build vs buy

What you'd build, what you'd buy, what it costs.

Two honest comparisons: rolling your own Power Automate pipeline, and the per-seat incumbent. If you'd rather see how Templ8r itself works, take the product tour.

side by side

The flow stack vs. Templ8r.

questionpower automate stacktempl8r
Conditionals & repeating rows×Not in the template action — hand-wire Apply-to-each + conditions✓Native: {{#if}}, else-if, repeating tables, sum()
Multi-hop fields×One Get-record action per hop — N+1 round-trips✓One Dataverse fetch, however deep
Failure mode×Silent flow failure, no document✓PDF→Word fallback, always lands a note
Audit×Flow run history, lossy, expires✓Immutable row, exportable
Storage×SharePoint or per-flow blob, shared keys✓Per-tenant isolation, managed identity
Who maintains it×You do — every schema change, timeout & re-auth✓We do — nothing to own or babysit
Pricing model×Per-seat / per-flow licences + premium connectors✓Flat monthly, no per-seat tax · £0.06–£0.12 overage

Power Automate can look free if you already hold the licences — but you’re the one building the flow, then owning every schema change, timeout and re-auth after that. Templ8r is the pipeline, maintained, for a flat fee.

already paying for doc-gen?

Against the paid incumbent, the maths is simpler.

Add-ons like DocumentsCorePack price per user or per enterprise tier — the bill climbs with headcount whether those people generate documents or not. Templ8r is one flat monthly price for the whole environment, billed on documents produced, not seats who could. Unlimited templates on every paid tier — some doc-gen tools charge per template; we don’t.

Cheaper to run. Easier to prove.

Run the 30-day pilot against your own templates and records.

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