Tech+ Creative+ People

We are your partners for delivering thoughtful products & applications from any stage in your project.

Our nationally distributed team collaborates seamlessly with clients and each other to improve products, systems, websites, and tools that businesses rely on with deep expertise in design & development. We even create conferences, like XO Ruby, to expand community and share knowledge.

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Our Services

Strategize

Bring visions to life and facilitate change.

  • Problem Refinement
  • User Discovery
  • Generative Research
  • Business Model Workshop
  • Brand Identity & Strategy
  • Fractional Engineering & Technical Leadership

Build

Deliver digital projects that solve real problems.

  • Design Sprints
  • Front-end Development
  • Back-end Development
  • UI/UX/Visual Design
  • Product Management
  • Applications & APIs
  • User Research & Testing
  • Web Accessibility

Grow

Augment internal teams and accelerate delivery.

  • Process Improvement
  • Design Systems
  • Legacy Code Rescue
  • Technical Debt Analysis & Management
  • Team Upskilling, Training & Support
  • Facilitated Retrospective
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OUR ALL-STAR CLIENTS

We enjoy working with startups that understand how software is built from large enterprise companies that need some experts or detangling legacy code.

“I have 100% faith and zero concern that we're going to get the thing that we need to get out of the engagement. And that's exactly what I need to know.”
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Adam Cuppy
Chief Product & Technology Officer, Chapter One

Our Greatest Hits

If you would like to see more of our work, hit us up for a virtual coffee or come cowork with us in-person at one of our local faves.

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Process:

How we work

Performance audit

What is it?

An evaluation of the real‑world slowdowns that keep your users from completing important tasks in your product or service. It focuses on how quickly key flows respond, where bottlenecks pop up across your stack, and how those issues show up as friction for your users.

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Wireframing

What is it?

Preliminary blueprints that help a team align on structure, placement, and hierarchy for your product or service.

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Data Modeling

What is it?

Structuring the way your product stores data and logic so that it accurately represents the things it's trying to do.

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Juicy Problems We've Solved

We enjoy working with startups that understand how software is built from large enterprise companies that need some experts or detangling legacy code.

  • Conferences
  • Industrial / Factory
  • Retail
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Training
  • Health
  • FinTech
  • Travel
  • SAAS

Tech we play with

While we have specialties where we bring the most expertise, we’re not limited by them. Since technology changes everyday, we’re adaptable and open to using what makes sense for your project.

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Don't see your industry or tech stack? We might have ran out of pixels, so let's talk about it and see if we still can help. We love a good challenge.

Sharing Our Expertise

Welcome to Claudeville

April 6, 2026

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reluctantly using Claude Code. This is “reluctant” for a host of reasons I don’t want to get into at the moment, because I don’t want to turn this into a diatribe or rant, or a series of rants (no promises). Instead, I just want to talk about what I’m

by Yossef Mendelssohn

Running Playfully Productive Brainstorms

March 20, 2026

Flagrant has been experimenting with spending our internal time / non-client facing time in building meaningful things. Everything from our new Shop page to our Bookshop are artifacts of the team coming together to create our own work. We want to continue creating but when the team is faced with

by Lena Yen

Suck it up and make things accessible already

March 19, 2026

Though I’m not currently disabled, I spent several years of my childhood chronically ill without a diagnosis (followed by emergency surgery and a full recovery). I’ve suffered shoulder injuries that kept me away from my pottery studio and prevented me from lifting grocery bags. Once, I twisted an

by Glynnis Ritchie
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Words we actually live work by:

This isn't just HR blather. See how we put our values into meaningful action.

  • Be our unabashedly true selves.
  • Be human and thoughtful while having serious fun.
  • Stop. Collaborate. and Listen.
  • Work for equitable outcomes.
  • Unlearn what’s expected to deliver the unexpected.
  • Genuinely desire success in those around us and do what we can to make it happen.