What small businesses actually pay for
Every stack on this site so far is either a price we verified or an illustration we built. Neither tells you what a real seven-person agency has actually ended up with, which is a different and more useful thing.
This page is empty, and that is deliberate
We could fill it this afternoon with plausible-looking stacks and nobody would know. A site whose entire claim is that it does not publish what it has not verified cannot open a section of real-business data with invented businesses — so there is nothing here until somebody sends something real.
Our own illustrative stacks are clearly labelled as illustrations and live elsewhere. Mixing them in here would blur the one line worth defending.
What we are asking for
Your categories and what you pay, nothing more. Something like:
7-person creative agency Email & office $98/mo Team chat free Documents $70/mo CRM $140/mo Accounting $75/mo Password manager $63/mo Total $446/mo We dropped two tools last year and saved about $118 a month. The project tool was the one nobody missed.
The last part is the bit worth having. Anyone can list software; what you changed and whether it worked is the thing other owners cannot find anywhere.
What we will never publish
- Your company name, unless you ask us to and confirm you can authorise it. The default is anonymous and we will not talk you out of it.
- Anything identifying — clients, locations, staff names, anything that makes the business findable from the stack.
- Account details of any kind. Do not send us logins, admin emails, invoice PDFs or screenshots of a billing console. We do not want them and we will delete them.
- Security configuration. What you pay for is useful to other owners. Which systems lack MFA is useful to somebody else entirely, and we are not going to publish a map of it.
How to send one
Email it with "real stack" in the subject. Every submission is read by a person and checked for anything identifying before it goes near this page — which is why there is no upload form here. A form that quietly collected companies' software inventories into a database nobody was reading would be worse than no form at all.
We will come back to you before publishing anything, and you can withdraw it at any point, including after it is live.
In the meantime
The benchmark stacks are the honest substitute: three priced illustrations per business type, built from verified rates, each saying what it deliberately leaves out. They cover 8 business types.
And if you want to know how your own bill compares rather than how someone else's does, the stack auditor prices what you actually pay for and flags where two tools may be doing one job.