Objo

Objo Studio costs £8.25 per developer per month, and any version released during your 12-month license is yours to keep forever. For an agency that ships two or three internal client tools a year, that turns a recurring platform subscription into a one-time tooling cost, and compiled output runs on client machines with no runtime dependency or separate Objo license. The catch is that no verified white-label program exists, so client-facing web apps carry Objo branding.

Objo Studio costs £8.25 per developer per month, billed annually, and that single licence covers desktop, web and command-line apps, profiling, 12 months of updates, and priority support across macOS, Windows and Linux. The ceiling is not the licence cost, it is what you can bill around it. A £8.25 seat supports a fixed-scope build like the Objo Starter App Build at $2,500 over roughly 20 hours of setup, because the compiled output is a self-contained executable with no runtime dependency on the client machine. It does not support a managed service retainer, since there is no verified white-label program and client-facing web apps carry Objo branding. Agencies should price Objo work as project delivery with a defined handover, then sell separate hosting, change requests, or training once the client owns the binary. Treat the licence as a tooling cost inside the project, never as the basis of a recurring line item.

Portability Debt Ledger treats every no-code build as carrying a hidden exit cost that accrues with each workflow, integration, and data model added. Agencies rarely price this: a client portal assembled in Noloco or a CRM in Taskade looks cheap at delivery, but the cost of moving that logic to a conventional stack later sits on the agency's books, not the platform's. The framework asks three questions at scoping: where does the data actually live, what logic exists only inside the vendor's runtime, and who owns the schema if the retainer ends. Governance pressure is rising in parallel. Forrester notes marketing AI is shifting from individual literacy to scaling systems, and the primary risk at scale is losing governance and human oversight across simultaneous workflows. A ledger entry per build, reviewed quarterly, turns an abstract migration worry into a line item a client can see and fund.

Rebuild Cost Exposure is the estimated cost to reconstruct a client app on another stack if the platform changes pricing, terms, or capabilities. Agencies should price this exposure before signing a retainer, not after. The framework has three inputs: how much logic lives in the platform's proprietary layer, how exportable the underlying data is, and how many hours a conventional rebuild would take. A client portal built on Noloco with data in Airtable carries different exposure than a Bubble app with native mobile builds and hosted backend. The risk is not hypothetical: 105 of 175 AI tools changed monetization-relevant terms between June and October 2026, roughly 60% in 15 weeks, per a ClipJury audit. For agencies, that means a platform fee change can hit every client app at once. Quantify rebuild hours per app, add them to the proposal as a stated risk, and revisit the number each quarter.

Adopt Objo Studio only when a named client tool is already sold and a developer can be assigned to the seat; otherwise scope the build as a one-off and close the license.

Before quoting a no-code build, document the export path, the data ownership clause, and the monthly platform cost at the client's expected user count, then price the migration as a line item.

IF your agency already has development capacity and needs to ship internal dashboards, customer portals, or data tools for 2-3 clients annually, THEN Objo Studio at £8.25 per developer per month (billed annually, including 12 months of updates and a perpetual license to any version released during that term) is a low-cost way to build desktop, web, and command-line apps that compile to self-contained executables with no runtime dependency on client machines. IF your delivery model is managed services without in-house developers, or you need white-label client-facing apps, THEN skip Objo because there is no verified white-label program and client-facing web apps display Objo branding.

A fixed-scope delivery playbook for agencies building one client internal dashboard or data tool in Objo Studio, compiled to a self-contained executable so the client never installs a runtime or buys a license.