Ever Gauzy is a self-hostable, open-source platform that combines project management, CRM, HR, and applicant tracking, letting a small team replace three separate paid subscriptions with one free stack.
A ten-person team running its project boards on monday.com, tracking deals in a separate monday CRM, and paying BambooHR to handle HR and hiring is carrying three logins and three invoices before anyone opens a fourth tool. Priced at each vendor's own published rates, that stack runs about $120 a month for ten seats of monday's Standard project management plan, roughly $170 a month for ten seats of monday CRM Standard at $17 a seat, and a flat $250 a month for BambooHR's Core plan, which BambooHR prices as a flat rate for any company with 25 employees or fewer rather than per head (monday.com, BambooHR). That is roughly $6,500 a year for a team that has not grown past ten people. Ever Gauzy, a project trending on GitHub this week, folds project management, CRM, HR, and applicant tracking into one platform a business can self-host instead.
Ever Gauzy describes itself on GitHub as an "Open Business Management Platform for Collaborative, On-Demand and Sharing Economies," and the feature list backs that up: HR management with time tracking, a CRM with sales pipelines and proposals, project and task management, an applicant tracking system for candidate interviews, plus invoicing, expense tracking, and multi-organization support, all sitting behind one set of headless APIs. It ships as a web app, a desktop app for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and a separate desktop timer app for employees who only need to track hours.
The Community Edition is free under an AGPL-3.0 license, which is real, but AGPL is a copyleft license: a modified version offered as a network service carries source-sharing obligations of its own. Ever Co also sells Small Business and Enterprise license tiers, which exist largely for organizations that want the same platform without that AGPL constraint (GitHub, gauzy.co). This is not a weekend project either: the repository shows 27,659 commits, more than 4,200 tagged releases, the latest (v111.0.11) shipped in July 2026, and 95 contributors, which is a stronger production-readiness signal than most trending repos reach.
For getting it running, the project offers a Docker Compose setup for a demo or small production install, and recommends Kubernetes for anything larger. Ever Co also runs a hosted SaaS at app.gauzy.co, though the company's own README labels that instance "Alpha version/testing mode" and asks people to use it cautiously, so self-hosting is closer to the intended path today than signing up for a hosted account.
The people who stand to gain the most are the ones already stacking subscriptions to cover ground Gauzy covers in one place: a solo founder running client projects and a small sales pipeline, an ops lead at a small agency who owns both the PM tool and the ATS, or an in-house team lead trying to consolidate HR, hiring, and project tracking before headcount grows enough to justify buying each function separately. The appeal isn't advanced features from any one vendor, it's not needing three of them.
Self-hosting doesn't remove cost, it changes its shape. The docker-compose files pull in PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, and MinIO alongside the application itself, and someone on the team now owns setup, backups, and upgrades that used to be a vendor's problem. The project's own security notes are candid about this too: it ships without default secrets and simply refuses to start until an operator sets its own JWT and session keys, which is the right call, but it is one more step a SaaS subscription never asks for.
Trading three subscriptions for one server doesn't eliminate the work, it moves it from a vendor's billing page to whoever on the team now owns uptime and updates. For a shop that already has that person, or is willing to become one, that's a fair trade. For a team that was paying monday and BambooHR partly so nobody had to think about infrastructure, the savings are real, but so is the new job.