No server to stand up
These are desktop utilities, not hosted services. There is no tenant to provision, no admin console to run, and no vendor infrastructure in the data path.
Enterprise & Volume Licensing
Roll out tools your team owns.
Automata Labs builds focused Windows utilities that run entirely on the workstation. Volume licensing and evaluation copies are available for organizations — perpetual licenses, zero telemetry, and software that keeps working whatever happens to a contract.
Before you ask
Built to clear review quickly.
Works offline
Core workflows are fully functional without a network connection. No account is required for core functionality.
Licensing that does not expire
The licence you buy is perpetual. Whatever happens to a maintenance agreement later, the software you already deployed keeps working.
Automata Labs publishes desktop client software rather than a hosted service, so cloud-service audit frameworks are not applicable to these products. We do not claim certifications we do not hold. If your review process needs specific technical detail, ask and we will answer directly.
How licensing works
Two ways to buy. One thing that never changes.
The licence is always perpetual — you own the version you bought and it will not stop working. What differs between the two paths is how updates reach you.
Buying through the Microsoft Store
A one-time purchase per app, per user. The Store delivers updates automatically and issues a Microsoft receipt for expensing. Nothing recurring. This path is unchanged by anything below.
Buying volume or direct, outside the Store
These deployments sit outside the Store update channel, so how updates reach you becomes a choice. That is what the three options cover: own it and self-manage, own it and add maintenance, or subscribe annually and earn ownership.
If an agreement ends
Nothing switches off, under any option. Options A and B leave you owning the last version you received. Option C leaves you owning a fallback version once it has vested after 12 months. What stops is new versions and support, not the software you already run.
Every option leaves you owning software. Nothing switches off when an agreement ends — the worst case is that you stop receiving new versions.
Out-of-Store options
Three ways to license a rollout.
Pick the one that matches how your organization prefers to buy software, not the one we prefer to sell. All three are per seat.
Option A
Perpetual, security updates only
Own the version you deploy and manage it yourself.
How it is priced
Per seat, one-time
- A perpetual licence for the version you purchase.
- Critical security updates for the supported lifetime of that version.
- No recurring fee.
- Not included: Feature updates and new major versions.
- Not included: A support channel beyond security advisories.
Best for: Teams that standardize on a version, validate it once, and handle their own rollout.
Option B
Most chosen
Perpetual + annual maintenance
Own the licence outright and stay current.
How it is priced
Per seat, one-time, plus 25% of licence value annually
- Everything in Option A.
- Feature updates and new versions while maintenance is active.
- A direct support channel for your administrators.
- Agreed at purchase, 12-month initial term, renewing annually with a reminder before each renewal.
- If maintenance lapses, you keep running the last version you received.
Best for: Teams that want to own the asset on the balance sheet but keep receiving updates.
Option C
Annual subscription with perpetual fallback
One predictable annual line item, with an exit that leaves you owning software.
How it is priced
Per seat, single annual price
- All updates and support for as long as the subscription is active.
- After 12 consecutive months, you earn a perpetual fallback licence for the version that was available when the subscription started.
- A single annual per-seat cost, with no separate licence and maintenance lines.
- Renews annually on the same terms as Option B, with the same advance reminder.
Best for: Teams that prefer operating expenditure to a capital purchase, but refuse to be left with nothing if they stop paying.
Option B follows the long-standing perpetual-licence-plus-maintenance arrangement used across enterprise software, at 25% of licence value annually. Option C is a subscription — we are not going to call it anything else — but the fallback licence means you are never left with nothing. Email [email protected] for per-seat pricing against your seat count and deployment model.
Renewal terms
How the annual agreements renew.
Options B and C renew automatically. We would rather you read that here than discover it on an invoice, so here is exactly how it works. Option A has no recurring agreement, so none of this applies to it.
Agreed when you buy
Maintenance is settled as part of the purchase, not bolted on later. Declining it is exactly what Option A is.
