Vendor & stack selection
The right stack, chosen and integrated by people who use it every day, without the reseller markup.
- C-level
- operators on your side
- 3 ways
- Consult, Embed, Run
- $0 to $350M
- revenue our operators built
How we think about vendor & stack selection.
Most dating brands are paying too much for the wrong tools, and most consultants are paid by the vendors they recommend. We are not.
We pick the stack from the operator's seat: payments, MMP, CRM, moderation, support, fraud, analytics, the rest. We negotiate the contracts and integrate the tools, without the markup.
Any of these sound familiar?
You are choosing vendors off sales calls, not real operating experience.
Your stack is brittle, overlapping, or overpriced.
You suspect you are paying a reseller markup you cannot see.
Integrations keep eating engineering time.
Where this hurts.
Every vendor in dating tech promises the world on the sales call, and the wrong choices lock you into expensive, brittle infrastructure for years. Founders pick on a demo, sign a contract they cannot easily leave, and pay a markup quarter after quarter for tools that do not quite fit. The cost is not just money, it is the months lost integrating the wrong thing.
The work, spelled out.
- 01
Map what you actually need
Across payments, messaging, moderation, analytics, and infrastructure, scoped to your stage.
- 02
Pick on operating experience
We choose vendors based on what we run for our own brands, not on vendor decks.
- 03
Negotiate the terms
We negotiate pricing and terms, and strip out the markup.
- 04
Integrate cleanly
We integrate with your team, or hand them a clear integration plan.
- 05
Keep what works
We replace only what needs replacing, and keep the tools already pulling their weight.
The result a partner sees.
- 01
A stack that fits, at terms that make sense, integrated and working.
- 02
No more paying for brittle tools chosen on a sales call.
- 03
Leverage in every vendor negotiation, from people who know the real prices.
Tangible artifacts, not slides.
A scoped stack recommendation.
A negotiation plan and target terms.
An integration plan, or the integration itself.
A short list of what to keep, replace, and drop.
Three ways to bring us in.
We recommend the stack and the negotiation strategy.
We embed to run selection and integration.
We manage the stack as part of a broader engagement.
Most agencies. Then us.
- Recommends the vendor that pays them.
- Reads the vendor's deck.
- Leaves you to integrate.
- Takes no kickbacks and strips out the markup.
- Runs the same stack for our own brands.
- Integrates with your team or hands a clear plan.
We pick the stack from the operator's seat: payments, MMP, CRM, moderation, support, fraud, analytics, the rest.
We run this exact stack across our own brands and our platform. We know what holds up under real load because we depend on it.
Honest answers, before you ask.
Want this run, not just recommended?
Tell us where vendor & stack selection is hurting. We will tell you what we would do. Then we will do it, or run it for a single management fee.