Stop renting software. Build the app you actually need.
Pick a tool you pay for every month. A trained intern builds your own version in 1 to 3 months, an AI mentor guides every step, and you keep the code. We take nothing.
Nothing to install. About an hour a month for each intern.
Your own app, built for how you work.
An intern builds it in 1 to 3 months
A trained intern builds the app for your business, guided at every step by an AI mentor, with a written check-in for you each week.
You keep the code
It runs on accounts and servers you control. At the end you get the working app, the code, a one-page handover and a walkthrough.
No fee to build it
We charge nothing. Complete the internship with an honest written review and we pay you $50: a fee for your time, not income to plan on, and not counted in any saving on this page.
The open-source base your intern's apps are built on, on your own server. Your own apps: the Business Suite
The tools you rent, and the app that could replace each.
Each card shows what the rented tool does, what your own app would do, the checks a person keeps, and an estimated saving from assumed numbers. Change the numbers to yours in the calculator, and every card updates.
Estimates from assumed numbers, not a quote and not a promise of savings. Change them to your own.
Front office
- Front office
Helpdesk and shared inbox
Today: Every support email and chat lands in a rented helpdesk, billed for each person who answers.
Your own app would:- Pulls support email and web chat into one queue in your own database.
- Tags each message, finds the order or booking it is about, and drafts a reply from your own documents.
- Chases anything that has waited too long and shows what is still open.
The human check: A person sends every reply that is not a routine answer, and reads anything tagged as a complaint.
- Rented
- $25 a seat a month assumed × 3 seats assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 2 months assumed
First year$510assumedEach year after$660assumed - Front office
Review management
Today: A review service asks customers for reviews, watches the review sites and drafts replies, billed per location.
Your own app would:- Sends a review request after each finished job or visit, from your own customer list.
- Checks the review sites you use each day and brings every new review into one list.
- Drafts a reply to each one in your voice and flags the unhappy ones first.
The human check: You approve every reply before it is posted, and you decide how to handle an unhappy customer.
- Rented
- $100 a location a month assumed × 1 locations assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 1 month assumed
First year$860assumedEach year after$960assumed - Front office
Appointment reminders
Today: A reminder service texts and emails customers before their appointment and collects confirmations.
Your own app would:- Reads the next day's appointments from your calendar or booking system.
- Sends a reminder by text or email, and records each reply: confirmed, cancel or reschedule.
- Puts the cancellations and reschedule requests in one list for you each morning.
The human check: You write the reminder wording once, and a person calls anyone who asks to reschedule.
Still billed: Text messages are still billed by the SMS provider.
- Rented
- $50 an account a month assumed × 1 accounts assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 1 month assumed
First year$310assumedEach year after$360assumed
Sales
- Sales
CRM
Today: A rented CRM holds your contacts, the deals in progress and the reminders to follow up, billed per user.
Your own app would:- Keeps every contact, conversation and deal in your own database, filled in from your email and web forms.
- Writes the next follow-up for each open deal and reminds you when one has gone quiet.
- Shows the pipeline on one page: who is waiting on you and what is likely to close.
The human check: You send or approve every follow-up, and you decide when a deal is won or lost.
- Rented
- $50 a seat a month assumed × 3 seats assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 2 months assumed
First year$1,260assumedEach year after$1,560assumed - Sales
Quoting and proposals
Today: A proposal tool builds quotes from templates, sends them for signature and tracks who opened them.
Your own app would:- Turns your price list and past quotes into a draft quote from a short description of the job.
- Lays it out in your own template and sends it with a link the customer can accept.
- Tracks which quotes are open, accepted or gone quiet, and drafts the follow-up.
The human check: You check the price and the scope on every quote before it goes out.
- Rented
- $35 a seat a month assumed × 2 seats assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 2 months assumed
First year$460assumedEach year after$600assumed
Marketing
- Marketing
Website and content system
Today: A website builder hosts your site and its pages, and charges a monthly plan for the editor and the hosting.
Your own app would:- A fast site on hosting you own, with the pages you have today moved across.
- A simple editor, or a chat with an agent, to change prices, hours and pages.
- Drafts new pages and posts from your notes, with the search basics done for each.
The human check: You approve every page and post before it is published.
- Rented
- $30 an account a month assumed × 1 accounts assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 2 months assumed
First year$60assumedEach year after$120assumed - Marketing
Website hosting
Today: Shared hosting, a domain and paid plugins are billed every month for a site that is mostly text and photos.
