Vol. I · Functory QuarterlyA field manual for production software№ 001 · Edition 2026
01The thesis
Build Businesses, Not Vibes.
We get your big ideas to production in weeks.
We build
Sign-in, payments, bookings, search, and the rest of what every product needs already work. Your budget goes on the part that makes your business different, not on rebuilding the parts that make it run
We operate
You launch with the monitoring, cost controls, and audit trail most teams only add after their first outage or security review. It all runs in your own AWS account, in the region you choose, so your data and infrastructure stay under your control
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, pinned to the region you choose, so your data never leaves infrastructure you control. 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.
03Three paths
From prototype to production.
A prototype proves the idea. Once customers depend on it, it needs proper sign-in, permissions, payments, an audit trail, and someone accountable for running it. There are three ways to get there.
Path 01
Rebuild from scratch
12–18 months
before the product itself
An in-house team builds sign-in, payments, search, and operations before it can work on what makes the product different.
Months before customers see anything new
Engineering effort goes to infrastructure rather than the product
Every discipline has to be staffed at once
Path 02
Stitch vendors together
$3–15k / month
in SaaS fees before the first customer
A dozen SaaS products, each with its own contract, security review, and copy of your customer data, connected by code your team maintains.
30–40% of engineering time spent wiring vendors together
Customer records split across 10+ systems
Every vendor is another security review
Failures between vendors, such as charges for orders that never arrive
Sign-in, payments, workflows, and operations already work. The engagement goes on what makes your product different, and the system runs in your AWS account.
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.
Each went from a written product brief to a working first version in a day, on the same foundation we would build yours on. Open one and click around: none of them are mockups.
A production launch takes weeks rather than a day, because your integrations, your data, and your people are part of the build.