# Templates: Substrait's best practice, wired to your company

> Substrait builds templates of common business software on best practice from its own experience. Every installation starts with them, already connected to the company's cloud, sign-on, identity, data and design. A template is copied and owned, never locked to a central version.

URL: https://substrait.build/capabilities/seeded-templates/  
Last updated: 2026-11-06

Nobody on Substrait starts from nothing. Substrait builds templates of common business software on best practice from its own experience, and every installation is seeded with them, already wired to your company's cloud, sign-on, identity, data connections and design, so a builder only shapes the tool to how the team works.

## What a template holds

A template is Substrait's best practice for a common kind of business software, plus what is unique to your company.
Substrait builds each one from its experience of building and running business systems.
The hard parts are settled before anyone starts: sign-in, identity, data connections, infrastructure and security settings.

## Fork and own

A template is a starting point.
Your team copies it, and the copy is yours.
Substrait keeps no central version you must stay on.

## From small tools to whole systems

| Department starters | Shapes |
|---|---|
| Procurement | Approval router |
| Inventory and warehouse | Partner portal |
| Orders | Scorecard |
| Service desk | Document generation |
| Supplier management | Reconciliation |
| Assets and maintenance | Leakage recovery |
| Quality | Field data collection |
| Expenses and claims | |
| HR | |
| Account management | |

A template can sit beside your ERP or replace one of its modules.

## Related

- [Agentic Builder: requests become tools](https://substrait.build/capabilities/agentic-builder/): Agentic Builder is the part of Substrait where anyone asks for a new tool or a change in plain words, and build agents plan, build, test and ship it under the company's own rules, with the tool's owner in charge.
- [Build with the AI model you already use](https://substrait.build/capabilities/build-with-your-own-ai-model/): Substrait does not replace your people's AI model. A plugin for Claude Code, the Claude desktop app and Cursor connects it to Substrait, and a scaffold fitted to your company shapes what it produces.
- [How to get the small tools on IT's backlog built](https://substrait.build/problems/clear-the-it-backlog/): IT builds the core systems, and the long tail of small tools never gets built. Substrait lets the people who need those tools build them, and turns requests into tools through product management and build agents.
- [How to get out of a legacy vendor system](https://substrait.build/problems/replace-a-legacy-system/): When a closed vendor system is slow and expensive to change, Substrait's team rebuilds the functions you use on Substrait, so you own the data and the software and later changes are fast.