Think about what's in your proposals: pricing strategies, profit margins, client budgets, internal processes, competitive advantages. This is some of the most sensitive business data you have — and it's sitting on someone else's servers.
With SaaS proposal tools, you're trusting a third party with your most confidential business information. If they get breached, your data is exposed. If they shut down, your proposals disappear.
For agencies working with enterprise clients, government contracts, or regulated industries (healthcare, finance, legal), data residency matters. Many contracts require that sensitive documents stay within specific geographic boundaries.
Self-hosting lets you:
When your proposal tool is self-hosted, you control uptime. No more "Sorry, our vendor is having issues" when a client is trying to sign a $50K proposal at 11 PM on a Friday.
Self-hosting doesn't have to be painful. Propsly ships as a single Docker image:
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 \
-e DATABASE_URL=your_postgres_url \
-e SUPABASE_URL=your_supabase_url \
propsly/propsly:latest
That's it. Full proposal platform running on your infrastructure in under a minute.
Not ready to self-host? Use Propsly Cloud — we handle infrastructure, backups, and updates. Want to migrate later? Export everything and spin up your own instance. No lock-in, ever.
The future of business software is open source and self-hostable. Your proposals are too important to trust to a black box.