How we quantified SaaS Lock-In and LLM Costs

The "Contact Sales" button is a technical debt indicator. Every time a vendor hides their pricing behind a form, they are adding friction to your stack's scalability. We spent months building a pipeline that tracks hundreds of SaaS pricing pages daily. But raw data is just noise. To make it actionable, we built a dashboard that treats software procurement like engineering: with logic, formulas, and daily data pipelines. Here is the technical breakdown of the three core engines we’ve just deploye