One bundle, or one integrator who picks the bundle?

The pitch is single-vendor accountability: one bill, one contract, one mobile app, one SOC relationship covering cameras + doors + alarms + sometimes monitoring. YourSix (American), founded 2015 with US$16.1M raised through 2026, makes the cleanest version of this pitch - cloud-native, Axis cameras (Swedish, Canon-owned) bundled inside the subscription, hardware refresh included.

For a single-site customer who wants the simplest possible procurement, PSaaS is attractive. For a multi-site integrator who already sells their own monitoring service, PSaaS structurally competes with the integrator's recurring revenue.

PSaaS bundles monitoring revenue inside the platform subscription. The integrator who has spent years building a UL-listed central station or an ARC relationship loses that revenue line when the customer goes PSaaS-direct. TetherX deliberately doesn't bundle monitoring - the integrator keeps the customer relationship, runs the SOC themselves or pairs with their preferred ARC (Immix, Sentinel, CONXTD, MASterMind, Bold Patriot Manitou, Stages), and TetherX is the open VMS underneath.

This is the same axis as the Verkada (American) and Rhombus (American) channel-conflict complaints surfaced repeatedly in IPVM and r/accesscontrol threads: "They will sell around the installer, as in they have no qualms cutting you out of a deal."

VSaaS - with multi-system integration. Cameras, alarms and access control are in one dashboard, but each subsystem is best-of-breed and the integrator chooses (Paxton Net2 today on access, with Salto and Mercury on the roadmap; Texecom British and SIA DC-09 on intruder; the camera library is open). Monitoring is the integrator's service, not TetherX's. PSaaS bundles all of these into the platform subscription; TetherX leaves them separate so the channel can sell their own value.

YourSix wins: a single-site US customer who wants Axis cameras, no upfront hardware capex, bundled monitoring under one bill, and is happy to delegate the monitoring SOC relationship to YourSix.

TetherX wins: a multi-site customer (anywhere outside the US, or inside the US with mixed camera brands), an integrator who runs their own SOC or works with a UK / EU / AU ARC, a customer whose estate is 60% Axis + 40% other (Hanwha South Korean, Avigilon Canadian, Bosch German, Hikvision Chinese, VIVOTEK Taiwanese, Dahua Chinese), or any customer wanting the integrator to keep the recurring monitoring revenue.

Verkada alternative (Verkada, American) is technically VSaaS + ACaaS bundled as a single Command platform - sometimes described as PSaaS in marketing. Cameras + sensors + access + intercom + Verkada Air vape-detection from one vendor. Closed proprietary cameras, $3.2B last private valuation, June 5 2026 price increase announced.

Eagle Eye Networks alternative (Eagle Eye Networks, American, now Brivo since December 29 2025) is post-merger genuinely PSaaS - Eagle Eye cloud VMS heritage + Brivo cloud ACS heritage + Brivo Intrusion 2025 + Snapshot AI tie-in.

Avigilon Alta alternative (Avigilon Alta, Canadian, Motorola Solutions American) is also PSaaS-shaped post-Openpath acquisition - Alta Video (ex-Ava, acquired by Motorola for $400M alone / $449M Ava+Calipsa+Videotec bundle in March 2022) + Alta Access (ex-Openpath) + Alta Visitor under one umbrella.

Unlikely. PSaaS works best when there's no integrator relationship to protect and the customer wants the absolute simplest procurement. VSaaS works for the multi-site customer with an existing integrator relationship, mixed camera brands, and an established monitoring service. Both will coexist. The category that PSaaS does displace cleanly is the legacy "buy three vendors and integrate them yourself" enterprise pattern - that one is genuinely dying as Verkada / Brivo+EEN / Avigilon Alta bundle the integration into the platform.

Yes. 30-day free trial through an integrator partner with a TetherBox, full multi-system platform access (video + alarms + access + ARC integration), and a dedicated onboarding contact. No card, no commitment, extensions on request.