Staff Coordination
Dozens of Journey crew members. Multiple roles per competition. Complex schedules. Call times. Uniform requirements. Expense reimbursements. It's a lot.
Get hours back every week with your own bespoke staff portal.
Spend more time on what matters, and less managing spreadsheets. Get a working prototype of part of Journey's staff portal in 4 weeks. Know what you're building, what it costs, and how it works–before committing to the full build.
Journey's operation demands precision. Your current tools just don't deliver.
Week in and week out, Journey's team coordinates dozens of crew members across back-to-back dance competitions. The work is heroic, but managing it with spreadsheets isn't sustainable (nor particularly fun).
Competition Execution
Back-to-back weekend dance competitions. Real-time venue changes. Last-minute schedule updates. Journey's team needs instant access to accurate competition information.
Travel Chaos
Every competition weekend: flights for judges and crew, rental cars, hotels, rooming assignments. All managed in spreadsheets. Updated manually. Mistakes happen.
💪 You're doing heroic work with travel docs and spreadsheets. But you deserve better tools.
A custom staff portal designed exclusively for Journey Dance Competition.
We'll create exactly what Journey's team needs: personalized event itineraries for every competition weekend, travel coordination for your crew, role assignments by venue, reimbursement tracking, and more.
"The developers of the actual system have said, 'No, you cannot do this,' but Camber can do it! The team is awe-struck. Y'all make us look like heroes. Thank you!"
We don't know about you, but we like having an idea where we're going before we leave.
Product Immersion is our proven discovery-to-prototype process. In 4 weeks, you get clarity on scope, cost, and feasibility–plus a working prototype your team can test. Here's what's included in your Product Immersion:
User Flow Diagrams. We'll make a visual map showing how Journey staff will interact with the portal for key scenarios like viewing competition schedules, accessing travel details, and submitting expense reimbursements.
Production-Ready Specifications. We'll write detailed requirements as if we're building Journey's full system as thoroughly as we can imagine it right now. These become your development blueprint.
Technical Architecture. We'll recommend a tech stack, deployment approach, and integration strategy for third-party applications like Journey's Paylocity, Ramp, and Slack systems.
Phased Roadmap with Estimates. We'll estimate and prioritize features for Journey's portal using our Feature Value Framework, and break it up into development phases with a rough order of magnitude cost estimate for each.
Working Prototype. We'll create an aiOS-accelerated prototype of a portion of the Journey staff portal–perhaps an itinerary module where staff would see personalized event details like travel, hotels, call times, roles, and uniforms. Not static mockups–a clickable, working piece of demo software.
Feedback Mechanism. We'll provide a built-in system for collecting structured feedback from any of Journey's crew to weigh in on feature and improvement requests. We'll show you exactly how we'd incorporate their input into the next incremental release.
Our battle-tested process is just right for Journey Dance Competition.
We work in four-week cycles with intense focus on continuously shipping improvements you can use and feel. Our Product Immersion is a great chance for Journey's team to see the process in action.
1. Align: Establish or reaffirm business and product goals both broadly and short-term.
2. Define: Write and prioritize next-up requests.
3. Create: Deliver the next-up request one-at-a-time (relentless focus).
4. Test: Peer review, then pass to you. Keep the request open for changes, or accept.
5. Release: Deliver accepted requests to approved audiences (e.g. test or live).
6. Learn: Gather active and passive feedback from audience to incorporate into the next iteration.
We make the improbable routine.
Smart teams trust Camber to design and build apps that move the needle–earning, raising, saving, or exiting for millions.
An Average Experience
Revolving door of junior staff
Sloppy work that isn't maintainable
Slow, unpredictable delivery
Zero flexibility without contract change orders
Micro-management nightmare for you
Terrible communication, no progress awareness
The Camber Experience
Consistent, elite contributors–proudly American-made 🇺🇸
Fast, consistent turnaround, accelerated with aiOS
Continuous iteration and integration of deliverables
Reprioritize and pivot at any time
Done-for-you optimization with a dedicated product manager
Continuous Slack comms and weekly checkins
FAQ
Get answers to a few common questions we hear.
Product Immersion is what we call the first steps required in working on a new project together. It's part diagnostic, part discovery, part ideation, and all strategic. We quite literally immerse ourselves into the context of your product to create a shared understanding of not just exactly what you want us to do, but also who we're creating it for and why you want to do it at all.
We believe that delivering the best client experience period requires acting like a business partner, understanding the outcomes you're trying to achieve, and tailoring our recommendations to help you get them.
It's one of the reasons people choose Camber–The App Agency.
What exactly we cover during a Product Immersion is also tailored to your unique situation. For example, if you have an existing product that requires our team to either redesign/rebuild or take over, your Product Immersion will include technical onboarding for our engineers to audit the existing technology so we understand the strengths and opportunities in your current stack.
We create a limited prototype during the Product Immersion because it's an incredible asset not only for showing off the concept of what you're building to potential users, investors, or other stakeholders, but for our teams to align on the vision and form a deeper understanding of what we're building together. Having a usable prototype of a key experience of the product aids tremendously in our strategic planning and estimation process.
As a prototype, it's an illustrative sample of a part of the experience we're creating. It isn't necessarily how the shipped first version of your product is going to look or feel. And it isn't a full-featured, production-ready app. It's the most compelling working demo that we can feasibly create during our Product Immersion with the most advanced AI acceleration tools available.
And because it's actual working software, it's the foundation we're going to continue improving upon until it is ready to release.
You'll have everything you need to make an informed decision about continuing development: detailed specs, cost estimates, and a working prototype of a portion of the app. If you choose to keep building with us, we'll transition directly into monthly development cycles starting at $4,995 per month (scale up for even more throughput).
Our clients generally feel that the product is "operationally ready" within 3 to 6 months, depending on the scope and investment level (a higher monthly budget generally translates to a faster to market, with an upper limit of about $30k per product per month before experiencing diminishing returns on productivity. That said, bespoke digital products aren't strictly "set it and forget it." A good rule of thumb is to plan for about 10% of your total "net new build" investment per year for maintenance and support.
Absolutely! We're a senior-level, full-stack software engineering team. We thrive in complexity. Generally, if the third-party service has a supported API or SDK, we can work with it. During our Product Immersion, we'll validate the approach and feasibility of working any third-party services you need into your product's technical design.
We'd be concerned if the requirements didn't change at some point during development. Ideally, we should be placing bets on a short time scale of what we think will move the needle the most, shipping that, gathering analytics and feedback, and using what we learned to adjust our plan for the next iteration. Generally, we recommend executing this whole process in about 4-week cycles.
You own all of the original deliverables produced for you for as long as you remain current on your monthly payment.
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