Aligned incentives aren’t a slogan. They’re our cost structure.

Most studio software is expensive for a reason — just not a reason that helps you. The incumbents carry prime-address offices, glass conference rooms, and the trappings it takes to keep a large sales team happy. None of it ever touches your booking page. A modest office in a good Singapore location runs around S$15,000 a month — so at S$500 a studio, that’s thirty studios signed up just to cover the rent. Before a single salary. Before the marketplace team. Before one line of code that makes the product better.

And when that overhead gets heavy, look at what they cut. Not the office. Not the sales floor. They squeeze engineering — the one part of the business that decides whether your software actually works — because they know you’re already locked in. So you pay premium prices for a tool that’s quietly starved of the very investment that would make it good.

We built studioPilot to be lean from the start. No prime-address offices, no big sales team, no overhead to pass back to you. The money we don’t spend on rent and sales floors goes straight into the product. So we charge a fraction of what the incumbents do — and it’s the real price, not a starter rate that climbs once you’re settled in.

It’s also why we won’t compete with you. The incumbent needs its marketplace revenue, which is why its app shows your clients the studios nearby. We don’t make money that way — so when our own discovery arrives, it does one job: help new clients find you. No commission, no discovery fee, and we never point the members you worked hard to earn at the studio down the street.

And we don’t charge for things one piece at a time. Your own domain, branded booking, unlimited staff logins, instructor payroll, every location — they’re all in the one price.

And we’re based right here. studioPilot is a Singapore business — we take PayNow and GrabPay, we price in terms that make sense locally, and when you need us you reach people in your own timezone. To a multinational an ocean away, your studio is a rounding error. To us, you’re the whole business.

We don’t have to make a thousand dollars to save you a thousand dollars. That’s the whole idea — and it’s why our interests finally line up with yours.