// case study · manufacturing & logistics / construction · product development, software engineering
We took MAS HVAC from product discovery through MVP - a construction scheduling platform built with React, Hasura, and Azure Functions for real field teams.
// the challenge
Construction scheduling has a technology adoption problem. Software built for construction is often built by people who've never been on a job site - and field crews know it within five minutes of using it. The result is expensive software nobody actually uses, and foremen who go back to whiteboards and phone calls because at least those work.
MAS HVAC needed a platform that could handle the actual complexity of HVAC contractor scheduling - crews, equipment, job sites, subcontractors, and the constant realities of field work - in a way that field teams would actually adopt. That's not a user interface problem. It's a product understanding problem.
// no whiteboards, no workarounds
// the approach
We started with a structured product discovery to understand the real workflows before we touched a line of code. Who uses this, when, under what conditions, and what makes them stop using it? That work saved significant rebuild time and shaped a product that fit reality.
Field software needs to feel fast - hesitation in a UI leads to users finding workarounds. React gave us the component architecture to build a responsive, snappy experience that could handle complex state without feeling sluggish.
Hasura's GraphQL API layer let us move quickly during MVP development while building a data architecture that could evolve. Less hand-written API boilerplate, more focus on the actual product logic.
Event-driven, scalable, and cost-effective for a scheduling platform's usage patterns - peak at job start and end of day, quieter in between. Azure Functions matched the workload profile.
// the outcome
MVP
discovery → validated build
Not how someone hoped they would. A React + Hasura + Azure Functions stack, designed for field-crew adoption from day one in a construction scheduling platform built for HVAC.
// technologies used
// related results
Field-operations automation - another build for teams that work away from a desk.
Discovery-first product development, from idea to launch in legal tech.
A user-centered SaaS product built for the people who actually use it.
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