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

Build Businesses,
Not Vibes.

Launch enterprise-ready systems in weeks.

Build

Pre-built identity, commerce, workflows, data flows, and other production-grade primitives, so you can focus on what makes your product unique

Operate

Day-one observability, governance, compliance, and resilience, all in your own AWS environment, so your system starts where others aspire

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 AWS Account

Deploy to infrastructure you own. No vendor lock-in, full data sovereignty, pay AWS directly.

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 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. Some ship with the platform; others you compose.

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Components

Core features to build your product.

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

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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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Workflow Engine

Event-sourced state machines

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Infrastructure

Run and scale your application.

Eventing, 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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§ 05 — The invitation

Ready to launch?

Rapid delivery. Easy integration. Ready to scale.

Focus on what makes you different. Leave the rest to Functory.

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Deployed to your AWS accountSingle compliance scopeNo vendor lock-in