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45 services · 5 months · 0 enterprise sales calls
Auth0ClerkS
Auth0/Clerk/Stytch$23–130/mo

Authentication & Identity

Magic links, email OTP, SMS OTP, password reset, JWT invite tokens — all in @portablecore/auth, shared across every platform.

Auth0 RBACP
Auth0 RBAC/Permit.io$99–130/mo

Permissions & Access Control

PostgreSQL role helper functions, RLS policies, granular financial permissions, family guardian controls, multi-tenant studio membership.

SMailchimp
SendGrid/Mailchimp$20–90/mo

Email Templates & Delivery

Three-tier template resolution (account → platform → code defaults) on Postmark's raw API. Branding hierarchy, activity tracking, suppression lists, webhook processing.

CKMailchimpBrevo
Customer.io/Klaviyo/Mailchimp/Brevo$100–600/mo

Campaigns & Audiences

The Broadcast module — channel-agnostic audiences (not just email), campaign builder, recipient management with unsubscribe handling, NL-to-rules audience builder, preview, import/export. Powered by @portablecore/email-broadcasts.

ZapierM
Zapier/Make$11–70/mo

Inbound Email Automation

Database-driven email routing with AI-powered lead extraction, fuzzy org/contact matching, department routing, and an intake review queue.

IntercomZendesk
Intercom/Zendesk$55–74/mo

Customer Support & Feedback

Bugs Meany — an AI expert users chat with to report bugs. Structured extraction, admin panel, status management, and reply-back-through-chat.

PAW
Pendo/Appcues/WalkMe$249–583/mo

User Onboarding & Tours

Newton, a platform expert, triggers guided tours via postMessage. Tour definitions, proactive greetings for new users, state persisted per-profile.

AMixpanelPostHogH
Amplitude/Mixpanel/PostHog/Heap$49–2000/mo

Product Analytics

The Analytics module — Live Feed of events, Event Catalog, Funnels with conversion cascades, user traits. Plus a liberation pipeline that ingests historical Amplitude data and replaces it going forward. Instruments dashboard for DAU, skill adoption, semantic usage analysis.

DatadogNew Relic
Datadog/New Relic$50–500/mo

AI Usage & Cost Analytics

Centralized ai_usage_log tracking every API call — per-studio costs, token counts, provider/model breakdown, prompt caching metrics, task type categorization.

LangChainL
LangChain/LlamaIndex$79–399/mo

AI Orchestration

Database-driven prompts with versioning, context injection, model catalog with discovery & pricing sync, and task-type routing across providers.

LPB
LangSmith/PromptLayer/Braintrust$29–39/mo

Prompt Experimentation

Prompt Lab: variants, benchmark test cases, automated trials, AI-powered evaluation, learning extraction with confidence scores, and a retrofit queue.

UA
Unstructured/Adobe PDF Services$10–200/mo

Document Processing Pipeline

Multi-stage pipeline: extraction, thumbnail generation, classification, semantic chunking, dual embeddings — with a watchdog and admin-configurable strategies.

CloudinaryI
Cloudinary/ImageKit$49–89/mo

Image Processing

HEIC/HEIF/AVIF→JPEG conversion, PDF thumbnail rendering via PDF.js, canvas factory adapted for Vercel's serverless runtime.

OFirebase
OneSignal/Firebase$9–25/mo

Push Notifications

Multi-channel notifications (in-app, web push, email digest) with per-chat muting, preferences, subscription management, and PWA notification sounds.

ARabbitMQB
Amazon SQS/RabbitMQ/BullMQ$15–50/mo

Job Queue System

pgmq — PostgreSQL-native message queues for document processing, memory extraction, and outreach. Visibility timeouts, dead-letter handling, pg_cron watchdogs.

CR
Chargebee/Recurly$249–249/mo

Subscription & Billing

Custom subscription management on the Stripe API with Connect onboarding, revenue tracking, and multi-platform commerce identity.

