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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HOT OFF THE PRESS

Three different sweaters in a row are shown, each featuring a custom Flagrant illustration. The leftmost is a black dog jumping through flames, the middle is a possum sitting cheekily on a pile of garbage, the rightmost is a possum and a raccoon posing together. Now Open! Flagrant Shop (Free Shipping.) A Unicorn Capybara sticker and a XO Ruby hat are also shown.

New Flagrant Shop

Dec 19, 2025 | Check it out!

Have you been admiring the swag we make for conferences? Are you yearning to buy some Flagrant merch of your own? Good news—now you can! No more waiting until the next Ruby conference to land some cute gear. You can satisfy all your consumerist and swag desires by checking out our new shop page.

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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.

3Space Lab logo City of Madison logo EchoBind logo Electables logo FireHydrant logo Green Light logo GroupCollect logo Jute logo Client logo logo Midpoint Ventures logo NBW logo Numero logo Pave logo Puzzel logo RailsConf logo Red Squirrel logo Ruby Central logo The Canoe Project logo Training Tracker logo Unifocal logo
“Sometimes you work with consultants and either intentionally or unintentionally, their code sucks so much that you have to keep working with them. Flagrant designed and coded themselves out of a job. I had a ton of confidence when they were done that I was not gonna be holding a bag of shit.”
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Heather Corallo
Founder, the Canoe Project

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

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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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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Refactoring

What is it?

Restructuring your existing code to make it easier (or even possible) to add to it.

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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

Delightfully Friday Junior: Sentiment Sliders?

August 24, 2026

Delightfully Friday Junior came back for me, and this time it wasn’t my first rodeo. (Psst. Are you new here? Do you not know about Delightfully Friday Junior? Let’s fix that.) I did some digging around to search for an activity, and nothing really called to me. Then I considered that we’ve

by Yossef Mendelssohn

Developer Round Table - Testing API Calls

August 20, 2026

This week during our Developer Round Table, Yossef shared some information with the group about API development he’d been doing recently for a client, along with some of the different tools a developer has available for testing an API and showcasing that testing to a client. He walked through

by Amanda Klusmeyer and Yossef Mendelssohn

Developer Round Table - Why Do We Still Dismiss CSS?

July 20, 2026

You know what’s weird? CSS is everywhere, pretty much on every website and yet, there’s this attitude about CSS that persists that it doesn’t need to be taken seriously; it’s just icing on a cake. Casey brought this up at a Developer Round Table discussion, and it hit home. There’s this vibe that

by Amanda Klusmeyer
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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.