WHAT WE DO

Product development in software requires a dynamic, cross-functional, creative, and experienced team. Bringing all the requisite skills to bear at the right time to capitalize on an opportunity is a challenge for any company. For growth-stage businesses, that means dealing with legacy technology, keeping up with customer demand, and opening up new partnership and product opportunities… all while short on resources and time. Indigo Business Partners was founded to help address that challenge - partnering with you in roles ranging from design architect, mentor, or contract developer. Our work spans the entire product development life cycle:

Strategic Advisory Services

Software Design & Architecture

Custom Development

Management & Team Development

Advisory Services

For Established Businesses - There’s a quote commonly attributed to Albert Einstein: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”. He obviously didn’t have modern tech-enabled business problems in mind, but it holds true. Sometimes we actually know too much about our business - the history, the culture, the constraints - to ask the right questions that lead to innovations. Whether you’re making investments in technology to keep up with customer demand, transform your operation, open your platform for potential integrations, or set yourself up for expansion, Indigo can bring the combination of experience, problem solving, and perspective to maximize your payoff. We have a wealth of knowledge to call on in the areas of best practices, process, performance optimization, due diligence, and dealing with technical debt, among others.

For Entrepreneurs and Startups - If you’re asked yourself “Do I need a technical co-founder?” then more likely than not the answer is yes. However, if you don’t already know (and more importantly trust) somebody with the experience and expertise to partner with, navigating the early phase decision making process is a potential minefield that we can help you safely navigate. How do I turn my idea into a viable software design? Should I hire developers or farm it out? Should I go with a large established company or a freelancer? On-shore, near-shore, or off-shore? Our involvement can start as simply being a sounding board for you, and can go as far as being a development partner and/or part-time CTO, depending how your needs evolve over time.

Software Design & Architecture

While we’re firm believers in an agile development life cycle, taking an iterative approach doesn’t alleviate the need to design your solution with established concepts, user feedback, and best practices in mind… if anything it makes doing so more challenging and more critical. When possible, we want to take a human-centered design approach to our projects, and while that can challenge the original concept and assumptions, it often makes for a more engaging, sustainable product.

Management & Team Development

Once we know what we’re going to build, we can tackle the question of how. Our process will always work best if we’re fully engaged throughout the design and development, but every business is unique, and the push and pull factors of time, cost, and quality will dictate our working model. The highest potential comes from partnering with existing teams, working hands-on to advance the projects while mentoring the developers on the best practices, tools, and techniques to maximize their productivity. Our engagement can increase the chances your work is on-time, on-budget, and of the highest quality.

Custom Development

If you’re successful with everything that’s come before - you have a great idea that appeals to customers, a thoughtful and engaging design, and a solid business plan to capitalize - all that remains is what we often call “a simple matter of programming”. Nailing the early steps can make the development work much easier, and tremendously more likely to be successful, but you still have to account for code quality - performance & scalability, readability, test coverage, adherence, etc. We’ll adapt to the languages and frameworks that are right for your organization, but our deepest technical experience is in .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Angular, and React, with subject matter expertise in rules engine implementations, data modeling & data warehousing, robotic process automation, to name a few.