Smaller. Still Editable.
Still Exact.

Compression used to mean archiving — pack it, shelve it, hope you never need it. RISE reduces the data you are still working in. Open a file through a Transparent or Live folder, change it, save it; it stays reduced the whole time. And every byte comes back exactly. RISE would rather tell you it can't than give you something subtly wrong.

Eight kinds of data — LOG · TXT · CSV · SQL · XLSX · JSON · JSONL · RTF — reduced where they already sit. Everything else passes straight through: untouched, uncounted, unbilled.

A longer term lowers the licence fee, and only the licence fee. You earn that discount by finishing the term. Leave early and we charge you for the months you used plus {{ ccAddedStr }} more, at the rate for the term you actually completed — so under 6 months is charged at the monthly rate, 6 to 11 months at the 6-month rate, 12 to 23 months at the 12-month rate.

Leaving never costs more than staying. The exit charge is capped at the full term at the rate you signed for, so cancelling can never come to more than simply seeing the term out. And your usage is never clawed back — the usage charge on what we reduce is consumed, billed monthly and settled, and no discount ever applied to it. Months you prepaid but did not use are still credited back. The exit amount arrives as a draft invoice we review, not an automatic charge.

The worked example, because it is the harshest one: {{ ccTierName }} on {{ ccTermLabel }} is {{ ccCommittedStr }} a month. Cancel after {{ ccMonthsStr }} and you have earned no term at all, so those months are charged at {{ ccEarnedRateStr }} — for {{ ccMonthsStr }} used plus {{ ccAddedStr }}, that is {{ ccChargeableStr }}, or {{ ccOwedStr }} in licence fees. The same {{ ccMonthsStr }} billed monthly from the start would have been {{ ccMonthlyAltStr }}. You have already paid {{ ccAlreadyPaidStr }} of it, so the final invoice carries {{ ccExitStr }}. Nothing above {{ ccCapStr }} is ever owed on that term, whenever you leave.

If RISE is at fault — a restore that is not byte-exact, or the software unusable for a sustained period through our fault — there is no exit charge at all and your unused months are refunded automatically. the binding wording of that test, and the number of consecutive days that meets it, are set in the Terms of Service; this paragraph is the plain-English summary and is not itself the contract.

RISE pays off if what you avoid is more than the usage charge on the same gigabyte-months — counting every copy you keep and every time the data moves, not just one copy sitting on one disk.

Most estates keep three: production, a replica, and a backup. Reduction shrinks what you hold on all of them — and, because you then move fewer bytes, everything that carries the data between them shrinks with it.

Below that line our fee is larger than the saving, and no amount of data fixes it. If that's where you are, we'll say so rather than sell you a licence.

There is an upper line too, and we would rather you found it here. Band rates rise with volume, so past a certain size each further gigabyte-month can cost more than it saves you. The calculator returns both ends of that window from your own numbers. If you expect to grow through the top of it, tell us before you sign and we will price the whole estate rather than sell you a plan you outgrow.