AI-powered Smart Upload — drop any vendor file

License visibility built for
engineering organizations.

See who's actually using every Ansys, MATLAB, and Claude seat — across on-prem, SaaS, and AI subscriptions — in one dashboard.

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No credit card · 99.5% uptime SLA · SOC 2 Type 1 in progress

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Reclaimable

$214K

P95 util

72%

Denials

Portfolio Utilization · 90 days

Ansys Mechanical94%

MATLAB Simulink81%

30–60%

of seats are
typically idle

90 sec

to install the
on-prem agent

$20K+

average savings
found in 30-day pilot

1 hour

from signup to
first real insight

Estimate · takes 10 seconds

How much could you save?

Industry studies put idle rates at 30–60% of paid seats — this estimate uses a conservative 28% baseline. See what that looks like for a company like yours.

Company size

What kind of software?

Paid seats

Avg $/seat/year

Estimated annual reclaim

$140K

See my real number — start free trial

Deliberately conservative: industry studies report 30–60% idle, so we estimate with a 28% baseline. Your actual number depends on your tools and usage — LicensePulse measures it precisely from your real check-out data.

The problem

Engineering teams burn millions on idle licenses they can't see.

Teams running Ansys, MATLAB, MSC, and Altair have no easy way to see who's using each seat — and the tools that fix it cost $200K and take six months, or are clunky FlexLM dashboards from 2007.

Unreadable data

A single Ansys license runs $50K–$500K a year — and FlexLM logs are unreadable to the finance and IT teams who need them.

Sub-utilization

30–60% of engineering seats sit idle on average. Without data, that money is lost every renewal cycle.

No leverage at renewal

When the renewal lands you have guesses, not numbers. Vendors negotiate from data — now you can too.

What you'll see

Your portfolio, in one view.

A snapshot of the Executive Dashboard — live numbers, not a mock.

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Executive Dashboard

Software license portfolio · Updated May 19, 2026

↓ Export CSV + Add Software

Total Licenses

3,847

Across 24 products

24 products tracked

Portfolio Utilization

72%

P95 peak, 90-day window

Healthy

Monthly Spend

$1.08M

Across all vendors

$214K savings found

Denial Events

This month

3 unread alerts

Portfolio Utilization Trend

Daily avg utilization · 90 days

Utilization % Denials

Three ways to connect your data. One dashboard for the answers.

Option 1

Smart Upload

For one-off ingestion of any vendor file

Drag any CSV, Excel, FlexLM log, or vendor portal export onto the dashboard. Claude detects the format, classifies columns, and imports — no schema mapping required.

✓ Works with any vendor file format
✓ Imports in 5–15 seconds
✓ Auto-creates products, users, snapshots

Option 2

OAuth integrations

For SaaS tools — set and forget

Connect Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Jira, GitHub Enterprise, Slack, or Google Workspace via read-only OAuth. We sync seat assignments and activity every six hours.

✓ One-click connection
✓ Read-only scopes only
✓ Automatic 6-hour sync

Everything an IT Ops or FinOps team needs in one tool.

Executive Dashboard

Annual spend, idle seats, denials, and reclaim opportunity in one view. Designed to be readable in 30 seconds.

Time + hour filtering

Slice by year, month, or hour-of-day. See how Ansys behaves on day shift vs. overnight — the data behind tiered-licensing negotiations.

AI Assistant

Ask Claude about your portfolio in plain English — "which products had the most denials last quarter?" — and get a real answer, not a chart to decode.

Charge-backs

Allocate license cost to departments, categories, or vendors — with CSV export ready to paste into your finance models.

Forecasting

Adjustable headcount-growth scenarios, 1–60 month horizons. Walk into any renewal with a defensible projection your vendor can't dispute.

Denial Risk monitoring

Real-time checkout-failure tracking, with Slack alerts when a product crosses 80% utilization. No more running out of seats on a deadline.

Renewals + contract storage

Every contract PDF in one place, with auto 30/90-day expiry alerts. Find the right contract clause when procurement asks, without digging through email.

Tool Overlap detection

Auto-flags categories with multiple products. Estimates consolidation savings. Three CRMs? Two issue trackers? We surface the conversation.

Audit log + MFA

Append-only audit log of every login, change, and key event. TOTP-based multi-factor auth out of the box. Required for SOC 2 — already built.

