vendor.rip — The SaaS Replaceability Index

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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

01

You get a score

Rip Score powered by community data — real build times, real error rates, real savings.

02

You build it

Hand off to any AI agent. The skill guides the build and observes what actually happens.

03

Your outcome feeds back

Build time, stack used, gotchas hit — observed automatically, shared with one click.

04

Next score improves

Next team gets better estimates, better stack recommendations, better gotcha warnings.

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.

{ FLEET LEARNING }

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...

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

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.

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

{ EVERYTHING YOU NEED }

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)

{ COMMUNITY RIPS }

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

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