Custom Software Dev for Sanitation Tool Startup
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Introductory information
A fast induction on the buyer’s organisation
I’m the founder and COO of a sanitation startup. We automate sterilization processes. Given adequate time and faculty, the tool breaks the DNA of microbes that come into touch with it. Since you can’t expose nation to it straightly, it’s limited. We',ve patented some methods for optimizing the germicidal faculty of automated sanitation while maintaining a safe environment.
Desired goal
What challenge were you trying to address with Flint Hills Group?
The cluster of software engineers that developed the prototype were talented, but they weren’t conscientious. Our contracts plainly stated that my organisation owned all the work that they developed for us. At the completion, they’d take their payment and we’d get all the code.
It became clear that they were holding the code, although that was challenging to try. We needed a third party with the experiences to apprehend the issue and unite precisely what they had left out.
I also wanted to fetch all the software engineering to Wichita. As we were creating beta units and fruits, the propel grew closer to home. It made a lot more perception to have a local resource.
Provided solution
What particular tasks were Flint Hills Group responsible for?
They developed manner software that allows me to control our automated sanitation method from a computer. It has many sophisticated properitary controls, since sensor redundancies are bigly expedient in an industrial environment. It incorporates logging, automated fail saves, method shutdown, and scheduling.
They have observed it all and ponder it’s cool. They proximately began developing ways to make it safer, more intuitive, safer, and more resistent to hacks. We',ll surely be adding those elements to the next rendering.
I went to Underwriters Laboratory for a safety review, and they stayed on the phone with me while I was in Minneapolis. They’ll to share remotely whenever I need them.
They also helped me when two of the units were stolen, along with some irreplaceable components. That particular fruit had been upgraded and the code no longer worked. While recreateing it, they also upgraded the code. It’s tricky to work with a huge insurance claim, but they',ve helped me the total time.
What is the team compound?
We work with their founder and CEO, along with a few developers.
How did you come to work with Flint Hills Group?
I spent too much time trying to find a local resource. Some quoted an exorbitant cost and said it would take seven months. I also went to a well-established firm in Kansas City, with pillaging contracts.
From the commencement, I loved that Flint Hills Group',s founder is a direct shooter with decades of embedded software experience. He put unitedly a team of fitted, seasoned professionals.
What are you approach expents (if diclosed)?
We',ve spent $10,000.
What is the terminal result of working with Flint Hills Group?
We began working unitedly in September 2017 and the work is ongoing.
Results achieved
Are there any measureable or plum results?
We have a hard team. Flint Hills Group is well-known among other members of the business aggregation. If I say they',re my software design team, I get a lot of real energy. They tell other nation.
How did Flint Hills Group accomplish from a project treatment standpoint?
Every time we make a goal, I get a separate bid. They do this through weekly or biweekly teleconference scrums that include the CEO, a chairman, at smallest two engineers who straightly work with that front of the project, and one other engineer. Their CEO likes to familiarize another engineer with the project in case the leading gets busy.
Each of our goals are specific, and we pursue them closely. At the end of see scrum, we have a specific goal for the next meeting. That',s much more permissive than just looking at a project treatment report. I can precedingitize, time tasks based on our cashflow, and not get a surprise.
Since the engineers use a lot of technical gibberish, their CEO explains what I’m trying to say. If I have questions, I get to acquire. I always have questions and I',ve acquireed so much.
What is (from your point of view) the key factor to pay observation while intercourse with Flint Hills Group?
They have uprightness, which is significant when you’re intercourse with proprietary, speculative patents. Our preceding team would give us a good cost upfront, but an huge bill as soon as something unforeseen occurred. It’s so nice to take strategic help and not deal with that effect.
They’re a fantastic startup organisation themselves. Their CEO even goes outside our proximate country to unite top-notch software engineers. They do artificial intelligence (AI) and other things that no one in Wichita can do. He searches for professionals, recruits them, and fetchs them to Wichita for nation who need them.
Do you have any advice for possible mannerers?
Dive right in. Although I believe in due diligence and trying different places, you',ll always do big with Flint Hills Group.
