Built by someone who's actually run the shop

You didn't start a business to spend your nights fighting spreadsheets.

We craft the future your business runs on.

We build the software that takes the manual, repetitive, end-of-day grind off your plate — so the work that should take minutes stops eating your evenings. Built by an operator with 30+ years behind the counter, not an agency that's only read about it.

Based in Rhode Island · on-site or remote, wherever the work isBilingual: English & Spanish
// you'll recognize at least one of these

If any of this is your week, we built Crafture for you.

Re-typing the same order into three different systems because they don't talk to each other.

A “quick” daily report that somehow takes an hour every single night.

Inventory that's right in your head and wrong in the software.

Knowing a number could tell you something — if you ever had time to pull it.

Paying for tools that each do 60% of what you need and none of what you actually do.

None of that is a software problem you should have to think about. It's the kind of thing we take off your plate — quietly, so it just stops being your job.

30+ yrs
Behind the counter — real multi-location retail & pawn operations, not theory
6 systems
Live in production, running our own business every single day
EN / ES
Built and supported fully bilingual, English and Spanish
No middlemen
The person who's run a shop is the one writing your spec and your code
./proof --from-the-logs

We don't sell software. We sell time.

Every number here comes from the system's own logs — not a brochure. This is the man-hours our platform hands back to the team, and the work it does so a person doesn't have to.

~100+ hrs
back in the team's pocket every month — roughly two and a half work-weeks, automated away.
// conservative figure, driven mostly by game-setup automation
Before — by hand
60+ min
Build the game, line up the items, get it live. Over an hour, every show.
After — with Crafture
~15 min
Scan the items in, mass-import the lineup, done. Measured average ~30 min, with weeks as low as 16.
Pricing that prices itself
BeforeHours nobody has — so prices went stale
After~950 cards re-checked against live market daily
54,824 price refreshes, automatically
Streams close themselves
BeforeAn hour of spreadsheets after every show
AfterTotals and payouts the second the show ends
276 streams closed + paid out automatically
Graded cards in under a minute
BeforeTyping out card, set, year, grade by hand
AfterScan the cert — it all fills itself, image too
118 graded cards auto-filled from the cert

// volumes are real, pulled from the database. per-task manual times are conservative estimates.

// the work the system did, so the team didn't

Two months of logs. Nothing typed twice.

276
game setups — live in as little as 15 min
~30 min
measured average setup, down from 60+
54,824
prices refreshed automatically
9,223
items logged by scan, not typing
276
streams closed + paid out automatically
1,132
product photos auto-fetched
118
graded cards auto-filled from the cert
1,948
staff hours tracked for payroll
./work --proof

Real systems, running real operations

Software we've built and shipped — systems we run ourselves and sites and tools delivered for clients. Across retail, the card hobby, professional services, and AI. Real projects, not mockups.

Pawn Buster

pawn-buster.com
● Live

A pricing and intake tool for the pawn industry — built from inside the counter, not guessed at. Helps shops value items, run the numbers, and stop leaving money on the table.

  • Values an item and runs the loan math in seconds, not guesswork
  • Cuts the back-and-forth so the line keeps moving
  • Built by an operator with decades on the floor
Next.jsNodePostgreSQLGoogle Cloud

Pawn Buddy

pawn-buddy.com
● Live

The companion platform to Pawn Buster — a working toolset for daily shop operations, sharing the same battle-tested stack and the same first-hand domain knowledge.

  • Shared Next.js + Cloud SQL foundation
  • Operations-first feature set, shipped iteratively
  • Bilingual support built in
Next.jsNodePostgreSQL

Hobby Catalog Manager

internal · craftureco
● Running

The flagship catalog engine behind our collectibles operations — structured data, inventory, and pricing for Pokémon TCG and sports cards at real volume.

  • Powers live-auction and intake workflows
  • Built on the BullMQ / Redis / Playwright pipeline
  • Designed for scraping and enrichment at scale
TypeScriptBullMQRedisPlaywrightPostgreSQL

Arbitrage Scanner

internal · craftureco
● Scanning

A market-monitoring system for the card hobby — continuously watches pricing across sources and surfaces buy/sell gaps worth acting on.

  • Automated scraping with Playwright + queue workers
  • Real-time price deltas across marketplaces
  • Feeds directly into purchasing decisions
NodeBullMQRedisPlaywright

RIPPACK

internal · craftureco
● Active

Tooling built for live-auction and pack-opening operations — keeping the floor moving on TikTok and eBay Live.

  • Purpose-built for live streaming auction mechanics
  • Integrated with eBay & TikTok seller workflows
  • Battle-tested during live shows
TypeScriptNodeRedis

Slab Intake System

internal · craftureco
● Processing

An intake and cataloging pipeline for graded cards — turning a pile of slabs into clean, structured, sellable inventory fast.

  • Streamlines graded-card intake at volume
  • Structured data ready for listing and auction
  • Connected to the catalog engine
TypeScriptPostgreSQLNode

Crafture Tracker

internal · craftureco
● Running

A tax and bookkeeping app for solo and 1099 business owners — a self-hosted replacement for subscription trackers. Income, expenses, mileage, payroll, contractors, and asset depreciation in one place, with the tax math built in.

