Index · Legacy SaaS
Legacy SaaS, audited
Large, expensive incumbents whose 20% of real workflow is now small enough to ship in-house. Every record carries a procurement-board verdict and an Internal Build Score (IBS), same dossier shape as the AI wrapper teardowns, weighted for the build-vs-buy question.
- Approved
- 07
- Conditional
- 03
- Defer
- 00
- Project / task management
Asana
$60K / yr
200-seat Business plan
A checklist with due dates, sold as a portfolio-of-portfolios platform.
Internal stack
- Document tracking
DocSend
$15K / yr
Advanced plan, 25 seats
A short-link generator with page-view heartbeats. Sold as a category.
Internal stack
- Scheduling
Calendly
$36K / yr
300-seat Teams plan
An availability calculator. Per-seat-priced. Two weeks of work.
Internal stack
- Wiki / docs / loose tasks
Notion
$24K / yr
150-seat Business + AI add-on
A markdown wiki + a Claude call. They're charging per-seat for both.
Internal stack
- Product analytics
Mixpanel
$96K / yr
Enterprise, 8M MTUs
An events table + funnels, priced per tracked user. The warehouse is yours.
Internal stack
- CRM
Salesforce
$180K / yr
mid-market annual contract
A pipeline + notes UI bundled with eighteen modules you'll never open.
Internal stack
- Customer support / ticketing
Zendesk
$240K / yr
50-agent Suite Professional + AI
A shared inbox with SLAs. Sold as a Suite. Billed by AI ticket.
Internal stack
- HRIS / HCM
Workday
$750K all-in
all-in implementation + first year
A people table sold as a compliance posture. Build internally, but plan the payroll exit.
Internal stack
- ATS (recruiting)
Greenhouse
$220K / yr
Expert plan, 800 employees, 12 recruiters
A candidate pipeline + an audit log. The audit log is what you're really buying.
Internal stack
- eSignature
DocuSign
$84K / yr
Business Pro, 200 senders
A signing UI bundled with a real audit trail. Keep the trail, rebuild the UI.
Internal stack
