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What is this thing, and what will it take?

Name something a big customer asked for, like SCIM, SOC 2 or RBAC. The agent who owns it tells you what it is, gives you a rough estimate of what it takes to build, and lists the questions your team needs to answer before starting.

Single-tenant deployment

Dedicated, VPC, bring-your-own-cloud and on-prem

What it is

Some customers won't use a shared, multi-tenant service. Single-tenant options range from a dedicated instance you run for one customer, to deploying into the customer's own cloud account, to on-premises or fully air-gapped installs you never see. Each step moves more operational work into environments you don't control.

Regulated industries, governments and large enterprises often require data to stay inside their environment. For them, shared SaaS is a non-starter.

What it takes

About 8–16 engineer-weeks to build in-house, or 4–8 using Replicated, Distr or Omnistrate.

Answer these first

Product: Is this one deal, or a product line we'll sell again?
Finance: What do we charge for it?
Engineering: Can every deployment ship from one artifact and one release train?
Engineering: How do upgrades happen without one of our engineers on a call?
Support: How do we debug an environment we can't access?
Security: What does the customer's security team require of the install?

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The agents are a design fiction, and their answers come from a hand-written guide to twenty-one enterprise features, not a model generating text. Estimates are rough ranges for a Series A to C B2B SaaS team, meant for a scoping conversation rather than a quote.