PatchClock: Buy vs Skip (PHP Vendors Shipping Into the EU)
IF your agency delivers PHP products (WordPress plugins, Shopware extensions, Laravel SaaS) to clients selling into the EU and you need CycloneDX SBOMs, CVE alerts, and Article 14 incident drafting, THEN start on the Founding member offer at 15.83 € per month (annual billing, 3 products, 5 people, price locked while you stay) and move to the Agency plan at 79 € per month once you pass 3 products or 5 seats. IF a client needs only one product and two people, Solo at 19 € per month (15.83 € annual) covers SBOM and CVE alerts with 1,000 security emails a year. IF your client base is US-only or non-software, skip: PatchClock's value is entirely tied to CRA obligations and PHP lock-file scanning.
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PatchClock: Buy vs Skip (PHP Vendors Shipping Into the EU)
“IF your agency delivers PHP products (WordPress plugins, Shopware extensions, Laravel SaaS) to clients selling into the EU and you need CycloneDX SBOMs, CVE alerts, and Article 14 incident drafting, THEN start on the Founding member offer at 15.83 € per month (annual billing, 3 products, 5 people, price locked while you stay) and move to the Agency plan at 79 € per month once you pass 3 products or 5 seats. IF a client needs only one product and two people, Solo at 19 € per month (15.83 € annual) covers SBOM and CVE alerts with 1,000 security emails a year. IF your client base is US-only or non-software, skip: PatchClock's value is entirely tied to CRA obligations and PHP lock-file scanning.”
- Client portfolio includes EU-market PHP vendors whose composer.lock and package-lock.json must produce a CycloneDX SBOM on every tagged release
- You want to resell CRA readiness as a retainer and the Founding member offer at 15.83 € per month lets you test delivery on 3 products and 5 people before committing
- Delivery team needs the Article 14 incident runbook with 24-hour, 72-hour, and 14-day clocks drafted rather than built from scratch
- Clients ask for a public support period page and self-renewing security.txt, both of which PatchClock publishes and renews for you
- You manage 3-5 mid-market clients per seat and the Agency plan at 79 € per month (20 products, 15 team members) fits the book of business
- Clients are US-only or operate outside software, so CRA deadlines and PHP lock-file scanning have no bearing on their contracts
- Your stack is not PHP or npm: PatchClock reads Composer and npm lock files, so a Python or Go client gains nothing from the SBOM engine
- You already run a GRC platform for SOC 2 or ISO 27001 evidence and the client's ask is certification, not CRA product compliance
- The agency cannot get repository access or lock file review time from the client, which the setup step requires before any SBOM is generated
- You need more than 20 products or 15 team members on a single workspace and cannot split clients across separate Agency subscriptions
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- StrategyWhy PatchClock Turns CRA Deadlines Into Agency Retainer Revenue
- ConceptPatchClock Retainer Ladder
- Evaluation RulePatchClock Rule: Adopt Only When a Client Ships PHP Into the EU and Has No Security Owner
- Failure PatternThe PatchClock SBOM Theater Trap: Agencies Publishing CycloneDX Files Nobody Reads
- Implementation BlueprintPatchClock CRA Compliance Retainer Build (7-10 days)
- Operating ProcedurePatchClock Client Release Onboarding (Delivery)
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