Your partner for AI transformation
We build reliable software and deliver secure solutions for some of the world's best companies at record speed.
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Your off-the-shelf software isn't living up to your business's ambitions. You're tired of relying on one-size-fits-none SaaS tools. Salesforce costs you a fortune and is sapping your will to live. Your whole stack is held together with spreadsheets, clutch team members, and chewing gum. You're losing money through all this friction. We have a better way.
World-class Solution Engineers
95% of AI software initiatives fail. That's because the last mile is truly long. We solved that. Aboard's solution engineers are veteran software thinkers deeply immersed in AI tooling. They can deliver fully functioning, reliable, stable custom software—as unique as your business and your team—in a fraction of the time.
Our speciality is finding unifying solutions. We can ship quickly, bring your data in today, consider more complex improvements, integrations, and data handling—all to make your business stack finally work for your business instead of getting in the way.
An AI partner for the next big leap.
We offer the best aspects of a traditional software agency and the supercharged speed of AI tooling.
How We Work Together
Our Solution Engineers—AI-empowered superconsultants—partner with you and take a holistic view of your business, learning your pain points, critical needs, and how your workflows, data, AI tooling, and integrations need to evolve. They can design, prototype, and explore solutions—often in days—using Aboard's proprietary AI-acceleration tools. When it's time to deploy, we ship tightly-crafted, human-created, well-vetted code. Of course software is just one part of your transformation. We help you with migrations, security upgrades, integrations with legacy and external systems, finding where AI can truly serve your business, and much more.
Assess & Plan
We get to know your business, your goals, your roadblocks, and together we plan how to evolve your systems to serve you best. We offer you our elite product thinking, honed through years of experience building enterprise software solutions and supercharged by our proprietary AI-accelerated systems.
Replatform
Migrate your work from spreadsheets and fragmented systems into a unified, structured platform. Aboard's AI-accelerated system helps our team to clean up the data mess so you can start working smarter, and then to build you the tools to thrive, fast. That means V1 in week 1.
Build & Deploy AI
The work doesn't end when your software ships, because our team and our AI-accelerated system is always learning where more improvements can be made for your business and your tech stack. We work to layer in powerful AI capabilities built on clean, reliable data that actually works — because the foundation is right.
Capabilities
Software solutions are essential, but they're also just the beginning: our team collaborates with you, to clean up your digital and data messes and get your AI game plan in motion.
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Perspectives
At Aboard, founders Rich Ziade & Paul Ford are constantly examining how AI is changing software development, business strategy—and everything else. To plug into the conversation, check out the latest weekly newsletters, or our podcast episodes featuring compelling guests from the worlds of tech, media, and culture.
About Us
We’ve been delivering solutions—custom software, data management, digital strategy—to leading businesses for years. All that experience in product thinking has never been more valuable, because creating software today is lightning fast. That’s why it’s key to find a partner who knows the right software to make, the right decisions to make about your data approach the right approach to security, integrations, and every other aspect.
Unlike some sectors of the software market, we didn’t put AI in charge; we put it to work. Our systems work faster and smarter because of our work to shape and channel the power of this new technology, and tailor it as a tool or empowerment for our product experts, and for your business. You get totally custom, agency-level service to help you clean up your digital stack and move it into the future.
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