How Teclara cancelled $12,000/year in SaaS subscriptions by rebuilding four internal tools with Claude Code on existing Proxmox infrastructure.
When we looked at our monthly SaaS invoices and realized we were spending nearly $1,000 per month across four separate platforms, the frustration was familiar but hard to ignore. We were paying for a CRM, quoting software, a margin calculator, and an internal documentation platform, each with its own per-user pricing, its own annual price increases, and its own collection of features we had never asked for and would never use. Combined, that came to roughly $12,000 per year flowing out to vendors for tools that were overbuilt for our needs and underbuilt for our workflows. As an MSP that advises clients on infrastructure decisions every day, the irony of renting our own operational tools from four different vendors while storing our business data on their servers was hard to overlook. We knew we had the infrastructure and the capacity to do something about it, so we did. Why We Made the Move Teclara Technologies is a cybersecurity-first managed service provider based in Oakville, Ontario, serving clients across Canada. As the business grew, so did the need for internal tooling that fit the way the team actually works. Off-the-shelf SaaS tools came with recurring per-user costs, limited customization, and data residency concerns that did not sit well with a company built around security and control. For an MSP that helps clients make infrastructure decisions every day, relying entirely on third-party platforms for our own operations felt like a gap worth closing. The question was how to close it without introducing operational overhead that would distract from client work. What Made This Viable Two developments converged to make the project realistic in a way it would not have been even a year earlier. The first was AI-assisted development. We used Claude Code, Anthropic's AI development tool, to design, build, and ship