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.

The rebuild tax is the labor and credibility cost an agency absorbs when a no-code build hits a platform ceiling and the work must be reconstructed elsewhere. It rarely appears on the original statement of work, which is why it distorts delivery economics. A client portal assembled in Noloco or Glide can ship in days, but when a client later needs custom role logic, audit trails, or a data model the platform cannot express, the agency either rebuilds in Bubble or WeWeb or migrates to a conventional stack, often at its own expense to protect the retainer. The tax scales with how deeply the app touches client data architecture, not with how many screens it has. Before quoting, map each requirement to a platform limit and price the rebuild scenario explicitly. Governance pressure is rising: 83% of B2C marketers already work with AI agents, so clients increasingly expect these tools to be production-grade from day one.

The Handoff Ceiling is the point where a no-code build stops being limited by how fast a team can assemble screens and starts being limited by who can maintain, extend, and take ownership of what was assembled. Visual platforms compress the first 70% of a client portal or internal tool into days, then stall on the last 30%: permission models, data migration, audit trails, and the question of which named person at the agency or the client can change a workflow six months later. Noloco and Taskade both ship white-label modes that let agencies resell a portal under their own brand, which raises the ceiling only if the retainer includes a documented owner and a change process. AINIRO's open-source core with RBAC and SSO addresses the governance half, but someone still has to run it. Price the ceiling before you quote the build.

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.

Quote every no-code build with an explicit exit price: what a rebuild costs, who owns the data model, and what the client pays if they leave.

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.