Your Team.
Your App.

We help you craft the tools that get your teamwork done - home or away.

The Roadmap

Working with you.

Ros and Anja meet with your team, to understand their goals as a group, and of the individual members of your team. The result is a goal spec, which will guide our work together.

Our first design job is to identify the smallest app that we can build first, an app that can give you an early win after no more than a month or two of work.
We start with a two-hour block of consulting to begin to identify this first small scope of work, and to explore a rough budget for the project. We define this work scope in a second block of hours, so we can give you a cost and time estimate for building this first app.
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The scope of work is documented in a Specification that is called a Goals by Role document. The goal spec lists the people your app serves, identified by their role, and then lists what this person wants to accomplish in that role: their goals. This is not a Functional Spec. At SmallCo, we may follow with a functional spec after the app’s platform has been selected.
Once the goal spec is done, it’s time to select a platform for your app: a web app, a native app on iOS or Android, the Claris FileMaker Platform, or a customizable and commercially available pre-designed app. We may also choose to integrate this custom app with existing data, apps, or web services. This is where we choose a security model, and where we decide how to deploy your app, on-site, or in the cloud.
Your Data Wranglers at SmallCo will corral your current data and place it into your new custom app. We will spin up your server, so you’ll be able to see the app take shape.

Scheduled a Call

“I love being a SmallCozian”

“I get to work with a carefully curated team from all over the world that supports each other, is continuously evolving and truly enjoys getting down to business. Together we have tackled a wide variety of problems, finding great solutions by combining our expertise…”

– Rosalyn “Roz” Mártir, Designer at SmallCo

Getting the tools in your hands

Craft Your App

The Great is the Enemy of the Good. So we never go for the home run right off the bat. Instead, we’ll build the best first step, an app that will give your team the most important benefits at the earliest possible moment.
We call that first app an MVP, a Minimum Viable Product. It may be custom-built, it might integrate with your existing tools, and it may be at the very start of your workflow. Or not.

Your project manager, Fabian or Gianna, with your design lead Albert and perhaps your system architects Milan or Jakov, will help with these decisions. The goal is to reach Low Hanging Fruit, ASAP.

Your SmallCo team works fast. Within a week you can see your first mockups of your app.
A few weeks after that, you will have something you can start to use and test. At that point, the app itself begins to “talk back,” entering into a kind of dialog with the team during the testing phase that Mia will lead.
Milan & Jakov on the API team can then link your app to the rest of the world: your accounting system, website, inventory, e-commerce, etc.

Work With Us

Andre and a few team members looking at code while traveling.

Keep your Code dry.

Critical code is written in pairs by Anja and Jakov or Dave and Milan, in a manner called pair programming. Our teams show off their work in SmallCo’s Coders Dens, held every two weeks. We’re proud of what we do, and we like to share our work.

Our aim is to write apps that are Anti-Fragile, apps that actually grow stronger and more effective with time. One champion of this effort is Andre, who has been coding for 50 years.

An early project for Andre was code that controlled the dikes that kept the Netherlands from flooding. Talk about mission-critical…

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