Who we are, and what happens if we disappear.
Gyro Web Services is building Gyro Suite. We are a small independent software company with no investors. The product is in development and not on sale yet, so we have no customers to point you to; what we have is a build you can follow and a set of commitments made before anybody has paid us. This page covers who we are, how we will make money, and the written commitment that matters most when you are putting your books into software from a company you have never heard of.
Because the good options all had a prerequisite.
Small businesses have two realistic choices for running their operations. Cloud suites are excellent and charge per person, so the bill rises every time you hire. Open-source ERP is free and needs a systems administrator, which most small businesses do not have and cannot justify. Between those sits a large group of companies who already pay for cPanel hosting, are perfectly capable of creating a database, and want their books on their own server.
- Price by the company, not the person, so growing your team does not cost you software
- Install on hosting people already have, rather than on infrastructure they must learn
- Ship the ledger in the box, because invoicing without accounting is half a product
- Answer the awkward questions on the website rather than in a sales call
| Source | Notes |
|---|---|
| Subscriptions | $49 a year per installation, $9 a year per extra company. The whole business |
| Installation service | Planned. One-off, for people who would rather not |
| Migration service | Planned. One-off, from other systems and spreadsheets |
| Advertising | None. We sell nothing about you to anybody |
| Data | None. We never receive it, so we could not sell it if we wanted to |
| Investors | None. Nobody can require us to raise the price or sell the company |
Our continuity commitment
An encoded product depends on a living vendor, which open-source competitors do not. That is a real asymmetry and it deserves a real answer rather than reassurance, so this is a written commitment rather than a sentiment:
If Gyro Web Services ceases operations, we will publish a permanent unlock that removes licence checking entirely, and we will give at least 90 days notice before it comes to that. Your installation will keep running with no licence server and no expiry.
Independently of that: your data is in a standard MySQL database on your own server throughout. You can dump it, query it, export every module to CSV, and hand the lot to another system or an auditor at any time, without asking us and without our servers being involved. That is true today and it does not depend on us keeping any promise.
Four commitments, all of them checkable.
Not values. Behaviours you can hold us to, each with a page on this site that proves it.
Say the uncomfortable thing first
Our comparison pages name cases where a competitor is the better buy. Our requirements page publishes the volumes where shared hosting stops being enough. Our self-hosting page lists three reasons not to self-host.
Build where you can see it
A dated build log and a public roadmap, before there is anything to sell. A product with no visible history is a product you should assume is dormant, including ours.
Never hold data hostage
Exports and backups work on a lapsed licence, permanently. A vendor who can make your books unreadable has too much power over you, so we built it so that we cannot.
Publish security, do not promise it
A written disclosure process today, and from the first release a dated advisory log and credit for reporters. The log starts empty because nothing has been released, and we say so.
About the company.
How big is the team?
Small, and deliberately so. Small enough that the person answering your message will be the person who can fix the defect. We are not going to inflate that with a stock photo of a team we do not have. What a small team can build is on the build log, dated.
Why is it called Gyro Suite?
Gyro Web Services builds it. A gyroscope holds its orientation no matter how the frame around it moves, which is a reasonable thing to name business software after and is where the logo comes from.
Are you profitable?
Not yet, and it would be dishonest to say otherwise: nothing is on sale. The build is funded by us, with no outside investment, which means nobody can force a price rise or a sale. Once it launches, subscriptions will be the whole business.
Could you be acquired?
Any company can be. What we can tell you is that there are no investors with a liquidity preference or a board seat pushing for it, and that the continuity commitment above will be written into the terms of service rather than living only on this page, so that it survives a change of ownership.
Where are you based?
We are a small distributed team. Prices will be in US dollars, and company registration details will be on every invoice once sales begin. For anything requiring a formal legal address before then, ask through the contact form and we will provide it.
Ask us anything.
Including the awkward questions. We would rather answer them now, while it is still being built, than after you have bought it.