Cuttlesoft

Cuttlesoft is a creative product development company that helps its clients achieve their business goals through researching, designing, and developing software that users love.

Whether you’re fundraising, scaling, expanding markets, or planning for a 10x exit - our team aligns your business goals with your users’ most important needs.
We meet you where you are, and help you get to where you want to be.

I met my co-founder, Frank, in college. Frank already had a fairly diverse background before returning to complete his Computer Science degree. When we met, Frank had already been a business owner and was working as a software consultant for a national firm.

So when Frank asked me to turn down offers for engineering roles in Silicon Valley and Seattle to stay back and start a company – I had little incentive to listen to him. Now I realize it’s the best decision I ever made.

Having the opportunity to start Cuttlesoft gave me the chance to create the company I wanted to work at. It allowed me to be employee number 1, instead of 1 million and 1. It gave me the agency to create a workplace, culture, and environment that grows the kind of engineers I want to be, and the kind of engineers I want to work with.

Now, Cuttlesoft thrives in that environment. One that’s creative, product-focused, and innovative. The muscles we train are as varied as our clients and their industries – something you don’t find at many places. This is why we had to make it ourselves. We strive to work as a team. To learn, grow, and continuously deliver the highest quality work – our best work.

Cuttlesoft prioritizes people and culture, which means we’ve rejected growth by means of models like offshore augmentation. We’ve maintained our determination to build a team of people that embody our core values and help us to grow the company over years, not months.

Our team is entirely in-house and US-based.

The world doesn’t need another app development company, which is why we don’t make apps – we grow businesses.

The world needs Cuttlesoft because we look at more than just the project’s requirements. We live at the intersection of technology, business objectives, and amazing user experiences.

Our team builds beautifully designed and scalable business solutions for the web, mobile, IoT, and the cloud.

We are the only product development company led by a woman and Python Core Developer. I’m also the release manager for Axios – a JavaScript HTTP client downloaded nearly 16 million times last month.

Thanks to these accomplishments in open-source and through my leadership, Cuttlesoft is one of the world’s most diverse full-stack development teams capable of taking on any software project.

Cuttlesoft takes an agnostic approach to technology and as result, we’ve developed a broad portfolio of client industries.

Our work with clients prior to seed-stage focuses on product development that answers specific business validations and questions of product-market fit. In these relationships, we’re helping develop novel technology alongside a business plan. Successful outcomes are acquisition, go-to-market, usability testing, and market-fit validation.

When we enter a partnership with an organization that has passed their seed round or even an early series of fundraising – the goals change. Then it might be about accelerating the software development of an existing engineering team or developing a product for a specific platform. From this stage, Cuttlesoft clients have gone on to raise millions of additional capital and some have even exited for several multiples on the initial investment.

We’re different because we look at the connection of your business goals and technology requirements. We help you build the right products because we don’t lose sight of the business objectives.

We work with founders, product leaders, and engineering peers.
Specific technologies include:

We understand that sometimes trust and communication are more valuable than attributes like price and qualifications. So first, we try to understand what makes an ideal partner for any prospective client, and then we explain how our process fosters trust, confidence, and a long-term working relationship.

We take great pride in the fact that clients trust us with their product, money, and customer experiences. And we believe that it's our responsibility to return the favor in the form of honesty and insight. One way we do this is to share detailed project status information. I encourage you to ask about our method for Project Performance Tracking.

We use tools like Notion (a project wiki) and Jira Service Desk to communicate and iterate over any service requests and issues that arise for clients from day one of development to every day in production.

We bill entirely by time and materials and offer competitive weekly pricing.

Cuttlesoft is the right technology partner for you if your project requires premiere on-shore development performed by senior-level engineers.

In 2020, our company completed projects nearing $1 Million in total costs and maintained software for organizations that included a range of $4000 to $10,000 per month.