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MDB builds apps. The contracts buy lunch.
At Berkeley, a student development club connects paid software work with an unusually practical education. The small details - a name game, a lunch vote, eleven project milestones - explain how.
Yeti LLC and the art of making things actually work
A skincare device that would not connect. A dartboard that needed eyes. Inside the software studio that builds the missing pieces between a good idea and a usable product.
Konsult’s best feature was knowing what to leave out
The San Francisco software consultancy brought Apple experience to startup budgets. Its most useful lesson came from a client tool that needed only two permission levels.
Mad Devs Wants to Show You Where the Software Money Goes
The engineering company reports trimming Veeqo’s cloud bill by 35%. Its own product, Enji, tackles another expensive problem: clients struggling to see what their developers are doing.
Xavor Spent 30 Years Fixing Enterprise Plumbing. Now It Wants to Put AI in the Pipes
The Irvine-to-Lahore engineering firm built its reputation on the systems nobody brags about - PLM migrations, access workflows and data plumbing. Its next act is a useful test of whether enterprise AI works better when the boring foundations come first.
Rajiv Pendyala Built a Career in the Work Between the Software and the Sale
For three decades, Rajiv Pendyala has worked the seam where technical projects meet commercial trust. His long tenure at Infotech Spectrum offers a practical study in the quiet machinery of IT services.
Jason Russell Keeps Changing the Product - and Keeping the Same Skill
Before enterprise software, there were ad agencies, poker chips and furniture sourced in China. The Stable Kernel CEO's real product has always been curiosity - disciplined just enough to become a company.
Todd Kaufman Built a Software Company That Its Employees Could Own
A sixth-grade encounter with BASIC led to a career in code, a roadside Chili’s led to Test Double, and a stubborn question about fairness led its founders to give the company to its employees.
Test Double Sold Itself to Its Employees - Then Went Hunting for Bigger Software Problems
The Ohio consultancy built a business by rescuing developers from bad incentives. Now its employee-owners are betting that the useful edge in AI-era software is judgment, not faster typing.
Trinetix
Trinetix does not sell enterprises another AI demo. Its 1,100-plus practitioners redesign the stubborn workflows around the technology - and stay long enough to make the new system useful.
Cygnis
Cygnis is a Pleasanton, California-based custom software and AI development studio founded in 2010 (originally Cygnis Media). It builds web, mobile, SaaS and AI-powered products for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, and has delivered more than 300 projects across healthcare, finance, education, real estate, transportation, hospitality and government. The company's current focus is turning AI ambitions into working software - embedding machine learning and generative AI into existing products or building AI-native systems from scratch, alongside data engineering, business intelligence and workflow automation.
Infotech Spectrum Inc
Infotech Spectrum Inc is a Santa Clara, California IT consulting and professional staffing firm founded in 2003. It pairs contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement staffing with delivery services spanning strategic IT consulting, enterprise software, cloud, and computer systems validation (CSV) for regulated life sciences work. Working with clients such as Gilead, Genentech, Cisco, and Juul, the roughly 86-person company blends onsite Silicon Valley talent with a global delivery model to help enterprises staff hard-to-fill roles and ship technology projects on schedule and on budget.
Very Good Ventures
Very Good Ventures is the world's first and largest Flutter development agency. Founded in 2018 after building the first commercial Flutter app for the musical Hamilton, the fully remote firm helps mid-market and enterprise brands ship beautiful, production-ready apps for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. VGV is trusted by Google to build flagship Flutter products and maintains widely used open source tooling like Very Good CLI and Dart Frog.