Can I take my business elsewhere? | Locus Founder

Yes. Everything Locus builds belongs to you — the domain, the customer list, the Stripe account. When you want to export your AI-built business and move on, one-click export hands it all back. Locus is your cofounder, not your landlord.

What you own from day one

Locus never holds your business hostage. From the moment your workspace is created, ownership sits with you:

• Domain. Registered in your name. If you leave, you transfer it out through standard DNS registrar tooling — no special unlock fees.
• Customer list. Every lead and customer Locus collected lives in your workspace CRM and is exportable as a CSV at any time.
• Stripe account. Payments flow directly into your Stripe account, not through Locus. You already have the funds, the payout schedule, and the customer history before you ever think about leaving.
• Content. Website copy, product pages, ad creative — it's all yours.

This isn't a goodwill policy. It's the architecture. Locus connects to your Stripe account; it doesn't create one on your behalf. Locus points a domain at your site; it doesn't lock the DNS.

What happens when you export

The one-click export bundles:

1. Your domain (or the transfer authorization code if you want to move the registration)
2. Your full customer and lead list
3. A link to your Stripe account, which you already own independently

After that, you can take the site and point it anywhere — a static host, Webflow, Squarespace, whatever. Your Stripe account keeps processing without interruption. Your customer list drops straight into any email tool or CRM you choose.

There is no waiting period, no "export request" queue, and no fee to leave.

What Locus earns while you're here

Locus makes sense of this ownership model because its income comes from the subscription, not from owning your data or your customers:

• $25 your first month, then $50/month (Founder Monthly) or $500/year (Founder Annual, two months free).
• A 1% fee on each successful payment Locus processes through your Stripe account.
• A 5% revenue share on monthly revenue above $1,000 — only after your business clears that threshold in a calendar month. The first $1,000 each month is entirely yours.

Once you leave, the 1% fee and revenue share stop. There is nothing to negotiate.

How this compares to platform-native stores

Most e-commerce or creator platforms — Shopify, Kajabi, Gumroad — also let you export your customer list. But the website itself is built inside their platform using their theme engine. Move off, and the site doesn't move with you; you rebuild.

Locus builds on its own deploy infrastructure, but the output is a real website on your own domain. The domain transfer and the customer export are the two moves that let you carry everything forward. Nothing is rendered inside a closed proprietary canvas you can't take with you.

The contrast is cleaner with AI app builders like Lovable or Bolt.new, which hand you a codebase you can host anywhere. Locus is closer to that model — you own the artifact — except Locus also ran the marketing and the sales, not just the build. See our guide to the best AI cofounder tools for a fuller comparison of what each type of tool gives you ownership of.

Why Locus is designed this way

The reasoning is straightforward: if you're going to trust an agent with your business, it has to be clear that the business is actually yours. An agent that holds data hostage or hides your customer list behind a paywall would be a liability, not a cofounder.

The ownership model also makes Locus more useful while you're here. Because your Stripe account is your own, you can connect it to other tools simultaneously. Because the domain is yours, you can add custom email, configure DNS however you want, and not worry that Locus controls a critical piece of infrastructure.

Related questions

For more common questions about how Locus works — pricing, the free trial, what the agent can and can't do — see the Locus FAQ.

FAQ

Can I export my customer list at any time, even mid-subscription?

Yes. The export is always available from your workspace. You don't need to cancel first or reach a certain plan tier.

What happens to my Stripe account if I stop using Locus?

Nothing. Your Stripe account exists independently of Locus. Canceling your Locus subscription disconnects the integration, but your Stripe account, your customers, your payout schedule, and your funds are unaffected.

Do I need to notify Locus to transfer my domain?

No. The domain is registered in your name. A standard registrar transfer (or a change to your DNS nameservers) doesn't require Locus's permission or involvement.

What is the 5% revenue share and when does it apply?

Once a business you run through Locus clears $1,000 of revenue in a calendar month, Locus takes 5% of every dollar above that line for that month. The first $1,000 is yours, free and clear. If your business doesn't reach $1,000 in a given month, no revenue share applies at all.

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