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Spare Key
Backups and a recovery plan for when your work suite locks you out
- Score
- 23
- confidence 52
- Evidence
- 6
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 1
- named in sources
- First version
- 45 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- no product yet
- New market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Business continuity planning requires dense dashboards, dependency mapping, and detailed playbooks best reviewed and managed from a desk. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Continuity status
1 item needs attention82%
About this appAI proposal
Spare Key keeps a working copy of what your business cannot stop using: mail, documents, contacts and calendars. If your main provider suspends or locks your account, you still have your data and a written plan for the next hour.
Built for small and mid-sized businesses that run on Google Workspace or a similar all-in-one suite. It watches account health, keeps backups outside the provider, and gives you a recovery checklist, appeal text and a log of every attempt.
It does not promise to unlock your account. It makes a lockout something you planned for, not the end of your week.
- Tagline
- Your business keeps working when your account doesn't.
- Voice
- CalmPracticalPlainspoken
- Why this name
- A spare key is what you hope never to need and are glad to have when you are locked out. The name is plain and easy to say.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Independent backups
Scheduled copies of mail, files, contacts and calendars, stored outside your main provider and restorable on their own.
No member yet
Account health watch
Alerts on sign-in failures, admin warnings and suspension notices, so you hear about trouble before your team does.
No member yet
Recovery playbook
A checklist per lockout type: who does what, in what order, with owners and deadlines.
No member yet
Appeal pack
Pre-filled appeal text, proof of ownership and a timeline of attempts, ready for every official channel.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Spare Key
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Your business keeps working when your account doesn't.
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no price for continuity tools. Google Workspace lists paid plans from €6.80 to €21.10 a month (verified); these tiers are a starting point to test against that per-user cost.
Starter
$29 a month
- Up to 10 users
- Daily backups
- Account health alerts
- Recovery playbook
Business
$79 a month
- Up to 50 users
- Fallback inbox
- Appeal pack and escalation log
- Dependency map
Priority
$199 a month
- Up to 200 users
- Hourly backups
- Guided recovery help
- Priority support
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- No loop in the product. Reached through content, communities and partners. Lockout stories and checklists attract owners; no usage by customers naturally exposes the product to new buyers.
- Do they become customers?
- Test whether owners who read lockout guides will pay before an incident, and whether IT consultants and accountants will recommend it to clients.
- First customers
- Owners of 5 to 30 person service firms (agencies, clinics, accounting practices) running entirely on Google Workspace, with no in-house IT.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and founder forums: Post a lockout-readiness checklist and invite people to try a free exposure scan.
- Independent IT consultants: Offer a referral share to consultants who manage small-business Workspace setups.
- Accountant and agency networks: Run short webinars on what to do in the first 24 hours of a lockout.
- First milestone
- Ten paying small firms in one vertical within 60 days, and at least three who complete a restore test.
Why people already pay for this
- AI inferenceSupport system relies on impersonal AI chatbots without human escalation
- Public claimAccounts are locked overnight with no meaningful recourse
- Public claimSuspensions affect multiple critical business functions simultaneously
- Public claimAccount lockouts and suspensions occur frequently
- Public claimCustomer trust is actively being destroyed by repeated lockout incidents
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Backup storageEncrypted object storage in a separate cloudBackups must live outside the provider being protected.
- This app · Provider connectorsWorkspace and similar suite APIs with OAuthNeeded to copy mail, files and read account health signals.
RisksAI inference
- PlatformProvider API access or terms may limit bulk export, and a suspended account may cut off the very access the backup relies on.
- TechnicalBacking up mail and files reliably at scale, with correct restore, is hard and costly to get right.
- RegulatoryStoring business mail and documents brings data protection duties, such as processor agreements and regional storage.
- CommercialOwners may not buy until they are locked out; the lockout frequency is only a public claim, not verified.
- DataAppeals may still fail, since the product cannot force a provider to restore an account.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.