WHY BUY VS BUILD

You already pay for AI. You just don't own it.

The average service business spends $2,000 – $5,000/month on SaaS tools that don't talk to each other, store your data on someone else's servers, and charge you more every year. TabTab replaces the stack with a single machine you own outright.

THE SAAS STACK
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12+ subscriptions. 12+ logins. 12+ companies storing your data. Connected by fragile automations that break when any vendor changes their API.

ONE TABTAB NODE
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One machine. Agents that think. Data that stays on your desk. No subscriptions, no vendor lock-in, no fragile glue.

DIMENSION BY DIMENSION

The real comparison.

DIMENSIONSAAS STACKTABTAB
MONTHLY COST AFTER PURCHASE$2,000 – $30,000/mo in stacked SaaS subscriptions$0. One-time $10,000. You own the machine.
DATA LOCATIONScattered across 12+ vendor servers you don't controlOn the machine sitting on your desk. Nowhere else.
INTEGRATION MODELZapier glue — if this, then that. No reasoning, no judgment.Agents that think, prioritize, escalate, and adapt.
WHAT HAPPENS IF THE VENDOR SHUTS DOWNYou lose your workflows, your data, and start over.Nothing. It's your hardware running open-weight models.
SECURITY POSTUREYour data sits on shared cloud infrastructure behind someone else's firewall.Zero subnet via Tailscale. SSH disabled on shipping. Air-gapped from the internet.
CUSTOMIZATIONWhatever the vendor's settings page allows. Feature requests go to a backlog.Your agents, your rules, your org chart. Fully configurable.
SPEED TO RESPOND TO A LEADDepends on how many tabs you have open and when you check.Under 60 seconds, 24/7. The agent never sleeps.
VENDOR LOCK-INHigh. Switching costs grow every month you stay.None. Open-weight models. MIT-licensed OS. Your data, portable.
THE MATH

Watch the meter run.

Hire an employee: $5,500/mo. Stack SaaS tools: $4,200/mo. Or buy TabTab once for $10,000 and stop paying forever.

HIRE EMPLOYEES · 0MO
$0
$11,000/mo · 2 FTEs
Salary + benefits + taxes + overhead. Don't work nights or weekends.
SAAS STACK · 0MO
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$2,800/mo · 8 tools
~$350/tool avg. No reasoning. Breaks when APIs change.
TABTAB · 0MO
$10,000
one payment. you own it forever.
One machine. Works 24/7. No subscriptions, no salaries.
DRAG TO COMPARE · 0 MONTHS
/01

Own your data

Your customer records, your conversations, your business intelligence — on a machine you physically possess. No vendor can hold it hostage, raise the price, or shut down.

/02

Own your agents

Not someone else's chatbot with your logo. Real agents with job titles, reporting lines, budgets, and accountability. You hire them, train them, fire them.

/03

Own the upside

Every efficiency gain, every hour saved, every lead your agents close at 3 AM — that's margin that stays in your pocket. Not a platform's revenue.

Stop renting. Start owning.

One machine. One price. An AI workforce that belongs to you — not to a platform that can raise rates, change terms, or disappear.