
Your people are building apps you’ve never seen.
Shutting it down throws away real progress. The work is giving it a structure your security and IT teams can stand behind.
At Matthews
Salesforce cost us $1.3M a year and was headed to $1.9M. We replaced it with a platform we built, and today we pay $0.
Today, our subject matter experts build software we own on the platform we created.
In its first year the program displaced $750K in vendor spend, validated by finance.
Governed Platform. Unlocked Builders.
Manage the right critical systems centrally, and people can build what they need at the edges without sprawl. With sign-in, data, and review in one place, IT can see and secure every app.

Writing

The Builder Framework
How to decide what your company controls centrally and what it lets people build for themselves, now that everyone can build software.
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The Builder Playbook
The decisions to make, in order, to stand up a builder program at your company.
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Matthews: a platform its own people build on
How a commercial real estate brokerage with no software of its own built a platform its experts now build on, and what we got wrong.
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