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Curative Cancels $600000 Salesforce Contract After Building In-House CRM in Two Months
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Fusion42 · 25 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Curative cancelled a $600,000 annual Salesforce contract after building an in-house CRM in two months using AI, signalling a broader shift where enterprises are internalising generic SaaS workflows rather than licensing off-the-shelf platforms.
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If you sell generic SaaS—CRM, BI, workflow tools—your customer just proved they can replace you in two months and one engineering team. The moat you built on deployment pain and switching cost is gone; you're now competing on whether your tool is cheaper than paying engineers to rebuild it.
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