You know what your industry’s software misses because you have to work around it. A design partnership gives that experience a direct route into product development: you help shape the priorities, work with the engineers, and try the result while it can still change.
We fund development and handle bringing the product to the wider market. You contribute industry knowledge and time with the team. The aim is a product that is useful to your business and other people facing the same problem.
Start with the work you can show us
A useful first conversation is specific. Walk us through a task from beginning to end. Show the spreadsheet, the duplicated entry, or the step that only one experienced person knows how to finish. Explain what existing software gets right as well as where it falls short.
We are looking for a problem shared across a market, a partner who understands it, and an opportunity we can build and support. The first discussion helps establish that fit. It also helps separate a product opportunity from a workflow that is unique to one company.
Influence while decisions are still open
The benefit of early involvement is the ability to change the shape of the software. Your experience can influence which records exist, how the workflow moves, which exception needs first-class support, and what should be left out of the first version.
That influence works best through examples and priorities. Tell us why a detail matters, how often it occurs, and what happens when the software handles it badly. We can then discuss the tradeoffs with the people who will build the solution.
A product serving a wider market will not treat every request as a separate specification. The partnership gives your knowledge a place in those decisions and gives us a way to test whether our interpretation matches real work.
A direct relationship with the engineers
You work with the engineers assigned to the product. You can explain the problem to the people solving it, review working versions, and discuss what the team is learning. That shortens the distance between an operating detail and an engineering decision.
Our shared platform and design system give the team foundations for accounts, permissions, documents, forms, and other recurring work. That makes the industry discussion more specific: which part of this workflow is different, and what does the product need to do about it?
Early access with a purpose
Early use gives your team a chance to learn the product and influence its next version. It gives us a chance to see where the software’s model of the work is incomplete. A useful early stage needs a task that someone can actually try, rather than an impressive collection of unfinished screens.
The feedback can be practical: a field is missing, the sequence is wrong, the default assumes something that rarely happens, or a status is unclear. We want those observations while there is room to act on them.
What each side contributes
Your industry knowledge
A firsthand understanding of the market, real examples, and people who can explain the work and its exceptions.
Your time with the team
Conversations with engineers, feedback on working versions, and help deciding which problems deserve attention first.
Our product development
Funding for the build, engineers assigned to the product, shared foundations, and the work of bringing it to market.
A possible advisory stake
Some partnerships may include an advisory role with equity in the product business. We consider these arrangements case by case. It is a potential part of a particular partnership, rather than an automatic benefit attached to early access.
Construction is where we are starting
Our first industry focus is construction, with an end-to-end system as the goal. Inventory management and time tracking are the initial focus. Presales, including estimating and takeoffs, comes next. The work is in development.
We are also interested in people who know what needs fixing in other industries. The common thread is operating knowledge and a willingness to put it to work with an engineering team. A useful introduction is the industry, one workflow that falls short, and what you would change first.