Your own app would:- The same pages, checked one by one on a preview link, on a free or low-cost host in your own account.
- Only the website's address changes in your domain settings; your email records stay exactly as they were.
- A monthly care round: broken links, a billing alert at the new host, and a log of every change you approved.
The human check: You approve the preview, the go-live and the cancellation of the old hosting, each on its own, and nobody asks for your passwords.
Still billed: The domain renewal is still paid to your registrar.
- Rented
- $25 an account a month assumed × 1 accounts assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 1 month assumed
First year$35assumedEach year after$60assumed - Marketing
Email marketing and newsletters
Today: An email marketing service holds your list, builds the newsletter and sends it, priced by the size of your list.
Your own app would:- Keeps your list and each person's opt-in in your own database.
- Drafts each newsletter from what happened this month, in your voice.
- Sends through a low-cost sending service and handles unsubscribes on its own.
The human check: You approve every send, and nobody is added to the list without their opt-in.
Still billed: Sending is still billed by the email sending service, usually far less than a marketing plan.
- Rented
- $60 an account a month assumed × 1 accounts assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 2 months assumed
First year$360assumedEach year after$480assumed - Marketing
Social media scheduling
Today: A scheduling tool queues posts across your social accounts and reports on them, billed per user.
Your own app would:- Drafts a week of posts from your news, photos and offers.
- Queues them for the times you choose on the accounts you already have.
- Collects the comments and messages that need a reply in one list.
The human check: You approve each week's posts before they are queued, and you answer the comments.
- Rented
- $25 a seat a month assumed × 2 seats assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 1 month assumed
First year$310assumedEach year after$360assumed
Money
- Money
Invoicing and payment reminders
Today: An invoicing tool sends invoices, takes card payments and sends the reminders when someone pays late.
Your own app would:- Builds each invoice from the finished job and sends it with your existing payment link.
- Sends a polite reminder on the schedule you choose, and a firmer one after that.
- Shows who owes what and for how long, and posts paid invoices to your books.
The human check: You approve each invoice, and a person handles any disputed bill.
Still billed: Card fees are still charged by your payment processor.
- Rented
- $35 an account a month assumed × 1 accounts assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 2 months assumed
First year$110assumedEach year after$180assumed - Money
Expense capture
Today: An expense app reads receipts from photos, sorts them into categories and sends them to the books, billed per user.
Your own app would:- Takes a photo or a forwarded email of a receipt and reads the amount, date and vendor.
- Suggests the category from your past expenses and flags anything unusual.
- Sends a clean monthly file to your bookkeeper.
The human check: Your bookkeeper reviews the categories before anything reaches the books.
- Rented
- $10 a seat a month assumed × 5 seats assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 2 months assumed
First year$260assumedEach year after$360assumed - Money
Reporting dashboards
Today: A dashboard service pulls numbers from your other tools and shows them as charts, priced by the plan.
Your own app would:- Pulls sales, bookings and spending from the tools you use each night.
- Shows the numbers you actually check on one page.
- Sends a short weekly summary in plain English, with anything unusual called out.
The human check: You decide which numbers matter, and you check anything the summary calls unusual.
- Rented
- $70 an account a month assumed × 1 accounts assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 2 months assumed
First year$460assumedEach year after$600assumed
Operations
- Operations
Booking and scheduling
Today: A booking tool lets customers pick a time, keeps the calendar and sends confirmations, billed per staff calendar.
Your own app would:- A booking page on your own site that shows real free times from your calendars.
- Confirms each booking, adds it to the right person's calendar and takes a deposit if you want one.
- Answers "can I move it" by email or chat and offers the next free times.
The human check: You set the rules for hours and buffers, and a person approves any booking outside them.
- Rented
- $25 a seat a month assumed × 3 seats assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 2 months assumed
First year$510assumedEach year after$660assumed - Operations
Project and job tracking
Today: A project tool tracks jobs, tasks and who is doing what, billed per user.
Your own app would:- One list of every job and its tasks, built around the way your business already works.
- Turns an email or a call note into a job with its tasks and due dates.
- Sends each person their day's list and tells you what is running late.
The human check: You assign the work and decide what is late enough to act on.
- Rented
- $12 a seat a month assumed × 6 seats assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 2 months assumed
First year$480assumedEach year after$624assumed - Operations
Inventory and ordering
Today: An inventory system tracks stock, reorder points and supplier orders, priced by the plan.
