TXI is a strategy and product firm helping clients close the gap between ambition and reality. Founded in 2002, we operate with the philosophy that “trust is harder to build than technology.”
We blend product, design, and engineering across web, mobile, IoT, and data into an integrated approach that's proven critical to our partners' success. We've built our software development consultancy around three small words and one big idea: tech done right. To us, it means more than clean code and sound design. It means doing right by our partners, by our peers, and by our community.
We’re a group of endlessly curious people committed to driving change. At TXI, we are intentional about how we work and support our team and clients. Partnering with Fortune 100s, startups, industry leaders, and mission-driven organizations to deliver value through product innovation, we’ve continually earned that trust with each new product, user insight, and digital strategy.
TXI’s goal is to inspire, advocate for, and fulfill people with the promise and power of digital experiences. We listen carefully to our client’s challenges, then work as a team to connect ideas with unique thinking that will quickly deliver substantial value.
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Focus Areas
Service Focus
- Software Development
- App Designing (UI/UX)
Client Focus
- Medium Business
- Large Business
- Small Business
Industry Focus
- Healthcare & Medical
- Manufacturing
- Financial & Payments
TXI Executive Interview
In 2014, he founded Ops-Conf to bring together a global community of software companies to share insights and swap ideas on how to effectively run a consulting organization.
In 2017, he founded the “Walkshop” – a modern day hiking and design thinking retreat to lead senior executives, entrepreneurs, storytellers, and designers on a 5-day hike to generate new ideas and industry connections.
He is the author of the Sticky Note Game, designed to grow employee engagement and supercharge career development. He is also the creator of the Inclusion Meeting Card game, designed to help change a company’s culture to be more inclusive – where everyone can have a voice in critical meetings and crucial conversations.
He is the President of the Lake Bluff Alliance for Excellence and a board member of the Ravinia Music Festival, an internationally renowned, not-for-profit music festival that presents outstanding performances from John Legend to Yo-Yo Ma.
Since 2002, we've partnered with the Fortune 100, start-ups in Singapore and Tokyo, industry leaders in London and LA, and mission-driven non-profits in our hometown of Chicago. These partners trust Table XI to deliver innovative solutions that drive their businesses forward. That trust runs deep - creating partnerships that have lasted over a decade and public reviews awarding us as the #1 custom software developer in Chicago.
Our UX research and product strategy teams help your product owners innovate, rapidly prototype, and validate new ideas for the business. And when you're ready to move quickly, our design and development teams collaborate in an agile fashion to quickly deliver results to production. This trusted process has allowed our partners to focus on their business objectives and move more quickly and flexibly than ever before.
• Product consultancy – not just development for hire: Don’t get me wrong – we love to build software and execute delivery projects extremely well. But we pride ourselves on being consultants first, helping companies discover new valuable opportunities and rapidly prototyping new concepts before we jump into development. If you are just looking for 2 bodies to add capacity, we’re not a good fit.
• We help after go-live: We provide maintenance services (hosting, monitoring, production support) and support our clients long after they initially go live. For many companies, they just help to create the MVP (minimum viable product) and then hand everything over at launch. We regularly help our clients with ongoing support to handle new enhancements, critical security patches, upgrades, and 24/7 monitoring of their applications.
• Strong track record: We’ve been doing this since 2002 and have over 100 applications in production. In that time, we’ve built a strong reputation for delivering digital products to market – and our first client is still working with us. We feel that kind of track record speaks volumes!
• Healthcare: 30%
• E-commerce: 20%
• Manufacturing: 20%
• Non-Profit and socially focused, mission-driven companies: 10%
• Education Technology: 10%
• Fin Tech: 10%
Assuming you’ve made the decision to go toward a native application, there are a few things critical toward the time frame:
• Tech platform: Using a framework like React Native can allow a team to build an app to support both Android and iOS and can save significant time and budget.
• User goals: The successful adoption and deployment of a mobile app depend on solving a real problem for its users. The best way we’ve found to determine the best features and the required timeframe for an application is to discover before we jump into design and development iterations. That means doing some user research, idea generation, and rapid prototyping to explore and validate ideas before starting the build out.
• Scope focus: We prefer to work in short iterations, hyperfocused on building the most valuable things first. Once in development, one of the most critical factors in determining the cost of a project is focusing on the scope that is most valuable (MVP).
• Managed risk: Most project teams focus, track, and measure the typical project constraints (timelines, budget, and progress burndowns). We feel that measuring risk is as important to the success of a project and can be graphed and tracked just as much as the other three constraints. Proactively tracking and mitigating risk in a software project helps to control the budget, focus the team, and protect against timeline overruns.
• Existing technology: What frameworks is the company already familiar with? For example, if a company has never done mobile work before, but already has a team familiar with React on the web, using a platform like React Native can help speed up the process of onboarding to a new mobile platform.
