tightsaas.com Sample plan
Sample plan: a typical 250-person company, modeled from public list prices.Get your real plan →
$672,400/yr modeled · own 3 · cut 11 · keep 3

Here’s what your plan looks like.

Own what you overpay to rent, cut what you pay for twice, keep the rest. Biggest, least-disruptive moves first.

$251k–$460ka year less, once it’s done
$47.5k–$90kone-time builds
~11 monthsbuild payback
$176k–$385kcuts recoverable / yr
Own it

3 tools worth owning

Each costs less to own than to rent inside 24 months at your seat count. Each is a fixed fee, quoted before any work starts; the code and the data are yours, and it ships agent-ready.

Own it

Project / Work Mgmt

Replaces Asana, monday.com, Trello, Jira

Boards, lists and timelines with your own statuses and fields, your history imported, and single sign-on.

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$57,570/yr
Fixed fee
$19,000–$37,500
Care plan
$650/mo
Pays back
~7 mo

4–6 weeks, typically · 3-year net $121,060 · ships agent-ready

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Support / Helpdesk

Replaces Zendesk, Intercom

A shared inbox with assignment, SLAs and saved replies, plus a help centre and customer portal on your domain.

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$25,860/yr
Fixed fee
$19,000–$37,500
Care plan
$650/mo
Pays back
~19 mo

4–6 weeks, typically · 3-year net $25,930 · ships agent-ready

Own it

Scheduling

Replaces Calendly

Booking pages on your own domain, round-robin across the team, reminders, and two-way calendar sync.

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$10,800/yr
Fixed fee
$9,500–$15,000
Care plan
$300/mo
Pays back
~21 mo

2–3 weeks, typically · 3-year net $9,350 · ships agent-ready

Together: $94.2k/yr of rent endsone-time $47.5k–$90kcare $1,600/mopays back in ~11 months3-year net $156k
Cut

Where to cut, and in what order

Start with File Storage
up to $75,240/yr
Retire your 5 costliest duplicates
up to $262,413/yr
Retire your 10 costliest duplicates
up to $367,698/yr

This is a sample plan

It’s modeled for a typical 250-person company. Your real plan starts with the free two-minute verdict on fatsaas; it lands back here with your numbers, and you decide whether to apply.

My guarantee

On cuts: if I don’t identify at least 3× my fee in cuttable software spend within 6 months, you pay nothing.

On builds: a fixed fee, quoted in writing before any work starts, and the code is yours. Vendor-neutral: I don’t resell anyone’s software, so the only number I’m chasing is yours. I take a limited number of clients, and only ones whose stack I’ve already diagnosed, so I never guarantee blind.

Luke Wade

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Solutions engineer · builder · vendor-neutral

Eleven years across data and enterprise software, the last seven in solutions engineering: scoping integrations, building proofs of concept against real customer systems, and getting buyers confident in new software. Knowing exactly how a stack gets sold is what lets me see the overlap inside one. I scope it, build it, hand you the code, and back the cuts with a guarantee.

Full category breakdown

File Storage
$48,000–$102,000
CRM
$36,000–$75,240
Project / Work Mgmt
$37,335–$50,235
Video Conferencing
$0–$43,173
Office / Email Suite
$37,500–$42,000
Team Chat
$12,000–$26,250
CategoryTools doing one jobRecoverable / yr
File StorageDropbox Business, Box, Google Drive$48,000–$102,000
CRMSalesforce Sales Cloud, HubSpot Sales Hub$36,000–$75,240
Project / Work MgmtAsana, monday.com, Trello, Jira$37,335–$50,235
Video ConferencingZoom, Google Meet$0–$43,173
Office / Email SuiteGoogle Workspace, Microsoft 365$37,500–$42,000
Team ChatSlack, Microsoft Teams$12,000–$26,250
Docs / WikiNotion, Confluence$9,075–$21,600
Marketing AutomationHubSpot Marketing Hub, Mailchimp$4,200–$19,200
Analytics / BIAmplitude, Tableau$11,700–$18,000
Dev / Source ControlGitLab, GitHub$3,024–$17,400
Support / HelpdeskZendesk, Intercom$9,360–$16,500
DesignAdobe Creative Cloud, Canva Teams, Figma$8,160–$13,918
E-SignaturePandaDoc, DocuSign$6,000–$6,300

I don't push a specific tool — the right survivor depends on your workflows. Picking it, and the migration order, is the work we do together.

← Re-run the diagnosis · Estimates use public list prices; the engagement produces the real, guaranteed number.

$251k–$460k/yrless for a stack like this, once it’s done
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