Stop renting your revenue stack. Own it in days, not quarters.
Built for operators between $250K and $10M with businesses worth keeping. One owned system underneath — site, CRM, dashboard, automation. Yours forever.
You're paying 8–15% of your
revenue to rent software that barely works.
On a $1M operation, that's a five-figure check every year for software you'll never own — HubSpot, Jobber, Airtable, Calendly, three Zapiers — running a business your team still duct-tapes together by hand. That's not a software cost. That's a ceiling on how big you grow — because every new hire has to be trained on six tools to do one job, and your margin bleeds out the back every month it continues.
This is what's running underneath your business right now.
You have a site that looks fine. Underneath it is duct tape — three SaaS subscriptions, a Calendly, a spreadsheet someone built two years ago, a team using six tools to do one job.
You're paying $400–$800 a month to rent software that half-works. You're losing two hours a week on admin that should be automated. And you're still the person who has to explain to a new hire which tool does what.
Thrustra builds the infrastructure that holds it all together — site, CRM, dashboard, automation — on production stacks you own. We ship it in days, not quarters. Then we hand you the keys.
Fig. 01 · The rented stack (left) versus the Thrustra stack (right). What most operators ship against what Thrustra builds instead.
— Ownership Math
Every month you rent, the clock keeps running. Own it once.
Move the slider to whatever you pay every month for the tools running your business. The math shows the month The Pilot pays for itself — and when you start keeping the difference.
The Pilot · $1,500. 7 days. Yours forever.
$250/ month
$0$500$1K$1.5K$2K+
The Pilot pays for itself in
6 months
After month six, you stop paying. Every dollar after that is yours.
Five-year window
Paying off
Pure savings
TodayYear 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5
Renting — 5 years$15,000
Own it once — The Pilot$1,500
Net kept over 5 years$13,500
Ledger on the way.
Karim will send your personalized math and a Pilot scope in the next 24 hours. Reply lands from thrustragrowthagency@gmail.com — keep an eye out.
— The Stack Tax
Add up what you're renting.
Tap every tool you pay for each month. The meter runs live. That number leaves your account every year you keep renting — and at the end of it, you own none of it.
Your annual stack rent
$0
$0/mo · $0 over 5 years
— and you still own nothing when you stop paying.
Here's your number.
Karim will send the full Ownership Ledger personally. The short version:
Renting — forever$0/yr
Own it once — The Pilot$1,500 · yours forever
Ownership pays for itself—
Then it's yours — code, domain, every account. Optional stewardship keeps it evolving after launch, scoped on your call.
Danny was running a 7-figure property maintenance book out of group texts and a whiteboard. We built him an operating system.
The work couldn't wait for a three-month SaaS rollout. We shipped a custom Firebase-backed launch site, a PIN-protected admin panel, and a full CRM — APM Field Hub — in 21 days. On top of it, an n8n automation suite that handles lead intake, daily job briefs via SMS, and client reminder flows.
The layer that changed how the business runs: APM Intelligence — a built-in AI feature using the Anthropic API to auto-generate completion reports, upsell recommendations, and invoice summaries from job records.
What we shipped
Firebase launch site
PIN-protected admin panel
APM Field Hub CRM
n8n automation suite
Twilio SMS workflows
Claude API report engine
21 DAYS
From discovery call to live operating system
$0
Monthly SaaS rent — Danny owns every account
15+ HRS
Per week saved — bookkeeping, invoicing, client reports auto-handled
01 Before · No software02 After · Day 21
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They built our whole operation in three weeks. I run jobs, send invoices, and update clients from one screen — on my phone. Saved me 15 hours a week of bookkeeping alone. I own every login. Best money I’ve spent on the business.
Danny Alvarado
Founder, Alvarado’s Property Maintenance · Marshall, VA
03 — Francophone / E-commerce
Fleur Fruitée
E-commerceMobile MoneyFR · Sénégal
ClientFleur Fruitée — Jus artisanaux
BasedDakar, Senegal
ShippedStorefront + payment routing
Fatima was selling artisanal Senegalese juice through Instagram DMs. We shipped her a French e-commerce engine that takes Orange Money, Wave, and closes on WhatsApp.
We designed and shipped a fully French boutique with FCFA-native pricing, ten product cards mapped to her bottle labels, OTP verification, and a branded loader. The cart routes through Orange Money, Wave, and WhatsApp — the three payment paths that actually convert in Dakar — with order data persisted on a Firebase backend Fatima owns end-to-end.
The build runs as a single all-in-one HTML deployment. No CMS rent, no Shopify monthly, no third-party checkout taking a cut. She owns the storefront, the order data, and every payment thread.
