Per-seat SaaS pricing punishes exactly the businesses this page is for: firms where headcount grows faster than software budgets, and where client confidentiality is not a preference but a professional obligation. Every hire adds another Microsoft 365 licence, another CRM seat, another helpdesk agent fee, while client data scatters across a dozen US vendors' clouds.
The Node Platform takes a different shape: a private tenant on UK infrastructure, every app behind one login, flat per-app pricing from the published rate card, and a UK GDPR Article 28 data processing agreement as standard. These pages do the honest maths, sector by sector.
Pick your sector
Accountants & bookkeepers
Client financial records, payroll and HMRC correspondence deserve better than being spread across per-seat SaaS. A client portal, CRM, e-signing and automation on our own UK infrastructure, with the audit trail your AML supervisor expects you to be able to show. Read the accountants page.
Law firms
Privileged material demands to know where it lives and who can touch it. Matter files, engagement letters and client correspondence in a private UK tenant, with the isolation and audit evidence the SRA's outsourcing expectations point at. Read the law firms page.
Agencies & consultancies
You sign NDAs promising to protect client IP, then store the campaign files in five US SaaS tools. One workspace for files, support, time and automation: flat-priced, isolated per tenant, with white-label potential. Read the agencies page.
Manufacturing & engineering
SME manufacturers get quoted three-figure monthly base fees for cloud MRP before a single user logs in. ERPNext runs BOMs, work orders, stock and purchasing at a flat rate, with your designs and costings on UK metal rather than in someone else's cloud. Read the manufacturing page.
Recruitment agencies
At £69 to £120 per recruiter per month, the big recruitment CRMs overtake a whole node.uk workspace by the second desk. Your candidate database is your business and your biggest GDPR liability; keep it in a private UK workspace. Read the recruitment page.
Construction & trades
Job costing in spreadsheets, drawings in WhatsApp, and the big construction platforms quoting five figures a year. Projects, documents, timesheets and snagging in one flat-rate workspace; your CIS and payroll tools stay put. Read the construction page.
Consultancies
Time tracking, CRM, docs and client portals that charge per consultant add up to £50 to £115 a head every month. Bill time, run the pipeline and share deliverables from one flat-rate UK workspace your NDAs can point at. Read the consultancies page.
IT services & MSPs
You build other people's infrastructure while renting your own helpdesk, repos and secrets manager per seat. Run the stack yourself on UK metal, push your own containers, and resell the sovereignty story to your clients. Read the IT services page.
Charities & non-profits
Contact-tiered CRM pricing punishes the thing you exist to do: growing your supporter base. Donor CRM, files, newsletters and impact reporting at a flat rate that ignores both headcount and list size, with beneficiary data under UK jurisdiction. Read the charities page.
E-commerce & independent retail
The store is cheap; the stack around it is not, and it meters your list size, your app count and your task volume. WooCommerce, email marketing and privacy-safe analytics at a flat rate, however big the mailing list gets. Read the e-commerce page.
Private clinics & healthtech
Your clinical system stays; the per-practitioner satellite stack around it goes. Bookings, consent signing, documents and analytics on UK hardware, with patient-adjacent data out of US SaaS. Read the healthcare page.
Financial advisers & brokers
The back office costs enough per adviser; the rest of the stack should not. Client portal, e-signing, evidence archive and MI dashboards for less than one Intelliflo seat, with an answer for FCA operational-resilience questions. Read the financial services page.
Wholesalers & distributors
Inventory SaaS meters you three ways: users, orders and add-ons. ERPNext runs stock, purchasing and multi-warehouse with no per-order fees, and your analytics is not a paid tier. Read the wholesale page.
Publishers & creators
Substack keeps 10% of your member revenue forever. Managed Ghost keeps 0%, with your Stripe, your domain and your subscriber list on UK infrastructure. Read the publishing page.
Membership organisations
Contact-tiered CRMs make growing your membership a pricing event. Unlimited contacts, newsletters with no revenue cut, and event bookings at a flat rate, with union and faith data treated as the special-category data it is. Read the membership page.
Landlords & block managers
Per-unit software pricing rises with every property. A repairs desk with an audit trail, compliance documents with expiry dates, and rent invoicing, flat however many units you manage. Read the property page.
The shape of the deal, whatever your sector
The stack, replaced: files and documents (Nextcloud), CRM (EspoCRM), e-signing (DocuSeal) and automation (n8n) deploy self-serve in minutes. Helpdesk, email, wikis, time tracking, analytics and 50+ other platforms are managed setup: we deploy and connect them for you.
The pricing, flat: apps cost £25, £45 or £75 a month equivalent by resource profile, billed hourly with no commitments and no platform fee; your tenant, single sign-on and audit come free with the apps. How pricing works. Nothing charges per seat or counts your users.
The confidentiality, structural: your tenant is an isolated network on hardware we own in UK data centres, under UK jurisdiction, with sign-ins and admin actions fully audited and a DPA you can generate right now.
The AI, UK-hosted when it matters: the AI gateway labels every model UK-hosted or partner-routed. Sensitive drafting can stay on models running on our own UK GPUs, where prompt content never leaves our infrastructure.
See it with your own tools
Start self-serve with £25 of free credit, or tell an engineer what your firm runs on today and get a like-for-like figure.
Frequently asked questions
Is the platform different for each sector?
No. Every customer gets the same private tenant: isolated network, your own single sign-on realm, UK data residency and an Article 28 data processing agreement. What differs is which apps you enable and what the confidentiality stakes are, which is what these sector pages walk through.
Do you have experience in my specific sector?
We are engineers who run infrastructure, not sector consultants, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we bring is the platform: isolation, UK residency, audit and single sign-on that hold up under the scrutiny your clients and regulators apply. You know your professional obligations; we give you infrastructure that is designed to support them.
Can we start small before moving a whole practice or agency across?
Yes. Four apps deploy self-serve in minutes from the signup portal: Nextcloud, EspoCRM, DocuSeal and n8n. Most firms start with one, prove it with a small group, then add apps as managed setup when ready. Nothing obliges you to move everything at once.
What does a typical bill look like?
Just the apps: a flat fee per app, billed hourly against the published rate card, with lightweight tools from 25 pounds a month equivalent, most business apps from 45 pounds and heavier platforms from 75 pounds. There is no platform fee, nothing counts users, and no per-seat licences on any of the software, so hiring does not raise the software bill.