New

AI Spend Management

Claude, ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini, Copilot — AI subscriptions are the fastest-growing line in your software budget. Track seats, adoption, and overlap exactly like your engineering licenses, and walk into AI vendor renewals with the same real usage numbers.

Why us, not them

Modern. Honest. A fraction of the price.

Capability	LicensePulse	Altair SAO	Flexera	OpenLM
Annual price	$12K–$150K	$25–80K	$50–500K	$5–25K
Time to first dashboard	< 1 hour	2–6 weeks	3–6 months	1–2 weeks
AI-powered file ingestion	✓	—	—	—
FlexLM + RLM + Sentinel	✓	✓	✓	FlexLM only
SaaS OAuth integrations	6+	Limited	Many	—
Charge-back reports	✓	✓	✓	—
Modern UX (2020s)	✓	—	—	—
Self-serve onboarding	✓	—	—	Partial
SOC 2	Type 1 in progress	✓	✓	Partial

Pricing and feature data sourced from public listings and analyst reports. Side-by-side pilot offered free during your 30-day trial.

Pricing

Start with a 30-day pilot. Expand when value is proven.

Built for procurement, not credit-card impulse buys. Full pricing details →

Team

$999 /month

For smaller engineering organizations

✓ Up to 1,000 seats
✓ Smart Upload
✓ FlexLM / RLM / Sentinel
✓ Dashboards
✓ CSV exports
✓ Email support

Start 30-day pilot

Built for procurement reviews. Not after them.

We took the work seriously from day one — TLS 1.2+ in transit, AES-256 at rest, per-tenant isolation, append-only audit log, TOTP MFA, 72-hour breach notification, no inbound firewall ports required for the on-prem agent. SOC 2 Type 1 in progress.

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Encryption

TLS 1.2+ in transit · AES-256 at rest

Compliance

GDPR · CCPA · SOC 2 Type 1 (in progress)

Authentication

TOTP MFA · SSO Q4 · per-org API keys

Auditability

Append-only audit log · CSV export

On-prem agent

No inbound firewall ports required · outbound HTTPS only · stdlib Python

FAQ

Real questions our customers asked.

How is this different from Altair SAO?

Same data model and engineering-software focus. Modern UX, AI-powered file ingestion, deploys in a day instead of weeks, $999–$2,999/month vs. $25K–$80K/year. We're the modern alternative built from scratch on the 2025 stack.

Where does my data live?

In our cloud — Render, US Oregon region, encrypted at rest with AES-256. Per-tenant isolation enforced at every database query. For engineering data specifically, our on-prem agent runs inside your network and you control what gets sent.

Do you have a free trial?

Yes — 30 days, no credit card. We install in 90 minutes, you see real numbers in week one, and you decide on day 30. If it's not for you, we delete your data. No commitment, no migration.

What does the on-prem agent send to LicensePulse?

Per-feature usage records: feature name, total seats, in-use count, list of active usernames, denial counts. It does not send hostnames, your license key file, project files, source code, or anything outside what your license daemon's stat command emits.

Are you SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA?

SOC 2 Type 1 is in progress (target Q3 2026, automated via Vanta). GDPR + CCPA compliant by design — DPA available. ISO 27001 not pursued today. HIPAA + PCI + FedRAMP are out of scope; do not upload PHI or payment-card data.

Can we deploy LicensePulse on-premises?

Today the dashboard runs in our cloud and the on-prem agent runs in yours. For deals at $50K+ ACV we offer a self-hosted Helm-chart deployment of the entire stack. Talk to sales if that's a hard requirement.

What if we use a vendor that's not on your list?

Drop their export file in Smart Upload. Claude classifies any vendor file format we've ever seen. If it's a brand-new vendor with a weird format, we'll build the parser as part of your pilot — no extra charge.

Still have questions?

Send us a message and we'll get back to you — or email hello@licensepulse.app.

License visibility built for engineering organizations.

How much could you save?

Engineering teams burn millions on idle licenses they can't see.

Your portfolio, in one view.

Executive Dashboard

Three ways to connect your data. One dashboard for the answers.

Everything an IT Ops or FinOps team needs in one tool.

Modern. Honest. A fraction of the price.

Start with a 30-day pilot. Expand when value is proven.

Built for procurement reviews. Not after them.

Real questions our customers asked.

Still have questions?

Stop guessing. Start measuring.

License visibility built for
engineering organizations.