Hello Ariyh reader 👋🏻
We’re a team of entrepreneurs, project managers, designers, testers and engineers sweating the details to passionately design, build and ship digital projects. We’re not your “contractors” or “resources” — we’re your partners to deliver ROI-driven, thoughtful and robust products. We’d love to help take one of your projects off the ground…
working with entrepreneurs, startups as well as these slightly bigger companies
Get a project off the ground...
We’ve supported many entrepreneurs (some working at FAANG or at one of the Big 4) leverage their unique business understanding to create a digital product from scratch by supporting through ideation, spec’ing and actual design and development. We can do that for you or for your clients.
Create a tech project as a non-technical person
The vast majority of our clients are non-technical. We work with them to help assess what the best potential technology (or no-code solution) is to execute their vision and then as their trusted advisor and technical partner whilst they continue creating and running the business. We let you focus on what you do best.
Spot the inefficiencies and deliver solutions
It’s not that you don’t know what needs to be done. It’s just that there’s lots to do, no time to sit back and think through the problems and opportunities. We get it. We’ve helped others identify these and then built the tech to tackle them.
Scale a team
Although this is admittedly not the business we seek the most, we’ve had extremely successful experiences with our engineers or product managers helping internal teams scale to meet peak demand and deliver insanely high quality products.
Become your Tech Partners
We’ve worked with countless agencies as their trusted technical partners. We work both behind the scenes or with full client visibility. We help by executing technical projects (integrations, automations, products) as well as by strategising new ideas to leverage the latest technology to give clients an edge.
Innovate in a big corp
Most of our big contracts with the big brands were us knocking on their door with a polished idea for a problem they had and a sketch of a plan on how to make it a reality. We’re able to provide innovators inside bigger organizations with the structure they need to deliver enterprise products at startup speeds (well, within the known limits of the internal bureaucracy :-)).
Entrepreneurs
We help great people with solid ideas refine, visualize and eventually build and launch them. We’ve worked with young ambitious entrepreneurs as well as with seasoned professionals looking to kickstart a side-gig or a new career.
just like Mike Wong
Busy Managers
We get it. There is a ton happening. We’ve had the back of countless companies over the years — be it in developing automation to improve processes, fast-tracking the development of features or entire products or giving them the extra capacity they needed.
just like Peter Jensen
Agency Warriors
Agencies are hard enough as it is. Managing clients, a myriad of people you must rely on and figuring out solutions to problems on the go… all the time. We get it, we’ve worked with dozens of agencies and have grown to be trusted tech partners of many, being their trusted, reliable “behind the scenes” technical wizard.
just like Catarina Gouveia
Let us help you... for free 🙌🏻
As an exclusive for Ariyh readers, we’re extending the offer for 30 minute calls with an internal team assembled to help you figure something out. We can talk about an upcoming project and both code and no-code ways to bring it to life, ideas for your favorite client with our strategists and product owners, a recent architectural challenge on your current product with our database architect and our CTO or just about anything. Pick our brains for 30 minutes… for free.
And the best thing? We won’t sell you anything. Unless you explicitly ask us to we won’t even follow up. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a free thing would it?
Send us the request and we'll send you an invite
- Like all good things, this is a limited offer for 10 people.
We don’t have a set menu to choose from. We’ll work together to understand what is needed, what is the core problem or opportunity you are dealing with and provide the best mix of technology and implementation that can get the job done. We only work with web and mobile-based projects and either create from scratch (launch an idea, create a product, create a sales channel) or integrate and build on top of existing software.
Case Studies
How BlueGlass partnered with ColorElephant to deliver a world-class website with powerful visual editing in a headless implementation to one of Switzerland’s leading brands, Rivella.
Everyone will tell you their team is the best around. We’re probably not. But we are, however, better than most because we’re a unique mix of people that work hard, every day, to be the best. We match a deep business understanding with extensive technical expertise. We care, Deeply. We don’t deliver code, we deliver a solution to a problem or a way to do something better. We make mistakes and then we show up, fix it, learn and try not to repeat them again.
And we don’t just say it, we bake these promises into an enforceable contract. We believe the choice of whom you work with should be driven by how much you “connect” and how you see your partner driving your business forward. We hope to be able to show you just that.
At the end of the day, there’s thousands of mobile/web development companies out there.
Picking one is a mix of credentials, availability and … chemistry. 🙂
ColorElephant is a small (yet growing) boutique digital studio, with physical addresses in Porto and New York but a global footprint with a team of savvy digital natives helping global clients create, connect, improve and grow their digital products and initiatives.
Over the last 8+ years, we’ve done everything from helping a mom and pop shop launch their business idea (and see it grow!) to creating a local HR system for one of the world-leading car manufacturers. This unique exposure to different realities, paces, and industries provides us an edge on having a much more comprehensive approach to problems. We bring together the agility of startup development and the rock-solidness of enterprise deployments.
Bootstrapped from day one by two young entrepreneurs with an international background, we rely on doing great for our customers to grow (and survive). In just eight years, we got offices in two continents, a growing (remote, even before pandemics were a thing) team of incredible professionals and clients on all continents. We set ourselves apart by a lean structure, fair pricing, and a deep sense of mission and dedication to our customers, all the way from the CEO to the programmer working on your project.
Let us share the truth: we’re not perfect or even the best. There’s a bunch of things we need to improve (and do so every day) but if you talk with our clients, you’ll learn about our creativity applied to solving real business problems or seize on opportunities, our support, and insight beyond what any scope of work can set, about our unbeatable commitment to successful delivery and our technical soundness.
At the end of the day, it comes down to being humans: understanding problems, making commitments, and working alongside you to execute on solutions. Not as ‘resources’ but as partners.
After a ton of time searching, going through multiple teams both near-shore and off-shore, ColorElephant was able to deliver at a level even I wasn't expecting
Marco Schläpfer Entrepreneur (Zurich)