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Product, development and AI integration

Innovation Theory is a Denver-area firm established in 2011, providing product strategy, technical development and AI integration for startups through large organizations. We build software and connect AI to the systems you already run, your CRM, inbox, databases and tools, alongside business strategy, marketing and design: websites, mobile apps, products and brands. Our leadership brings 25 years of product, design and engineering experience, and the firm has completed 140+ engagements. Every project starts with a written assessment of feasibility and production requirements.

  • Min project size
    $1,000+
  • Hourly rate
    $100 - $149 / hr
  • Employees
    2 - 9
  • Locations
    Lakewood, CO
  • Year founded
    Founded 2011

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Phil Cowan
Founding Partner, Application Architect About the Team

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  • Lakewood , CO

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Application Platforms
Amazon Application Development Framework
34%
Azure Platform
33%
Heroku
33%
AI Agent Development Focus
AI Agent Frameworks
60%
AI Agent Platforms & Builders
40%
AI Agent Purpose Focus
Productivity AI Agents
40%
Customer Service AI Agents
30%
Sales & Lead Generation AI Agents
30%
AI Platform Integration Focus
Google Workspace AI Integration
100%
AI Technologies & Models
Anthropic
60%
Open AI GPT-3
40%
Frameworks and CMS
Programming & Scripting
C#
10%
C++
10%
Java
10%
Objective C
10%
Redux
10%
SQL
10%
User Experience Focus
Industries
Advertising & marketing
10%
Arts, entertainment & music
10%
Business services
10%
Consumer products & services
10%
Education
10%
Energy & natural resources
10%
Financial services
10%
Gaming
10%
Information technology
10%
Other industries
10%
Clients
Small Business (<$10M)
50%
Midmarket ($10M - $1B)
30%
Enterprise (>$1B)
20%

Pricing Snapshot

Min. project size $1,000+
Avg. hourly rate $100 - $149 /hr
Rating for cost 5 /5

Most Common Project Size

$10,000 - $49,999 based on 1 review
< $10,000 $10,000 - $49,999 $50,000 - $199,999 > $200,000

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Blockchain Architecture for Film Production Platform

  • Custom Software Development
  • $10,000 to $49,999
  • Mar. - June 2018
5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0

“Their attention to detail and creativity is the main differentiator.”

Mar 13, 2020
Co-Founder, HLYWD Token
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  • Information technology
  • Denver, Colorado
  • 1-10 Employees
  • Phone Interview
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Ideas By Nature created a project discovery scope and developed blockchain architecture. They delivered white paper design elements to support a team management product.

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Our Story

Innovation Theory opened in Denver in 2011, when every business wanted an app and nobody had a bench deep enough for the work. We built one a job at a time and answered for what it shipped; ShapeShift and SALT Lending launched out of our office. Then the bench went distributed, and now the resource is AI. InTheory, our AI delivery practice, takes what AI drafts the rest of the way, from in theory to in production, and puts an owner on systems already running.

Meet the Team

Phil Cowan

Phil CowanFounding Partner, Application Architect

Twenty-five years across product, design and engineering. Scopes the work, makes the final call and signs the result. ShapeShift and SALT Lending launched out of his office; fractional CTO through SALT's launch.

What Sets Us Apart

A name on every verdict

The scoping, the verdict and the final call on anything a client receives have a person's name on them, and every answer passes a person first. No-go is always an acceptable answer. If we could only ever say go, that would be sales.

We run on agents ourselves

A fleet of specialized AI agents runs our own research and delivery every day. Building with AI daily is how we know what it can carry and where it drops things, and what we wire into your operation is a system we already live on.

The last stretch is the job

Twenty-five years on the production side: auth, data, fallbacks, security and an owner on record, the parts a demo skips. We take what AI drafts the rest of the way and stay accountable for what ships.

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8488 West Dartmouth Place Lakewood, CO, United States 80227

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