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

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

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, 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.

03
Three 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

Auth0 + Stripe + Algolia + SendGrid + Twilio + Stream + Segment = $3,000+ / month

Path 03

Start from a working foundation

Weeks

instead of quarters

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.

  • One system to operate and audit
  • AWS bills you directly
  • We operate it, or hand it over
How engagements work
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
06
After launch

We also run what we build.

Operate is a retained engagement covering support, maintenance, and continued development, in your AWS account, under a service agreement.

The engagement covers

  1. 01

    On-call cover and incident response

    Production issues are detected, triaged, and resolved by the team that built the system, within the response targets in your agreement.

  2. 02

    Platform upgrades, security patches, infrastructure maintenance

    Security fixes and platform upgrades are tested and applied on a planned schedule, with advance notice of any maintenance.

  3. 03

    Quarterly architecture and cost review

    A review of reliability, running costs, and architecture each quarter, with recommended changes.

  4. 04

    Continued feature delivery against your roadmap

    The same team continues to deliver new features against your roadmap after launch.

  5. 05

    Air-gapped and GovCloud deployment options

    Deployment to AWS GovCloud or isolated environments, where your requirements call for it.

  6. 06

    A defined exit, whenever you want to take it in-house

    When you choose to bring operations in-house, we transfer them with runbooks, documentation, and training.

ColophonFunctory, built to outlast vendors

§ 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.

Deployed to your AWS accountSingle compliance scopeNo vendor lock-in