Tech+ Creative+ People

We are your partners for delivering thoughtful products & applications from any stage in your project.

Our nationally distributed team collaborates seamlessly with clients and each other to improve products, systems, websites, and tools that businesses rely on with deep expertise in design & development. We even create conferences, like XO Ruby, to expand community and share knowledge.

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Our Services

Strategize

Bring visions to life and facilitate change.

  • Problem Refinement
  • User Discovery
  • Generative Research
  • Business Model Workshop
  • Brand Identity & Strategy
  • Fractional Engineering & Technical Leadership

Build

Deliver digital projects that solve real problems.

  • Design Sprints
  • Front-end Development
  • Back-end Development
  • UI/UX/Visual Design
  • Product Management
  • Applications & APIs
  • User Research & Testing
  • Web Accessibility

Grow

Augment internal teams and accelerate delivery.

  • Process Improvement
  • Design Systems
  • Legacy Code Rescue
  • Technical Debt Analysis & Management
  • Team Upskilling, Training & Support
  • Facilitated Retrospective
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HOT OFF THE PRESS

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New Flagrant Shop

Dec 19, 2025 | Check it out!

Have you been admiring the swag we make for conferences? Are you yearning to buy some Flagrant merch of your own? Good news—now you can! No more waiting until the next Ruby conference to land some cute gear. You can satisfy all your consumerist and swag desires by checking out our new shop page.

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OUR ALL-STAR CLIENTS

We enjoy working with startups that understand how software is built from large enterprise companies that need some experts or detangling legacy code.

3Space Lab logo City of Madison logo EchoBind logo Electables logo FireHydrant logo Green Light logo GroupCollect logo Jute logo Client logo logo Midpoint Ventures logo NBW logo Numero logo Pave logo Puzzel logo RailsConf logo Red Squirrel logo Ruby Central logo The Canoe Project logo Training Tracker logo Unifocal logo
“Glynnis feels more like a full-time member of our team than any other consultant has felt. The way I can sort of collaborate with her, the amount she knows about our systems and our pedagogy, and the product, and the insight into users. I can take a half-fleshed-out UX idea and say, ‘Can you see where you can get with this?’ and she'll actually come up with something that's usable.”
Naila Ahmad
Product Manager, Chapter One

Our Greatest Hits

If you would like to see more of our work, hit us up for a virtual coffee or come cowork with us in-person at one of our local faves.

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Process:

How we work

Performance audit

What is it?

An evaluation of the real‑world slowdowns that keep your users from completing important tasks in your product or service. It focuses on how quickly key flows respond, where bottlenecks pop up across your stack, and how those issues show up as friction for your users.

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Data Modeling

What is it?

Structuring the way your product stores data and logic so that it accurately represents the things it's trying to do.

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Juicy Problems We've Solved

We enjoy working with startups that understand how software is built from large enterprise companies that need some experts or detangling legacy code.

  • Conferences
  • Industrial / Factory
  • Retail
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Training
  • Health
  • FinTech
  • Travel
  • SAAS

Tech we play with

While we have specialties where we bring the most expertise, we’re not limited by them. Since technology changes everyday, we’re adaptable and open to using what makes sense for your project.

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Don't see your industry or tech stack? We might have ran out of pixels, so let's talk about it and see if we still can help. We love a good challenge.

Sharing Our Expertise

Developer Roundtable: Herb

May 22, 2026

Herb, created by Marco Roth, is a new HTML-aware ERB parser designed to improve developer tooling for Rails view templates. Unlike traditional parsers that either ignore embedded Ruby or modify the original HTML, Herb understands both HTML and ERB simultaneously while preserving the source

by Amanda Klusmeyer

Delightfully Friday Junior: Who's Actually on Your Team?

May 7, 2026

I’ve been putting off writing this for over a month. Turns out I find writing hard. Moving on. We’re into the next cycle of Delightfully Friday Junior. The format: one team member hosts 30 minutes, no work allowed, activity of their choice. Games, creative tasks, questions — whatever they

by Kelly Rauwerdink

Delightfully Friday Junior: Curiosity Roundtable

May 5, 2026

This week’s Delightfully Friday Junior (if you’re catching up on what this is, learn more here) involved a roundtable sharing of some prompted questions. A few of these questions were: “What song have you had on repeat?”, “What cartoon or movie character would you want to meet and why?”, “What

by Amanda Klusmeyer
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Words we actually live work by:

This isn't just HR blather. See how we put our values into meaningful action.

  • Be our unabashedly true selves.
  • Be human and thoughtful while having serious fun.
  • Stop. Collaborate. and Listen.
  • Work for equitable outcomes.
  • Unlearn what’s expected to deliver the unexpected.
  • Genuinely desire success in those around us and do what we can to make it happen.