We don't bill hours. We melt SaaS.
Smelt rebuilds the workflow you're paying seven figures a year to rent. You pay us a slice of what you save. If we don't beat your SaaS on every named KPI, you don't pay.
You're paying rent on software that should be yours.
Every Fortune-1000 leadership team has a slide deck that reads: 'we want to consolidate vendors.' Nobody does it. The risk of replacing $15M-a-year SaaS with a custom rebuild has always been too high. Consultants bill by the hour. AI builders sell platforms. Nobody underwrites the outcome.
Foundation models changed the math. The build is now 80% cheaper. The execution risk is now insurable. The only thing missing is a firm with the conviction to bet alongside you.
Three steps. One bill.
Audit
Send us your three largest SaaS line items. Inside 14 days you get a target replacement, a projected five-year saving, a confidence band, and a named KPI bar. No fee. No deck.
Pilot
Six-week fixed-bid rebuild. You define the KPI bar in writing. We hit it or you pay nothing. The pilot ships into production — it isn't a slideware demo.
Share
Once the replacement is live, you pay 30% of net saved spend, monthly, for five years — capped at 3× the build cost. The code is yours. The spec is yours. The savings keep coming after we leave.
The math is the message.
If a vendor tells you their model is more aligned than this, ask them to put a refund clause in writing.
We are not for everyone.
The objections, answered.
What if our SaaS is great and we don't want to leave it?+
Then we are the wrong firm. Smelt only profits when you stop paying a vendor. If you love your vendor, keep them. Our friends at Mantle and Halo wrap legacy SaaS without replacing it.
What stack do you build on?+
Whatever your cloud is already paying for. AWS, Azure, GCP. We use the agent platform you've already procured. We do not sell you a new vendor while replacing your old one.
Who owns the code?+
You. Day one. The spec is yours, the source is yours, the deployment artifacts are yours. Smelt holds no escrow, no kill-switch, no carve-out.
What if your build is worse than the SaaS?+
You named the KPI bar in writing. If we miss it in the pilot, you pay nothing. If we miss it in production within the first 12 months, the savings-share is suspended until we fix it.
Is this just consulting in a tuxedo?+
No consultant in the world will refund their fee if the build underperforms. We will. That is the entire pitch.
Why 30 percent, why 5 years?+
Because that ratio aligns incentives without breaking your books. A 50/5 share would tempt us to inflate. A 10/3 would tempt us to ship junk and walk. 30/5 is the number where both parties show up.
Send your largest SaaS bill.
We'll send back the math.
Free 14-day audit. No deck. No sales-engineer. A target replacement, projected five-year saving, and a named KPI bar — or nothing.
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