Your own app would:- Keeps stock counts in your own database, updated from sales and deliveries.
- Warns you before something runs out, from how fast it has been selling.
- Drafts the purchase order to the right supplier and tracks it until it arrives.
The human check: You approve every purchase order, and someone does a real count on the schedule you set.
- Rented
- $80 an account a month assumed × 1 accounts assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 3 months assumed
First year$480assumedEach year after$720assumed - Operations
Forms and surveys
Today: A form builder collects intake forms, surveys and checklists, priced by the plan and the number of responses.
Your own app would:- Your forms on your own site, with answers stored in your own database.
- Checks each answer as it comes in and asks for anything missing.
- Summarises survey answers and files each intake form where it belongs.
The human check: You write the questions, and a person reviews any form the app marks as incomplete.
- Rented
- $35 an account a month assumed × 1 accounts assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 1 month assumed
First year$145assumedEach year after$180assumed - Operations Advanced
Email mailboxes (advanced)
Who it is for: A business paying for several mailboxes, with role addresses and staff who come and go, and someone who can review the admin settings with the intern.
Not for: One or two people with a single mailbox: leave it as it is, or forward a second address to the mailbox you have.
Today: The email provider bills a seat every month for each account, including people who left, suspended accounts and role addresses such as info@ or quotes@ with a mailbox of their own.
Your own app would:- A seat audit from the user list your administrator exports: inactive seats, suspended seats still paid for, and role addresses with their own seat. Nobody reads anyone's mail.
- Leavers' mail archived with your provider's own tool before their seats go, and role addresses turned into aliases, groups or shared inboxes your plan already includes.
- Only if you choose it: a move to a cheaper hosted provider, one pilot mailbox first, with a check that only the planned email records changed and your old provider kept until mail has flowed for a quiet period.
The human check: You sign a written plan before any seat, record or plan changes, you check with your accountant how long records must be kept, and nobody asks for your passwords.
Still billed: The mailboxes you keep are still paid to your email provider; this counts only the seats you stop paying for. We never set up a mail server of your own.
- Rented
- $8 a seat a month assumed × 3 seats assumed
- Hosting
- None: nothing new to run, your email stays with a hosted provider
- Build
- about 1 month assumed
First year$264assumedEach year after$288assumed
People
- People
Hiring and applicant tracking
Today: An applicant tracking system posts your openings, collects applications and schedules interviews.
Your own app would:- One page per opening on your own site, with applications stored in your own database.
- Sorts each application against the must-haves you wrote and explains why.
- Offers interview times to the people you pick and sends the replies you approve.
The human check: A person reads every application and makes every hiring decision; the app only sorts and explains.
- Rented
- $60 an account a month assumed × 1 accounts assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 2 months assumed
First year$360assumedEach year after$480assumed - People
HR onboarding and training
Today: An HR tool runs new-hire paperwork, checklists and training courses, billed per employee.
Your own app would:- A checklist for each new hire: paperwork, accounts, first-week tasks, in the order you do them.
- Short training lessons built from your own procedures, with a quick check at the end.
- Tells you who has finished what, and reminds the ones who have not.
The human check: You approve every lesson, and payroll and tax paperwork stay with your payroll provider.
- Rented
- $8 a seat a month assumed × 10 seats assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 2 months assumed
First year$560assumedEach year after$720assumed - People
Knowledge base
Today: A wiki or knowledge base holds how things are done, billed per user, and nobody can find anything in it.
Your own app would:- Your procedures and answers in one place, gathered from the documents you already have.
- Answers staff questions in plain English and shows the page the answer came from.
- Notices the questions it cannot answer and asks you to write that page.
The human check: You approve every page, and the app says so when it does not know.
- Rented
- $10 a seat a month assumed × 10 seats assumed
- Hosting
- $240 a year assumed
- Build
- about 1 month assumed
First year$860assumedEach year after$960assumed
Pick the one that costs you most. Build it once. Keep it.
Post it as a project. We call you within 2 working days to scope it, and nothing is matched until you approve it.
Once the app is built, you can keep the intern who built it on a monthly retainer: 30 hours per month for $750, maintenance included, cancel monthly.
Selected in the calculator: Helpdesk and shared inbox
Estimates from assumed numbers, not a quote and not a promise of savings. Change them to your own.