Helping a digital agency grow at the speed of New York
Postlight was a New York digital product agency that was growing fast. They needed to scale while keeping their client work high quality. Speedlane partnered with Postlight to support accounts across multiple industries. Speedlane and Postlight grew together, delivering top tier services to dozens of organizations, including major nonprofits, government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies. Postlight is now Launch by NTT Data.
Challenge
Postlight needed to keep scaling but couldn’t find the talent they needed fast enough.
Outcome
Speedlane engineers integrated with Postlight teams. Speedlane even completely took over some of Postlight’s most important accounts.
Impact
Postlight continued to scale with Speedlane as their “secret weapon”. They delivered high-quality services to dozens of clients across many industries. That included Fortune 500 companies. Both companies grew together. Postlight was acquired and became Launch by NTT Data.
Services
- Web Application Development
- Mobile App Development
- Backend development
- Content Management Systems (CMS)
- Data Visualization
- E-commerce Platform Development
- Cloud Migration and Infrastructure
- System Integration
- Content Migration
Our team worked on dozens of clients across a number of industries including finance, health, government, publishing, and more.
A sample of some of our joint client work
:
Finance & Insurance
Goldman Sachs – Built a new platform that provide traders new capabilities and insights. This revamped platform provided essential speed and flexibility. The project used React powered by a SpringBoot Java back end.
Insight (SageSure) – Added to this insurance provider’s core digital platform. Built or rebuilt key modules, including claim submission forms, policy addition, EasyPay enrollment, policy linking, email templates, and integration with DocuSign.
Health
LifeScan – We provided engineering, project management, and design consulting around the launch of the new version of LifeScan’s flagship diabetes meter.
Lyfebulb – We developed a community forum for transplant patients and caregivers. The forms were built using Vanilla Forums and React.
Gigly (now Selfgood) – We collaborated on developing a headless website using React and a React Native app, working closely with an external company for backend and API integration
Publishing
Vice – Helped the iconoclastic publisher unify dozens of international content management systems into a single platfrom and efficiently migrated existing content.
The Players’ Tribune – Launched a new kind of sports media company. Built out a headless CRM based on WordPress with a lightning-fast React front end. After that, our engineers built a custom CRM that tracked key data about athletes and contributors.
GFR Media / Primera Hora – We redesigned Primera Hora’s site, a major Puerto Rican publication, as part of its migration to the Washington Post’s Arc publishing platform, using React.
A deep partnership
Speedlane engineers worked hand-in-hand with Postlight colleagues on major and minor client projects. That included multiple visits to Postlight’s offices.
Government and Non-Profit
Audubon – Helped one of the world’s great non-profits build a new mobile experience for iOS and Android. Speedlane engineers built a comprehensive system featuring animated maps to visualize bird migration routes, threats, and other ecological data using React, ESRI maps, and AWS Amplify.
National Humanities Center – Our team handled the National Humanities Center’s website migration and redesign, adding significant new features like an Algolia-powered search.
MTA – Speedlane engineers built Mercury, a next-generation communications platform that now manages all MTA social media, email, websites, apps, and thousands of in-station digital screens. The MTA team was testing the first version of the product in four months. The final platform utilized ReactJS, ExpressJS, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL.
Tech & Gaming
Game Taco – We upgraded Game Taco’s backend to support scalability, new features, and we enhanced the frontend experience.
Filecoin – Helped implement a decentralized data storage marketplace, protocol, and cryptocurrency.
Creative Business Inc. (now Levvy) – Our engineers built a work management platform for Creative Business Inc., leveraging Hasura GraphQL and React. The platform increased efficiency and team performance.
Consumer
Drizly – We overhauled Drizly’s ordering and delivery platform, improving the customer experience.
Carnival – We developed a new system for Carnival’s cruise operations to drive better guest experiences and optimize revenue.
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