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.

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“The weekly standups, level of communication, and the professional documentation of the ideas of what we wanted to achieve with Unifocal was detailed and great with Flagrant. It felt like I was working with, in which I was, a high-performing software development team.”
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Tyler Sims
CEO & Founder, Unifocal

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

Refactoring

What is it?

Restructuring your existing code to make it easier (or even possible) to add to it.

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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

Delightfully Friday Junior: Pick Three

August 27, 2026

Survival shows aren’t really about surviving. The environment is backdrop. What keeps you watching are the people — how they think under pressure, what they reach for first, who holds together and who doesn’t. I tested that theory on our team. Split them into two groups, handed each a

by Kelly Rauwerdink

Delightfully Friday Junior: Sentiment Sliders?

August 24, 2026

Delightfully Friday Junior came back for me, and this time it wasn’t my first rodeo. (Psst. Are you new here? Do you not know about Delightfully Friday Junior? Let’s fix that.) I did some digging around to search for an activity, and nothing really called to me. Then I considered that we’ve

by Yossef Mendelssohn

Developer Round Table - Testing API Calls

August 20, 2026

This week during our Developer Round Table, Yossef shared some information with the group about API development he’d been doing recently for a client, along with some of the different tools a developer has available for testing an API and showcasing that testing to a client. He walked through

by Amanda Klusmeyer and Yossef Mendelssohn
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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.