Refract

Business & Revenue Infrastructure

• B2B-First Multi-Tenancy: Hardened organizations, granular roles, and secure invites. Skip the auth-design phase and move straight to your domain logic.
• Production-Grade Billing: Battle-tested Stripe flows including self-serve upgrades, downgrades, and complex proration—not just "happy path" demos.
• Consumption-Ready Pricing: A hybrid revenue engine that supports flat subscriptions, metered usage, and tiered plans out of the box.
• Multi-Brand via Config: Deploy unique products or client brands from a single monorepo using specialized adapters and config-driven architecture.

Engineering & Delivery Speed

• Unified Type-Safe Monorepo: One source of truth for your Admin UI, API, and Marketing site, powered by Shared Types and automated codegen.
• Pivot-Proof Boundaries: Swap infrastructure—from mail providers to queue systems—via clean boundaries, avoiding the "full rewrite" trap when requirements change.
• The "Agency" Superpower: A reusable foundational layer designed for studios to ship high-quality, customized client platforms in record time.
• Symmetric AI Legibility: A directory structure and cursorrules optimized for AI agents, ensuring your LLM partner actually understands your intent.

Ops & Reliability

• Reliable Revenue Hooks: Idempotent webhook handling and built-in retries to ensure your billing state never drifts from reality.
• Local-to-Prod Parity: Docker-first development with a single-origin setup, ensuring OAuth and CORS work the same on your machine as they do in the cloud.
• Zero-Friction Deployment: One-click paths to production via Railway with fully documented environment and service orchestration.

🚀 The High-Stakes B2B Startup

The Problem: You need to ship an MVP that looks like an Enterprise product (Orgs, Roles, Permissions) but your pricing model is still an experiment.

The Refract Edge: Launch with a robust B2B foundation on day one. If you decide to pivot from a $50/mo subscription to a usage-based credit model or a $2,000 one-off license, you swap a configuration adapter rather than rewriting your core billing logic.

🛠️ The "Modern" Agency & Studio

The Problem: Delivering high-quality custom SaaS for clients is slow because you’re constantly re-wiring Auth, Stripe, and Webhooks for every new project.

The Refract Edge: Use Refract as your "Gold Image." Its modular boundaries allow you to swap mail providers (Postmark vs. Resend) or databases per client while keeping a consistent, type-safe codebase that your team actually understands.

🤖 The AI-Native Product

The Problem: You’re building a wrapper or an agent-led tool where the code needs to be extremely organized so that AI coding assistants (like Cursor) don't hallucinate or break the logic.

The Refract Edge: Symmetric Legibility. Our "Direct-Map" directory structure provides a clear mental model for both humans and LLMs. The strict functional core ensures that AI-generated refactors stay within their lanes and don't leak into your infrastructure.

📈 The Hybrid Commerce Platform

The Problem: You want to sell a "Pro" subscription but also offer one-off "Power Packs," digital downloads, or top-up credits.

The Refract Edge: Refract handles the complexity of hybrid revenue. It’s a complete commerce engine that manages recurring MRR and one-time transactional sales within the same unified organizational context.