Work We’re Proud Of
We can’t always name the client. But we can describe what we built — and the problem it solved. These are four projects that represent the kind of work we do best.
Utility workers face serious hazards on every job — falls, electrocution, high pressure and mechanical risks that need to be identified and mitigated before work begins. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) needed a proof-of-concept tool to demonstrate how a structured hazard assessment could work as a mobile application, built as a device-agnostic PWA so it would run on whatever hardware a crew had on hand.
We built a demonstration app that calculates the risk level for each hazard type, assesses the immediate danger present on a job site, and gives workers a mechanism to identify and document mitigation steps before work begins.
The result was a working demonstration that showed EPRI exactly how this kind of tool could fit into a field worker’s day — fast, intuitive, with no manual required.
Developing a prototype that incorporated a science-based safety energy wheel to enable workers to quickly identify and mitigate the multiple energy hazards at their job sites.
Source: The Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. Used with permission.
Before a utility crew begins work on a job site, they conduct a tailboard briefing — a structured safety review that covers hazards, PPE requirements, crew roles, and emergency procedures. This process is critical, but it was largely paper-based, inconsistent across crews, and difficult to document.
We began by developing a proof-of-concept briefing app with a task force of seven utilities, testing the concept across a range of crew types and operating environments. The insights from that process shaped the production app, which we then built and successfully piloted with a major Northeast utility’s field crews.
The production app guides crews through PPE checklists, hazard identification, geolocation verification of the job site, and digital crew sign-off. It replaced paper forms with a consistent, auditable digital process that supervisors can monitor and crews can complete quickly.
Building consensus across seven utilities with different operating procedures, then translating that into a single app flexible enough to handle all of them — without becoming so complex that field crews would resist using it.
High-end smart home integrators needed a way to keep their clients informed about what was happening in their homes in real time — system alerts, status changes, and important events — without requiring clients to log into a dashboard or learn a complex interface.
alertTech is a real-time monitoring and alert iOS app built for Crestron smart home integrators and their clients. It delivers lock-screen push notifications for important events, supports in-app messaging between homeowners and their integrators, maintains running event logs, and handles clients with multiple properties worldwide.
The Crestron integration required deep work at the hardware/software boundary — understanding Crestron’s programming model, designing a reliable event pipeline, and ensuring that notifications arrived promptly and accurately even when clients were in different time zones.
Designing a notification system that was genuinely useful — alerting clients to things that actually mattered — without becoming noise that people would start ignoring or disabling.
A novel GPR (ground-penetrating radar) system for scanning tree root structures has the hardware working — a Bluetooth-controlled gantry and a WiFi-connected GPR antenna — but needs the user workflow software that will make it practical for arborists and researchers to actually use in the field.
We are designing the complete user workflow: a tablet app that controls the Bluetooth gantry hardware, manages the WiFi GPR antenna, coordinates the scanning process, uploads raw data to a cloud-based AI analysis system, and presents the resulting 3D image reconstruction to the user.
The integration complexity here is significant — two different wireless protocols, real-time hardware control, large data transfers, and a cloud pipeline — all wrapped in an interface that a field arborist can operate without an engineering degree.
Orchestrating four separate hardware and software systems — Bluetooth gantry, WiFi antenna, mobile app, and cloud AI — into a seamless workflow that feels like a single, simple tool to the person holding the tablet.
See yourself in any of these?
If your challenge involves field operations, hardware integration, complex workflows, or systems that need to work without a manual — we’d like to hear about it.
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