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Contract & private-label manufacturers · Florida
Software for Florida contract manufacturers.
Futurise builds job tracking, customer-approval gates, production status and ordering portals for Florida contract and private-label manufacturers — food, beverage, personal care, household, supplements excluded. The operation is many customers with many jobs, each a chain of approvals; the software holds the chain so nobody has to ask three people where an order is.
Futurise is a remote studio with a US line, +1 (954) 469-9764, answered at any hour. We have no Florida office and don't pretend to; we meet in Florida for the projects that call for it.
See it first, on fictional data: orders.futurise.studio is a wholesale ordering portal and factory.futurise.studio a production tracker.
Contract manufacturing is a service business that happens to make things. The product is the customer's; the job is yours; and the money is made or lost in the gaps between quote, sample, approval, run, release and ship. Those gaps are where the email threads live, and the email threads are where the delays hide.
We build the screen that holds a job from quote to ship, with the customer's approvals inside it: the sample they signed off, the artwork version they accepted, the run they released. Each step is a draft until a named person on either side approves it, and the record keeps the name and the date. The customer gets their own view of their jobs, which ends the "where is my order" call.
It runs alongside the accounting you keep. It does not replace an ERP, and if one already runs your plant well, we will say so on the call.
Where it breaks
The four things we keep finding.
The quote that became a job by email
Nobody can find the version the customer accepted. The run is priced on the wrong one.
Sample approval as a screenshot
The client texted a thumbs-up. Three revisions later, which sample did they approve?
Production status in someone's head
The planner knows. The planner is at lunch. The customer is on the phone.
Two hundred SKUs across forty customers
Each customer's items, specs and labels in a folder. The folder is the system.
What we build
One slice first, then the next.
The one slice of your order flow costing you hours today: an ordering portal, an order desk or a production tracker. Then the next.
Job tracking with customer approvals
Quote, sample, artwork, run, release, ship — each an approved step with a name and a date, visible to the customer.
Customer job portal
Each customer sees its jobs, the approvals waiting on it, and reorders from history.
Production status board
One screen, written once, so the planner's knowledge is the plant's knowledge.
AI order intake
Customer POs arriving as PDF read into draft jobs, matched to their items and specs, flagged where unsure.
On the ground
What’s actually different here.
Every local fact carries its source and its year.
Florida has 14,341 manufacturing establishments employing 358,707 people, including 1,314 food manufacturers (34,153 employees) and 420 beverage and tobacco manufacturers (12,305).
13,580 of the 14,341 — about 95% — have fewer than 100 employees, and 7,226 have fewer than five (computed from the Census size-class counts).
The tri-county South Florida area holds 4,683 of the state's manufacturers; Hillsborough 848, Orange 931, Duval 651, Polk 440.
Florida's 227 breweries employ 3,751 people — a category of small producers that sells through the same distributors this site is built for.
Florida manufacturing employment stood at 429,100 in August 2026, seasonally adjusted, preliminary.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Florida economy at a glance, Aug 2026
Straight answers
The questions, answered up front.
Can our customers approve things in the system instead of by email?
Yes — that is usually the whole point of the first build. Each customer gets a login to their own jobs, approves samples, artwork and runs there, and the approval keeps their name and the date. The email thread stops being the system of record.
Do we have to replace our ERP or MRP?
No. The operational layer — job status, approvals, the customer view — reads from what you run today and writes into it where that is safe. Replacing an ERP to get a status board is how a six-week project becomes an eighteen-month one.
Can we see it before we call?
Yes: orders.futurise.studio is a live wholesale ordering portal and factory.futurise.studio a live production tracker, both on fictional data. We don't show client screens or name clients — every Florida client we have is confidential — so the demos are the proof.
What does it cost?
There is no price list, because there is no standard build. You get a fixed price in writing after a 20-minute call, before any work starts. Most first builds go live in two to four weeks, training is part of the build, and 30 days of care are included. Call +1 (954) 469-9764 or book at futurise.studio/book .
Are you based in Florida?
No. Futurise is a remote studio with a US line answered at any hour, and we meet in Florida for the projects that call for it.
Bring the step that breaks.
Twenty minutes with the person who builds, on a US line, any hour. Not in Florida? The same builds, for distributors anywhere in the US.
shivam@futurise.studio · any time, day or night