  • Bank sync, email receipt scanning, and 1099-NEC contractor tracking
  • Calculates QBI, home-office, mileage, S-corp and state tax automatically
  • Quarterly estimates and clean CSV exports at tax time
PythonFlaskSQLitePlaid

Crafture Scene Creator

internal · craftureco
● In dev

An AI video studio that turns one prompt into a fully storyboarded, shot-by-shot video — routing each shot to the right model (local GPU or cloud), pricing the whole project before a frame renders, and keeping recurring characters consistent across a series.

  • One prompt → a priced, shot-by-shot storyboard before anything generates
  • Routes each shot to local or cloud models; assembles with ffmpeg
  • Character & world consistency across episodes; OBS integration in progress
Next.jsTypeScriptComfyUIffmpegClaude

South Florida Card Shop

Trading-card retail · South FL
● Launching

Storefront and online presence for a South Florida trading-card shop and live-breaks studio — a fast, mobile-first site plus a custom Shopify theme tying the in-store, online, and live-streaming sides together.

  • Custom Shopify theme built from scratch
  • Tuned for live-breaks audiences on Whatnot & TikTok
  • Mobile-first, SEO-ready storefront
HTML/CSS/JSShopifyLiquid

Florida Law Firm

Real-property law · FL
● Rebuild

A ground-up website rebuild for an established Florida real-property law firm — replacing a 2010-era table layout with a clean, fast, mobile-first site and a local-SEO foundation, while preserving the firm's original voice.

  • Modernized a legacy Dreamweaver-era site to a fast static build
  • Local-SEO structure: practice areas, clients, insights
  • Faithful migration of the firm's existing copy and positioning
HTML/CSS/JSStatic siteSEO
// what we build for you

Start from the outcome. We build the system that gets there.

We scope to your operation, then wire the build into the tools you already run — your POS, your marketplaces, your spreadsheets — so they finally talk to each other.

01

Custom software

Web apps and internal tools built to your spec, not pulled from a template. The same stack we run our own business on.

Next.jsNodeTypeScriptPostgreSQL
02

Automation & data pipelines

Replace the manual steps with code. Scraping, enrichment, queue workers, and scheduled jobs that run while you sleep.

BullMQRedisPlaywright
03

AI workflows

Practical AI wired into real operations — content pipelines, classification, and assistants that clear the work that piles up.

ClaudeLocal modelsPipelines
04

Integrations & IT consulting

Connect the tools you already run. Marketplace, streaming, and payment integrations — plus hands-on IT for streaming operations.

eBayTikTokOBS / Stream Deck
// two ways to start

Get online fast — or build something that runs the business.

Not every project is a 100-hour-a-month system. Sometimes you just need to exist online, professionally, without the hassle. Start where you are.

Starter
$199 one-time
+ $10 / month maintenance

Get online fast. A clean, mobile-friendly site that makes your business look the part — built and launched for you, kept running for less than a streaming subscription.

  • Professional, mobile-friendly site
  • Built and launched for you
  • Ongoing hosting & upkeep for $10/mo
  • Real human to call when you need a change
Where the time savings live
Custom Software
Scoped to you
priced by the problem, not by the hour

The real work. Custom apps, automation, and AI workflows that take the manual grind off your team's plate — the kind of build that hands back ~100 hours a month. Quoted after we map what's actually slowing you down.

  • Built around how your business actually runs
  • Automation, integrations & AI where it pays off
  • Wired into the tools you already use
  • We run it, monitor it, and improve it after launch
// how projects move

Clear scope. Visible progress. You own the result.

01 · discovery

Map the bottleneck

We start with the business goal and the manual work that's costing you, then scope the smallest reliable build that fixes it.

02 · build

Ship in milestones

Work breaks into visible chunks with regular check-ins — decisions and demos, not a black box you wait six weeks on.

03 · launch

Go to production

We handle deployment and verify the workflows that matter under real conditions before you depend on them.

04 · iterate

Run & improve

After launch we keep it running — monitoring, fixes, and the next round of changes based on what the data shows.

./tech-stack

The stack we actually ship with

Not a wishlist — these are the tools running our own production systems today.

Core

Node.jsTypeScriptNext.jsReact

Data & queues

PostgreSQLRedisBullMQGoogle Cloud SQL

Automation & AI

PlaywrightClaudeLocal TTS / LLMsn8n

Infrastructure

VercelRailwayGoogle CloudGitHub

Commerce & streaming

eBayTikTok ShopOBSStream DeckPirate Ship
// most builds start here

Sound familiar?

  • Hours on tasks that should take minutes
  • Tools that don't talk to each other
  • Losing inventory or leads to manual tracking
  • Guessing what's working instead of knowing
  • Off-the-shelf software that doesn't fit how you actually operate

We build the system that fixes it and wire it into what you already run — so your data, your tools, and your team finally pull in the same direction. Built by operators who've stood behind the counter, for operators who still do.

Tell us what's slowing you down →
./start

Let's build the thing that runs your business.

Bring the workflow, the bottleneck, or the idea. We'll sketch what gets built and how — first conversation should feel like momentum, not a sales pitch. Based in Rhode Island, but we'll come to you when the job calls for it.

Crafture LLC · Rhode Island · Sales@craftureco.com · GitHub