Replace or reduce
The software you could stop renting.
Some of these should stay and be connected. Some are costing you per seat for two features you actually use. We go through them with you one at a time.
Twelve platforms
Start with the one costing you the most per person.
Each page is an honest assessment: what the platform is genuinely good at, where per-seat pricing tends to bite in that category, and which functions are usually worth connecting to rather than rebuilding.
- SalesforceCRMThe deepest configurable CRM there is, priced per seat forever.
- ServiceNowIT service managementEnterprise-grade ITSM and workflow, with enterprise-grade weight.
- HubSpotCRM and marketingExcellent marketing tooling, with a suite that grows around you.
- Monday.comWork managementFlexible boards that teams adopt fast — and outgrow structurally.
- AsanaProject managementClean task and project tracking, priced for every observer.
- ZendeskCustomer serviceMature support desk, with agent seats as the pricing lever.
- AirtableDatabases and no-codeA spreadsheet that became a database, and then a dependency.
- SmartsheetPlanning and trackingSpreadsheet-shaped project planning at organizational scale.
- Jira Service ManagementService deskStrong service desk for teams already living in the Atlassian stack.
- ClickUpWork managementOne tool that tries to be all of them, billed per person.
- BambooHRHR platformTidy HR records, priced against the headcount you are growing.
- ZohoBusiness suiteA broad, affordable suite — with the integration tax paid inside it.
Every platform on this page is named as an example of software we can help you connect to or reduce reliance on. We are not affiliated with, partnered with, or a reseller of any of them, and we make no claim of feature parity.
Start the conversationPer-seat math
What you're paying now.
Move the slider to your headcount, switch off anything you don't run, and edit any price to match your contract.
- CRM$/seat/mo
- IT service management$/seat/mo
- Project management$/seat/mo
- HR platform$/seat/mo
- Helpdesk / support$/seat/mo
- E-signature$/seat/mo
- BI / reporting$/seat/mo
- Estimated per-seat spend, per year
- $353,700
- The same over five years
- $1,768,500
- Seats carrying no BusinessOS per-user fee
- 75 of 75
$393 per person per month across 7 platforms.
Adding people to a system you own does not add a license line.
Estimate only, based on published list prices. Your actual spend depends on your contracts. This does not include the cost of building and running a custom system.
Final invitation
What would your business look like with fewer steps?
Tell us about the systems that don't talk to each other, the process that still runs on a spreadsheet, the report someone rebuilds every month. That conversation is how every Business OS we build starts.