What we shipped
French boutique storefront
FCFA pricing engine
Orange Money + Wave routing
OTP verification flow
WhatsApp fulfillment handoff
Firebase orders backend
10 SKUs
Live product catalog with bottle-label artwork mapped to every card
3 RAILS
Orange Money, Wave, and WhatsApp checkout — the rails Dakar buyers actually use
$0/mo
No CMS rent, no Shopify monthly — Fatima owns the storefront and the order data
01 — Flagship / Federal Intelligence
Cleared to Clean
SAM.govDigest EmailMulti-Tenant
ClientCleared to Clean — Federal Janitorial
BasedNorthern Virginia & Florida
Shippedctc.thrustra.com — pipeline live
Tim and Abel were finding federal janitorial bids the slow way — logging into SAM.gov, paging through hundreds of notices, dropping the keepers into a spreadsheet. We built them a contract intelligence pipeline that lands the keepers in their inbox at 6 AM, hot ones flagged in gold.
SAM.gov posts thousands of federal notices a week. For a janitorial contractor in Virginia and Florida, only a handful matter — but they're buried under industry days, award notices, justifications, and solicitations for industries that don't apply. By the time you've filtered them yourself, half the response window is gone.
We shipped a multi-tenant Firebase platform that pulls SAM.gov on a daily schedule, runs every notice through a relevance gate — S-series PSC or janitorial keyword in the title — scores each one hot, warm, or cool by deadline and fit, and renders a branded digest email at 6 AM ET. A Monday 7 AM recap rolls the week up. Tim and Abel sign into ctc.thrustra.com with Google to work the dashboard live — every opportunity, every scoring band, every link back to the source listing. CTC is tenant one — the platform is built so client two is a config entry, not a rebuild.
What we shipped
Daily SAM.gov ingest · 6 AM ET
Hot / Warm / Cool scoring engine
Daily + weekly digest (Resend)
Live Firestore dashboard
Multi-tenant claim-based auth
ctc.thrustra.com on Cloudflare DNS
6 AM ET
Daily digest hits the inbox before the workday — hot opportunities sorted to the top
RELEVANCE GATE
Industry days, RFIs, awards, justifications — filtered out before the email ever sends
MULTI-TENANT
Client two onboards as a config entry, not a rebuild — every tenant on its own subdomain
From: pipeline@thrustra.com · To: tim@clearedtoclean.com
Cleared to Clean — Pipeline Digest
3 new opportunities matched today. Open the dashboard for full details and to update pipeline stages.
Live preview. Toggle Daily / Weekly above — same template the platform actually sends. Daily fires only when SAM.gov has matches; Monday recap rolls the week. Branded mail-safe HTML, delivered via Resend from pipeline@thrustra.com.
See enough?
If you're already thinking “I need this for my business” — let's talk.
Anchored on real client quotes and shipped project metrics. The featured quote is signed and dated. The receipt tiles are pulled from systems currently in production — open them in the work section above.
Flagship engagement · APM Field Hub
They built our whole operation in three weeks. I run jobs, send invoices, and update clients from one screen — on my phone. Saved me 15 hours a week of bookkeeping alone. I own every login. Best money I’ve spent on the business.
DA
Danny Alvarado
Founder · Alvarado’s Property Maintenance · Marshall, VA
Receipt · 21 days
21 days
Discovery call to production OS — site, CRM, n8n automation, Claude API reports. Zero monthly SaaS rent: Danny owns every login.
APM Field HubMarshall, VA · shipped 2025
Receipt · Pipeline live
6 AM ET
Daily SAM.gov digest hits Tim and Abel’s inbox before the workday — hot opportunities sorted to the top. Multi-tenant Firebase, on ctc.thrustra.com.
Cleared to CleanNorthern VA & Florida · pipeline live
Founder · On the record
“Thrustra was born because I kept watching operators pay $400 a month for software they were using half of, and $15,000 for sites that didn’t bring in a single lead. Real businesses need real infrastructure — owned, on-brand, built for how they actually run.”
Karim CisseFounder & Strategy Director · Thrustra
Receipt · Storefront live
3 rails
Orange Money, Wave, WhatsApp — the three payment paths Dakar buyers actually use. 10 SKUs live on a Firebase backend Fatima owns end-to-end. $0/mo CMS.
Fleur FruitéeDakar, Senegal · jus artisanaux
Receipt · Static deploy
2 langues
Bilingual EN/FR SPA with state preserved across switches. Interactive globe rendering 3 deployment regions. CinetPay wired for Orange Money BF and Moov Money BF. $0/mo hosting.
Every account — Firebase, Stripe, Twilio, n8n, your domain — is set up under your ownership on Day 1, not at delivery. If you fire us tomorrow, nothing breaks. That’s the point.
