Effective immediately, we're sunsetting the cloud-hosted versions of the following apps:
SimpleDirect Financing, our legacy fintech application, is not affected.
Let's be real
These apps have no moat. We know that. AI can rebuild any of them in an afternoon.
Pretending otherwise - keeping servers running, maintaining hosted versions of tools that anyone can replicate - that's not a business. That's denial.
We killed our SaaS models in December 2025 because we saw this coming.
At the time, running free hosted versions felt like the generous thing to do. But generosity without direction is just waste.
And we'd rather be honest about where things are going than comfortable with where they've been.
What we're actually doing
We're moving all of these apps to internal use.
We still use them. We still believe in them.
We're going to keep improving them - but in a soon-to-be open sourced repo on SimpleDirect's GitHub, not on our cloud.
You'll have full access to the code. Run it yourself, on your own infrastructure, under your own control. Fork it, break it, make it better. That's the point.
Down the line, we plan to package these apps so your own private AI can interact with them directly. No cloud dependency. No third-party data exposure. Fully sovereign.
The bigger picture
We're transitioning this business for a post-AI world.
That means we stop pretending software tools are defensible.
It means we focus on what actually compounds - relationships, judgment, stakes, accountability. The human layers that AI can't eat.
We're committed to helping this community thrive in that world. Open sourcing our apps is the first step. There's a lot more coming.
Thank you to everyone who's used these tools. They're not going away — they're just going where they belong. In your hands.
— George