Ventus Optera · Operations and product · Boston

Fix how your business runs, then own the software built for it.

When a small or mid-size business outgrows the tool that almost fits and the spreadsheets around it, you get custom software, CRM integrations and AI automation built for how it runs. You own everything that gets built.

See the work

Own it. Don't rent it.

The cybersecurity firm's CEO priced a CRM license plus an implementation partner, then chose to own the system instead. Buy off-the-shelf software for the generic parts. For the part that makes your business different, you keep the code and the data.

Worked with

Where the work was done.

That work belongs to these companies and their customers.

Boston Dynamics
Samsung
Uber
iAdvize
DHL
L3 Technologies
OtterBox
LifeProof
Asylon Robotics
How it works

Fix the mess first. Then build. Then automate.

Every engagement runs in this order. If buying software beats building it, that's the recommendation you'll get.

  1. 01 · Audit

    Fix the mess first

    How the work moves today, what's slow or broken, and a written plan to fix it, before anything gets built.

  2. 02 · Build

    Then build

    The application your team works in, the data and connections behind it, and the knowledge base around it, built to that plan.

  3. 03 · Automate

    Then automate

    AI and automations for jobs like sorting the support inbox or copying orders into the CRM, with training so your team runs them.

Michael O'Brien outdoors with two Boston Dynamics Spot robots behind him
With Spot at a Boston Dynamics field event
Who you'd work with

Michael O'Brien, operations and product.

The person who maps how your business runs also writes the code, after a decade in operations at Uber, iAdvize and Boston Dynamics. At Uber, investigations started as part of one role and grew into a 130-person program across two sites. At iAdvize, the work was a sentiment analysis program for Samsung's live chat during the Galaxy S20 launch, which flagged at-risk customers and routed them to senior agents. At Boston Dynamics, it was the rebuild of support.bostondynamics.com.

The person on your first call is the one who builds it and hands it over.

More about Michael
Next step

Which part of the business would you fix first?

Bring it to a first conversation. You'll hear whether to build it with your own team, start with a prototype, or buy something off the shelf.