// industries Β· higher education
We're the company higher-ed teams call when the project actually has to ship - across 20+ engagements in major university systems, where the stakes are real and the org chart looks like a prestige drama.
// the challenge
One department's on Cascade, another on WordPress, someone has a vendor from three redesigns ago. A university that should feel like one institution behaves like a multiverse of fonts and templates. Migrating it isn't rebuilding websites - it's diplomacy with a sitemap.
WCAG compliance in higher ed isn't something you circle back on after launch. The audits matter; the complaints matter. We build it right the first time - because students, staff, and faculty need systems that actually work for them.
Enrollment flows, portals, mobile apps, dashboards - the front doors to the institution. Students compare your digital experience to every polished app on their phone. Clunky and confusing isn't just an IT problem; it's an enrollment problem.
Procurement, SOW approvals, governance reviews, security checks, committees - all in the same timeline as delivery. There's the official timeline and the real one. We know how to ship inside the institution you have, not the imaginary streamlined one.
We don't just tolerate that environment. We know how to ship inside it. ↓
// how we help
01 - Product Development
Mobile apps, student platforms, and event tools that make sense for how students actually move through campus life - fast, clear, mobile-first experiences that don't crumble when real users show up.
Explore →02 - Software Engineering
Custom portals, integrations, and data-backed systems for when off-the-shelf tools start requiring suspicious amounts of hope. Departments that finally work like they attend the same university.
Explore →03 - Cloud Development
Move workloads to Azure and AWS without a three-semester saga. Reliability matters in higher ed - outages happen during registration and deadlines, not in a vacuum.
Explore →04 - Data Engineering
Departments collect data like dragons collect gold, then can't use it. We connect siloed systems so teams share one view instead of five spreadsheets and a prayer.
Explore →05 - AI & Automation
Chatbots and workflow automation that solve actual bottlenecks - not "look, AI" demo theater. Higher ed is also where our sister brand StudentSignal.ai was born. π
Explore →// the proof
A high-availability web app on ASP.NET + Azure Functions, handling tens of thousands of simultaneous users on one significant night a year.
A Flutter mobile app + web platform for student engagement and the LAUNCH program, on AWS, serving tens of thousands of students.
Discovery, design, and build on Cascade CMS + AggieUX - one of 20+ engagements across the Texas A&M system.
Rebuilt and consolidated the website on WordPress - a CMS project that's also a people, governance, and "who owns this page" project.
// the stack
ready when you are
We've navigated procurement, WCAG audits, multi-department stakeholders, and university timelines. We can do it for you too.