What Does Building It Yourself Really Cost?
Build an editable planning scenario from your team size, salary assumption, and required domains. Results are directional estimates, not verified savings, a proposal, or a delivery commitment.
Your Engineering Team
Engineers dedicated to building infrastructure services
Includes base salary — we'll add 30% for benefits, tooling & overhead
Services You Need to Build
Select the domains your team would need to build from scratch. The month values are editable-model assumptions for early planning; validate them against your own architecture and scope.
Planning Scenario
Calculator Assumptions
- Build months are planning assumptions, not measured Launch Rail customer benchmarks
- The model adds 30% for benefits, tooling, cloud infrastructure, and coordination
- The model applies a 60% parallelism factor across the selected team size
- The model estimates annual maintenance at 20% of initial build cost
- The $4,800 figure is the published design-partner pilot, credited toward a quote-based final license
- Final license, customer cloud, migration, operations, and custom engineering costs are not included
What the Calculator Cannot Quantify
The real cost of building in-house goes far beyond salaries.
Time to Market
- Foundation work competes with differentiated product work
- Integration and operating effort should be included in planning
- A guided pilot validates the documented Launch Rail path
- Your team decides where ownership creates the most leverage
Ongoing Opportunity Cost
- Senior engineers maintaining CRUD vs. building differentiators
- On-call rotations for infrastructure you don't own
- Security patches, dependency upgrades, breaking changes
- Knowledge silos when engineers leave
Strategic Leverage
- Licensed source can be inspected and extended within the agreement
- Service boundaries support independent capacity planning
- Security responsibilities and evidence are explicit in the Trust Center
- A blueprint makes dependencies and deployment work visible
Stop Building Infrastructure. Start Shipping Product.
This model is a conversation starter. Bring the assumptions to an architecture review and we will map the available modules, implementation scope, final license basis, and customer-cloud responsibilities.