Instrumental Group
A team of founders, CTOs, leaders, and builders
Instrumental Group is four experienced technologists with deep working experience at all levels of organizations, from individual contributor to executive roles.
What we do
(This is our wheelhouse)
- We design and build high quality software.
- We identify and excise tech debt to increase velocity and lower maintenance costs.
- We continuously cultivate the delivery process, realizing the process needs to mature as the teams do.
- We release early and often. We experiment, measure, and talk with our customers.
- We interview candidates and hire for teams.
- We work with stakeholders to plan and prioritize products and features.
What we don't do
(If we can help it)
- We don't sub-contract software development — we are your team.
- We don't vibe code — we pair with AI to get the best out of human and machine.
- We don't blindly follow textbook development processes, but instead adapt them to the team and context.
- We don't build in isolation from the rest of the team.
- We don't do a single release at the end — we continuously demo and ship throughout the development lifecycle.
Some of our work
Soluna
Mental health solutions for young people
Soluna is a free mobile application made available to young people through partnerships with state governments and healthcare providers. We led development of the application and supporting platform from the proof-of-concept stage to delivery, working with the in-house development team and outside partners including IDEO and Blackbird Studios.
NextStep
Student / Employer Marketplace
In just a few weeks, we built and launched NextStep's Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) employment platform, turning a potentially long and frustrating job search experience into a pick-the-best-offer victory lap for recent CNA grads. Starting from complete green field, we worked with NextStep to design, architect and build an SMS, mobile and web experience for CNAs and employers that was solid enough to ensure trust yet flexible enough to react to the pivots and experiments of a fast-moving startup.
Dance Church
Body-positive video-on-demand music and dance platform
Dance Church is a dance/fitness service with a devoted cult following that started in-person, but wanted to expand online to bring its unique collective dance experience to a broader audience. We led development of on-demand video streaming, in-person ticketing, email automation, music license tracking, subscription gifting, and content management for Dance Church Go, their subscription platform.
Lineup
Real-time labor prediction
We built the data ingestion system that operated on years' worth of weather, event and sales data to drive Lineup, an ML-based sales and resource forecasting platform used by restaurant chains throughout the USA.
Lightboard
Marketing design, on-demand
Co-founded Lightboard, a graphic design subscription service for sales and marketing professionals, with an easy-to-use collaboration platform.
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