Vol. III · Functory Quarterly№ 001 · Edition 2026
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Categories

What can you build?

From SaaS products to full marketplace platforms.

Functory provides the complete foundation so you can focus on what makes your product unique.

fig. i·a5 capabilities

SaaS Applications

Build subscription-based software products with user management, billing, and team features out of the box.

Pre-built capabilities

  • User management with subscriptions and entitlements
  • Usage metering and billing with Stripe
  • Team/organization features with hierarchies
  • Webhook integrations for third-party tools
  • Referral programs with credit rewards

For example

B2B SaaS with per-seat pricing and usage-based billing.

fig. i·b5 capabilities

Marketplaces

Launch two-sided marketplaces like Airbnb, Etsy, or Upwork with buyer/seller management and transactions.

Pre-built capabilities

  • Buyer/seller entity management
  • Listing and discovery with search
  • Transaction handling with escrow
  • Review and rating systems (coming soon)
  • Multi-party payment splits

For example

Service marketplace connecting freelancers with clients.

fig. i·c5 capabilities

Booking Platforms

Create reservation and scheduling systems for hospitality, services, or equipment rental.

Pre-built capabilities

  • 6 booking types: seats, accommodations, classes, rentals, appointments, facilities
  • Real-time availability and conflict detection
  • Calendar management with inventory
  • Automated payment and notification flows
  • Cancellation and modification handling

For example

Vacation rental platform with real-time availability.

fig. i·d5 capabilities

Content Platforms

Build media, learning, or community platforms with rich content management and discovery.

Pre-built capabilities

  • Asset management with S3 integration
  • Collections, playlists, and bookmarks
  • User-generated content workflows
  • Full-text and faceted search
  • Recommendation engine support

For example

Online learning platform with courses and progress tracking.

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Live demos

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From idea to production in weeks.

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fig. ii·aRecording Studio Marketplace

Panels

An Airbnb for recording studios. A two-sided marketplace where artists discover and book rooms globally, and studio operators manage offers, pricing, availability, and confirmations from the same stack.

Built in

1 day

Replaces

Studiotime + Peerspace + spreadsheets

Services leveraged

ReservationsPaymentsAuthSearchNotifications

Normally takes

9–12 months + $500–2,000/month SaaS stack

Operational pain eliminated

  • Customer-facing marketplace and back-office ops on one platform
  • Studios own their customer relationships, not the marketplace
  • Two-sided trust, payments, and scheduling out of the box
fig. ii·bHospitality

Hotels

Hotel groups stitching together a PMS, a booking engine, a CRM, and a payment processor for every new property.

Built in

1 day

Replaces

Cloudbeds + SiteMinder + Mailchimp

Services leveraged

ReservationsPaymentsNotificationsSearch

Normally takes

6–9 months + $4–8k/month SaaS stack

Operational pain eliminated

  • One codebase to audit for PCI compliance
  • Guest data stays in the operator's AWS account
  • One vendor relationship instead of four
fig. ii·cAudio/Visual Marketplace

Aperture

A one-stop shop for the audio/visual media community to buy, sell, rent gear, book space, and hire freelance talent — without bouncing between four different marketplaces and losing trust at every hop.

Built in

1 day

Replaces

Reverb + Peerspace + Backstage

Services leveraged

EntitiesReservationsPaymentsSearchAuth

Normally takes

12+ months + $1–3k/month SaaS stack

Operational pain eliminated

  • One identity, payments, and reputation across buy / sell / rent / hire
  • Search across gear, spaces, and talent in a single index
  • Operator owns the community data and the network effects
fig. ii·dCommunities & Memberships

Circles

Community operators paying per-seat fees to Circle, Memberstack, and Discord Premium while losing customer data ownership.

Built in

1 day

Replaces

Circle.so + Memberstack + Mighty Networks

Services leveraged

AuthSubscriptionsNotificationsEventing

Normally takes

3–5 months + $500–2,000/month SaaS stack

Operational pain eliminated

  • Member data stays yours, not the vendor's
  • No per-seat pricing tax on growth
  • Native integration with the rest of your stack
fig. ii·eClubs & Associations

Convene

Every club drowns in the same chores: a treasurer chasing dues over WhatsApp, a roster rotting in a spreadsheet, a meetup run through email threads and a separate ticketing tool. Convene gives an organizer one warm home for members, roles, recurring dues, events, and announcements.

