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?
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Tech done right
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Web Development, Software Development, Web Designing (UI/UX)
Down to earth and Practical Developers
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Flexible and Budget-Friendly Services
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