Your partner for AI transformation
We build reliable software and deliver secure solutions for some of the world's best companies at record speed.
Get in touchThings are changing fast, so why aren't you?
Your tech stack is a mess, held together with spreadsheets, clutch team members, and chewing gum. You're losing money through all this friction. They say AI is the answer, but how?
We harness the power of AI and the wisdom of our team to deliver reliable, stable custom software solutions—as unique as your business and your team—in a fraction of the time. Our unique process helps us find unifying answers to your many problems, so we can ship quickly, bring your data in today, consider more complex improvements, integrations, and data handling—all to make your stack finally work for your business instead of getting in the way.
Upgrade your business for the AI era
How We Work Together
Legacy software, SaaS, spreadsheets. It's all dead weight. You were told AI was here to finally, easily clean it all up. That didn't happen. AI turns out demos fast, but they're rickety and error-prone.
But you know there's value there, and you know something has to change for your business to thrive and grow. But what? And who can you trust to build it? Aboard is your partner for the AI transformation. No magic tricks. No empty promises.
Aboard's unique working process, Cadence, is our key to answering all of these questions with confidence. Cadence is a system born out of our decades of experience in elite product thinking, honed through years of building enterprise software, and supercharged by our proprietary AI-accelerated systems. We get to know you, then dig deep to find your solution with certainty and clarity before writing a single line of code. You get smarter, more refined solutions, faster than ever before, to transform your business and prepare you for the future.
Case Studies
Dive Deeper into Real Client Solutions.
Make an Impact Scales Health Analytics Across 400 Nonprofits in 6 Months
Transforming health data into strategic insights.
SageSure Eliminates Months of Manual Policy Validation with AI
Get to know Policy Logic Central.
Outsell Inc. B2B Data Platform Goes From Manual Entry to Elegant Automation
Supercharging client access to proprietary datasets, enriched with timely market news and research context.
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 of your build.
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 we've shaped and channelled the power of this new technology, and tailored 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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