Reduce the maintenance cost of licensing by replacing customer-run daemons, VPN paths, manual fulfilment queues, and billing glue with one verifiable access state for orders, lifecycle changes, seats, usage, and billing events.
Paid access should not depend on a host nobody wants to own. Old licensing turns every customer environment into vendor operations: daemons, network shape, billing scripts, and support escalation. Clavis moves entitlement into signed, encrypted records that the application can verify directly.
License servers. Dedicated hosts, HA pairs, vendor daemons, heartbeat paths, and support tickets just to keep paid software running.
Billing drift. Payments, renewals, upgrades, refunds, seat changes, chargebacks, and revocation drift across separate systems glued by custom scripts.
One-sided audit. Vendor-held logs and manual exports leave customer and vendor comparing invoices, usage, and entitlement history from different sources.
Full problem detail lives in the documentation. Open comparison ledger
The vendor writes a signed and encrypted entitlement record. The SDK verifies the vendor signature, decrypts the payload, caches policy safely, checks revocation, and returns the current access state.
Issue. A vendor portal, Admin SDK, back office workflow, or confirmed payment event creates or updates the entitlement record.
Verify. The Client SDK reads the record, verifies the signature, decrypts the payload, and evaluates entitlement at runtime.
Resolve access. The product receives a clear access state and can unlock, fall back to a cached grace decision, or show recovery and upgrade paths.
SDK responsibilities and runtime targets live in the docs. Read docs
Clavis covers the controls a paid software vendor normally spreads across a license server, billing glue, support workflows, usage analytics, and reporting exports.
Entitlement checks. Feature gates, editions, add-ons, trials, named users, devices, and product tiers resolve through one access-state check.
Lifecycle operations. Issuance, activation, renewal, upgrade, downgrade, revoke, expire, rebind, and key rotation update the same access state.
Offline grace. A verified entitlement can be cached within vendor-defined grace limits so short network interruptions do not immediately block work.
Full capability reference lives in the documentation. See all capabilities
Clavis fits teams that sell valuable software and need entitlement, seats, lifecycle, and commercial state to stay aligned across customer environments.
Desktop software. Commercial desktop products that need edition gates, offline tolerance, renewal, device binding, and clean migration away from license servers.
Hybrid desktop-SaaS. Products with cloud accounts plus local runtime checks, where paid access must survive outside a browser session.
Technical tools. CAD, EDA, scientific computing, media tooling, build, compute, or engineering products where blocked access can stop production work.
Enterprise, reseller, and full vendor-fit notes live in the documentation. Open vendor fit
Licence holder, software vendor, administrator — the same signed access state, read three ways.
How many seats are in use, how usage moved through the day, and who holds a seat right now.
Seats in use right now
27 / 35
Peak today
33
Free seats
8
Select a session to read its signed seat record.
Seat · p.novotny · MER-WS-114
In useThe seat was acquired at 14:02 and is held by a live heartbeat. It returns to the pool on release or on timeout reclaim.
acquire 14:02 heartbeat ×8 14:10 holding now
Seat · a.kowalski · MER-WS-088
In useThe pool stood at 26 of 35 when this request arrived, so the seat was granted without touching the overflow policy.
acquire 13:47 heartbeat ×23 14:10 holding now
Seat · m.haas · MER-LT-207
ReturnedThe client called release at 13:52 after 1 h 53 m. The seat went back to the pool in the same signed record.
acquire 11:58 heartbeat ×113 13:51 release 13:52
Seat · s.dvorak · MER-WS-119
ReclaimedHeartbeat stopped at 12:09. The seat timed out and returned to the pool at 12:11 without a release call.
acquire 11:40 heartbeat ×29 12:09 timeout reclaim 12:11
Which licences renew soon, what they are worth, and the note history behind every deal.
Renewals in the next 90 days
6 licences
Value at risk
€162k
Urgent · ≤30 d
2
Northwind Robotics
Renewal dueRenewal call held — buyer confirms budget for 60 seats and wants a quote for 75 before 12 Aug.
issued 2024-09 renewed ×2 2025-08 seats 40 → 60 2026-03
Halden Marine
Renewal dueProcurement asked for a 24-month term; the quote went out on 28 Jul and is still unanswered.
issued 2023-08 renewed ×3 2025-08 quote sent 2026-07
Kestrel Optics
Renewal openThe optics add-on trial ends with the term; the buyer wants it folded into the renewal.
issued 2025-09 add-on trial 2026-06 quote sent 2026-07
Meridian Engineering
Renewal openThe pool sits at 27 of 35 on a normal day, so there is no upsell case before the renewal call.
issued 2022-09 renewed ×4 2025-09 seats 30 → 35 2026-08
Arcus Design
ActiveDowngraded to 18 seats in March after a team split; the renewal is expected to stay flat.
issued 2021-10 renewed ×5 2025-10 seats 26 → 18 2026-03
Verda Analytics
ActiveMetered usage has doubled since June; a right-sizing review is booked for September.
issued 2024-11 renewed ×1 2025-11 usage review 2026-09
One customer at a time: their activity, their machines, and a diagnosis when something looks off.
Customer · Meridian Engineering
19 machines
Healthy
16
Flagged
3
Activity · last 24 h
MER-WS-114
Flagged Diagnosed HealthyThe check-out was granted, but this machine runs 184 s ahead of the record clock, so heartbeats arrive out of order.
acquire 14:02 flagged 14:04 heartbeat ×8 14:10
Diagnostics clock skew +184 s → resync required
Check-in Seat released · pool 27 → 26
MER-LT-207
HealthyThe client released the seat after 1 h 53 m. Nothing on this machine holds entitlement right now.
acquire 11:58 heartbeat ×113 13:51 release 13:52
MER-WS-119
FlaggedHeartbeat stopped at 12:09 and the seat timed out two minutes later. The machine has not checked in since.
acquire 11:40 heartbeat ×29 12:09 timeout reclaim 12:11
MER-LT-231
No seatAll 35 seats were held when this machine asked for one. Overflow policy is off, so the SDK returned no-seat.
request 09:58 no-seat 09:58 acquire 10:04
MER-WS-088
FlaggedThe host fingerprint changed after a mainboard swap. Entitlement still resolves, but the rebind needs an admin decision.
fingerprint 09:12 acquire 13:47 holding now
Seat pool · lic-01
ResizedThe vendor raised the pool to 35 concurrent seats. The change is signed into the same record the SDK already reads.
issued 08:03 signed 08:03 in effect 08:04
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