Introducing bixod: Technology Consulting Built Around Your Business

Published:  January 3, 2023
Authors:  Gregory Langlais

bixod is launching to help businesses turn difficult technology challenges into systems people can use and maintain. We bring experience in large-scale architecture, distributed systems, software engineering, data analytics, data engineering, and machine learning to projects where those disciplines need to work together.

Our team’s experience spans startups, Silicon Valley technology companies, and enterprise organizations. That range matters because a solution must fit the business adopting it: its people, existing systems, priorities, and capacity to support what comes next.

Expertise connected to the problem you need to solve

A technology project rarely fits neatly into one specialty. A new data product may need reliable source data, an application that makes the results useful, and an operating environment that can support it. A modernization effort may require both architectural decisions and a practical plan for integrating with systems already in use.

bixod brings these concerns into the same conversation. Our background includes designing complex systems, developing data and analytics capabilities, and applying emerging technologies to enterprise problems. We connect those technical decisions to the outcome the business needs.

For a prospective client, that creates several useful starting points:

  • A system that is difficult to change: Clarify its dependencies and identify a practical path toward modernization.
  • Data that takes too much effort to use: Examine its sources, quality, and movement through the business.
  • A model or prototype awaiting delivery: Work through the application, integration, and operational requirements needed to put it into use.

The right starting point depends on the constraint that is holding your team back.

Designed for the organization that will own the result

We believe technical solutions have value through the people who use them. That principle shapes how we think about requirements, implementation, and handoff.

A proposed system should have a clear purpose, a recognizable owner, and a place in the team’s actual workflow. It should also account for what happens after launch: maintenance, changing requirements, and the ability of internal teams to operate it.

Our aim is to help clients make informed technology choices and build the capabilities to carry them forward. A focused improvement to an existing system can be as valuable as an entirely new application when it addresses the right problem.

Tell us what you want to make possible

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If you are planning a new application, improving an established platform, or trying to bring a data or machine learning project into production, start a conversation with us. Tell us what your team needs to accomplish, what is getting in the way, and the constraints we should understand.