The grass isnt always greener on the otherside of the fence
Don't be disheartened if a client leaves you. It is business, and sometimes that just happens. It happened to me a few months back. A major client of mine generating a large portion of MRR ended our contract and went off to do the work themselfs. Everyone is learning, us included, all at different levels. The client had been using custom workflows and prompts I developed for them for over a year. We had a great workingh relationship, so when they told me they were going to go their own way and do it themselfs it made perfect sense. They had seen what automation could do for them, and naturaly it looked nice and simple because thats how you provide solutions to clients. Keep it simple. Alas, it turns out it wasnt as simple as they thought. They removed my software as per the licencing terms and reverted to their old manual process. My software solution didn't do all that much. It looked at the suppliers invoices, added the items to stock, then updated prices in various places on their systems. Quite a bit of 'scripting', lots of custom AI Prompts and it all worked well. When they their developers first saw it they said they could 'probably' have done something similar. They hadn't, hence buying my solution. The devs, over a year, had obviously been pushing to do it themselfs and with a change of Head of Department, they took their shot. Two months on they have come back to me enquiring if I would consider working with them again and if the old terms could be reinstated. Of course they can, and whats more I am not going to charge you any more. I will keep the same MRR Everyone has to learn. Me, I'm currently browsing Mac Studios 512GB Memory. the question is do I buy one or do I buy two. I have to put the money somewhere otherwise the taxman will take a portion :) Let your clients go if they want to, dont put up to many barriers to coming back. It pays to be nice. It pays very well.