Vol. I · Functory Quarterly№ 001 · Edition 2026
01
The thesis

Build Businesses,
Not Vibes.

We get your big ideas to production in weeks.

We build

The engagement focuses on what makes your product unique, while identity, commerce, workflows, search, and 200+ production-grade primitives, supported by well-architected compute, persistence, and messaging infrastructure, handle the rest

We operate

Your system starts where others aspire, with observability, cost management, compliance, and resilience built in from day one and throughout its evolution. Everything runs in your own AWS account, preserving data sovereignty and integrity

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02
The case

The Functory advantage.

Your customers deserve more than a demo. Build fast. Scale with confidence.

0–8weeks

Time to production

vs. 12–18 months building from scratch

1stack

To operate

vs. 10+ vendor consoles to monitor, patch, and audit

$0

Vendor fees

Pay AWS directly, not $3–15k / month to vendors

0%

Integration engineering

vs. 30–40% of time spent on glue code

§ Why it holds up

01

Your Data, Your Account

We deploy into your own AWS account, so you keep full data sovereignty. No vendor lock-in.

02

Single Compliance Scope

One codebase to audit instead of 10+ vendor security reviews for HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR.

03

Full Customization

Extend or modify any component. No black boxes, no vendor API limitations.

04

One Stack to Operate

Monitor, patch, and scale one deployment with complete observability as you grow. No more “contact the other vendor” support.

03
The trap

Avoid the SaaS sprawl.

Don’t reinvent the wheel, or wrangle SaaS products that turn your dream into a nightmare.

  1. 01

    Integration Tax

    30–40% of engineering time spent connecting services.

  2. 02

    Data Silos

    User data fragmented across 10+ vendor systems.

  3. 03

    12–18 Month Foundation

    Building auth, payments, search before business logic.

  4. 04

    Compounding Costs

    $3–15k / month in SaaS fees before the first customer.

  5. 05

    Security Surface

    Each vendor is an attack vector requiring audit.

  6. 06

    Sync Failures

    Webhook failures and race conditions across vendors.

04
The work

We build it.
Then you choose.

The same people from the first call to the handover, and a way out at every stage.

I

We build

The whole solution.

Domain model to running system, deployed into your own AWS account. Not a prototype, and not a pile of integrations left for you to finish.

II

We operate, or we transfer

Your call, not ours.

Made when you know enough to make it, and revisited whenever you like.

We operate

On-call cover, patches, and continued delivery against your roadmap.

We transfer

Runbooks, documentation, and training for the engineers who inherit it.

III

You take the reins

And keep going.

Extend what we built, or build your next product on the same foundation. Your team, your roadmap, the platform underneath, with or without us in the room.

Every stage is a decision you get to make again. That is the difference between a partner and a dependency.

How we scope engagements
05
The catalogue

Pre-built capabilities.

Every feature you need to launch, built & tested, so you can focus on what makes your product unique.

SubscriptionsPaymentsNotificationsWorkflowsReservationsSearchGroupsIdentityYour appfig. 01

Legend

Your appPrimitivesServicesWorkflows

Each ring is a capability. You compose the ones your product needs.

iv·a
Components

Core features to build your product.

Auth, payments, reservations, search: the moving parts of your domain.

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Multi-Tenancy

Many customers, one deployment, real isolation

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Authentication

Identity, SSO, and access management

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Groups & Teams

Hierarchies, memberships, roles

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Entity Management

Generic CRUD with polymorphic data

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Infrastructure

Run and scale your application.

Event-driven architecture, scheduling, files, observability: the platform under the platform.

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BYOC

Deploy to your own AWS account

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Notifications

Email, SMS, push

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Task Scheduling

Background jobs, webhooks

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Event-Driven Architecture

Hooks, CDC streams, EventBridge

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§ 06 — The invitation

Ready to launch?

Start with a conversation, not a contract.

Thirty minutes with the engineers who would do the work. We will tell you what your system takes to build, and whether we are the right team for it.

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Deployed to your AWS accountSingle compliance scopeNo vendor lock-in