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Rapid Application Development

From whiteboard to running software in a quarter.

We design, build, and ship business applications in 90-day increments, web, mobile, and back-office workflow systems that go live with real users at the end of each cycle.

Approach

How we deliver it.

What we do

We build the applications a business runs on, the ones that take orders, track inventory, onboard customers, and process work. Our delivery model is 90-day cycles with a working release at the end of each one. Not a demo. Running software, used by people, with a path to the next release on the wall.

In practice

A new product engagement starts with a one-week shaping exercise. We map the workflow, identify the riskiest unknown, and design a thin slice that goes end-to-end. Engineering begins in week two on infrastructure, CI, and the first vertical feature. By week six there’s a staging build that someone in operations can poke at. Week ten is hardening; week twelve is production. The second quarter adds breadth: more roles, more workflows, integrations to upstream and downstream systems. Teams range from four to twenty engineers depending on scope. We’ve used this model for dealer management, ticketing, loyalty, insurance back-office, and franchise reporting.

How we know

Nineteen years of delivery means we’ve inherited every variation of legacy ERP, mainframe export, and Excel-based process you can imagine. We design for the migration on day one, not at cutover. Our engineering practice is ISO 27001 certified, code review, branch protection, secrets management, and deployment access controls are audited annually, not aspirational.

Capabilities

What we ship.

  • Discovery and product shaping workshops
  • Web application development (React, Vue, Astro)
  • Native and cross-platform mobile (iOS, Android, Flutter)
  • Back-office workflow and admin tools
  • Design systems and component libraries
  • Continuous delivery from day one

Where this fits in Compound

A build stage service.

Every iBoss engagement runs through the same four stages. Rapid Application Development sits in the Build stage .

  1. 01

    Locate

    Understand the system, the constraints, the people.

  2. 02

    Design

    Architectures, contracts, runbooks. Decisions, not deliverables.

  3. 03

    Build

    Pods of senior engineers. Weekly demos against real data.

  4. 04

    Sustain

    SRE, runbooks, knowledge transfer. We hand it over or we run it.

Cross Platform Apps

Application Development

A client was maintaining separate Android and iOS codebases. We evaluated the options and built one cross-platform app on Ionic and Angular, cutting maintenance and speeding releases.

Codebase across iOS, Android, web
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Where this lands

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