Close to the work.
We build for owner-operated businesses: trades with crews, and small industrial shops. The calls, the quotes, the schedule, the trucks and the books. That is where a job either gets finished and paid for, or quietly falls apart.
You should not be the thing holding it together.
Most owners end up running two vendors. Somebody handles the marketing. Somebody else built the software, or nobody did. Neither one knows what the other is doing, so you are the part in the middle.
That is what it looks like in practice: retyping a booking at nine at night, chasing a quote that never went out, finding out on Friday that a job nobody scheduled was promised for Thursday. None of that is a marketing problem or a software problem. It is the gap between them.
So we do both. Marketing brings the work in. Software makes sure the business can take it, finish it and bill for it. One company, one number to call, and nobody to point at each other when something drops.
- MarketingGetting found, getting the call, getting chosen.
- WebThe front door, built to turn a visit into a job.
- SoftwareQuoting, scheduling, invoicing and getting paid.
Small, local, and you talk to the person building it.
A Future Solutions is in Milwaukee, and not everyone we build for is. Where your business sits does not change what we can do for it.
When you call, you get someone who will be working on your build, not an account manager who writes it down and passes it along. You will know who wrote your software and you will be able to reach them.
The tradeoff is worth saying out loud: we take a limited number of builds at a time. If we are full, we will tell you that rather than take a deposit and put you in a queue.
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Apple
An incoming Apple engineer co-founds the team.
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NSF
A National Science Foundation data science scholar builds your reporting.
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Milwaukee
Local shops get us in the truck and on your floor. Everyone gets our cell numbers.
It runs without us.
Once the build is delivered we are out of it, and that is the point. The code, the data and the running system are yours. There is no subscription holding it up and no license to renew, so nothing switches off when we stop talking.
It also means you are not stuck with us. If you would rather another developer took it further next year, they can, because you own the thing they would be working on. Most shops will not write that down, because renting it back to you every month is the better business for them.
- No per-seat rent
- No lock-in
- In writing before the build starts
If it runs your week, we can build it.
There is no fixed product list here. We look at how work actually moves through your business and build the part that is costing you jobs, then the next part when you are ready for it.
- Quoting and estimates Priced and sent while they are still on the phone.
- Scheduling and dispatch Move the job on the board, the crew's phone moves with it.
- Work from the field Photos, notes, hours and sign-off from the truck.
- Invoicing and payments Billed before the truck pulls off, paid online.
- Customers and reorders Repeat work in two taps instead of a phone call.
- What the job actually made Materials, hours and margin per job, not per month.
Twenty minutes, and you will know if there is anything here.
We map how work actually moves through your business: where jobs come from, who quotes them, what gets scheduled, and when the money lands. If there is nothing worth building, we will say so on the call.