Our design and development methodologies are a bit more progressive than ones used by many leading internet consulting firms. We provide focused solutions that solve specific business problems, giving our customers the most possible value. For instance, you won’t see us recommend a complex “Enterprise Content Management System” when a small, focused web application can do the job better.

We build applications at a fraction of the cost of traditional “enterprise” (commercial) counterparts that do a better job solving your specific business problem.

We do this by creating a small focused team of our technology experts. Our team follows cutting edge, yet proved development methodologies like agile development and SCRUM project management. We use adaptive building blocks for our projects, like Ruby on Rails, that both enforce best-practices as well as give us the flexibility to solve intricate challenges.

Here are some facts:

• We’ve been around since 1998, we’ve been consulting since 2001
• Our office is located in Boston’s Back Bay, but we have customers from around the globe.
• We provide outsourced development, project management and best-practices services.
• When bidding on projects, we are very transparent and even expose our margin. We feel using a target-cost basis to create proposals and project budgets is a good way to eliminate adversity and build trust.
• We like to use Agile Development methodologies and typically use a modified SCRUM-based approach to project management.
• Developers around here mostly use Mac and Linux. We always develop following open standards.
• We use Ruby, Perl, PHP, Python and even some C to build code. Many of our applications are based on the MVC (or derivations of) framework. Most of our applications live in happy Linux/BSD environments. We like using MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases but have also worked with MSSQL, Oracle and even Interbase.
• Our work is always under revision control with Subversion or Git and we have a private and secure websites for each project - and all our work is always transparent for our customers.