Thrustra house ruleFrom the FAQ · every engagement, every tier
04 / Engagement
One door, priced against the work
$1,500. 7 days. Yours forever.
Every engagement ships on owned infrastructure. The price includes strategy, scoping, and founder sign-off. No hourly, no surprise invoices, no handoff to an account manager.
01 · The Pilot
The Pilot
A single high-conversion landing page, brand foundation, and conversion infrastructure — built on owned production stack, shipped in 7 days, yours at handoff. Domain, code, credentials, all of it.
Flat fee
$1,500
One-time · 7-day delivery
Founder-led intake & strategy session
Brand foundation — logo, palette, type pair
High-conversion landing page, mobile-first
Wired form / CTA routing to your inbox
Production deployment on your owned domain
Full file & credential handoff at delivery
For: Operators ready to ship — pre-launch founders with a deadline, service ops who need qualified inbound, brands testing a new offer or vertical. You don't need an agency relationship. You need a real, owned page in 7 days.
100% BACKDelivery guarantee. If your Pilot isn't shipped and deployed in 7 days, you don't pay — full refund, no forms, no fight. The deadline is ours to keep.
Full revenue stack — site, CRM, dashboard, automation — built as one codebase. Founder-led throughout. Custom-scoped, custom-priced, by conversation only.
The shortest path to a good engagement is being explicit about the ones we decline. If any of these is you, the studio isn't the fit — and we'll tell you on the call.
01
Not a fit if you want a logo redesign or brand refresh in isolation.We don't sell standalone brand work — brand only ships as part of a system that ships revenue.
02
Not a fit if you need it tomorrow.The Pilot is 7 days. The Operating System is 21–45. We don't take rush fees because we don't move faster than the work allows.
03
Not a fit if you can't get on a 30-minute call this week.Every engagement starts with Karim on the line. No founder, no scope, no fit.
04
Not a fit if you want us to run your stack for you, forever.We hand over credentials on Day 1 and stay on stewardship only if you want us to. We're not building a moat around your business — that's the whole point.
05
Not a fit if you're shopping three quotes against ours.Our scope sheet isn't a bidding document. If we're being compared to a Fiverr deck and a 90-day agency proposal, we're the wrong call.
If none of those is you — that's the fit. Apply for the call below.
05 / Studio
Founder on strategy. Studio on delivery.
Founder-led. Operator-built.
— A note from the founder
"Thrustra started because I kept watching operators pay $400 a month for software they half-used, and $15K for websites that didn't ship a single lead. Real businesses need real infrastructure — owned, branded, built for how they actually work. That's what we build. Nothing else."
Karim Cisse
— FOUNDER
FOUNDER · STRATEGY
KC
Karim Cisse
Founder & Strategy Director
BS Aeronautics — top of class in Part 141 flight ratings. Built the Property Intelligence System at AmeriCorps VISTA, now under commercialization review across CDCs nationwide. Leads strategy on every Thrustra engagement.
East Coast
DEVELOPMENT · INFRASTRUCTURE
AT
Anthony Taylor
Head of Development & Infrastructure
Owns the production codebase across every Thrustra engagement. Firebase, Node, Postgres. Every deployment Thrustra ships runs on infrastructure Anthony architected. No outsourced dev. No offshore contractors.
Engineering
GROWTH · NEW YORK
MG
Martin Guyot
Director of Growth, New York
Drives NYC enterprise sourcing and strategic partnerships. Active across New York's founder-led brand, hospitality, and wellness operator circles. Brings engagements from warm network into the pipeline.
New York, NY
PARTNERSHIPS · ATLANTA
TT
Trey Thompson
Director of Partnerships, Atlanta
Anchors Atlanta market development and partnership growth. Deep relationships across the city's creative, CPG, and service-business operator networks. Owns deal flow from warm introduction through closed engagement.
Atlanta, GA
FRANCOPHONE AFRICA · DAKAR
BT
Baba Thiaw
Director, Francophone Africa
Operates Thrustra's Francophone Africa pipeline from Dakar. Full-stack developer and commercial broker — sources engagements across Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Côte d'Ivoire. Native-quality French builds delivered on the same production stack as every other Thrustra engagement.
Dakar, Senegal
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT · MID-ATLANTIC
MD
Mansour Diagne
Business Development, Mid-Atlantic
Drives enterprise outreach across the DMV corridor. Background in AT&T enterprise account management — versatile across industries, fluent in the language of operators who run real P&Ls. Brings warm introductions and qualified pipeline into the Thrustra studio.
Northern Virginia
— Why clients trust us
You own it all.
