The Basics

Here's The Skinny

We're a web applications and web services company with a heavy focus on client communications and usability. Unlike most other web development companies, we actually have writers and editors on staff, to help our clients realize their communications goals.

Baby Steps

The very first thing we do with any prospective client is listen. Sure, we love to talk, but we want to understand your needs before we try to help you fill them. After all, if we're going to be the experts in helping you reach your goals, we should know what they are first, right?

Why Rails?

We mostly use Ruby on Rails (also called "Rails") for our development projects, though we've used other technologies in the past plenty of times. We believe that it's important to use the right technology for every job, and we've found that Rails allows us to deliver in a timely, cost-effective manner more easily than any other framework.

A Little History

We were founded in 2006, when Jon Mischo decided he wanted to take his passion for usability and agile practices to a new environment. Tired of the corporate "waterfall" development methodology and inspired by several years of previous experience with agile development practices, he believed it was possible to consistently deliver projects on-time and on-budget, without excessive stress.

Over the last few years, we've continued to use agile practices to deliver exceptional results for our clients. We focus on solutions that fit our customers needs and are efficient and scalable. Whether you need help getting started or are experiencing growing pains, consider our experience your guide.

Client-centric web development

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One size doesn't fit all

Too often in the web development world, customers spend money on a company that has a lot of big promises and an improbably low price tag and then feel like they're obligated to use the result because they've paid for it. What's the difference between a bottom-dollar website that uses a stock template and a custom-designed web application that serves a company's marketing and business development needs? Here's a hint: it's a lot more than money.

There's a significant difference between the companies behind all of the "buy a website cheap" ads you see online and a company that does custom web development. If you buy services from one of those ads, you're probably going to work with a company that designs cookie cutter websites off a set of pre-defined templates. You're going to get 3-5 static pages which will require their services to update, unless you want to learn HTML. In essence, you're paying for someone to use a glorified word processor to type your content into a template, drop in your logo, and maybe change a few colors on the page to your liking.

We build relationships

At Quagility, we take a holistic approach to web development. We're not just designing a web presence or a tool that a company will be using to service and inform clients. We're not trying to sell bargain-basement solutions with poor grammar and static content. While we're happy to provide content services for you, we don't want you to have to come to us every time you want to update something on your website.

So what do we do? Well, for starters, we listen, whether you're just getting started or you need a development partner for the next big web technology. We'll ask you a few basic questions to get you talking, but most of what we do is listen to you and learn about what your business needs are. We probably won't even make a single recommendation until we've been talking for 20-30 minutes, sometimes even an hour or longer, if it's a particularly complex project. We don't want to waste your time (or ours), but we want to make sure we're discussing a solution that will meet all of your needs and help your business succeed.

We work closely with our clients from the beginning of each project on through the end. We make sure that you're aware of the effort and costs involved with certain decisions that need to be made along the way

Simply put, at Quagility we're in the business of helping our clients be more successful.