Success Story: Integrating Everything in One System
Slingr HQ
"We wouldn’t offer a product that we wouldn’t trust for our own operations. The Slingr HQ system, which is a critical part of everything we do as a business, was built from the ground up using Slingr’s low-code platform. Not only were we able to create a product with the exact set of features that we wanted, but we were able to do it fast and continue to flexibly incorporate new features as we continue to grow."
Grace Schroeder, CEO
Our Client
From day one, the Slingr team has always been testing our own products by using them for our own operations. That's the only test we trust: if we can rely on the tools we've built, we know that our clients will too. We're always our most critical, demanding client, and that's why our platform is responsive to real-world needs. Great companies have great project management systems. To both reduce recurring costs and gain control over the flow of data within Slingr’s organization, the Slingr HQ was re-designed to serve as an internal project management system. HQ originally served as a tool for managing only frontend application development but expanded to include billing and host of other administrative functions. Today, HQ is integrated with every dimension of Slingr’s operations and is used as both a scrum-style project management platform and also as a central hub for data collection and analysis.
Our Work
The original use case for HQ was as a system to manage tasks of the frontend application development projects for Slingr’s business team. At present, HQ is used as a full-scale business operations platform to help manage the daily workload of 120+ developers and additional supporting & administrative staff. That expansion of scope was enabled by the use of the Slingr low-code suite, which provided both the rapid development and iteration capacities needed to sustain the exponential growth of the
HQ program.
The first addition to HQ’s core project management functionality was the introduction of a billing system to support the teams working with external partners. After the success of that first extension, HQ was built out with additional functionality to support staff recruitment, contract management, salary payment including cryptocurrency management, performance evaluations, and leave management. By designing the system from the ground up, HQ could be built with a flexibility and interconnectivity that was responsive to internal workflows, meeting Slingr’s particular needs more precisely than any pre-existing alternatives (eg. Jira, Asana, and ClickUp.) Most recently, Slingr has continued to expand the scope of HQ with tracking for sales & marketing processes. Across the diverse range of functionality provided by Slingr, almost all of the key administrative processes of Slingr’s organization have been transformed into semi- or fully-automated digital workflows. This automation and centralization has saved the organization hundreds of hours per month in administrative labor while still offering incredible flexibility at a system level. HQ also makes departmental workflows and data visible to administrators, enabling them to make better-informed decisions about organizational structure and operations. As a mature system, the wide-ranging functionality delivered through HQ has become an indispensable tool and enabled growth and improvement in every aspect of Slingr’s daily operations.
Our Impact
Dramatically reduced the time spent on administration and organization. Creation of an entirely customized operations management system.
Centralized data and workflow information, making it visible for decision- making purposes. Enabled rapid iteration capacity to bring features into operation on an as-needed basis.