R
RevenueCat$119–119/mo

In-App Purchase Revenue

@portablecore/commerce: revenue split engine handling Stripe, Apple IAP (30% cut), Google IAP, platform fee absorption, and per-partner overrides.

SR
Segment/Rudderstack$120–120/mo

Integration Registry

@portablecore/integrations: unified provider registry, multi-level credential fallback (account→user→studio→platform→metaplatform), capability discovery for PEP.

HubSpotS
HubSpot/Salesforce$20–25/mo

CRM

Full CRM: leads, contacts, organizations, communications, AI-powered intake from email, Gmail enrichment, fuzzy dedup, people merge, department routing.

AsanaM
Asana/Monday.com$12–25/mo

Project Management

Studio-defined status vocabulary (no platform-imposed terminology), multi-status support, full audit trail, and industry-specific templates.

CalendlyCal.com
Calendly/Cal.com$12–16/mo

Calendar Management

Google Calendar OAuth with multi-account, per-studio calendar prefs, bidirectional sync, and expert tool-calling for natural-language scheduling.

LoomS
Loom/StreamYard$13–13/mo

Live Broadcasting

Stream any chat in real-time at /live/[slug]. Supabase Realtime subscriptions, no auth required for viewers. Broadcast state managed in the database.

CH
Crystal Knows/Humantic AI$16–49/mo

Behavioral Intelligence

The Communicator: invisible message translation using Human Design charts and generational intelligence. Recipients never know — they just experience better communication.

PC
ProductBoard/Canny$20–79/mo

Feature & Product Management

Database-driven Features Catalog (56 features), Cool Updates log synced to DB, and Newton — a platform expert users can ask about any feature naturally.

PS
PartnerStack/ShareASale$500–500/mo

Marketplace & Partner Commerce

Unified commerce with merchant_profiles, Stripe Connect payouts, module sales tracking, developer earnings aggregation, and cross-platform revenue reporting.

HPD
Hanko/Passage/Descope$99–300/mo

Passkey Authentication

WebAuthn registration and verification — Touch ID, Face ID, hardware keys. Custom challenge generation, signature verification, multi-credential management. Replaces password and OTP for daily sign-in.

WAuth0 SSO
WorkOS/Auth0 SSO$125–575/mo

Cross-Platform SSO Hub

portable.you — sign in once, authenticated across Expert, Team, Theater, Family, School, and every future platform. Custom SSO exchange tokens, identity resolution, consumer account creation flow.

CF
Clearbit/FullContact$99–499/mo

Identity Resolution

pgvector-based identity clustering — facts grouped by cosine similarity, confidence scores, evidence counts, contradiction detection, lifecycle states (validated/archived/stale), consolidation logic.

Cloudflare Bot MgmthA
Cloudflare Bot Mgmt/hCaptcha/Arkose$20–200/mo

Bot & Spam Detection

Display-name entropy analysis — Shannon entropy, character randomness, mixed-case heuristics — to auto-block bot signups. No CAPTCHA, no third-party challenges. Admin ban controls.

NotionConfluenceG
Notion/Confluence/Glean$8–30/mo

Knowledge Base & Wiki

Portable Wiki — namespaces, articles, revision history, [[wikilinks]] that resolve to live references, full-text search, AI article generation, RLS access control, automatic embedding into expert RAG.

ContentfulWordPressGhost
Contentful/WordPress/Ghost$25–489/mo

Headless CMS

Pages CMS — TipTap rich-text editor, draft/publish, image uploads, raw HTML toggle, public render routes, Dreamhost legacy importer, newsletter index, brand-voice checking via Voice Keeper.

WebflowFramerG
Webflow/Framer/Gamma$14–39/mo

AI Site Generator

Make Website — generates fully deployed HTML/CSS sites from chat messages or threads. Design system presets, version history, OG card generation, password protection, published to portable.site.

