Why your software should stay yours

A lot of custom software runs on the builder's platform. As long as the collaboration goes well, you barely notice. But when you want to move on with someone else, or develop it further yourself, the code turns out not to be yours.

You often only find out at the moments that matter: during an acquisition, when your own team wants to take over, or when your supplier stops. By then it is too late to make arrangements.

What ownership means in practice

• Source code. You get the full code in common technology, Python and SvelteKit. Any developer can take it further.
• Repository. The code is under your own control, not ours.
• Deployment. The application runs on your servers, on its own and without a license check.

That stays true when we generate with Fractal Forge. Only regenerating from the model uses Fractal Studio. The application itself does not need it.

What it gets you

Ownership keeps your options open. Heaten grew from 5 to 65 people and was acquired by INNIO. Heavy enterprise software decisions could wait until after the acquisition, and the new owner could then roll out its own blueprint without rebuilding everything.

Flipstream switched databases and moved from the cloud to on-premise, within days and without downtime. That was possible because the core of the software is not tied to the infrastructure.

With us or without us

With us you get the source code, the repository and the deployment under your own control. You can always carry on yourself, with us or without us.