When you commission software, who owns the result? It sounds like a legal footnote. In practice it’s one of the most important questions you can ask — and the answer quietly shapes your costs, your leverage and your options for years.
The lock-in tax
Proprietary platforms and per-seat subscriptions feel cheap to start and expensive to leave. As you grow, costs scale, and the longer you stay, the harder it is to move — because your data and your processes are trapped inside someone else’s system.
What ownership actually gives you
- Leverage: if a relationship stops working, you can take your code and data to anyone.
- Cost control: no per-seat rent forever; you invest in an asset, not a tenancy.
- Freedom to evolve: the roadmap is yours, not at the mercy of a vendor’s priorities.
- Due-diligence value: for startups, clean owned code is an asset investors can verify.
The Webosum position
We hand over everything — source code, data and documentation — and there’s no proprietary layer holding you hostage. That’s not a perk; it’s a principle. Software you can’t leave isn’t really yours, and we think the work you pay for should be.