OFG
Otter/Fireflies/Gong$20–150/mo

Ambient Meeting Capture

Listening Mode and Talkboy — continuous audio capture with judgment layer (drop / file / surface), 9 framework-based readouts, transcript ingestion, AI-titled meetings, scrollable receipts.

MZ
Mem0/Zep$99–500/mo

AI Memory & Behavioral Learning

Learning Pipeline — extracts behavioral directives (voice, lens, protocol, domain) from every message pair, confidence-scores them, auto-promotes high-confidence learnings to a hot tier injected into every prompt.

Redis EnterpriseM
Redis Enterprise/Momento$50–300/mo

Semantic / Prompt Cache

In-process semantic retrieval cache via cosine similarity on query embeddings. Queries >0.95 similar to a cached one return instantly without a Pinecone roundtrip. Configurable TTL and threshold per expert.

HLP
Helicone/Langfuse/Portkey$20–200/mo

AI Observability & APM

Per-phase latency instrumentation across the entire PEP chat pipeline, persisted to ai_perf_log. Admin dashboard at /admin/performance with user-perceived latency as the lead metric, time-range filtering.

OpenRouterLP
OpenRouter/LiteLLM/Portkey$50–250/mo

Model Routing & Gateway

Heuristic complexity classifier scores messages simple / moderate / complex without an LLM call. Simple queries route to fast, cheap models for 2–3× speed. Configurable thresholds in optimization_flags.

FAirbyteS
Fivetran/Airbyte/Stitch$300–1000/mo

Data ETL & Liberation

Extract / clean / embed / advise pipeline. Live for Blackbaud Raiser's Edge and SIS — gifts, donors, households, students, enrollments. AI-assisted dedup, relationship inference, Pinecone embedding, cron-synced.

TID
Trigger.dev/Inngest/Defer$20–100/mo

Background Jobs & Cron

Vercel Crons + in-house route handlers. Daily digests, weekly digests, embedding sweep, liberation sync, orphan upload GC, memory DLQ alerter — all secured with CRON_SECRET. No third-party scheduler.

LSS
LaunchDarkly/Statsig/Split$79–450/mo

Feature Flags

Cascading feature flag system in platform_settings.feature_flags JSONB. Four tiers: global → beta → alpha → owner override. Server helper, client hook, admin UI for management.

n8nMakeP
n8n/Make/Pipedream$20–300/mo

Workflow Automation

Flow Pipeline Builder — DAG-based workflow definitions, steps referencing installed modules, execution records with per-step progress, visual pipeline detail page, seeded production templates.

GumroadLemon SqueezyPaddle
Gumroad/Lemon Squeezy/Paddle$50–200/mo

License-Keyed Software Commerce

End-to-end Stripe checkout + license key generation (HVCT-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX), license-gated downloads, gift-link redemption, refund and dispute lifecycle handlers, buyer / subscriber / gift email templates.

SfAutodesk Flow
ShotGrid/ftrack/Autodesk Flow$50–200/mo

Production Tracking

Shot Tracker and Edit Tracker — shots, named variants, tasks, renders, drag-to-reorder grouping, artist assignment, variant-aware task counts, mobile views, a Pipeline Builder writing metadata to entities.

SM
Slack/Microsoft Teams$7–15/mo

Team Chat

In-app workspace chat with threads, message reactions, reply threading, rolling AI summarization, First Responder integration. Same UI components as Expert chats, shared via @portablecore/chat.

BSubstackKit (ConvertKit)
Beehiiv/Substack/Kit (ConvertKit)$42–99/mo

Newsletter & Subscriber Capture

marketing_subscribers table, landing-page email capture band, subscriber-specific announcement templates (buyer vs. subscriber), --include-subscribers flag on the product-update broadcast script.

Monthly SaaS bill we never got

$3,125–$12,070/mo

Replaced by Supabase, Vercel, Postmark, and the direct APIs of the providers we actually need.

Built in five months. By one person and a lot of AI agents.