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Behind major development globally

The group whobuilds the unbuilt

The most powerful development company you've never heard about.

For two decades, we have built the things that had not been built before. Software for governments, giants, and the teams who needed it done first.

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years building the unbuilt
20+
sites running our open source
500K+
daily visitors served
1M+

The story

Two decades of firsts

We build the things that had not been built before. A short history, in order of appearance:

  1. The beginning

    Full speed from day one

    Our story opens at a regional airport. A complete application with booking and flight-tracking systems, built when "web app" was barely a term.

  2. Stripe's first year

    Payments, before it was easy

    We engaged Stripe when the company was a roomful of people, integrating its payment processor with CRM systems across the government and non-profit sectors.

  3. Before Trulia & Zillow

    The first multi-MLS real estate platform

    We engineered a RETS ingestion system that transformed raw MLS feeds into usable data, powering the first large multi-MLS real estate application before today’s alternatives existed.

  4. The public record

    nasa.gov & the modernized ny.gov

    We helped build nasa.gov and the modernized ny.gov, including the transit authority schedules and the data.gov-powered emergency alert system; both still in service today.

  5. 2009 – 2018

    Open source on 500,000+ sites

    Our libraries and components have been deployed across more than half a million sites including whitehouse.gov for nearly a decade.

  6. 1M+ daily visitors

    Features the web had not seen

    Leading engineering for large-scale platforms, we shipped adaptive bitrate streaming, in-app messaging and chat, and social networking; when each was genuinely novel for a web application.

  7. Ahead of the category

    The Feature Forge platform

    We created Feature Forge, an early PaaS uniting hosting, DevOps, project management and email in a single enterprise suite; anticipating the category Pantheon, Acquia and Platform.sh would later expand.

  8. Today

    Group Who

    That spirit of building the unbuilt continues. We specialize in bespoke feature and full-application development — the team companies call when their need has never been done before.

Selected work

Built to outlast trends

A few of the platforms we have engineered — still in service after a decade or more.

ny.gov — website screenshot

ny.gov

Government

The official website of New York State, modernized with transit authority schedules, a data.gov-powered emergency alert system, and site-wide data architecture.

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iAmLife — website screenshot

iAmLife

Social + Streaming

The social platform first on the scene with interactive shopping inline with the feed. Our adaptive-bitrate encoding engine processed terabytes of video — TUS-powered uploads of any size, cataloged into a media library on par with the major streaming services.

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Publix — website screenshot

Publix

Enterprise retail

Engineering for the largest employee-owned supermarket chain in the United States — a digital storefront where shopping is a pleasure.

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Thankful Art — website screenshot

Thankful Art

E-learning

The learning home of a beloved painter with a 250,000+ subscriber base — teaching painting from the first brushstroke to advanced technique.

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Blu Homes — website screenshot

Blu Homes

E-commerce

Premium prefab homes, configured online — a rich product experience for precision-engineered modular housing.

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Feature Forge — website screenshot

Feature Forge

PaaS / DevOps

A revolutionary development-to-deployment automation pipeline and an enterprise suite of business software tools: hosting, DevOps, project management and email as one solution.

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SolarCity — website screenshot

SolarCity

Clean energy

Built for Elon Musk’s cousins Lyndon & Peter, the digital home of America’s largest residential solar installer, acquired by Tesla in 2016.

USA Core Values — website screenshot

USA Core Values

Marketplace

A customer-centered marketplace pairing USA-made products and sellers. Leveraging the purchasing power of individuals and communities to support local American businesses.

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Iceland Naturally — website screenshot

Iceland Naturally

Tourism & culture

North America’s gateway to Iceland — promoting the country’s nature, culture and travel through an immersive digital campaign.

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stripe × civicrm — production
$ curl -X POST /v1/charges
✓ charge.succeeded 201
$ civicrm contribution.create
✓ contribution.completed
→ receipt queued, ledger synced

Stripe × CiviCRM

Payments

In Stripe’s first year, we wired its payment processor into CRM systems for governments and non-profits: the CiviCRM Stripe Payment Processor.

Paperless Transactions × CiviCRM — website screenshot

Paperless Transactions × CiviCRM

Payments

With the Paperless Transactions executive team, we wired their processor into CiviCRM, enabling credit card and ACH giving for churches and non-profits, with seamless donor reporting.

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datatrans × civicrm
$ datatrans init --refno=GW-4711
✓ transaction.authorized
✓ settlement t+1 confirmed
→ civicrm contribution.completed

DataTrans × CiviCRM

Payments

A CiviCRM payment-processor integration for DataTrans (now Planet), bringing its frictionless online payment gateway to nonprofit CRM workflows.

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Verified Property — website screenshot

Verified Property

Blockchain / PropTech

The trust layer for 140M+ U.S. properties. Decentralized property management with dual-authority verification and trusted ownership records.

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Open Source Contributions

Deployed on 500,000+ sites

Libraries and components we released to the community — including code that ran on whitehouse.gov from 2009 to 2018.

The one that started an industry

VieleRETS

The RETS ingestion engine behind the first large multi-MLS real estate platform — transforming raw MLS feeds into usable data inside content frameworks, before Trulia and Zillow entered the stage.

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vielerets — ingest
$ vielerets sync --mls=ALL
  fetching RETS feeds……… ok
  normalizing listings… 1,240,331
  mapping to content model… ok
  → live before the giants arrived

TUS file upload protocol

Resumable, chunked uploads for Drupal — survive outages, close the browser, come back and the file picks up where it left off.

Uppy File Uploader

The Uppy uploader as a Drupal widget, speaking the resumable TUS protocol — built with decoupled architectures in mind.

Responsive Menus

Point it at any menu with a CSS selector and it goes mobile-friendly — navigation responsified across hundreds of thousands of Drupal sites.

Feeds HTTPFetcher AA

Advanced authentication for Drupal Feeds — token handshakes and two-step auth for protected data sources.

jQuery Raty Star Ratings

Star-rating widgets for any numeric field or exposed filter — library included, batteries and all.

ResponsiveSlides

A fully responsive slideshow style for Drupal Views, built on ResponsiveSlides.js.

Bootstrap Modal Messages

Drupal system messages, reborn as Bootstrap modals.

Messages to Block

Route system messages into a dismissible block — with per-role and per-type control.

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