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Protection and licensing for independent software vendors
Protect your IP, license it flexibly and monetize it — with one vendor, from your first paying customer to enterprise deals.
The challenge
For an ISV the product is both the IP and the revenue engine. It has to be hard to copy or crack, and it has to be licensed and billed in whatever way closes the deal — perpetual, subscription, per-seat, or usage. Building and maintaining all of that in-house pulls engineers off the product.
The requirements also escalate as you grow: a self-serve trial and simple keys early on, then SSO, white-label and on-prem options when enterprise buyers arrive. You need a stack that spans that whole range without a re-platform.
How Delta1 Labs helps
A layered approach
Protect the product
Nebula.NET hardens your assemblies against reverse-engineering and tampering so your IP stays yours.
License it flexibly
Keyright handles keys, activation, seats, entitlements, trials and a portal — perpetual, subscription or usage-based, changed without a new build.
Grow without re-platforming
Start on the free tier; add SSO, white-label and self-hosted/air-gapped as enterprise customers require them — same SDKs throughout.
Capabilities
What you get
- Obfuscation & anti-tamper
- Ship protected .NET without changing your build.
- Offline + online licensing
- Files for air-gapped installs, activation for connected ones.
- Self-service trials & portal
- Let prospects trial and customers self-serve.
- Usage-based metering
- Sell credits or calls, not only seats.
- Checkout & fulfillment
- Merchant-of-Record checkout issues keys automatically on payment.
- Managed or self-hosted
- Meet enterprise procurement without a rebuild.
Built with
Outcomes
- Keep engineers on the product, not on licensing plumbing.
- Close enterprise deals with SSO, white-label and on-prem.
- Change pricing and packaging without shipping a build.
- One vendor for protection, licensing and monetization.
Frequently asked
Questions, answered
We are small today — is this overkill?
No. Start free with real licensing and basic protection; the enterprise capabilities are there when you need them, with no migration.
Can we move from managed to self-hosted later?
Yes. The build and SDKs are identical; moving is a deployment change, not a re-integration.
Let's talk about your setup
Tell us what you're building — we'll help you protect, license and ship it, managed or self-hosted.