Unlocking Growth and Empowering a Company Exit
Delivering strategic technology, process, and organizational execution
Services offered
AI & LLM Research, Development, and Evaluation; User Research, Rapid Prototyping, Product Design, Technical Strategy, architecture, and full-stack web development; Creation of artifacts: Vision, Proto-personas, Service blueprints, Product pillars, MVP roadmap, User flows; Development of custom AI model and beta application
Outcomes
Over a 12-month engagement, Able successfully helped move with the client through a transformative period while maintaining business stability.
Key outcomes included: Operational Efficiency: Consolidation of nearly a dozen legacy technology platforms reduced operational costs and improved system performance. Revenue Growth: The client achieved double-digit top-line growth rates through the introduction of new features and enhancements to existing products.
The Story
As a private equity-backed company, the client experienced significant growth through the acquisition of several complementary companies, teams, and platforms. Over the years, these acquisitions led to a fragmented organizational structure and a diverse technology stack. By 2023, the client recognized the need to consolidate its operations and technology to drive the next phase of growth efficiently. The challenge was to unify these accumulated assets into a cohesive, efficient, and scalable organization and technology ecosystem.
Discovery Phase
Able conducted an in-depth organizational review and an architectural assessment of the client’s technologies. This phase included:
Organizational Analysis Engaging with key stakeholders to understand their roles, perspectives, and pain points.
Process Mapping Documenting existing processes and tools to identify redundancies and inefficiencies.
Technology Audit Evaluating the current product technology stack to identify overlaps, gaps, and opportunities for integration.
Strategic Recommendation
Based on the findings from the discovery phase, Able developed a strategic reorganization plan and a technology consolidation roadmap. Key recommendations included:
Technology Consolidation Creating a roadmap to unify disparate technology platforms into a single, scalable system.
Product Development Process Improvement Process, artifacts, and accountabilities to improve the strategic value of product development, while increasing efficiency.
Growth Roadmap Identifying key growth initiatives and new value-adding features to enhance the customer experience.
Implementation Support
Able assembled a specialized support team to embed within the client’s organization, ensuring seamless execution of the transformation plan. The support included:
Requirements Definition Creating detailed product designs and meticulously defined user stories that served as the blueprint for engineering tasks, and aligned each project component to the strategic goals.
Engineering Execution Providing top-tier engineering resources to assist with architectural definition, platform integration, and feature development to create a robust and scalable technological foundation.
Product Launch Managing agile development processes and aligning with go-to-market teams to rapidly and efficiently bring new impactful features to the market and drive significant value.
