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Business Situation

Business owners who know their operations need to change, arriving at a software studio to work out whether software is actually the answer.

Operational Challenge

Owners describe operational problems; software gets specified in technical requirements, and nothing bridges the two. A contact form collects too little context, so the first several meetings are spent reconstructing the business before anything can be proposed. Meanwhile most projects that do start are rebuilt from scratch, despite sharing the same operational foundations as the last one.

Solution

Carlsson Studio replaces the traditional portfolio with a software discovery platform. Through a guided questionnaire, businesses describe their operations, constraints, and objectives in their own language. The platform evaluates those answers against the metadata of every foundation in the ecosystem, recommends the closest match, and generates an implementation roadmap instead of a generic contact request.

Business Impact

An owner leaves with a concrete recommendation and a scope in one sitting rather than after weeks of meetings. Because the recommendation is derived from structured foundation metadata rather than from whoever took the call, it stays consistent — and it improves on its own as the ecosystem grows.

Workflow

Features

Architecture

The platform follows a modern frontend-backend architecture. A Next.js frontend provides an interactive discovery experience, while a Java Spring Boot backend manages project questionnaires, business rule evaluation, foundation matching, proposal generation, and future client management capabilities. The recommendation engine operates on structured metadata collected from every software foundation, allowing the platform to evolve as new projects are added.

Available Customizations

Client CRM

Implementation planning

Project estimation

Automated handoff

Is this suitable for your business?

This foundation is ideal for:

Consulting firms

Software agencies

Business operators planning digital transformation

Teams exploring reusable foundations

Foundation Coverage

Reusable modules from the Carlsson Studio foundation, combined with logic built for this domain.

Foundation Modules

• Authentication
• Roles & Permissions
• Dashboard
• Notifications
• File Uploads
• Reporting

Discovery

• Questionnaire
• Business Mapping
• Recommendation Scoring

Delivery

• Proposal Builder
• Roadmap Generator
• Client Handoff

Technical Highlights

Pattern

AI-assisted discoveryComposable foundations

Frontend

Next.js

Backend

JavaSpring Boot

Data

Structured business metadata