Customer story · Education
Innovations ED builds its own apps, without relying on a dev shop.
Founding.dev built out a starting template and provides support when needed, at a fraction of what a dev shop would charge to build it.
- Three products built
- Built with direct input from their industry knowledge
- Deployed and running in schools
The traditional way kept them at arm's length from their own software.
Innovations ED helps schools develop their teachers. The people who understood that work best were the furthest from building the software that ran it.
They wanted to build it, not brief it
The team wanted to roll up its sleeves and pour its own knowledge into the product, instead of talking around how it should work.
A dev shop left its code behind
A decade-old platform still running the business, with no one on the team who could safely change it.
The people who know the work do the building.
Innovations ED puts its own knowledge straight into the product, through the Founding.dev editor.
A working first version
Founding.dev built the first version, built around how Innovations ED coaches teachers.
Their team drives it
The Innovations ED team builds the features it wants, across Principal Pulse and PLC Pulse.
Backed round the clock
Founding.dev stays on hand, so building never stalls waiting on an outside shop.
Align ED came along too
The platform the dev shop left behind now runs on the Founding.dev app, where their team can work on it.
THE SHIFT
Renting a dev shop vs. owning your platform.
An agency that owns the know-how, or a platform your own team can shape.
- Long, expensive builds before anything ships
- Every change is back-and-forth, and billable
- If the shop moves on, the knowledge goes with it
- Yours on paper, but only they can work on it
New model — Founding.dev
- You own everything — code, data, and infrastructure
- One flat price. No per-seat.
- Change how it works anytime
- Bank-level security, built in.
- We build it, and we can run it for you, too
Own the software your work runs on.
Paying a dev shop to build and maintain your software? We'll build the starting point and stay on for the engineering, so your team can shape it into exactly what you need.