# Solutions for every starting point > Substrait serves three kinds of company: teams already building with AI, companies ready to start whose work still runs on spreadsheets, chat and paper, and companies stuck on a closed legacy vendor system. Each has its own way in. URL: https://substrait.build/solutions/ Last updated: 2026-11-10 Every company starts from one of three places. Find yours, then see how Substrait fits it. - **[Already building](#already-building):** Your people already build with AI. Tools multiply faster than anyone can see. Take control before they become shadow IT. - **[Ready to start](#ready-to-start):** You need systems built, and people who can build. One programme: we build the systems you have always wanted, then teach your people to build their own. - **[Stuck on a legacy system](#stuck-on-legacy):** A closed vendor system holds you back. Every change is a quote and a wait, and it barely talks to anything. Substrait fits teams with real data and real approvals to protect. ## 01 · Already building **Your people already build. Now see and control what goes live.** Your people know AI, and build tools with it every week. Left alone, those tools spread across personal accounts and other people's servers: shadow IT, and AI sprawl. Substrait gives every tool one path to live, so you see every tool, control what it reaches, and can switch any of it off. ### What you control from the first day - **Build: One path to live, for every tool.** Builders keep their AI model, and one click takes a tool live through the security check. The plugin carries your design language, sign-in and infrastructure stack into every build, so every tool looks and runs like yours. [More on Build](https://substrait.build/build/) - **Data: Every data flow, under your control.** Every read is recorded with the tool and the person behind it, so you can always answer who read what. Your ERP and data warehouse are reached through one gateway that holds every credential. [More on Data](https://substrait.build/data/) - **Security: Configured exactly for your organisation.** Set your own risk tiers, blocking rules, approvers and deadlines: strict for customer data, light for a team dashboard. Every access, change, approval and agent action is recorded, nobody can alter it, and it exports to your security monitoring. [More on Security](https://substrait.build/security/) - **Productivity: Your people's AI, working as one team.** Slate: one living page a team builds together, each person's AI drawing on the whole project. Agentic Builder: a request in plain words joins a board, build agents build it, and the owner takes it live. [More on Productivity](https://substrait.build/productivity/) ### Your choices - **Who configures it.** Your own team, with no setup fee, or Substrait's forward-deployed team, with consultancy on your policies, data and rollout. - **Where it runs.** Substrait's cloud, or your own cloud. > Stop AI sprawl before it starts: one path to live, for every tool. ## 02 · Ready to start **The systems you have always wanted, built. Then your people learn to build the next ones.** Substrait runs this as one programme, with clear deliverables. Substrait's team builds the new systems or modules you have always wanted, on Substrait. Those systems are the starting block: the Academy teaches your people with them, Substrait's team guides them, and Substrait is set up for them to keep building. ![A warehouse worker checks a stock tool on a phone, between the shelves.](https://substrait.build/screenshots/warehouse-app-in-use-1500.jpg) ### What the programme delivers - **New systems, built by Substrait.** The systems or modules you have always wanted, built on Substrait by Substrait's team, with a named person from your team alongside. - **People who can build.** The Academy teaches your people to build, using those systems as their examples and Substrait as their lab. - **Substrait, set up for you.** Substrait configured for your company, so your people keep building after the programme ends. ### What your people can use from the first day While they learn to build, your people already get value from Substrait's productivity tools, with little training. - **Slate: Plans and reports, as living pages.** A team writes one living page together by asking its AI, with charts, tables and checklists, instead of passing slides and spreadsheets around. - **Templates: Working software from day one.** Common business software, built on Substrait's best practice and already wired to your company, ready to use and adjust. - **Agentic Builder: Ask in plain words, and it gets built.** Anyone writes a request in plain words, and build agents build it. Nobody needs to code. - **Communications centre: One exchange for every alert and approval.** A central, pre-wired exchange connects every alert, approval, notification and message across the organisation, so no tool has to build its own. Where the basics are missing, such as orders on paper, the programme can start with systems and data. You own everything that is built, and once your people build, they follow the first path. > Start with the systems you need. Finish with people who can build the next ones. ## 03 · Stuck on a legacy system **Rebuilt for you. Yours to own and change.** A closed vendor system runs a big part of your business. Every change request is slow and expensive, and the system barely talks to your other systems. Substrait's team rebuilds what you use on Substrait, so you own the data and the software. ### What changes | | The legacy system | Rebuilt on Substrait | |---|---|---| | Your data | In the vendor's system and format | Yours, in a system you own | | A change request | A quote, then a wait | Your people, or Substrait's team, with no vendor queue | | Your other systems | Little or no connection | Connected, with access the data owner approves | | Who can improve it | Only the vendor | Your own people, on Substrait | ### Two checks before work starts - **Substrait rebuilds what you use.** The promise covers the functions your people rely on, mapped with them, not everything the vendor ships. - **The vendor holds nothing besides code.** A rebuild does not replace content rights, a supplier network or a regulatory approval, and Substrait's team tells you before work starts if your vendor holds one. ### After the rebuild Once the new system is live, the same programme as for teams ready to start takes over. - **Academy.** Your people learn to build, using the rebuilt system as their example and Substrait as their lab. - **Substrait, fully configured.** Substrait's team configures Substrait completely for your company: your sign-in, data, policies and channels. - **Improvements made in-house.** Your own people improve the rebuilt system and build the next tools, with no vendor queue. > The licence is the smaller cost. The bigger one is every change you cannot make.