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The most effective way to solve complex problems is to build, experiment, and ship.
Our approach can work for you. Let’s start a conversation about how to build something amazing together.
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Our tenets for project success
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Agile Development and Project Management
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Full-cycle Stakeholder Engagement
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Capacity Building and Long Term Thinking
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Transparent Pricing and Incredible Value
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Centering Equity
Our approach centers on a trust-driven attitude to agile product development. We generate exceptional technological results not by focusing all of our efforts on engineering and design, but by focusing an equal amount of our effort on people, trust-building, and collaboration.
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Agile Development and Project Management
Our approach centers on building trust as a foundation for agile product development in any environment. We generate exceptional technological results not by focusing all of our efforts on engineering and design, but by focusing an equal amount of our effort on people, trust-building, and collaboration.
We ask questions to draw out the problem landscape
What problem are we trying to solve?
If we had solutions in mind, how do we know they are the right ones?
Do our capabilities, capacity, and approach align well with your needs?
What are the most efficient ways to test assumptions?
We apply tried and true tactics
We usually build a basic proof-of-concept MVP as a first step
We give clients the tools and training to be active participants in the agile process.
We find ways to cast light on the most impactful solutions
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Full-cycle Stakeholder Engagement
Great tech is not enough; success requires informed, engaged, and invested stakeholders.
We build relationships inside and outside the building
We connect our work to your culture, processes, and IT in a way that minimizes disruption
We build relationships based on mutual respect and clear communication.
We cast a wide net, engaging IT leaders, decision-makers, frontline staff, and key vendors and strategic partners.
We speak your language
We have extensive experience in highly regulated industries, as well as government and politics.
We are an impact-driven team, just like you.
We center impact
We work hard to understand motivations and perspectives
We build a powerful case for innovation based on impact not shiny new tech
We engage with your storytellers and marketers to create a compelling internal narrative around the project.
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Capacity Building and Long Term Thinking
Our goal is to leave things better than we found them.
Our partners have a wide range of in-house capacity
From nonprofits with no IT staff to cutting-edge startups with large engineering teams.
We are comfortable working as an independent product team, or fully integrated with existing teams.
We begin with the end in mind
We are a product studio, not an IT staffing agency. We want to build great things that you will be able to use and maintain in-house for years to come.
We provide capacity-building services including staffing and resource planning, training, documentation, maintenance and support.
We center impact
We work hard to understand motivations and perspectives
We build a powerful case for innovation based on impact not shiny new tech
We engage with your storytellers and marketers to create a compelling internal narrative around the project.
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Transparent Pricing and Incredible Value
You should know how much your project will cost.
We provide simple, clear, up-front pricing and scopes-of-work.
We want to deliver concrete value and impact to our partners with each project we take on, not lock in long-term service contracts.
Our pricing is structured around key deliverables, and is 100% transparent to our partners.
Your dollars fund impact, not Herman Miller chairs and tropical team-building retreats.
We are a small, independent, 100% remote team based in CA and NY.
We have grown entirely through word-of-mouth and referrals.
We provide the highest level of product quality at a lower cost by focusing on sustainable growth and keeping our overhead low.
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Centering Equity
The climate crisis is not primarily about land, water, ice, or weather. It is first and foremost a crisis of humanity.
We build “with” not “for” the communities most impacted by the climate crisis.
The climate crisis dramatically and disproportionately impacts people of color and disadvantaged communities worldwide
We aim to center equity not only in the projects we take on, but also in how we approach our own work, build our team, and engage with partners and vendors.
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