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Builder economics

See what your SaaS could earn.

Start with a $25 monthly seat, then change the price, customer count, seats per customer, and optional AI Support add-on. The calculator shows recurring revenue, draft BuildWithHQ fees, shared AI-support economics, and what remains for the builder.

Your assumptions

Model your SaaS

All values update instantly. Dollar amounts are monthly unless noted.

$25/mo
Starts at $5 per paid user/month. Move the slider to model higher-value SaaS pricing.
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$5/mo
75% builder / 25% BuildWithHQ. Slider minimum is $5 per paid seat per month.
Your live calculationUpdates instantly as you move the sliders.
Paid seats1,000100 companies × 10 seats
Total customer MRR$30,000$360,000 annualized
Base SaaS subscription revenue+$25,000
BuildWithHQ platform share (10%)−$2,500
System & infrastructure fee−$750
Builder base SaaS retention$21,750
AI Support MRR$5,000
Builder AI Support share (75%)+$3,750
BuildWithHQ AI Support share (25%)$1,250
BuildWithHQ total$4,500
Builder retention85.0%
Total builder earnings per month — including the builder's 75% AI Support share$25,500$306,000 per year
Estimated builder result

Base SaaS revenue + resold AI Support

Total builder earnings per month — including the builder's 75% AI Support share$25,500$306,000 per year
Paid seats1,000100 companies × 10 seats
Total customer MRR$30,000$360,000 annualized
Base SaaS MRR$25,000Seat subscriptions before BuildWithHQ fees
Builder base SaaS retention$21,750After 10% + system fee
AI Support MRR$5,000$5 × 1,000 paid seats
Builder AI Support earnings$3,75075% of AI Support MRR
BuildWithHQ total$4,50010% + system fee + 25% AI share
Builder retention85.0%Of modeled customer revenue
AI Support revenue splitVisible in your total above
Customers pay$5,000/mo
BuildWithHQ 25%$1,250/mo
Builder keeps 75%$3,750/mo
1,000 paid seats × $5 = $5,000 AI Support MRR → $1,250 BuildWithHQ + $3,750 builder.
Base SaaS subscription revenue+$25,000
BuildWithHQ platform share (10% of base SaaS)−$2,500
System & infrastructure fee−$750
Builder base SaaS retention$21,750
Builder AI Support share (75% of $5,000)+$3,750
BuildWithHQ AI Support share (25% of $5,000)$1,250
Total estimated builder earnings$25,500
Builder retains about 85.0% of modeled customer revenue.Total includes the builder's 75% AI Support share.
Growth scenarios

What happens as paid seats grow?

These scenarios use your current seat price, seats per company, AI Support price, and the same draft fee model.

Paid seatsBase SaaS MRRAI Support MRRBuildWithHQ 10%BuildWithHQ AI 25%Builder AI 75%System feeBuilder retainsAnnualized
How to read it

BuildWithHQ grows when your SaaS grows

The goal is to keep the economics simple: builders control pricing, BuildWithHQ participates in recurring revenue, and AI Support creates an additional shared-revenue layer instead of only being a support expense.

You set the seat price

Charge $10, $25, $100, or whatever fits the market you understand.

10% aligns base SaaS incentives

BuildWithHQ earns 10% of modeled base SaaS subscription revenue, so platform revenue rises with builder success.

AI Support is shared upside

Set the AI Support resale price from $5/month per paid seat. The builder retains 75% and BuildWithHQ receives 25%.

System fee stays predictable

The draft price-sensitive system fee remains separate from the revenue share. Unusually heavy AI, GPU, messaging, storage, or third-party consumption is outside this planning calculator.

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Calculator questions

What is included in this estimate?

Is this the final cost?

We include a free template with all of the included features of the system. You can build your own industry-specific vertical from this template. We have a template marketplace, but it is optional to use. There are paid upgrades to optional features (such as document signing); these optional features are purely optional. If you build a heavy file-upload platform, such as a system that shares videos to be edited or a file-upload platform, you will need to connect your own AWS S3 buckets to the system for those files to go into.

How does the AI Support split work?

The AI Support slider starts at $5 per paid seat per month. AI Support add-on revenue is modeled separately from the base SaaS 10% share: 75% remains with the builder and 25% goes to BuildWithHQ.

Why does the system fee change with my seat price?

A low-priced SaaS should not be overwhelmed by a fixed per-seat platform cost. The draft calculator therefore uses 3% of the monthly seat price per paid seat, with no per-seat dollar cap.

Is builder retention the same as profit?

No. It is the amount left after the BuildWithHQ fees modeled here. Your own payment processing, taxes, refunds, sales, support, payroll, unusually heavy AI or third-party usage, and other business expenses still matter.