Scored by real builds. Improving daily.
Every SaaS replacement
makes the next one smarter.
Rip Scores rate every SaaS tool on replaceability (0-100) — powered by real build data from engineering teams. Not analyst opinions. Ground truth. And it compounds with every build.
LaunchDarkly91↑+4Statuspage89↑+2Headless CMS88Looker84↑+6Amplitude82↑+3Segment79Datadog74↑+1Auth071Intercom68↑+5Salesforce62Jira58↑+2LaunchDarkly91↑+4Statuspage89↑+2Headless CMS88Looker84↑+6Amplitude82↑+3Segment79Datadog74↑+1Auth071Intercom68↑+5Salesforce62Jira58↑+2
vendor.rip
Replacement Stack
ReactrechartsBigQueryNext.jsTailwind
Build Plan
✓Set up Next.js project with BigQuery connectionDay 1-2
✓Build core dashboard components with rechartsDay 3-7
○Implement filters, drill-downs, and sharingDay 8-12
○Deploy, test, and migrate data pipelinesDay 13-15
Agent Handoff
npx skills add vendor-rip/rip
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You get a score
Rip Score powered by community data — real build times, real error rates, real savings.
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You build it
Hand off to any AI agent. The skill guides the build and observes what actually happens.
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Your outcome feeds back
Build time, stack used, gotchas hit — observed automatically, shared with one click.
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Next score improves
Next team gets better estimates, better stack recommendations, better gotcha warnings.
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Analyst report
“Estimated 2-3 weeks”
Skill-observed
6.2 hours across 3 days
After 100 builds per tool, vendor.rip knows the real numbers. A competitor starts at zero.
Every rip makes the next
one smarter.
Every Tesla on the road trains Autopilot for all the others. Every rip sharpens the scores for the next team. Anonymized metadata only — never your code, never your data.
Rip Score—
Build time—
Stack—
Gotcha #1—
Gotcha #2—
Pattern—
Leverage—
This is what 47 rips taught us about Looker.
Imagine what 10,000 will teach us about yours.
Teams share anonymized build metadata — stack, timeline, gotchas. Never code, never data. The more teams share, the smarter the scores get.
YOUR OUTPUT IN 3 MINUTES
A scorecard you can act on.
Not another report to read.
Tell us the tool, answer 2-3 structured questions, get a personalized scorecard. Then hand it to any AI coding agent — it picks up where we left off.
01 · ASK
Name a tool. Answer 3 questions.
Which tool, what features you use, what you spend. The advisor asks structured questions and hits bedrock in 2-3 turns — no freeform loops.
60 secondsStructured inputAny SaaS tool
Which tool are you evaluating?
We pay $150k/yr for Looker. 3 engineers, mostly dashboards.
Which features do you actually use?
DashboardsSQL ExplorerAlerts
Calculating Rip Score...
Tell me about your stack...
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02 · SCORE
Get your Rip Score
and build plan.
A shareable scorecard with Rip Score, feature-by-feature breakdown, recommended stack, timeline, and cost comparison. Grounded in real build data where available.
Shareable URLFeature breakdownCost analysis
03 · BUILD
Hand off to any AI agent.
It already knows the gotchas.
One command installs the vendor.rip skill into Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, or 30+ others. Your agent doesn't start from zero — it builds with fleet intelligence: the winning stack, known pitfalls, and patterns from every team that ripped this tool before you.
Fleet-informed builds30+ agentsYou own the code
~/my-project
❯ npx skills add vendor-rip/rip
✓ Skill installed
❯ /vendor-rip vrip_h_abc123...
Picking up: Looker (score 84, 47 rips)
Fleet: recharts + BigQuery (81%), 6.2d avg
Gotcha: LookML permissions — skipping
✓ Building: data layer (BigQuery + SQL)
✓ Building: chart components (recharts)
47 teams informed this build. You review every line.
SaaS Ripability Index
Rip Scores from verified builds + public data · Click any row to get a personalized assessment
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Building?
Get a scorecard + build plan
Rip Score, feature breakdown, recommended stack, cost analysis. Hand it off to any AI coding agent to start building.
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Negotiating?
Use the data as leverage
Rip Scores quantify how replaceable a tool is. Use that in your next renewal call — or share the scorecard with your CFO.
Community-powered intelligence
The community is the product.
Every Rip Score is calibrated by real engineering teams who shipped replacements and shared what they learned. More builders. Better data. Smarter scores.
Build times
Observed from real sessions
“~2 weeks”
6.2 hrs / 3 days
Stack patterns
Which stacks work, ranked by success
recharts + BigQuery: 94% success
Gotcha warnings
What went wrong for other teams
“Event migration painful — batch import first”
Real savings
Verified cost reductions
Median Looker replacement: $148k/yr saved
200+
tools scored with Rip Scores
107
verified build reports indexed
5
data pillars per Rip Score
From evaluation to
production
200+ tools scored
Every major SaaS tool rated on replaceability with verified community data.
Stack Scanner
Paste your SaaS stack and get an instant portfolio assessment with total savings.
Agent handoff
One command installs the skill into Claude Code, Cursor, or any AI coding agent.
Build plans
Step-by-step migration plans with timelines, costs, and recommended tech stack.
Cost calculator
See exactly what you spend vs. what it costs to build and maintain.
Open source
Community-validated data from real engineering teams who shipped replacements.
The numbers speak
for themselves
$2T+
SaaS market cap repriced since late 2025
200+
Tools scored with Rip Scores
$50k
Saved replacing Looker (founding story)
$682k
Saved by Lee Robinson replacing CMS (3 days)
Real teams. Real savings.
Browse real SaaS replacements by real engineering teams. See what they built, how long it took, and what they saved. Fork any approach.
94 rips shared45 tools replaced$4.7M total saved59% success rate
Common questions
Renewal intelligence
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