Own your
software.
We rebuild the part of your SaaS your team actually uses, then hand you the keys. Your bill becomes hosting plus a small maintenance fee.
- Features you actually use
- 10–30%
- Features you pay for
- 100%
- Typical ongoing cost cut
- ~90%
What we do
RTCH Foundry is an AI-native software company that replaces expensive off-the-shelf SaaS tools with custom-built alternatives designed around how each client actually works.
Companies use only 10 to 30 percent of the features they license and pay for 100 percent of them, every year, forever. We rebuild the part you use, migrate your data and integrations, then hand over the software. Your recurring bill becomes hosting plus a small maintenance fee instead of a per-seat subscription that grows with headcount.
You are paying one hundred percent for software you use a fifth of.
$0K
Per year, one issue tracker
A company on a $300,000/year Jira contract using roughly a fifth of its capability. We build the tailored issue-tracking and workflow tool their teams actually operate in. After that the recurring cost drops to hosting plus a small maintenance fee.
0×Typical order-of-magnitude reduction
Move the line item. Then delete it.
Drag your current annual spend on a single tool. The model assumes a one-time build, hosting at near cost, and a small maintenance fee, set against an incumbent contract rising a conservative 7% a year.
Subscription, per seat, with annual uplift
$105K build + $18K/yr hosting & maintenance
$1.5M
Build cost recovered in ~5 months
Illustrative model, not a quote. Real scope, integrations and data migration set the number. We show you the arithmetic before you sign anything.
Cast to
measure.
A foundry takes raw material and casts it into a precisely shaped, purpose-built object. Five stages, typically measured in weeks rather than quarters.
- 01
Discover
We audit the tool you already pay for: which features are genuinely used, by whom, and how they sit inside daily workflows. Telemetry and interviews, not assumptions.
Utilization map · feature inventory
- 02
Design
We write a lean specification covering only the functionality you need, plus the improvements the off-the-shelf tool never offered because it was never built for you.
Lean spec · interface direction
- 03
Build
AI-accelerated engineering under human direction. A small senior team ships in weeks what traditional custom software delivery measured in quarters.
Working application · your repo
- 04
Migrate
Data and integrations move over safely. We run the new tool in parallel with the incumbent, prove parity, then manage the cutover and the license wind-down.
Parallel run · clean cutover
- 05
Run & Evolve
You pay hosting at near-cost and a small maintenance fee covering updates, support and security patches. As the business changes, the tool changes with it.
Ownership · continuous improvement
Rented forever, or yours outright.
If you pay for all of it and use part of it, we can rebuild it.
Categories where the gap between licensed surface and daily reality is widest, and where a purpose-built replacement pays for itself fastest.
Project management & issue tracking
Jira · Asana · Monday.com · Wrike
CRM & sales tooling
Salesforce · HubSpot · Pipedrive
HR, onboarding & internal ops
Workday · BambooHR · Personio
Support & ticketing
Zendesk · Freshdesk · ServiceNow
Dashboards, reporting & analytics
Tableau · Looker · Power BI
Niche departmental tools
High cost per seat, low utilization, quietly renewing
Who we serve
Mid-market & enterprise
Significant SaaS spend and well-understood workflows.
CFOs & CIOs
Cutting software budget without cutting capability.
Ops & engineering leaders
Tired of tools that fight the process instead of supporting it.
Custom software used to be too expensive. That is exactly why SaaS won.
That equation has changed. For the first time, build beats buy for a large share of business software, and RTCH Foundry is built from the ground up to capitalize on that shift.
Development cost collapsed
AI tooling lets a small senior team build in weeks what previously took a large team months. The economics of custom software inverted.
Maintenance got cheap
AI-assisted engineering dramatically reduces the ongoing cost of supporting custom software. That was historically the main reason to buy instead of build.
Quality went up
A purpose-built tool with a fraction of the surface area is simpler, faster and easier to secure than a sprawling general-purpose platform.
The end of
SaaS bloat.
A world where every company owns software shaped around its workflows, instead of reshaping its workflows around someone else's software.
“Which SaaS tool should we buy?” becomes “what tool should we build?” And building is faster, cheaper and better.
