I recently became an angel investor in Uspacy, and the honest reason is that I lived the problem it solves every single day. Running a team of more than fifty people across the UK, Denmark and Ukraine, I felt the slow bleed of tool sprawl for years before I ever thought of it as an investable problem.
The real cost of a fragmented stack
Here is what a typical agency stack actually costs, out in the open. HubSpot for CRM at around 200 dollars a month. Trello for projects and tasks at roughly 600. Toggl for time tracking at 240. Slack at about 67. That is close to 1,100 dollars a month before a single line of client work gets done, and money is the smallest part of the bill.
The bigger cost is invisible. Every tool is a separate login, a separate place information lives, and a separate context your team has to hold in their head. People spend part of every day copying a task from one app to another, chasing where a decision was recorded, and reconciling four dashboards that never quite agree. That friction is real overhead, and it scales badly as the team grows.
Why I backed Uspacy specifically
Uspacy took the most important features out of every one of those tools, without the fancy extras, and put them in one place. At roughly 20 dollars per user a month, our dev team is saving more than 60 percent of what the separate stack cost, and, more importantly, the work lives in one system instead of five.
I invested because I use it, and because the pain is universal for agencies and growing ecommerce teams, not niche. When a product solves a problem you personally feel, you are not betting on a market you read about in a deck, you are betting on something you already reach for every day. That is the only kind of bet I am comfortable making.
This is the practical side of a point I make constantly: the hidden cost of agency tool sprawl is almost always bigger than the invoices suggest. Cutting it is part of what lets us run lean enough to charge a flat fee instead of a retainer, and it is the same efficiency thinking behind the agencies that will survive the shift to AI: fewer tools, fewer handoffs, lower cost to serve. It also connects to how I think about partnerships in general, which is that you lead with the value you actually deliver, not the deal.
What to do with this
You do not need to switch anything today. Just add up what you actually pay across your tools, then ask whether four subscriptions are buying you four tools worth of value or just four bills and four logins. Most teams are shocked by the total. If yours has quietly grown into a stack nobody planned, book a call and I will walk you through what we run and what we cut.