Every founder I know has built the same internal platform twice. The first time because they had to. The second time because the first one couldn't keep up with the company. We were halfway into building ours when we decided to stop.
Stradiva's pricing is per seat, not per service, not per region, not per request. That math matters when you're twenty engineers — it means we can use the platform without thinking about whether it's worth using. We don't optimize for cost. We don't shadow-test the bills.
When we eventually do build our own platform — and we probably will, around two hundred engineers — Stradiva will have bought us three years of focus on the product. That's the trade.
— Noah Marin, Co-founder, Cortex