GGR rev-share is a tax on your best months. Here's the alternative.

Every operator knows the feeling: your best revenue month lands, and so does your biggest platform invoice. GGR rev-share means your provider taxes your wins while sharing none of your costs — marketing, payments, payroll, and compliance all come out of your side of the table.

Run the math over 24 months and the picture gets worse. A platform charging a typical double-digit GGR share on a growing operation routinely costs more than the operator's entire technology payroll — for software that was built once and sold many times.

The reason the model survives is lock-in. Multi-year contracts and hostage data make switching expensive enough that operators tolerate extraction as the cost of stability.

We built Obsidian Lab's commercial model as the refusal of that trade: no standard GGR billing, performance-aligned structures, and contracts you can leave. If we're not making you money, we're not making money — which is exactly the pressure a vendor should live under.

Want to see what that does to your unit economics? Run your numbers in our earnings calculator and compare the two models side by side.