The Pivotal Process

Working with Us is Different

When we take on a project, we like to hit the ground running. We seed the project with an experienced team, ready to begin executing immediately on your product vision. As the vision grows and changes, our team adapts. As you hire your own development team, we'll weave them into our team, teaching them the code base, and all our techniques as well. We want to make sure that when you're done working with us, your team can move into the next phase of development with confidence, and keep things running smoothly. Once your team is self-sufficient, we can weave our developers back out, and move on to the next engagement. You're always welcome back, for that next new feature initiative, to add a little extra horsepower, or to help out with some thorny issue down the line.

Flexibility

One thing that's special about us is that we can vary the team size on demand. During the early stages of development, startups will often have big fluctuations in workload. We can ramp the team size up or down, depending on development objectives and financing constraints. We can develop at full speed for a week, a month, or a year, then stop on a dime—and stop burning capital—and stop for as long as it takes for the client to close a funding round, or get some traction in the marketplace, or decide on the next round of features. Our clients are done with us when they decide they're done. Their business goals and product needs are always in the driver's seat.

We strive to be a strategic partner for our clients. We are not an outsourcing firm but instead work to get our clients self-sufficient. We believe our approach offers a unique balance between the short term need for execution and the long term need of sustainability.

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