Built in

1 day

Replaces

Wild Apricot + Spond + Meetup

Services leveraged

MembershipsSubscriptionsPaymentsReservationsNotifications

Normally takes

3–5 months + $200–1,500/month SaaS stack

Operational pain eliminated

  • Two front doors (organizer invites and self-service join requests) on one roster
  • Recurring dues with a gentle, recoverable failed-payment path, not a hard lockout
  • Re-skins from a soccer club to an alumni chapter with seed and copy, no backend change
fig. ii·fExpense & Invoicing

Hans

Companies run two money workflows that never live in one tool: employees file expenses and managers approve them, and the business invoices its own customers and chases payment. Hans is a digital CFO that does both over a real double-entry ledger. Drop in a receipt photo and the line fills itself in.

Built in

1 day

Replaces

SAP Concur + QuickBooks + Bill.com

Services leveraged

LedgerInvoicingPaymentsDunningReceipt OCR

Normally takes

9–12 months + $1–4k/month SaaS stack

Operational pain eliminated

  • Receipt OCR reads vendor, date, and amount; the employee just confirms
  • Every approved reimbursement and paid invoice posts to a balanced ledger
  • Expense management and accounts receivable in one surface, not two tools reconciled by hand
fig. ii·gEmployee Onboarding

Atlas

New hires ramp slowly because the SOPs they need are scattered across stale Google Docs, a Notion page, and a spreadsheet tracking who finished which compliance module. Atlas is a Corp University: a 30/60/90 onboarding journey, versioned SOPs, compliance training, and an AI assistant grounded in the org's own documents.

Built in

1 day

Replaces

Notion + Trainual + spreadsheets

Services leveraged

LifecycleSearchNotificationsAI ChatAudit

Normally takes

6–9 months + $3–8k/month SaaS stack

Operational pain eliminated

  • Versioned, searchable SOPs with acknowledgement tracking as one source of truth
  • Compliance training auto-assigns, reminds, and produces an exportable audit trail
  • An AI assistant that cites the org's own documents and refuses to answer when it can't
fig. ii·hOnline Learning

Academy

A course marketplace where instructors publish, students enroll and progress through lessons, earn certificates, and the platform handles subscriptions, engagement scoring, and content moderation. A Udemy/Coursera backend from configuration.

Built in

1 day

Replaces

Teachable + Thinkific + Kajabi

Services leveraged

SubscriptionsEntitlementsScoringSearchNotifications

Normally takes

4–6 months + $1–3k/month SaaS stack

Operational pain eliminated

  • Course access gated by subscription entitlements out of the box
  • XP, streaks, tiers, and certificates drive engagement without custom code
  • Ratings, reviews, and content moderation built in, not bolted on
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Who it’s for

From MVP to enterprise.

Build the next Airbnb, ClassPass, or DoorDash.

Functory scales from a single founder’s laptop to enterprise compliance scopes.

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Startups

Early-stage ventures & accelerators

Ship your MVP in weeks. Focus on product-market fit while Functory handles the infrastructure.

02

SMBs

B2C businesses & agencies

Build client applications on a proven foundation. Reduce delivery timelines and increase margins.

03

Enterprise

Innovation labs & intrapreneurs

Deploy to your own AWS account with full compliance control. Single audit scope for HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR.

04

Higher Ed & Government

Legacy modernization

Transition from outdated systems to modern, maintainable infrastructure without starting from scratch.

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The comparison

vs. building from scratch.

The same ground covered, six lines at a time.

01Time to production
12–18 months
4–8 weeks
02Payments / Subscriptions
Build it
Built-in
03Reservations
Build it
Built-in
04Multi-database search
Complex
Built-in
05Event sourcing
Build it
Built-in
06Infrastructure ownership
Yes
Yes

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