Bear & Giraffe

Bear & Giraffe partnered with Meriwether Godsey, a contract dining company, to develop custom software. The company needed a system that could handle thousands of recipes, which traditional restaurant management systems couldn't handle. Using Ruby on Rails and React, Bear & Giraffe built a web app optimized for mobile users. The app replaced cumbersome Excel spreadsheets with a streamlined web-based menu hub. The hub consolidates all menu information into a database, allowing users to easily review allergens, nutritional information, and ingredients. The project, which began in November 2017, is ongoing and has cost around $100,000.

Bear & Giraffe was hired by Faire Inc., an ethical e-commerce website, to rectify issues with their Shopify site. The previous designer had botched the specifications, making the site difficult to manage and causing applications to malfunction. Bear & Giraffe quickly fixed the site to a minimum level of functionality before rebuilding it from scratch on Ruby on Rails. The team continues to work on design and backend specifications. The partnership, which began in February 2018, is ongoing and has cost a little more than $50,000.

OpenSource Connections, a professional services firm, engaged Bear & Giraffe to migrate an internal tool to a full-stack product. The tool, called Quepid, translates customer needs into measurable requirements for building better matching solutions. Bear & Giraffe transformed Quepid from an in-house tool to a software-as-a-service product by implementing credit card collection, writing documentation, and improving the user interface. The team also provided help documentation and created introductory videos. The partnership, which began in March 2015, is ongoing and has cost between $50,000 and $199,000.