Issue No. 01Q3 · 2026Currently accepting 3 projectsStudio of twoBased in NYC Tri-StateWe Move New YorkAdelphic Union Lodge No. 14Tramell ThompsonPHAmily ClassicLow.Key StudiosIssue No. 01Q3 · 2026Currently accepting 3 projectsStudio of twoBased in NYC Tri-StateWe Move New YorkAdelphic Union Lodge No. 14Tramell ThompsonPHAmily ClassicLow.Key Studios
FutreEng.
Cover — A Software Studio in New York

We builddigital productsfor the people movingNew York.

Web apps, PWAs, and bespoke software for community organizations, labor groups, and operators building from inside the industries they know.

Currently accepting 3 projects · Q3 2026
Trusted by — selected client roster
  • We Move New York
  • Adelphic Union Lodge No. 14
  • Tramell Thompson
  • PHAmily Classic
  • Low.Key Studios
12
Projects shipped
across the tri-state area
02
Founders, both hands-on
every project, end to end
08wk
Median engagement
from kickoff to launch
100%
Custom-built
no templates, no resellers
Section ISelected Work

Twelve projects.
One studio.

Live work for clients across the tri-state area. Each engagement begins with a conversation and ends with something we'd put our names on.

FE.001
Adelphic Union Lodge screenshot
FE.001 / Community Organization2025

Adelphic Union Lodge No. 14

A 160-year-old Prince Hall Masonic lodge needed a digital home that honored its history while serving its modern membership. We built a heritage-minded web platform spanning history, events, membership, and community resources.

Duration
8 weeks
Stack
React · Node · Vercel
Role
Design + Eng
Read the full case →
Also in this issue — Selected work, continued
Tramell Thompson screenshot
FE.002
FE.002 / Labor · Progressive Action

Tramell Thompson Field Notes

A personal site and field-organizing publication for the labor organizer and writer — built for fast, low-bandwidth posting from the field.

6 weeks
Astro · MDX · Vercel
Design + Eng
Read case →
Low.Key Studios screenshot
FE.003
FE.003 / Photography · Studio

Low.Key Studios v.2

A studio site for a Brooklyn-based photographer — quiet, image-led, with a hand-tuned booking flow that respects how he actually works.

5 weeks
Astro · Sanity · Vercel
Design + Eng
Read case →
PHAmily Classic screenshot
FE.009
FE.009 / Community Event

PHAmily Classic shipped

An annual community basketball classic in PG County. Event site with registration, brackets, sponsor pages, and a hand-set print companion.

4 weeks
Next.js · Stripe · Print
Design + Eng
Read case →
Photo — bus depot, NYCT Mother Clara Hale, Manhattan
FE.012
FE.012 / Transit · Labor

We Move New York Depot Check-In

A progressive web app for transit workers — depot check-in, shift tools, and operator notices that work on subway-tunnel signal.

12 weeks
PWA · React · IndexedDB
Design + Eng
Read case →
Section II — What we do

Four things, done well.

01
Service

Web apps + PWAs

Custom-built, real-world software. We design, ship, and maintain — no handoffs to a third agency at the end.

  • React · Next · Astro
  • Node · Postgres · Stripe
  • Offline-first PWAs
02
Service

Marketing + heritage sites

Editorial-feel sites for organizations whose story matters. Hand-set type, real archives, real research.

  • Sanity · MDX · Hugo
  • Print companions
  • Content strategy
03
Service

Internal tools + ops

Quiet, useful software for the back of the house — dispatch boards, member rolls, depot check-ins, field forms.

  • Internal dashboards
  • Field-grade PWAs
  • Workflow tooling
04
Service

Studio + ongoing partnership

Quarterly retainers for the orgs we keep building with. Fewer clients, longer relationships, real continuity.

  • Quarterly retainer
  • Roadmapping
  • Always two of us
Section III — The Studio

Two people. One studio.

FutreEng is Joseph Panetta and Haron Wilson. Every project is touched by both of us, beginning to end. There is no “team” being assigned — there's us, and the work.

Portrait — Haron Wilson
Co-founder · CEO

Haron Wilson

30+ years in public transportation. Founder of We Move New York, the largest brand for transit professionals. Runs client work, strategy, and the studio's relationship with the people doing real work in the city.

Hands-on across the stack alongside Joseph — front-end work, content systems, and the production-side details that turn a design into a live site. Brings the client's perspective to every project: what actually breaks on the ground, what users will and won't use, and how technology lands inside organizations that have run for decades without it.

Brooklyn, NYHaronWilson@futreeng.com
Portrait — Joseph Panetta
Co-founder · CTO

Joseph Panetta

Engineering lead. Builds production software, maintains the studio's technical bench, and writes most of the code that ends up in front of users.

Works across the full stack: React, Next.js, and Astro on the front end; Node, Python, and Postgres on the back end; Vercel, AWS, and edge infrastructure for deployment. Builds AI-augmented systems and integrations against the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs. Specializes in PWAs that work offline and in low-signal environments — the kind of software that has to keep running when the network doesn't.

Akron, OHJosephPanetta@futreeng.com
Studio principles
  1. I.Two of us, every time. No hand-offs.
  2. II.Custom-built. No templates.
  3. III.Editorial taste, working software. Both, always.
  4. IV.Fewer clients, longer relationships.
Section IV — How we work

Eight weeks, start to ship.

Step 01
Wk 0

Conversation

A 30-minute call. Are we right for each other? If yes, a written proposal within a week.

Step 02
Wk 1

Discovery

We learn the actual job. We meet your people, read your archive, look at how the work is done today.

Step 03
Wk 2–3

Design

Type, layout, and a clickable prototype of the real thing. Reviewed in person where possible.

Step 04
Wk 3–7

Build

Production code. We deploy continuously to a staging URL. You see it grow week by week.

Step 05
Wk 8

Launch

Hand-tuned launch, training your team, and the keys. Then a 30-day support window included.

Step 06
Ongoing

Studio

Optional quarterly retainer. We keep building. Most of our clients stay.

Section V — Testimonial — FE Client
Pull quote / p. 14
The site looks like it cost five times what we paid. Genuinely proud to show it.
— Low.Key Studios, Photography Studio[01] Quoted from FE archive, 2025.
Section VII — FAQ

Common questions.

  • Community organizations, labor unions, transit-adjacent operators, and small tri-state businesses. Most of our clients have a real-world job that software gets in the way of, and we get out of the way.

  • Each engagement is scoped and priced individually. After our first conversation, we send a written proposal — fixed scope, fixed price, no hourly billing. Most clients stay on a quarterly retainer after launch.

  • There are two of us. Both founders work on every project, every day. We don't sell hours, we sell finished work. We don't use templates. We don't sub work out.

  • Yes — if the fit is right. We work best with early-stage founders who know their industry and need software built to last, not just to demo. If you're building something real and want a studio that treats your product like a production system from day one, we're interested.

  • Yes. Most of our clients do. We offer a quarterly retainer for ongoing design + engineering, scoped to the actual work in front of us.

Section VIII — Contact

Tell us about the work.

A 30-minute conversation. No deck. Just you, us, and the actual job in front of you. We'll write back within two business days.

We're best suited for serious engagements — typically multi-week, dedicated builds. If you're scoping a quick one-pager or working at a freelance budget, we may not be the right studio.

Email — hello@futreeng.com
Studio — NYC Tri-State, by appointment
Hours — Mon–Thu, 9–6 ET
Reply — Within two business days
Form 01 — Project enquiry
We reply within 2 business days.