# Furnace

**Type:** venture
**Status:** Draft
**Confidence:** Medium
**Tier:** D
**Focus:** outbound sales, email infrastructure, campaign operations
**Domain:** computing, capital-programs
**Primary Location:** St. George, UT
**Utah Location:** St. George, UT
**Region:** St. George
**Website:** https://www.getfurnace.io/
**Ownership:** founder-led private
**Updated:** 2026-08-11
**Needs-reviewed:** 2026-08-11

## Summary

Furnace builds and operates outbound-sales systems for companies. Its service combines email infrastructure, campaign design and testing, data enrichment, CRM integration, reply handling, and custom engineering.

## Impact

Early companies often need customer discovery and repeatable sales before they can support a specialized growth team. Furnace's bet is that a managed, instrumented outbound system can supply that capability earlier. The public evidence supports an active service with published plans and named client examples, while its reported campaign performance remains self-reported.

## Utah Context

Furnace emerged from Utah Tech University's Sandbox program. A November 2025 St. George startup event identified co-founders Porter Gardiner and Kyle Nelson and reported that the company had performed outreach to more than 100,000 prospects for clients; that figure is an event-organizer statement, not an audited company record.

## What They Need Now

Furnace is actively soliciting customers and offers a free outbound consultation. No current public jobs page was found.

## Open Questions

- What share of Furnace's campaigns produce retained customers rather than positive replies?
- How does the team manage consent, deliverability, and legal compliance across jurisdictions?
- How many people currently work on the managed service?

## Evidence

- [Furnace official website](furnace-outbound-official-website.md) — offer, plans, client examples, and public pricing.
- [Scale STG Startup Fridays event](https://luma.com/9n967fkv) — founders, Utah Tech Sandbox origin, St. George ecosystem connection, and organizer-reported outreach scale.