An initial 12-month term
The first maintenance period runs 12 months from the purchase date, then renews for successive 12-month terms.
Renews automatically, with a reminder
We email a reminder at least 45 days before each renewal date. To stop a renewal, tell us at least 30 days before it — so the reminder always reaches you with time to act.
Stopping costs you nothing you already own
Let maintenance lapse and you keep running the last version you received. There is no clawback and no deactivation.
Price increases are capped
Renewal pricing will not rise by more than 3% a year. You should not have to negotiate for that, so it is simply the term.
Coming back is not punished
Reinstating lapsed maintenance costs the maintenance you skipped, capped at 24 months, and never more than buying new licences at current prices. No penalty multiplier.
To stop a renewal, email [email protected] at least 30 days before the renewal date. One email is enough — there is no retention queue and no phone call to sit through.
For comparison, tier-one vendors commonly renew at 4–8% a year and charge 150% or more of the lapsed fee to reinstate. The 3% cap and penalty-free reinstatement above are the terms, not an opening position to negotiate against.
Where teams start
Two apps to evaluate first.
Flagship
ContextCleaner
See every entry in the Windows right-click menu across all four surfaces Windows builds it from, find out which app added each one, and remove what you never use—without opening Registry Editor. A snapshot is written before every change, and undo survives restarts.
ContextCleaner product detailsFeatured app
MonitorPilot
Control every external display from your tray—brightness, contrast, input, volume, and color over DDC/CI—then automate the whole desk with profiles, per-app rules, workspaces, and window management. Native Rust, under 15 MB idle RAM, 100% offline, no drivers, no account.
Enterprise managed deployment available. MonitorPilot is available in an enterprise managed deployment version for organizations rolling out multi-monitor fleets.
Every app in the catalog carries the same perpetual license and the same on-device execution model. Ask about any of them, not just these two — ContextCleaner and MonitorPilot are simply the two most teams evaluate first.
Enterprise & Volume Licensing
Equip your whole team with Automata Labs utilities — perpetual licenses, zero telemetry, 100% on-device. Volume licensing and evaluation copies are available for organizations.
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Perpetual licenses
You own the version you buy. The licence does not expire and the software does not stop working — there is no kill switch waiting on a renewal.
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100% on-device, zero telemetry
Core workflows run entirely on the workstation. Nothing phones home, and your files are not uploaded to the cloud for everyday use.
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EV code-signed delivery
Windows packages ship as signed binaries so SmartScreen and your installers can verify publisher identity before execution.
Buying through the Microsoft Store stays exactly as it is: one-time, per user, updates delivered by the Store. For rollouts managed outside the Store there are three options.
Option A
Perpetual, security updates only
Own the version you deploy and manage it yourself.
Per seat, one-time
- A perpetual licence for the version you purchase.
- Critical security updates for the supported lifetime of that version.
- No recurring fee.
- Feature updates and new major versions.
- A support channel beyond security advisories.
Option B
Most chosen
Perpetual + annual maintenance
Own the licence outright and stay current.
Per seat, one-time, plus 25% of licence value annually
- Everything in Option A.
- Feature updates and new versions while maintenance is active.
- A direct support channel for your administrators.
- Agreed at purchase, 12-month initial term, renewing annually with a reminder before each renewal.
- If maintenance lapses, you keep running the last version you received.
Option C
Annual subscription with perpetual fallback
One predictable annual line item, with an exit that leaves you owning software.
Per seat, single annual price
- All updates and support for as long as the subscription is active.
- After 12 consecutive months, you earn a perpetual fallback licence for the version that was available when the subscription started.
- A single annual per-seat cost, with no separate licence and maintenance lines.
- Renews annually on the same terms as Option B, with the same advance reminder.
Every option leaves you owning software. Nothing switches off when an agreement ends — the worst case is that you stop receiving new versions.
Request an evaluation copy
Email [email protected] with your organization, products of interest, approximate seat count, and any specific deployment constraints.