Internal tools · Useful SaaS bits · Owned outright
Get the one internal tool your business keeps trying to make in spreadsheets, or the useful 10% of a SaaS product without the monthly rent.
You pay $0 until you see it working.
$5,000 flat price
No subscription. Hosting is about $25 a month, paid straight to the hosting company, not to us.
ClientBrisbane Fitouts
Price$5,000 flat
Build time48 hours
Payment$0 until it works
“We only need the useful bit.” Build the one screen staff actually open: documents signed, jobs moving, numbers visible.
| Item | Included |
|---|---|
| Interview call | 30 minutes |
| Working tool | 48 hours |
| Code and guide | Yours |
The price
Sometimes it is a bespoke internal screen no platform sells. Sometimes it is the scaled-down version of a big SaaS product when your team only needs signing, a simple board, approvals, a portal, or the morning numbers.
Have a go at it now. Answer in plain English and watch your work order write itself on the right. This is the real first step of working with us, not a marketing widget.
Your work order will write itself here while you answer.
In 30 minutes we learn the one job that wastes the most of your week. A one-page work order is written while you talk, and you approve it on the call. No tech words.
Two days later you see your tool working on a screen-share, with your real words on it, before you pay a cent. It is small by design, so it gets finished properly.
You get the code, a one-page guide your least technical employee can follow, and no subscription. Hosting is about $25 a month, paid straight to the hosting company.
The strongest Freehold builds fall into two buckets: a bespoke internal tool that fits how your staff already work, or a stripped-back version of a SaaS tool where you only need the useful bit.
The screen your business keeps trying to make in spreadsheets, whiteboards, group chats, and someone’s head.
The one feature you actually wanted from the expensive platform, built small, branded, and owned by you.
The SaaS this avoids: a full document platform when you only need one branded link, a signature, the right attachments, and a clear “ready” state. Tap a client, then complete the missing item.
Replaces: print-sign-scan, email attachments, a shared folder nobody trusts, and paying for a heavyweight signing suite.
The SaaS this avoids: a project management suite when your team only needs one board everyone understands. Move a job forward, add an extra, and watch the money stop hiding in messages.
Replaces: the whiteboard, the group text, and the big project tool your staff open only when someone is watching.
The internal tool this replaces: three exports, two spreadsheets, and asking staff “where are we at?” Open it with your coffee. The few numbers that matter are already waiting.
Replaces: the Monday morning spreadsheet, the “can someone send me the numbers?” message, and dashboards built for analysts instead of owners.
Three shapes, same rule: it must be small enough to ship in two days and valuable enough that your staff open it without being reminded.
The platforms you have been quoted run $150 to $500 a month, every month, forever, with per-user charges as you hire and price rises every year you cannot refuse, because they hold your data.
A Freehold tool is a one-off $5,000. Hosting it costs about the price of a coffee a week, paid straight to the hosting company. Slide your current software bill across and see when owning beats renting.
| Rentingtypical platform | OwningFreehold | |
|---|---|---|
| Year one | $3,600 | $5,300 |
| Year three | $10,800 | $5,900 |
| Year five | $18,000 | $6,500 |
| When you stop paying | It switches off | It keeps working |
| Your data | Theirs, hostage | Yours, always |
| Built for | Someone else | Your business only |
Owning column includes the $5,000 build plus roughly $25/month hosting paid directly to the host. No money to us after handover unless you ask for changes.
The promise
You do not pay a cent until your tool is working on a screen-share and you are happy with it.
If something is not right in the first 30 days, we fix it. No arguments, no support tickets.
We hand over the files and a one-page guide. Any developer can work on it. You are not married to us.
Hosting is about $25 a month, paid straight to the hosting company. Nothing to us unless you ask for more.
Anything wrong in the first 30 days, we fix free. After that, most owners take the care plan at $99 a month, cancel whenever, or take no plan and call us if they ever need to. The tool is yours either way.
On a hosting account in your name, about $25 a month paid straight to the hosting company. We set it up on the handover call and you hold the password. We never sit between you and your own tool.
It lives in your tool, on your account. Export everything to a spreadsheet any time with one click, we build that button into every tool. Nobody can hold your data hostage, including us.
Small changes are covered by the care plan. Bigger ones get a fixed quote before we touch anything. Because you own the code, any developer you ever hire can work on it.
Custom software used to cost $80,000 because scoping it took months of meetings. Our interview writes the work order in 30 minutes instead, and we build one tool, ruthlessly small, fast. We pass that saving on.
Yes, because we build one tool that kills one annoyance, not your whole business. The work order you approve on the call is the entire scope, and that discipline is exactly why it ships in two days.
From the builder
Custom software was never $80,000 because of the building. It was the scoping.
I have spent twenty years inside large organisations getting software built, and back in 2017 I raised venture money for an AI startup that was a few years too early, so I have watched small businesses get told their problem was worth $80,000 or nothing while the big end of town quietly got the same thing for a fraction. That price was always about the meetings, the requirements documents, the consultants. The building got cheap, and a good interview makes the scoping cheap too, so what is left is two days of honest work and a price a sensible business can pay once and forget.
The interview above is the real thing. Run it, see what it writes, and if the work order looks like the tool your staff have been trying to invent by hand, send it through.
Chris O’HalloranFreehold Software, the software arm of Leva Solutions · Brisbane, Australia
Chris O’Halloran, Freehold Software
Twenty years getting software built inside large organisations, and a 2017 AI startup that raised venture money, now building small tools small businesses can actually own. Based in Brisbane.
We are taking on our first handful of clients right now, and that is exactly why the build is $0 until you see it working and the warranty runs 30 days, because the risk sits with us until you are sure.
Book a 30-minute call. Bring the internal tool you wish existed, or the bloated software you only use one feature of. We reply within one business day.