Futur Labs
Custom Software Development Services

Custom software development for the workflows your business depends on.

The right tool can take a daily workaround off your team’s plate. Build the portal, internal tool, or integration your operation is missing. Connect the software you already use and give your team a clearer way to get the work done.

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app.fitfuelmeals.ca/order
Fit Fuel Meals
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Build your box for Sep 7 – Sep 13, 2026.
Wednesday Delivery Cut Off: Monday at 11 p.m Sunday Delivery Cut Off: Thursday at 11 p.m
NEXT DELIVERY
Sunday, September 6
All meals27Breakfast4Lunch & Dinner19Protein Treats4Bulk Protein6
Breakfast
Banana Waffles
412 CAL
$12.99
Breakfast
Breakfast Quesadilla
494 CAL
$12.99
Lunch
Chimichurri Steak Bowl
610 CAL
$15.99
Lunch
Korean Beef Bowl
580 CAL
$14.99
Breakfast
Tex-Mex Breakfast Bowl
520 CAL
$12.99
Lunch
Chicken Shawarma
545 CAL
$14.99
Lunch
Honey Sesame Chicken
590 CAL
$14.99
Lunch
Beef & Rice Bowl
630 CAL
$15.99
YOUR BOX
Sep 7 – Sep 13
2 meals/day · 5 days/week
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  • Built around your workflow
  • Connected to your existing tools
  • Weekly working-software reviews
  • Code owned by you
Where the work gets stuck

Build the missing piece in your operation. Keep the software that works. Add the workflow, portal, or integration that lets your team move the work forward.

Your team is the integration.

A sale becomes an email, a spreadsheet, and another entry in accounting. Someone has to keep every version in sync.

Customers have to chase the answer.

Order status, documents, booking changes. Routine requests fill the inbox because customers have no clear way to help themselves.

The tool you depend on is holding you back.

The spreadsheet, no-code app, or inherited system cannot handle the next step. Changes are fragile and the workarounds keep growing.

Built by Futur Labs
Fit Fuel Meals

Custom ordering.
Built around a
weekly routine.

We built Fit Fuel Meals’ custom ordering platform around how its meal-prep service runs: weekly menus, meal selection, subscriptions, payments, and delivery. Customers build their box; the business gets the tools to prepare and fulfil the orders.

The workflow
Choose a weekly plan, build a box of meals, and place the order for delivery.
What we built
A custom meal builder, subscription billing, delivery-zone shipping, and kitchen production and packing tools.
Explore the Fit Fuel ordering experience
What we build

Three ways to make the work flow.

Start with the gap creating the most delay or manual work. Define one useful first release, then grow the custom software solution around what your team learns.

Internal tools & operations

When it helps

The work is specific to your operation, but the team is managing it through spreadsheets and inboxes.

Examples
  • Quoting
  • approvals
  • job boards
  • document handling
  • operational dashboards
A first workflowIllustrative
  1. 01Request received
  2. 02Reviewed by the owner
  3. 03Approved for the next step

One request moves from intake to review to approval, with an owner and a visible status at every step.

What to measure

Less re-entry, shorter approval time, and fewer requests waiting without an owner.

Already have custom software?

Existing custom software can be a starting point too. We assess what is worth keeping, where it is fragile, and whether to improve it, replace one part, or rebuild.

From first workflow to daily use

A clear first release. Progress you can see.

Define what useful looks like, review working software every week, and plan the rollout with the people who will use it.

  1. 01

    Agree the first workflow

    Map the users, handoffs, and systems involved. Agree what the first release must do, who approves it, and what improvement to measure.

  2. 02

    Build in the open

    Build the first screens and integrations around real tasks and data. Review working software each week, with decisions and priorities kept visible.

  3. 03

    Deliver the first release

    Target the agreed workflow in three to four weeks once access and data are ready. Put working software in your team's hands.

  4. 04

    Test with the people using it

    Run real tasks, permissions, exceptions, and handoffs. Refine what gets in the way before expanding the rollout.

  5. 05

    Make the transition

    Check migrated records, train the team, and agree the rollout. Phase the change where needed, with a clear owner and a plan for issues.

  6. 06

    Support and improve

    Monitor the application, resolve issues, and review the results. Keep improving it within the agreed capacity, or prepare a documented handover.

Plan the investment

One model. Sized to your speed.

A senior engineering team on a monthly basis, sized to how fast you want to move. Any tier can build the same application: a smaller team works through the roadmap over more months; a larger team moves more of it forward at once. Choose the pace that fits your budget and timeline.

Small team

$7k
a month · steady progress
Timeline

Version one in 3–4 weeks, then weekly releases

Best for

A steady monthly budget. Work through the full roadmap in priority order, over the time your business can allow.

Included
  • A first agreed workflow targeted in 3–4 weeks
  • Weekly releases and working-software reviews
  • Hosting, monitoring, backups, and security updates
  • One 45-minute product call a week; everything else async
  • You own the repo from the first commit
  • Integrations with the tools you already run
  • Data migration and rollout planned around your team

Growing

$13k
a month · more work moving at once
Timeline

Version one in 3–4 weeks, then a release every week with two things moving at once

Best for

More capacity to bring the same roadmap forward. Build the application while integrations and rollout progress alongside it.

Included
  • A first agreed workflow targeted in 3–4 weeks
  • Weekly releases and working-software reviews
  • Hosting, monitoring, backups, and security updates
  • One 45-minute product call a week; everything else async
  • You own the repo from the first commit
  • Integrations with the tools you already run
  • Data migration and rollout planned around your team

Scale

$18k+
a month · faster delivery in parallel
Timeline

Version one in 3–4 weeks, then parallel releases against one data model

Best for

A tighter delivery window. Move several workstreams forward together, with a larger team working against one roadmap.

