Rootstrap

They wanted the tools to scale. We outfitted them with the best engineers in the world.

MasterClass is an immersive online experience that allows anyone to take classes with the world's most talented professionals. They were searching for a world-class development team to act as an extension of their own. We delivered with efficient, integrated, and transparent development processes at a fraction of average industry rates.

From burgeoning early stage startup, to massive online education empire.

We embedded our team to help scale their development. Starting with just a handful of developers, we scaled up to over 15 engineers working on MasterClass’ internal projects. This was so successful they eventually requested our team to vet their own in-house developers. The result? We managed to augment their dev team with world-class talent, resulting in massive growth: taking them from 50M to 100M revenue in a few short years.

We took an established icon and transformed him into a legend.

Tony Robbins is best known as America’s #1 life & business strategist. While he had built a powerful coaching empire, we helped him modernize his content library, navigate the transition to digital, and undergo a dramatic improvement of his entire operations. We transformed his executive staff into a highly-responsive team capable of adapting to a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

We didn’t just take his brand digital. We made it a digital household name.

Working with us, he saw a return on his development investment in less than 30 days with Breakthrough University: a UX-focused mobile solution that gamified his entire life coaching program and drove millions of downloads. After the first app, we helped with a seamless transition of engineering tasks to their internal team and continued the momentum with 4 more apps for the Robbins’ growing empire.

A tech titan was looking to innovate. We helped them transform.

The Google team wanted to create the world’s most streamlined project management tool. They aimed to transform both business processes and software systems with a new product suite that would make work more efficient and agile. With us on their side, they were able to validate their early concept through an in-depth discovery process.

We delivered an actionable and clear roadmap in less than 48 hours.

We developed a brief that delineated the goals, logistics, team, and schedule. Then, found innovative ways of transforming both processes and tooling. With our data, the Google Opus team began user testing and iterating on the solution we created and used this rock-solid foundation to expand into the greater requirements of the full Opus product suite. The result? We helped Google define a clear vision and action steps for their entire year in just two days.

We took the vision of media’s top Dogg and disrupted a budding industry.

Merry Jane was envisioned as the GQ for Cannabis by hip-hop superstar/venture capitalist Snoop Dogg and his tech team. The discovery platform, website, and mobile app were designed to disrupt the nascent CBD and Cannabis space through engaging and highly developed content, delivered through first-class technologies and channels.

We didn’t just build a new brand. We launched the definitive cannabis culture resource.

We developed all branding (including logos, tone of voice, and storytelling) and created the media platforms and apps from top to bottom, from sketch work to wireframing to marketing. Ultimately, the high-concept digital platform was able to raise over $5M from angel and VC networks, including celebrities like Seth Rogen and Miley Cyrus.

They needed custom labeling for complex equipment. We delivered.

Epson had one of the best label printers in the country but needed a cross-platform software interface that would work for the largest businesses in the world. We developed an iOS and Android app that was fully platform agnostic, equally at home on a smartphone, tablet, Mac, or PC. Epson Datacom became a versatile and incredibly intuitive printing experience that streamlined workflow for millions of professionals nationwide.

They wanted game-changing smart glasses. We helped them see the future.

The team at Epson Ventures built a beautiful, functional portal into Augmented Reality in their Moverio smart glasses, but they needed a way to impactfully demonstrate their full capabilities. We came to them with a solution: a series of games and apps designed to be engaging and to demonstrate the full spectrum of AR & VR capabilities behind the glasses.

A luxury brand wanted to expand. We made them an online powerhouse.

The luxury watch market has been stagnant since being disrupted by the long-tail growth of the Apple Watch. Westime planned to bring creativity and innovation back with a line of forward-thinking legacy pieces, and they needed a new online presence that captured that bold vision and drive.

A modern version of an old vision, performing like clockwork.

We became the (collective) CTO for the Westime brand, building out crucial online features, streamlining and maintaining their core eCommerce platform, and helping to bring their online voice, vision, and functionality up to the standard their luxury pieces represent. Our overhaul increased conversions and performance, with a fully responsive and mobile-enhanced presence that helped watch enthusiasts embrace the brand using the technology they know.

They wanted to dominate real estate. We disrupted brick and mortar with modern tech.

The real estate industry is one of the oldest verticals in the world and was primed for disruption. That’s an opportunity that Rootstrap and Loftety recognized when we partnered to build a cutting-edge apartment discovery platform. We took the concept and validation of the Loftey MVP and turned it into a complete end-to-end product that allows users to find, filter, and discover apartments and real estate opportunities through a web app built to grow with the company’s targets and timeframes.

We turned a million-dollar idea into a million-dollar reality.

Our work on Loftey set the company up for long-term success with the platform achieving $2Million+ in annual revenue and becoming a growth platform with a steadily increasing valuation and customer base who continue to embrace the user-friendly approach to real estate sales and discovery.

FanBread is a premier content and revenue platform for social influencers, allowing them to generate revenue through monetized content. It is also one of the Rootstrap roadmapping workshop’s earliest success stories.

After Rootstrap, FanBread would go on to raise nearly $2.5M from investors and grow their influencer base to reach 150-200 million people every week. In 2016, FanBread would be acquired by RockYou, one of the largest video ad serving networks in the world.