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I think the experience with MakeItFuture has been really positive.
We needed a lot of resources — we're a fast-growing company,
but we don't have our own internal development team.
We're building out our data team,
but to get resources quickly and at scale, we turned to MakeItFuture.
And it's been a really positive experience so far.
You guys know what you're doing — you understand low-code, no-code,
and you also understand AI,
which makes it really easy to communicate with you.
You're also very cost-effective.
In the construction industry, we're really starting to use AI to our advantage.
We have so many data points coming from finance and construction management systems.
We're developing automations to bring that data together in one place.
And once it's centralized, we're using AI to drive data-informed decisions
that provide actionable insights for our business.
At BW, we've historically used traditional development methods,
but we found that the pace wasn't fast enough.
We're a growing business — in the past six years we've doubled turnover
and doubled our headcount.
We realized development wasn't keeping up.
Access to low-code tools allows us to build fast,
create easy-to-use apps quickly,
and deploy them in the field almost immediately.
It also enables us to fail fast —
meaning we can try an app, and if it doesn’t work,
we haven’t wasted months or years on it.
We fail quickly, learn, and move on.
We use something called a "technology lifecycle"
to move ideas quickly from concept to plan, to development, to feedback.
The faster we move through that cycle,
the more value we bring to our business —
and we can build better, safer, and faster, which is our ultimate goal.
