Fabrik Labs

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the President and Founder of an education materials provider.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Provide educational materials and online curriuclum for school districts and teachers

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Fabrik Labs to accomplish?

• Create an online platform for teachers to access curriculum in a subscription based setup.

SOLUTION

How did you find Fabrik Labs?

Referral

Why did you select Fabrik Labs over others?

• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Fabrik Labs were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Fabrik Labs created a custom built platform for our suscription based curriculum product. This product allowed our customers an easy navigation experience when accessing PDF documents as well as the abilitity to track student progress digitally. This product allowed our team to manage the backend - both customers and content - with no coding needed.  

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Objectives at the end of each sprint

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Project was divided into sprints. Deliverables were timely. Fabrik communiated via slack and were timely and prompt with responses. 

What was your primary form of communication with Fabrik Labs?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The most impressive thing about our project with Fabrik was their quick understanding of our very unique product and business model which lead to increased speed in the build and implementation. The overall time from discovery to launch was much faster than with other competitors we met with. 

Are there any areas for improvement or something Fabrik Labs could have done differently?

As a team new to an in-depth tech build, we will create a more detailed scope of work from the start. 

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO of Augment

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We're a data/AI/digital services company based in Madison, Wisconsin. We help our clients define, scope, build and maintain data, AI and digital products and projects.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Fabrik Labs to accomplish?

• Assess the market needs and create a new go to market strategy, capabilities and services to meet this market need. The overall goal of this engagement was to reposition Augment to scale over the coming years.

SOLUTION

How did you find Fabrik Labs?

Referral

Why did you select Fabrik Labs over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Fabrik Labs were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Overall the engagement was to provide Augment with a new direction but building on our core services. Some of the key deliverables included:

• Assessing Augment's current expertise and experience.
• Understanding what new digital/data/AI services are currently and will be hot in the market.
• Providing clear advice and direction on the path Augment should take.
• Putting together an action plan to implement Fabrik's suggestions and plan.
• Introductions: This wasn't part of the key deliverables but Fabrik made some very key introductions to people in their network.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• They provided valuable market research that gave us a new direction for Augment.
• They help assess our current capabilities and what holes were lacking in order to implement the new plan.
• They provided a go to market action plan. And they made sure that we were acting on that plan.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

They were really quite amazing. Their project management style was very hands on and proactive. Yes. They were always on time. 

They always did a very good job responding to our needs. We probably asked some pretty naive questions sometimes, but they were always super professional how they handled their responses and the entire project.

What was your primary form of communication with Fabrik Labs?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They were just very nice people to work with. And they had very relevant experience that they applied to our engagement. They felt like true partners.

Fabrik Labs was extremely hands-on. They asked great and thought provoking questions. They made introductions into their network when it made sense. They validated ideas with their network. They combined both the strategy with an implementation plan and support.

If you are looking for help for your software services firm, Fabrik Labs, will be a great partner. You will be lucky if they are willing to work with you. We have worked with other strategy firms, some very well known and high priced. Fabrik was much more hands on and better value than previous firms we worked with.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Fabrik Labs could have done differently?

I really don't think so. Sorry.