[ Case study ]

Canvas Smoke Test — Every Palette

Acme dashboard

45%

Revenue Growth

3x

Time to ship

0

Bugs in prod

Location

USA

Team Size

10

Core Strength

Development

Services Offered (Before)

Branding

Positioning

CX strategy

The Brief

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The first prototype demo, recorded September 2024.
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Workspace, build week 4

Whiteboard sketches
Standup
Standup
Pair programming
Pair programming

How we ship every release

1

Discovery

Three days embedded with the team — full-stack code reads, architecture audit, stakeholder interviews.

2

Plan + estimate

One-week scoping doc with locked milestones. Daily check-ins; written-first culture.

3

Build

Pair-programmed sprints. **Trunk-based**, deploys gated by tests, no QA bottleneck.

4

Handover

Walking documentation + recorded loom walkthroughs + a 2-week stabilization warranty.

Common questions

How long does an engagement take?

ypical engagements run 6–12 weeks. Smaller scopes (single-feature builds) ship in 2–3 weeks.

Do you sign NDAs?

tandard. We sign your template or ours — both are mutual-perpetual.

What's the team composition?

Every engagement gets a dedicated 4-person pod:

  • One staff engineer (lead)
  • One senior engineer
  • One designer, One PM / strategist
Can you work with our existing stack?

Yes. We've shipped on top of Rails, Django, Next.js, Remix, plain Node, plus mobile (ReactNative, native Swift/Kotlin).

Acme came to us in early 2024 with a clear problem: their internal tools team was shipping slower than the company needed.Engineers were debugging the build pipeline more than they were writing features. We rebuilt the foundation in 8 weeks.

We started with a **discovery sprint** — full-stack code reads, [a quick architecture audit] and three days embedded with the platform team.

What We Found

Architecture diagram
Before / after — pipeline architecture.

Three structural problems

every CI run reinstalled node_modules from scratch — 8 minutes wasted — Cold builds

running on a single machine — 14 minutes for the suite — Sequential tests

someone in #platform pasted commands from a Notion doc — Manual deploys

Revenue Growth

45%

Time to Ship / Time saved

3x

What We Built

Feature

Build time/22 min/90 sec

Old

Test runtime/14 min/2 min

New

Deploy steps/12 manual/1

Pipeline metrics — six-week measurement window.

The first morning after the new pipeline went live I shipped three things before lunch. I hadn't done that in months.

Priya Singh

Staff Engineer, Acme


Bullets — numbered + native

  1. Discovery sprint
  2. Pipeline rewrite
  3. Team handover

What's next for Acme

Self-serve infra

Engineers spin up preview environments without filing a ticket.

Lower spend

Migrating off the old runner saves $4k/month on CI minutes.

Faster onboarding

New engineers ship their first PR on day 2, not day 7.

Wins, year one

Build time: 22 min → 90 sec

Engineer satisfaction: +18 pts (internal NPS)

Zero rollback incidents in 6 months

Build your own

Want this kind of deploy speed?

Most teams can hit 90-second deploys with a 6-week engagement.

[ Let's talk ]

Book an Intro call.

What happens on the call

We listen to your goals

Understand your challenges

Show you real work delivered for agencies like yours

Map out exactly what partnership looks like for your agency.

If it's not the right fit, we'll tell you.

OR

Start the conversation another way

Mail us

hello@inspirebits.co

Call us

+91 8989898989

Response time: Usually within 12 hours