You adopt a platform and build the operating model, the applications and the workflows on it.
Palantir, workflow buildersYou hire an AI employee, brief it, review its work and approve what it proposes.
Viktor, agentsWe start with the economic opportunity, record a baseline, build and run whatever it takes, and measure the result in your own systems.
AmalgamentWhat renewing by default is
Renewing is usually the right-looking choice. The platform works, the team knows it, and switching feels risky. Vertical software often does its core job well, and some of it carries compliance, integrations or support that would be expensive to rebuild.
The cost of the default is that nobody checks. Pricing is often per seat, per location or per module, with useful features in higher tiers. Over a few years a business can pay for a platform where it uses a small part of the product, while what it depends on is a single workflow.
What Amalgament is
Amalgament builds systems that improve the economics of a business. We measure the work in customers created, revenue created and cost removed.
We start with the economic opportunity, not the technology. Scout finds demand the business is not capturing and turns it into customers. Forge finds revenue inside the customers, capabilities and relationships the business already has, then builds the offer and the system that make it real. Sift finds recurring cost that can be removed without losing the capability behind it.
Before we build, we record a baseline. Then we build and run whatever combination of software, AI, data, automation and execution the opportunity requires, and measure the result in your own systems of record. You never have to choose the technology.
Customers created. Revenue created. Cost removed.
Side by side.
Text, not checkmarks. Where both do a similar thing, the row says so.
- What you buy
- Renewing your softwareAnother term of the same platform, usually at the same or a higher price.
- AmalgamentA decision based on numbers, and a replacement only when it holds up. Measured in cost removed.
- Starting question
- Renewing your softwareDo we still use this?
- AmalgamentWhat capability does the business need, what does it cost today, and what would it cost another way?
- What gets compared
- Renewing your softwareUsually nothing. The renewal is the default.
- AmalgamentThe capability you rely on, its current cost, and the full cost of another way, including switching time and risk.
- Possible outcomes
- Renewing your softwareRenew.
- AmalgamentRenew, renegotiate, consolidate, or replace with a narrower tool. Renewing is a valid answer.
- Capability
- Renewing your softwarePreserved, including the parts you do not use.
- AmalgamentPreserved. Sift does not cut a capability the business needs to save money.
- Switching risk
- Renewing your softwareNone. Nothing changes.
- AmalgamentWeighed before anything is built, and counted in the comparison.
- What gets measured
- Renewing your softwareRarely anything after the renewal.
- AmalgamentRecurring cost removed, against a baseline recorded before work starts.
- Pricing shape
- Renewing your softwareThe platform's own pricing, per seat, location or module.
- AmalgamentScoped to the opportunity and agreed before work starts.
- Best fit
- Renewing your softwareA platform that earns clearly more than it costs, or that would be risky or expensive to replace.
- AmalgamentA platform you pay a lot for while relying on a small part of it.
The unit of work.
An expensive system that earns more than it costs is cheap. The point is to ask with real numbers.
The renewal notice arrives. The team is busy. The contract renews for another year at the new rate.
Before the renewal, Sift maps which workflows the business actually depends on, prices the alternatives, and recommends renewing, consolidating or replacing. If a replacement makes sense, it is built and checked against the baseline.
Which one, honestly.
- The platform clearly earns more than it costs.
- It carries compliance, integrations or support that would be expensive to rebuild.
- Switching would put customers, revenue or regulated data at real risk.
- Your team uses most of what you pay for.
- You pay for seats, locations or modules you rarely use.
- What you depend on is one or two workflows inside a large platform.
- You want the decision made on numbers, with capability preserved, before the next renewal.
A few good questions.
Start with the opportunity. Measure the result.
Keep your tools. We find where the business can win customers, add revenue or remove cost, record a baseline, build what it takes, and measure the result in your own systems.
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