Custom systems for owner-run businesses
Your business runs on spreadsheets and memory. We turn it into a system.
A Business OS built around how your business actually works, replacing the patchwork of apps, spreadsheets, and things only you know. It starts with a two-week Blueprint.
Limatus Bespoke OS. A 20-year custom clothing business, running on one system we built.
- U.S. patents
- 46
- U.S. patents
- leading innovation at a Fortune 100
- 15 yrs
- leading innovation at a Fortune 100
- builds live
- 4
- builds live
- to your Blueprint
- 2 wks
- to your Blueprint
Featured build · Limatus Bespoke
A 20-year business, five systems, and one owner who knew how it all fit together. Now it runs on its own Business OS.
Limatus makes bespoke suits. Before the build, a sale lived in the card terminal, the client in one app, the project in another, and the schedule in the owner's head. This is what it looked like, and what it looks like now.
5 → 1
Five systems that didn't talk became one platform.
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Manual entry after a sale. The card swipe creates the job.
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Alerts fire when a project sits too long in a critical stage.
The hectic weeks, 6 different tabs open and days you're stressed you're missing something are gone! We've tried so many programs over the years and found ourselves conforming to what they offered. Every single one was missing a big part of our systems. We now have something that understands what we do and what we need eyes on. The productivity is up and stress level is down.
Tessa DeeHead of Operations at Limatus BespokeSound familiar?
If growth just means more chaos, the tools are the problem.
The numbers live in five places
And none of them agree. Every report is a copy-paste job that's stale before it's finished.
“Ask Sarah, she's the only one who knows”
The business runs on what a few people remember. Onboarding means teaching the workarounds.
You're paying for tools that don't talk
A CRM here, a spreadsheet there, a text app on the side, stitched together by hand every week.
Why we start with where you're going
Think in decades. Build in weeks.
Most owners come to us to fix today: the spreadsheets, the double entry, the one person who knows how it all works. We fix that. But the fix only holds if it's built for where the business is going. So the first thing we get clear on is the next decade. Every other decision comes back to it.
The decade decides the system
A business planning a second location needs different bones than one planning to hand off to the next generation. Knowing which one you are changes what we build first, and what we leave out.
Clarity is what makes speed possible
Once the destination is clear, the next step is usually small and obvious. That’s why the Blueprint takes two weeks, not two quarters, and why the build ships in loops you can use.
Today’s decisions stop being arguments
Which tool to keep, which hire to make, which customers to say no to. When the direction is written down, those choices mostly answer themselves.
This is the futures work behind everything Press Play does. The systems are how it shows up on a Monday morning.
How we think about the futureHow it works
Start with a Blueprint. Build the system it proves you need.
Your business, written down and ready for AI. Every engagement starts the same way, and you know the cost of every step before you take it.
The Blueprint
About two weeks · $2,500
We map how the business actually runs: the processes, the tools, and the rules that live in people's heads. You get it written down, a prototype you can click, and a fixed quote for the build. Yours to keep, whoever builds it.
The Business OS
Fixed price, from your Blueprint
One platform that runs your business, built from your Blueprint. We build in short, visible loops and get it into your hands early, so you're reacting to something real, not approving a document.
Brand OS
Fixed price, from your Blueprint
The brand identity as a system: logo, color, type and voice, with the rules for using them, carried through everything a customer sees, from the website to the signage to the invoice. The kind of system we built for The Art of Four, plus a brand engine you can integrate with your intelligent system.
A system isn't always software.
Sometimes the Blueprint finds that what's missing is a weekly numbers meeting, a handoff checklist, or one person clearly owning a decision. When that's the fix, we say so, we set up the rhythm with you, and the build quote gets smaller. The software comes when the business is ready for it.
More builds
Two more businesses that went from chaos to custom & AI-ready.
Motiv8 Athletic Club
- Came in with
- A whole season of rosters and box scores in spreadsheets, kept by the coaches.
- Left with
- One place for rosters, stats, and seasons, and a public portal families can follow without an account.
The Art of Four
- Came in with
- A request for a website from a nonprofit advancing Black artists in San Antonio.
- Left with
- A complete brand identity, written guidelines, a site that centers the artists, and three giving tiers for funders.
Who you'll work with
Hi, I'm Mark.
Mark Warnick is a futurist, inventor, and founder of Press Play Futures. He spent fifteen years inside a Fortune 100 company working out where things were heading and building the systems to get there. The problem is the same at a twelve-person shop, and almost nobody is doing the work there. That's why Press Play exists.
- 46 U.S. patents
- 15 years leading innovation at a Fortune 100 company
- Built its internal strategic foresight function
- Founded 3vies in 2015
Pricing
One price to start. The rest you'll know before you commit.
The Blueprint
$2,500
About two weeks. Your business written down, a prototype you can click, and a fixed quote for the build.
Credited in full against the build if you go ahead within 60 days.
Start with a Blueprint →The Business OS
Fixed quote
One platform that runs your business. Delivered with your Blueprint. No estimate ranges, no hourly. It depends on what the Blueprint finds, so we don't guess before we've looked.
Brand OS
Fixed quote
The brand identity as a system, carried through everything a customer sees. Delivered with your Blueprint, on the same terms: no estimate ranges, no hourly.
Running it: flat monthly.
Platform operations, set in your Blueprint: hosting, monitoring, and updates to the platform your system runs on. New work is quoted on its own, so nothing lands on your bill unapproved.
Questions
What owners ask before they start.
What's in the Blueprint, and what if I don't build with you?
Your business written down, a clickable prototype, and a fixed quote for your Business OS. It's yours to keep. If you take it to another builder, or shelve it, you've still got the first honest map of how the company runs.
How long does it take?
The Blueprint takes about two weeks. Builds vary with what the Blueprint finds, and the quote comes with a timeline. Either way you're using something real within the first few weeks of the build, not waiting for a launch day.
I already use QuickBooks, Shopify, or Square. Do I have to leave?
No. We keep what's worth keeping and connect it. The system becomes the place where everything meets, so the tools you like stay and the ones you tolerate can go.
I'm not technical. Is this for me?
Especially for you. You bring the business knowledge; we handle every bit of the technology. You'll never be left staring at something you don't understand.
Who owns what?
You own your data. Always. Every record is yours to export, move, or take elsewhere, and your Blueprint is yours to keep. Press Play owns the platform: the code and infrastructure your system runs on, which we build once and keep improving across every client. That's what the monthly covers.
Tell us how the business runs today. We'll tell you what we'd fix first.
A free 30-minute call. Pick a time that works, tell us a little about the business, and you'll leave with our honest read on where to start, whether or not we end up working together.
Pick a time →Or email hello@pressplayfutures.com