The $4,200/month SaaS tax nobody talks about.

We surveyed 340 service businesses with 5-50 employees. The median monthly SaaS spend was $4,200. The highest was $31,000 — a 40-person HVAC company running Salesforce, HubSpot, ServiceTitan, QuickBooks, Slack, Calendly, Mailchimp, Typeform, Zapier, Google Workspace, Notion, and a handful of industry-specific tools.

None of these tools talk to each other natively. So they also pay for Zapier ($149/mo) to glue them together with 'if this, then that' automations that break every time a vendor updates their API.

The real cost isn't the subscription fees. It's the cognitive overhead. The owner checks 6 dashboards every morning. The office manager re-enters the same data into 3 systems. The sales team copies leads from a form builder into a CRM by hand.

TabTab replaces this stack with agents that share a single database, running on a single machine. The scheduling agent knows what the sales agent promised. The invoicing agent knows when the job was completed. The follow-up agent knows the customer's communication preferences.

One machine. $10,000 once. By month 3, you've broken even on the SaaS spend alone — before counting the hours your team gets back.

We're not against SaaS. We're against paying rent on tools that should be infrastructure you own.