best model per task | The dev routing already configured across planning, implementation, review, and testing |
| Context | Your domain model, business rules, and product decisions as context files the build system reads before writing a line |
| Results wiring | Your repo, your hosting, your keys, your data. Live in production during Operate, not at handover |
| Learning system | Every bug and every review comment captured as a lesson the build system obeys next time |
| Scoring and validation | A quality gate before merge, so a non-engineer founder can ship without hoping |
Competitors can copy an application. They cannot copy a transferred, learning build system.
Four of the five are checkable in an hour with your subscription list open.
Unused seats.
You bought a band, the team never grew into it, and the renewal quoted the band.
Per-seat pricing on a workflow that does not scale by person.
The work is one process running many times. The invoice counts logins.
Vendor lock-in as the product.
Switching cost is the feature the vendor sells hardest, priced into every renewal.
Fragmented data.
Six subscriptions hold pieces of the truth and none agree, so somebody reconciles them in a spreadsheet every Sunday.
No ownership.
Twelve months of payments buys a login. The day you stop paying, the workflow stops.
The position, stated so nobody misreads it: rent commodity software, own the workflows that make your business different. Nobody should build their own email client, and nobody should rent the one process their competitors cannot copy.
Company shape: 10 to 300 people carrying six to twenty subscriptions, at least one of which is expensive, barely used, and impossible to change. Stage: the renewal is coming, the per-seat price went up again, and someone has already asked whether this could be built. Second buyer: founders with a wedge and no engineering team, building a vertical MicroSaaS for a MENA market the Western vendors have not localised.
Who signs: the founder or CEO, with whoever signs the renewals in the room. On revenue-connected builds the commercial owner signs. In family-owned Gulf groups the owner signs and the GM scopes.
What changes when the software is built for Dubai and Riyadh. WhatsApp Business is a first-class channel in the data model. Invoicing complies with UAE corporate tax and with ZATCA e-invoicing where the entity requires it. E-signature flows hold up in KSA. Calendar logic respects the Gulf weekend. Arabic is a build requirement, right to left in the interface and dialect in the copy. A vendor shipping from Boston treats every one of those as a configuration request. Here they are in the BRD.
Who this is not for. Skip this if you need SOC2 or ISO compliance inside 90 days; if the product must be iOS or Android native only; if you need research-grade machine learning; if you want to drive every technical decision yourself; if you expect a rate card from a big agency; or if you are not ready to review weekly. One more disqualifier belongs to the price: if the system you want to retire is cheap and your team likes it, keep renting it. The routing for a small replacement is the MicroSaaS Builder cohort at $3,500, where your team builds it in 5 weeks.
| Phase | Weeks | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Build | 1 to 7 | BRD, data model, migration plan, skeleton deployed, core workflow built and tested against the rented original |
| Operate | 8 to 10 | Data migrated, team switched over, subscription cancelled, running live on your accounts |
| After go-live | 30 days | Defect fixes included, no change order, no hourly |
Testing against the rented original during Build is the part that decides whether anyone actually switches. A replacement nobody measured against the incumbent gets adopted by nobody, and the old subscription renews quietly.
$22,000, one time. No retainer. Every proposal states this figure directly beside your current annual subscription for the system it retires, because you already know your number and the argument writes itself.
| Line | Rented | Owned, after this build |
|---|---|---|
| Licence cost, year 1 | your current annual subscription | $0 |
| Build cost | $0 | $22,000, one time |
| Cost of adding 10 users | priced per seat by the vendor | $0 |
| What you hold at month 12 | a login | the repo, the deployment, the migrated data, and the build OS |
Hosting and API costs sit on your accounts.
| What is included | What is not included, and what triggers a change request |
|---|---|
| One application replacing one rented system or serving one high-value workflow; the repo, owned outright; deployment and hosting setup on your accounts; data migration from the incumbent; the build OS, meaning the skills, context, and prompts, transferred; documentation; 2 enablement sessions; 30 days of defect fixes after go-live. | Not included: hosting and API costs, which sit on your accounts, a second application, mobile native apps, ongoing feature development, SOC2 or ISO compliance work, and negotiation with the incumbent vendor. Change requests: scope beyond the one workflow in the BRD, a second integration target, or a design system beyond the standard component set. Holding the accounts yourself is what makes the ownership real. |
One named owner with authority to decide. 2 to 4 hours a week from that owner for reviews and decisions. Access to the incumbent system and its data export in week 1. Decisions inside 48 hours at each approval gate. Nothing else.
The repository, under your GitHub organisation. The deployment, on your Netlify or Vercel account, your domain, your Supabase project, your Stripe account. The migrated data, in a schema you can read. The build operating system, so the next feature happens without us. Every engagement has an end date. That is the whole point.
We name the worst-fit system in your stack and price its replacement against what you pay for it today.
Want the arithmetic before the build? The MicroSaaS Opportunity Assessment is $2,500, takes one week, names the worst-fit system in your stack, prices its replacement, and credits 100% against this build within 60 days.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Is it cheaper to build than to subscribe? | Here is the condition and the default. Compare the build against 12 months of the subscription it retires plus the cost of the workarounds built around it. At $22,000 against a system costing you $25,000 a year, the build pays back inside year one and you own it afterwards. If the subscription costs less than a tenth of the build, keep renting it and spend the money on the process that leaks more. |
| Can you build production software with Claude Code? | Yes, and the evidence is on this page rather than in a claim. Ten MicroSaaS products, all demoable, built on a Claude-native and MCP-first stack. Externally, a 60-person Atlanta firm replaced Salesforce with a custom application built in 25 hours for $150 to $200 in build cost. |
| What does an app cost to build in Dubai? | This one costs $22,000 for 10 weeks, fixed, including data migration and 30 days of defect fixes. The published number exists so you can compare it against the quotes you have. |
| Is the code mine? | Yes. The repo is yours. The Supabase project is yours. The domain is yours. The Stripe account is yours. At handover everything transfers under your name and your credentials. |
| What happens to the data in the tool we are cancelling? | Migration is inside the price. The migration plan is written in Build, the data moves during Operate, and the subscription gets cancelled after the team has switched over rather than before. |
| What is the stack? | Frontend Next.js or React. Backend Supabase, with Postgres, auth, storage, and edge functions. Automation n8n. AI Claude plus MCP. Payments Stripe. Deploys Netlify or Vercel. We adjust to the job, and this is the default because it ships fastest. |
| Do you build mobile apps? | Mobile-first PWAs for most cases, which is faster, cheaper, and skips app-store friction. For true native mobile we partner with a specialist team. If you need native, say so on the call. |
| What about maintenance after launch? | Two paths. You own the code and handle maintenance, documented well enough for a junior developer to own it. Or you buy a named expansion module with an end date, $6,000 to $15,000 depending on scope. No retainer is sold as the default, because every engagement having an end date is the thing the whole brand rests on. |
| What if the replacement turns out worse than the tool it replaces? | That is what testing against the rented original during Build is for. The comparison happens in week 5 or 6, on your data, while the subscription is still live. If the build cannot beat the incumbent on the workflow in the BRD, you have not cancelled anything yet. |
| Do you work in Arabic? | Both languages are production-ready in the interface and in the copy, dialect rather than MSA. This page has an Arabic twin published the same day. |
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