◆ Interviews
Founder interviews & team Q&A
Long-form conversations with the people actually running SaaS stacks — founders, finance leaders, agency teams. Real numbers, real tradeoffs, no PR fluff.
Every conversation, in full
Newest first. Each one names the person, the company and the figures they were willing to put on the record.
From $4K to $1.2K/mo: a SaaS audit case
Sara Lopez ran a 6-week SaaS audit at NorthBeam Agency that cut monthly software spend from $4,100 to $1,180. She walks through the framework, the cuts, and the surprising tools that survived.
AuditCost cuttingAgency Read the interview David Chen CFO · Rainforest SoftwareWhat I wish I knew before signing a 3-year SaaS contract
David Chen, CFO at Rainforest Software, signed a 3-year SaaS contract that he now considers his most expensive lesson. He walks through the clauses he missed and the renewal playbook he runs today.
ProcurementContractsRenewal Read the interview Maya Patel Founder · Lighthouse StudioHow an 8-person agency built their stack on $300/mo
Maya Patel kept her 8-person creative agency running on under $300/month in SaaS for two full years. She walks through the line items, the negotiations, and the tools she refused to add.
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