• Cost: If a company is looking to launch with both Android and iOS support, using a framework like React Native would help to reduce to cost and time to market. Rather than building two separate code bases, in two different code bases, with two different teams, that have to be separately maintained – the speed to market, development cost, and long term maintenance cost can be reduced by developing with React Native instead.
• Your users: It is hard to say in the abstract what kind of application will be used or targeted without knowing more about the users. Some companies prefer to support Apple only – because that is where their desired market is. Before picking any framework, it is important to study your users and the features of the product.
• Scope: What are the critical features that will be used in the product?
• Risk Tolerance: What are the key risks of this product and how might we mitigate them?
• Platform: What is the best technical platform we can use? Anything we’ve already built that we can leverage?
TXI Clients & Portfolios
TXI Reviews
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Helped Us Reinvent Core Facility Management at Northwestern
Review Summary
What service was provided as part of the project?
Software Development
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
Willing to be collaborative partners over the lifespan of a solution.
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
Scoping price for features/future work can be difficult.
Table XI was great to work with for our JavaScript projects.
Review Summary
What service was provided as part of the project?
Web Development, Software Development
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
Table XI did a really good job kicking off the project by helping us with requirements gathering and project planning. They had some great exercises to facilitate this process and I particularly enjoyed how they teased out how flexible we were in terms of scope, budget, quality, and timeline. Doing so helped us ensure our expectations were all aligned prior to starting work. Table XI also maintains a great engineering culture, which was exhibited by their engineers.
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
When debriefing on the project to see if we had additional needs, Table XI was able to identify several areas of future improvement, but not necessarily a concrete plan on how they could help us resolve these issues.
A Trusted Technology Partner
Review Summary
Overall, we have loved working with Table XI, and we are tremendously grateful for their commitment to our success. Each of the staff members that we've worked with has become a part of our family, and they have gone above and beyond in numerous ways. They make technology work understandable and approachable, and they make a point to fully understand their clients' work and needs. They are efficient, experienced and always deliver.
What service was provided as part of the project?
Software Development
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
The team! Each person on their staff has been wonderful to work with, knowledgeable and results-oriented.
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
Table XI's costs are higher than some of the other agencies in the market, but the value they have given is priceless. Having a better idea of costs upfront would have helped the planning process, but the caliber of their work has saved us time and resources in the long run.
Smart consulting group with great product development skills
Review Summary
We’ve had the opportunity to work with a few different project teams at TableXI over the years, and I have to say: Every single person is extremely smart, skilled and easy to work with.
What service was provided as part of the project?
Mobile App Development, Software Development
Excellent development team and process, plus a strategic advisor to boot!
Review Summary
What service was provided as part of the project?
Mobile App Development, Software Development
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
Creative problem solving and true strategic partner re development.
Table XI was the most reliable of the many developers we have worked with.
Review Summary
What service was provided as part of the project?
App Designing (UI/UX)
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
Trustworthy, organized, creative, business minded
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
Continue to add areas of expertise
High touch, high quality
Review Summary
What service was provided as part of the project?
Software Development
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
In a world where there are many, many dev consulting firms, TableXI stands out in not only its quality, but also its culture. It differentiates itself by walking the walk when it comes to building and operating a diverse and inclusive workforce. Plus, TableXI takes the extra step to educate others with its myriad of programs including podcasts, workshops, published articles, and Inclusion Meeting Cards.
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
TXI is a boutique firm, so they don't have a deep bench of consultants that can be mobilized at a moment's notice. You have to coordinate timing and scope of work closely with their account managers, because you might miss the window when their team is available to work on your project.
High praise for Table XI
Review Summary
Table XI is truly a "think outside the box" organization of creative people. The team there is always thoughtful in their recommendations and will properly vet all ideas before proposing something to implement.
Even with several large projects with well-known customers, they make time for a small business like ours.
What service was provided as part of the project?
IoT Development
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
Table XI is truly a "think outside the box" organization of creative people. The team there is always thoughtful in their recommendations and will properly vet all ideas before proposing an implementation.
Trusted UX Research and UI Design
Review Summary
What service was provided as part of the project?
App Designing (UI/UX)
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
Their flexible yet strategic approach; they're very easy to work with, and a very smart group of people.
Table XI great partners
Review Summary
What service was provided as part of the project?
Web Development
Tremendous services and team support
Review Summary
What was the project name that you have worked with TXI?
Software Development
What service was provided as part of the project?
Software Development
The total package is just what you need
Review Summary
What was the project name that you have worked with TXI?
software development
What service was provided as part of the project?
Software Development
Increase in our revenue had grown by 14 times
Review Summary
What was the project name that you have worked with TXI?
Business Consulting & Ecommerce Strategy
What service was provided as part of the project?
Software Development
Best designing and custom software development company
Review Summary
What was the project name that you have worked with TXI?
Custom software and designing
What service was provided as part of the project?
Web Development, Software Development, Web Designing (UI/UX)
Best product provider of all I have worked with yet
Review Summary
What service was provided as part of the project?
Web Development, Software Development, Web Designing (UI/UX)
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