Invictus Gurus: The Full Stack Development Special Forces

The IG Difference: Understanding the Client Business to Tailor the Ideal Solution

IG knows precisely how to advise, guide, and share their knowledge with clients throughout the engineering process. When IG collaborates with an organization, they look at themselves as a special forces group that does more than just come in and build solutions. "We’re there really to help teach, guide and mentor our clients’ internal resources on how to maintain and support their solution(s), ensuring our clients are not heavily reliant on us. Every client team must have the abilities and expertise to take on new technologies and grow them over time,” adds Knoodle. This keen desire to help clients become self-sufficient is the driving factor in ensuring that whatever IG builds is built into the clients' organization. Knoodle mentions, "Companies in our space typically tend to hoard knowledge. Their goal is to get that support and maintenance contract. At IG, many of our clients' internal teams possess the skills to support and maintain our work allowing us to focus on building innovative solutions and enabling new technology adoption.”

IG begins each engagement by sitting down with the client to understand their needs using a hands-on, direct involvement with clients and their organization to distill functionality and ROI for the business by understanding the various roles, groups, and people using the technology. They believe strongly in understanding the impact of 'a day in the life' for users and not simply building from requirement specifications that may not take user experience into account.

IG’s ultimate goal is to reduce unnecessary complexity and project scope. The company prefers to create software solutions with a solid foundation built with powerful modular technologies that enable clients to scale it up themselves. Not only is this approach more effective than building big, bloated solutions, but it also helps clients grow their business over time as well. In that pursuit, the company’s objective is not to automate jobs or remove expertise from the organization but to give existing employees the core institutional knowledge and ability to grow in ways they wouldn't have been able to otherwise

Leading by Example-The IG Way

IG has demonstrated its hands-on approach to knowledge transfer and client team education several times. For example, the company recently worked with a client in the FinTech space who had a global, real-time, point-of-sale data platform. The client found the whole task of processing every single financial transaction for thousands of branches in real-time to be highly complex. They struggled to scale technology and add advanced AI capabilities that could deliver real-time processing in an edge-computing environment.