Rent the software, rent the ops
Most small companies rent their ERP as SaaS and rent their operations from a partner on retainer. Two invoices every month — and your data and your workflows live on someone else's terms. It works, until the day you want to move and discover you can't.
What self-hosting actually costs
The licence was never the hard part. The real work is the ops: installs, migrations, version upgrades, backups, monitoring. For years that work is what made self-hosting impractical unless you had someone on staff to run it. A subscription hides that effort — and quietly bills you for it forever.
So we gave the ops to an agent
Your AI assistant provisions, migrates and upgrades Odoo on a server you own. Every risky step is preview-first: it shows exactly what it will do, and nothing runs until you say go. The boring, high-stakes plumbing stops being a reason not to own your system.
Own the system, skip the headcount
We run our own company this way — this site and our ERP included. It keeps us honest: we live with the same trade-offs we set up for clients. You keep the data and the right to leave. The ops just stop being your problem.