Every credential, file, and account transfers at handoff. If you ever fire us, nothing breaks.
Production stacks only.
Firebase, Stripe, Twilio, Postgres, n8n. No proprietary builders. No lock-in platforms.
Founder on every call.
Karim runs discovery, scoping, and sign-off — on every engagement, every tier. Anthony's studio owns the build. No agency middle layer, no offshore handoff.
We'll tell you no.
If the scope is wrong for you, we say so before you sign. We'd rather lose the deal than ship the wrong thing.
06 / Process
How a Pilot engagement runs
7 days. Four milestones. No surprises.
Operating System engagements run 21–45 days at the same rigor, scoped on the Fit Call before any work begins.
01
Day 1
Discovery
30-minute founder Fit Call. We map your business, audit the current stack, and lock scope before any work begins.
02–03
Days 2–3
Strategy & Wireframe
Positioning, conversion architecture, and low-fi wireframes delivered for sign-off.
04–06
Days 4–6
Design & Build
Design system, full development, integrations wired up. Midweek preview on Day 5.
07
Day 7
Ship & Handoff
Site live. Credentials transferred. Documentation delivered. 30-day support window begins.
07 / Stack
Production-grade, yours at handoff
Built on infrastructure real businesses run on.
01
Firebase
Realtime database, auth, hosting. Scales to millions.
→ Every build ships with documentation on your specific stack. Credentials transfer to your accounts on Day 1, not at the end. If you ever fire us, everything keeps running.
08 / FAQ
Frequently asked
The questions we get before every signed engagement.
What's the minimum engagement?+
The Pilot is a flat $1,500 with 7-day delivery — that's the entry. Operating System engagements are custom-scoped and custom-priced, by Fit Call only. If you're not sure which fits you, apply for the call and we'll tell you honestly.
Do I actually own the work?+
Yes. Every account — Firebase, Stripe, Twilio, n8n, your domain — is set up under your ownership on Day 1, not at handoff. If you fire us tomorrow, nothing breaks. That's the point.
Can you really ship in 21 days?+
Yes. APM went from discovery call to live operating system in 21 days — site, CRM, automation, AI reports. Scope locks before Day 1. We don't miss dates. Read the full APM build breakdown →
What if you don't deliver on time?+
Then you get your money back — all of it. The Pilot carries a 100% money-back delivery guarantee: if we don't ship and deploy your page within 7 days, you pay nothing. No forms, no fight. We put the deadline on ourselves because we don't miss it.
What's the retainer actually for?+
SaaS rent buys you access. Our retainer buys you stewardship. Infrastructure oversight, dev support, feature additions, quarterly optimization — handled by the team that built the system, not a ticket queue. It replaces $400–$800/mo of HubSpot, Jobber, and Airtable subscriptions. You stop renting. We hold the stack.
Why are your prices higher than a Squarespace shop?+
Because we're not building the same thing. A template shop sells you a layout. We build you the system underneath it — CRM, admin panel, automation, owned infrastructure. Our Operating System engagement typically replaces $400–$800/month in SaaS subscriptions. Most clients net-positive within 18 months.
What if I'm not sure which tier is right?+
Apply for a Fit Call. We'll look at your current stack, your revenue, and the two or three biggest bottlenecks you're dealing with — and tell you, honestly, which tier fits. If nothing fits, we'll tell you who to call instead.
30 minutes · No pitch deck · Two revenue leaks found
Worth your 30 minutes whether you hire us or not.
Book a Strategy Fit Call with Karim. You'll leave the call with: a diagnosis of the two biggest revenue leaks in your current stack, a specific scoped recommendation for what to fix first, and an honest answer on whether Thrustra is the right studio — or whether someone else is. No pitch deck. No pressure. No sales team.
— What "two revenue leaks" actually means
Last Fit Call we ran with a 7-person services co in the DMV. 30 minutes. Anonymized below.
01
Stack rent: $487/mo across 5 tools. Jobber + HubSpot Starter + Calendly Pro + Mailchimp + a Zapier middle layer holding it all together. One owned system replaces all of it — at less than the Jobber line alone. Annualized leak: $5,844.
02
Broken intake redirect. Silent for 4 months. Their quote form was bouncing through an expired Calendly link — submissions went into a black hole, never hit a CRM, never hit a phone. We estimated ~38% of inbound was disappearing. They found it on the call. Annualized leak: every operator's worst nightmare.
That's the call. Worth your 30 minutes whether you hire us or not.
Most operators leave this site, plan a redesign for "next quarter," and never ship. The Pilot is the version that ships in 7 days, with no retainer, no agency relationship, and no surprise invoice. Apply for a Fit Call before you close the tab.