Lands’ End was trying to find a more effective way to extract actionable insights from terabytes of customer data. Their massive operational database lacked the functionalities required by their marketing team to produce the analytics needed to reach new customer segments.

Rebel wanted to develop chat bots that would not only assist their internal customer service representatives but also enhance their customer’s experience while lowering costs and came to Sphere for help developing it.

Proclivity Media wanted to build a prototype of its advertising technology analytics platform. With an algorithm in mind, they needed a team with the analytics experience necessary to build a scalable front and back-end system that would allow them to establish proof of concept with a custom analytics prototype.

Roomations had a great idea for a platform that provided homeowners and do-it-yourself designers with tips and recommendations from experienced interior designers, made possible by the support of large retailers looking for new ways to reach target consumers.

Gett’s current online system allows them to accept and process delivery orders from their vendor partners. However, Gett needed to develop an API-based service that accepts orders from their partner’s disparate systems and places them into the Gett system. In addition, this service was required to be implemented as an isolated SaaS with a reporting interface, provide statistics on KPIs, handle 100,000 orders per day, and have a 99.8% uptime.

By conducting extensive primary research on their TAM (total addressable market), we sought to understand the client’s market demand, their ability to maintain the target’s customers, and the viability of the technology. Technical threats and opportunities associated with the acquisition were also examined in detail.

An angel investor was approached by a five-person start-up in Tel Aviv with an innovative social media data harvesting application. The investor asked us to evaluate the technology and team competence and present an informal recommendation within three days.

In an interesting turn of events, the client placed more value on the business assets (the customers and vendor network) than the technology that ran the business. As a result, the scope of this due diligence was maintenance focused – what are the costs to maintain the technology, transition the customers, then decommission the technology over a 12-18 month period?

The organization had made significant investments in its digital platforms and business optimization efforts but needed to streamline processes (such as allowing the customer service organization to access client records).

Sphere was asked to build a custom mobile application that allows employees to pay for a taxi using a corporate account. The goal was to build a MVP within 3 months.