Our whole operation depends on Zapier, that feels risky

iPaaS is useful but not portable. If your business flows live in a tool, you depend on that vendor's pricing, uptime and feature choices. A hybrid setup with an own orchestrator layer removes that risk.

Try this first

1. 1Inventory which flows are critical (orders, invoices, payroll) and which are nice-to-have (notifications, reporting). Lock-in pain sits in the first list.
2. 2For critical flows: build the logic in own code (Node, Python, .NET) on a platform you control (Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Azure Functions, own server). iPaaS stays optional as trigger or glue.
3. 3For nice-to-have flows: stay in iPaaS, it saves time. Lock-in only hurts where it is business-critical.
4. 4Document per flow where the logic lives and which APIs it touches. On a vendor switch you won't have to reverse-engineer.
5. 5Keep your auth store independent: secrets in your own vault (see secret rotation), not in the iPaaS tool. Then migration stays feasible.

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