Included
  • A first agreed workflow targeted in 3–4 weeks
  • Weekly releases and working-software reviews
  • Hosting, monitoring, backups, and security updates
  • One 45-minute product call a week; everything else async
  • You own the repo from the first commit
  • Integrations with the tools you already run
  • Data migration and rollout planned around your team

Three-month minimum, thirty days' notice. You own the code from the first commit.

Ownership & ongoing operation

A system you can keep building on.

Your code and your data

You own the repository from the first commit. We document the system and the decisions behind it so the knowledge stays with the business.

Clear control of the accounts

Agree where the system runs, who holds the credentials, and who manages each integration. Access and a handover plan are part of the setup.

Support after the rollout

Hosting, monitoring, backups, and security updates are included while we work together. We agree the support responsibilities as the system moves into daily use.

Access that fits the operation

Define who can see, change, and approve information. Plan permissions, audit trails, and recovery around your requirements, with specialist review where the workflow needs it.

Technical leadership

Meet the people accountable for the build.

Bryce C. — Founder & Principal Engineer, Futur Labs
Bryce C.Founder & Principal Engineer

Runs discovery and architecture on every project and writes code on all of them. Built Agency ERP, Arlo, and Ollie for our own operations first.

Andres A. — Data & Systems Engineer, Futur Labs
Andres A.Data & Systems Engineer

Owns the data model, migrations, and integrations. The person who makes QuickBooks, Stripe, and your spreadsheets agree with each other.

Johnny N. — Senior Software Engineer, Futur Labs
Johnny N.Senior Software Engineer

Builds the product surface: the screens your team uses every day, the permissions behind them, and the tests that keep them working.

Questions & Answers

Clear answers
for complex builds.

Clear answers on timelines, pricing, ownership, and what shipping actually looks like with a senior engineering team.

  • Monthly, sized to how much needs to move at once: $7k a month for one workflow in flight, $13k for one system built module by module, $18k and up for several modules at once. Bring us the idea and we'll tell you which tier and roughly how many months; that's your number. No change orders: whatever comes up goes into next week's release. Version one in your hands within the first month, you own the code from the first commit, three-month minimum.

  • One call to pick the workflow that hurts most. Then we build. By week three or four there's a version one running on your data, and from there the software drives the conversation: you use it, tell us what's wrong or missing, and we ship the fix that week. No scoping documents to read, nothing to approve on paper.

  • It goes into next week's release. There's no scope to protect, so 'what about this?' is always yes. Capacity is the only boundary: a long backlog means we ship in order. If you want more speed, that's the next tier, your call, in writing, before anything changes.

  • The Small team tier: one workflow in flight at $7k a month, three-month minimum. That's enough to get one internal tool or one workflow to a working version one in the first month and keep shipping against it every week. We won't take a 'just throw something together' one-off; there's no path to ship something we'd put our name on that way. If your need is smaller than that, we'll tell you which no-code tool to use and stay in touch for when it stops fitting.

  • It's the same engagement. The team that built it keeps shipping: bug fixes, new features, and ops, in the same Slack channel, on the same monthly tier. Drop to a smaller tier when the backlog shrinks, or take a clean handover with documentation if you want it in-house. We don't lock you in.

  • Custom software development means building an application from scratch around your exact workflow, instead of configuring an off-the-shelf product to approximate it. You own the codebase, the data model, and every integration — nothing is rented, nothing is generic. It's the right call when your process is specific enough that no SaaS tool fits it cleanly.

  • Web apps, internal tools, SaaS products, enterprise custom software, integrations between systems, customer portals, admin dashboards, marketplaces, AI-native products. We build on well-supported frameworks your team can hire for, and we pick boring tools on purpose, because we have to maintain them.

  • We're a small senior team. Not a freelance marketplace, not an outsourced agency, not a 200-person consultancy. The people writing the code are the people on calls with you. Two or three engineers per project, depending on scope.

  • Most US software dev shops are either tiny freelance pools or large consultancies that staff projects with whoever's available. We're a small team with deep ownership — same engineers from the first call through ship and beyond. If that matters to you, we're a good fit.

  • Sometimes. We do an audit first — if the code is salvageable and the previous team is gone, we'll pick it up. If it's so tangled that a rewrite is faster, we'll tell you. We don't do hostage rescues for free, but we'll be honest about what we find.

  • Look at relevant shipped work, meet the engineers who will build your system, and check ownership and support terms. Ask what the first working release includes and how the team handles changes once you start using it.

  • You own the repository from the first commit. We document the system and agree account access and handover responsibilities, so your team can keep building on it. Third-party tools retain their own licenses.

  • Use an existing product when it fits the workflow and the cost makes sense. Custom software is worth considering when missing features, manual handoffs, or workarounds keep getting in the way. We assess what is worth keeping before recommending a build.

  • Not really. "Custom software solutions" is usually what agencies call the finished product; "custom software development" is the process that builds it. Either way you get one thing: a production application built around your exact workflow, not a template you configure and hope fits. We use both terms because buyers search both.

  • "Bespoke software" is the UK/European term for what we call custom software — a system built from scratch around your exact workflow, not a configured template. Same process, same pricing, same senior team either way. The difference from a large bespoke software development company: no account managers in between — the engineers on your first call build the system.

Start a build

One call. Bring the workflow.

Tell us what you're building or fixing. We'll come prepared with questions, not a pitch, and you'll leave the call with a straight answer on fit, which tier, and how soon you'd have version one in your hands.

Or email hello@buildfutur.com