Build only what matters
Every feature ships because it earns its place. No bloat, no feature graveyards, no just-in-case complexity.
Radical cost honesty
You always know exactly what you are paying for and why. We win by saving you money, so we show the economics of every engagement.
AI-native, human-directed
We use AI and modern methods to build at unprecedented speed, always under human judgment, craftsmanship and accountability.
Ownership over rental
Companies should own their critical tools, their data and their destiny, not rent them from vendors whose roadmap they cannot control.
Speed as a feature
The economics of AI-driven development only work if we deliver fast. Velocity is a discipline here, not a byproduct.
Long-term partnership
Replacing a tool is the beginning. We maintain, evolve and improve it as your needs change, earning trust year after year.
Straight
answers.
The things every CFO, CIO and engineering lead asks before the first call. If yours is not here, ask it directly at info@rtchfoundry.com.
What does RTCH Foundry do?
RTCH Foundry builds custom software that replaces expensive off-the-shelf SaaS. We audit how your team actually uses a tool, rebuild only the parts that matter, migrate your data and integrations, then run it for hosting plus a small maintenance fee. You own the result.
How much can we save by replacing a SaaS tool?
Most clients cut the recurring cost of a replaced tool by roughly an order of magnitude. A company paying $300,000 a year for an issue tracker typically ends up with a one-time build fee plus ongoing costs in the low tens of thousands. The build fee is often recovered inside the first year of subscription savings.
Which SaaS tools can you replace?
Project management and issue tracking such as Jira, Asana, Monday.com and Wrike. CRM and sales tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive. HR and internal operations such as Workday, BambooHR and Personio. Support and ticketing such as Zendesk, Freshdesk and ServiceNow. Reporting and analytics such as Tableau, Looker and Power BI. If you pay for all of a tool and use part of it, it is a candidate.
How long does a replacement take to build?
Most replacements ship in weeks rather than quarters. Discovery and design usually take two to four weeks, the build runs alongside migration planning, and the new tool runs in parallel with the incumbent before cutover.
Why is building cheaper than buying now?
AI-assisted development collapsed both the cost to build custom software and the cost to maintain it. A small senior team now ships in weeks what used to take a large team months. Expensive custom development was the economic assumption the SaaS industry was built on, and that assumption no longer holds.
Who owns the software you build?
You do. You own the code, the data and the roadmap. There are no per-seat licenses, and no vendor who can raise your price, change your workflow or retire a feature you depend on.
What happens to our existing data and integrations?
We migrate them. Data and integrations move across, the new tool runs in parallel with the incumbent to prove parity, and we manage both the cutover and the license wind-down.
What does it cost to run after launch?
Hosting at near cost, plus a small maintenance fee covering updates, support, security patches and continuous improvement. It is flat and predictable rather than per seat, so it does not grow with headcount.
Who is RTCH Foundry for?
Mid-market and enterprise companies with significant SaaS spend and well understood workflows. Typically CFOs and CIOs cutting software budget without cutting capability, and operations or engineering leaders whose tools fight their process instead of supporting it.
Is custom software harder to secure than SaaS?
Usually the opposite. A purpose-built tool has a fraction of the surface area of a general-purpose platform, so there is less to attack, less to misconfigure and less to audit. Security patches and updates are covered by the maintenance fee.
Three lines on the invoice, and none of them per seat.
One-time build fee
Discovery, design, development and migration. Often recovered inside the first year of subscription savings.
Hosting at near cost
Transparent infrastructure pricing. No margin games, no per-seat multiplier on top.
Small maintenance fee
Updates, support, security patches and continuous improvement. Flat and predictable.
Total ongoing cost is typically a small fraction of previous SaaS spend. And unlike a subscription, the software is yours.
Let's find your twenty percent.
Bring us the contract that annoys you most. We will tell you what a purpose-built replacement costs to build, what it costs to run, and how long until it pays for itself, all before you commit to anything.
What happens next
- 0130-minute call on the tool and the contract
- 02We review real usage data with your team
- 03You get a scoped build estimate and run cost
- 04You decide whether the arithmetic works