What's the real cost of ownership compared to building in-house?
Most in-house platforms cost $500K-$5M annually in reconciliation + six FTE to maintain. Shakti collapses that to a seat licence + a small platform team.
The honest math: an internal platform-engineering team usually runs five-to-seven FTE who maintain reconciliation scripts, a portal, a custom audit dashboard, and the integrations across a fragmented toolchain. Their fully-loaded cost is typically $1M-$2M a year, plus another $500K-$3M in the reconciliation tax (ad-hoc audit prep, compliance officer time, production incidents whose root cause crossed system boundaries).
Shakti doesn’t eliminate your platform team, but it collapses the reconciliation tax to zero and frees your platform engineers to work on differentiation instead of plumbing. On our design-partner engagements we see two FTE move from “maintain the audit scripts” to “ship internal-developer features,” and audit-prep cycles drop from 11 weeks to under 10 days.
The one-pager at /download/one-pager walks through a side-by-side TCO for a representative mid-size enterprise. The spreadsheet is itself reproducible — every line is sourced from a design-partner’s actual cost breakdown, anonymised.