Future Built Digital · Software & systems consultancy
Leads that stall in a shared inbox. Orders checked across three tools. Reports rebuilt by hand every Monday. We connect the systems you already run, automate the work between them, and build custom software and AI where off-the-shelf tools stop fitting.
10+ years
Building and leading software delivery
Enterprise delivery experience
60+ solution types · 40+ industries · systems built for complex operations
Public, fixed pricing
See engagements →What we fix
Most projects start in one of four places. Each can stay small, or grow into a larger system once the surrounding work needs it.
Slide 1 of 4: Automate a workflow
Automate a workflow
We take a repeated process with clear rules (routing, handoffs, follow-ups, recurring reports) and make it run on its own, logged, with a person alerted when something fails.
New-customer setup (folder, project, tasks) · Scheduled reports to email or Slack · Orders synced to accounting · Appointment reminders
Talk through a workflow →We also build reporting and data layers, web platforms connected to the systems behind them, and AI-native products from the ground up. Explore all solutions →
Selected work
Lead intelligence, document intake, native AI products and connected operations. Explore the systems, the decisions behind them, and the attention to detail that makes them useful.
Varilead · Lead intelligence
Business lists move through duplicate checks, website discovery, site audits, contact extraction and drafted outreach. Software does the searching and fetching. A person confirms the website, picks the contact and approves the message: the three points where an error would spread.
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Norwyn Motion & Controls · Industrial distribution
The request was AI that writes quotes. Discovery found customer pricing lived in spreadsheets and salespeople's heads, so the design automates the reading, matching and re-keying in front of pricing, and leaves price, terms and exceptions with sales.
View Norwyn Motion & Controls case study →
Velum · AI application
A native mobile app in which each saved dream becomes a durable record. The model is called only at defined steps, through an authenticated proxy that meters every request. Truncated or malformed output is saved as a failure, never shown as an answer.
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Lakebridge Exterior Services · Home services
Qualification moved into the form, a ZIP-code service-area check was added, and accepted requests are created directly in Jobber.
View Lakebridge Exterior Services case study →
Pinemark Home Goods · Ecommerce operations
Shopify, ShipStation and Gorgias stay authoritative; a thin layer turns each shipping problem into owned work.
View Pinemark Home Goods case study →How we build
Three decisions we make on every project, and where you can see each one in the work above.
Before building, we draw the line between what software should do and what people should keep. Models handle reading and classifying; rules, validation and approvals stay wherever a wrong answer costs money.
See the automation boundary in Norwyn →Retries, duplicate prevention, logs, alerts and a human review path are part of the first build. A failed step is recorded and recoverable, not silently skipped.
See how Velum handles failed AI responses →Where practical, production systems run in accounts you control. You receive the code, documentation, credentials and admin access for what we built. Ongoing support is optional, from $100 a month.
IP & code ownership →How the work connects
A business problem rarely belongs to one service. Each industry draws on several solutions, and each solution is built from capabilities shared across the practice. Select any point to trace its connections.
Use the arrow keys to move between items, Escape to clear, and plus or minus to zoom. Details for the selected item follow the map.
Tap any point to see what it connects to.
Browse everything: industries · solutions · capabilities
Your existing systems
Usually the CRM, accounting platform or field-service tool is fine. What's missing is anything that owns the work between them. We decide which system owns each record, connect the rest to it, and add custom software only where a gap remains.
Owns the work between your systems.
We confirm each platform’s API access and account limits during discovery, and choose the tools around the work.
Who builds it
Future Built is led by Dakota Kronberger, who spent the decade before founding it as a software engineer, development manager and managing consultant. He runs discovery, designs the architecture and builds the system, so what's agreed in the first session is what ships.
Founder prior experience: work done before Future Built, for other organizations.
Engagements and pricing
Prices are public and fixed for the standard scope. If your project goes past a package, we tell you before work starts and quote the next package, not a stack of add-ons.
$812–$2,275
One workflow, integration, report or AI task with a clear boundary.
Typical delivery: 3 business days to 2 weeks
from $3,250
A process that spans several systems, states and approvals, or related automations run and monitored together.
Typical delivery: 2–6 weeks
from $7,800
Software your team works in, when the work has outgrown automation and off-the-shelf tools.
Typical delivery: 4–12+ weeks, in phased releases
Free
What should we probably do next? For a problem you can already describe.
A 30-minute conversation about one process. Within 24 hours, a short written recommendation:
$1,625 · credited toward the build
Define the project well enough to build it with confidence. For larger or unclear work: legacy systems, unknown APIs, or scope likely above about $10,000.
Paid discovery and design, delivered as:
Included: production deployment, handoff documentation and launch stabilization: 14 days for focused builds, 30 days for larger systems. Model APIs, hosting and SaaS usage run on your accounts at cost, estimated before launch.
Optional support starts at $100/month. No retainer is required.
How we work
Four phases, scaled to the project. An $812 workflow moves through them in days; a custom system takes weeks and ships in phases.
We map the current workflow: who touches it, which system holds what, where work waits and where it breaks.
You receive: A current-state map and a written roadmap.
We decide what to automate, what stays with people, which system owns each record, and how we'll know it worked.
You receive: A fixed scope, acceptance criteria and a success measure.
We build in working increments against your real systems and sample data, failure cases included.
You receive: A working version early enough to react to.
We deploy, watch it in production, fix launch issues and hand over access and documentation.
You receive: The system, a runbook, and a comparison against the original baseline.
Start a project
Tell us what needs to work better and what you use today. Four short steps, then a brief you can edit before sending.
Step 1 of 4
FAQ
With the project brief. Most projects begin as an operating problem, not a specification. We map what happens today and recommend the smallest useful first build, with its price.
Prices are public. Focused packages run $812–$2,275. Full-process automation starts at $3,250, automation suites at $5,525 and custom operational software at $7,800. If scope is genuinely unclear, a $1,625 Architecture Sprint produces a fixed estimate and is credited toward the build. Model, hosting and SaaS usage runs on your own accounts at cost.
Usually. We first decide which system owns each record, then connect the rest through APIs and webhooks, or scheduled imports where nothing better exists. If a platform's API or plan tier limits what's possible, you'll hear it before any build starts.
You own the bespoke work you paid for. Where practical, production runs in accounts you control, and you receive the code, documentation, credentials and admin access needed to operate it. Reusable Future Built components and third-party software keep their own licenses, and you get the rights needed to run what we delivered.
Focused projects include 14 days of launch stabilization; larger systems include 30. After that you can run it yourself or add optional support: Monitor ($100/month), Maintain ($350/month) or Optimize ($650/month). No retainer is required.
Not yet, and it's labeled that way. Future Built is a new agency. Velum and Varilead are internal systems we built and run. Norwyn, Lakebridge and Pinemark are representative engagements: constructed companies that show how we'd approach a real problem, with every figure marked as constructed or modeled. Founder experience from before Future Built is labeled separately. Client work will appear here, labeled, as it's published.
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