About aërgap

A small studio that installs serious software on your own servers.

We're an independent integrator. We pick a short list of proven open-source business tools, deploy them on infrastructure you control, configure them to your processes, and hand you the keys. Then we get out of the way.

The team Aërgap founder and team in the Houston, TX office
Built in Houston, TX · deployed worldwide
Founded
2024 · Houston, TX
Model
One-time setup · no SaaS
Time to launch
1 week · 3 – 6 for ERP
Who owns it
You do · always
Why we exist

Companies were renting
tools they should have owned.

Every business of any real size eventually ends up paying a half-dozen vendors a per-seat fee, every month, forever, for software that supports their core operations. Helpdesk over here. Accounting over there. A separate classroom tool, a separate time tracker, a separate documentation platform. Each one billed per user. Each one holding your data on someone else's servers. Each one priced to scale up with your growth, but never down.

The strange part is that most of these categories have excellent open-source alternatives. Zammad rivals Zendesk. Odoo handles what mid-market companies pay SAP six figures to do. Kimai, Docusaurus, the list keeps going. The reason teams don't use them isn't quality. It's that nobody wants to be the company that runs a database server in 2026. The plumbing has a real cost, and SaaS vendors built a great business absorbing it.

Aërgap is the third option. We take that plumbing burden off your hands without taking your data with it. We pick the tools, install them on your cloud, harden them, migrate your existing data, train your team, and stay on call for the small changes that come up later. You pay us once. The software lives where you put it. If you ever decide you don't want to work with us anymore, you keep everything.

That's the whole pitch. It isn't novel. It's just an arrangement that used to be normal, and we think it should be normal again.

Security & compliance

Truly air-gapped, when the job demands it.

The name isn't a metaphor. For clients in defense, classified government, regulated healthcare, finance and critical infrastructure, we deploy the same software stack with zero outbound connectivity, signed offline updates, and a chain-of-custody you can hand to an auditor.

  • No phone-home, no telemetry.The deployment runs without any outbound calls to vendor servers, ours included. Updates arrive as signed offline bundles you choose to apply.
  • Hardened by default.CIS-benchmark baselines, encrypted-at-rest storage, role-segregated SSO, full audit logs, and least-privilege admin accounts come standard on every install.
  • Evidence ready for auditors.SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and FedRAMP-aligned configurations, with the runbook, access logs and change history packaged for your next review.
  • Sovereignty, end to end.Data residency stays where you put it — your data center, your government cloud region, or a fully disconnected facility. We never see the data we install around.
Deployment topology
Outside Public internet vendor SaaS · third-party APIs · phone-home telemetry
AIR GAP
Inside Your protected network helpdesk · ERP · classroom · all data & logs
1. Signed bundle 2. Jump host 3. Verified install
FIPS 140-3 SOC 2 HIPAA ISO 27001 GDPR CJIS-ready
Read the full air-gap playbook
What we believe

Four principles
we don't negotiate on.

These aren't aspirations. They're the reasons clients choose us over a SaaS contract, and we'd rather lose the deal than break them.

01 · OWNERSHIP

Your data stays on your servers.

We don't host your tickets, your accounts, your students, or your timesheets. The install runs on infrastructure you control, with credentials you hold. We never become a single point of failure for your business.

02 · ALIGNMENT

We charge once, not forever.

A one-time setup fee makes our incentives match yours. We win when the deployment is right the first time and you don't need us back. SaaS pricing rewards friction; we'd rather not.

03 · DEPTH

A short menu we know cold.

We deploy a handful of tools, not a buffet. Every one has been installed, broken, fixed and re-installed enough times that the surprises are gone. If a tool isn't on the menu, we'll tell you, and recommend someone who's better at it than we are.

04 · EXIT

Easy to leave, on purpose.

Every deployment we ship comes with the runbook, the credentials, and an honest answer to "what if we want to move on?" The tools are open-source. The data is yours. The lock-in is zero, and we design for it.

The arrangement, in plain terms.

If you've only ever bought software as a monthly subscription, the shape of working with us looks unfamiliar at first. Here's the same deal, laid out next to what most vendors offer.

Monthly fee per user, forever vs One-time setup, no subscription
Data on the vendor's servers vs Data on your cloud or hardware
12-month contracts & auto-renew vs Stop working with us anytime
Painful export, painful migration vs Open source — leave with everything
Say hello

Two ways to reach us.

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Free 30-minute scoping call. You leave with a written quote and a deployment plan, whether or not you decide to work with us.

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Registered office

aërgap.ai
Houston, TX
United States

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