New Software Product Development

Since Atomic Object deploys teams of full-time employees on projects, our start date for projects depends on their availability. This means you won’t get stuck with an outsourced team, and when a project team is assigned to you, your needs become our priority.

Completing the form above will get you in touch with a Managing Partner who will work with you to understand your schedule constraints and do their best to meet them.

Yes. We are a true one-stop shop for product, design, development, and support software consulting needs. We specialize in particularly complex, multi-domain projects.

We’re not a good fit to create a marketing site. Over the last 10 years, clients have invested more than $70 million building new software products with our teams, and they’ve offered us a perfect 5.0 referral rating on Clutch.

The best technology stack for your project depends on your needs, goals, and resources. At Atomic, we’ve invested in poly-skilled, full-stack developers who are technology agnostic and trained to select the appropriate tools to ensure your software is robust, maintainable, and nimble.

These practitioners walk you through a brief Research, Design, & Planning phase to help you define and address any compatibility requirements upfront.

Here’s a list of tools we’re used to working with, and we will adjust our recommendations based on what we observe about your existing stack, expertise, integrations, and industry.

This question comes down to a trade-off between the value of niche expertise versus management and coordination overhead.

If you have the interest and skill to manage consultancies to each aspect of your innovation project, then you may find some benefit. But if you have competing priorities, hiring a full-project team gives you one team to hold accountable, reduces interdisciplinary friction, and keeps everyone focused on the same business outcomes.

We believe in an open, transparent communication approach throughout the modernization process.

Every project at Atomic has a team lead known as a Delivery Lead. This person is your consistent point of contact. Delivery Leads are tasked with three big responsibilities:

1. Equipping the team with everything they need to make forward progress,
2. Making sure that your priorities are our priorities, and
3. Keeping you informed about the project’s status.

Regular updates will be provided by your Delivery Lead, keeping you informed about every step and decision throughout the project.

In today’s custom software services space, there are a few levers that affect project cost, which can lead to different budget estimates for your project.

Whether you’re hiring an internal team or external partner, it’s unwise to shop for the lowest cost. Instead, work with teams optimized for maximum throughput while also making sure you are paying on-market for that type of engagement.

Using this strategy, you can de-risk your enhancement project by avoiding the following common pitfalls of software development projects:

• Delayed market delivery impacting revenue
• Extended timelines increasing costs and consuming significant leadership time
• Lower customer conversion or retention post-launch
• Severe quality issues requiring costly rewrites
• Data or financial losses due to bugs or security issues
• Wasted time and resources debating whether to continue investing in a low-cost provider or switch to a more efficient, albeit pricier, option

This approach helps prevent these pitfalls, safeguarding your project's success and long-term value.

While it's true that hiring an offshore or nearshore team might seem like a simple way to cut costs, we’ve put together a guide to help you understand the nuanced benefits and risks of teams located in a variety of geographies.

Though they cost more, U.S.-based firms provide the benefit of high throughput, high-quality deliverables, cultural alignment, and ease of communication. You can expect a high probability of project success, driven by top-quality deliverables and innovation.

Leaders that opt to work with nearshore teams will benefit from closer cultural and time zone alignment compared to offshore options and cost-effective solutions. However, it's important to note that the cost advantage for securing top nearshore talent compared to onshore talent is diminishing and is expected to continue to decline. Working with nearshore firms invites the potential for issues with quality, communication, and culture trade-offs that may increase cost, extend timelines and reduce cost advantages. They deliver a medium to high level of project success, balancing cost and quality, though they cannot match the innovation level of U.S. firms.

Offshore firms offer the lowest hourly rates, but face challenges like significant time zone and cultural differences, which complicate communication and collaboration, and necessitate extensive specification documentation. Geopolitical and legal resolutions also pose potential issues.

The cost savings are significant, but challenges in communication and time zone will impact project timelines and quality. For this reason, they result in a low to medium level of project success.

Atomic’s position as a mid-size company strikes the perfect balance. In the U.S., there are many small companies and relatively few large ones in our industry.

We find that employing more than 100 people allows us to fully meet your needs, while keeping our team smaller than those of 1,000+ employee consultancies ensures we offer personalized attention and flexibility.

Layer on the benefits of a fully on-shore team that works from in-person offices, and you’ll gain additional personalized attention from our mid-sized team.

Managing Partners are your guide through the sales process. Each of them is a former software practitioner, and each owns P&L responsibility for the success of your project.

Other firms set you up with a detached salesforce that is paid on commission to close the sale, and then they pass you off to the project team.

Atomic’s Managing Partners are responsible for finding the best in-person teams to work from their office, and they talk to the practitioners on your project every day. Because of their practitioner background, they understand how to sell projects that have the best possible chance to succeed.

Managing Partners oversee both clients like you and the project team assigned to your project, so their priorities are aligned with yours.

We strongly believe that our teams can deliver great work for clients located across the country. But we also believe that the best teams must work in physical proximity with one another to maximize their success.

While many consultancies have opted to save resources with a remote-first approach, we’ve continued to invest in project success through our four offices where in-person teams collaborate on client projects every day. Our project work goes through collaborative cycles of generative activities, synthesis, and execution. The cycle repeats during the course of a project.

Our deliberate choice for a co-located team structure stems from a deep commitment to delivering unparalleled value to our clients and nurturing a vibrant company culture of learning and excellence.

Access to talent is essential, and Atomic Object’s offices are strategically located in regions with rich access to top talent. Our Career Accelerator, an accelerated professional development program for newly graduated computer science majors, helps us build our team of world-class software developers. Fair pay, strong benefits, continuous learning, ownership opportunities, and a sense of belonging help recruit top senior practitioners and help us grow an amazing team. Our retention of employees outperforms the market because of the added benefits of team cohesion and social bonds.

At Atomic, we invest in an in-house technical recruiter who finds us the best U.S. talent. Our interview process, honed over more than two decades, helps us bring on not only exceptionally talented technical practitioners but also team members whose values align well with ours. These practitioners are adept at navigating consulting relationships and finding win-win situations for both clients and teams.

Atomic is carefully run by leaders who make decisions that prioritize the long-term. This means not only are your projects staffed by full-time employees for success, but the employment offering is designed to retain smart, talented consultants. Our turnover rate is only 8.8%, well below industry standards, which reflects our employees' high engagement and satisfaction.

This dedicated and engaged set of team members translates to proven client value; over the last decade, 38% of our revenue has come from satisfied clients coming back to Atomic for additional projects.

We are experienced in making enhancements without disturbing ongoing operations. This is achieved through phased implementations and careful scheduling, minimizing impact on your day-to-day operations.

Our Delivery Leads excel at keeping clients and key stakeholders well-informed throughout the enhancement process.

They ensure all stakeholders are aligned by clearly communicating what to expect and managing potential disruptions during the Research, Design, & Planning Phase.

Atomic takes clients’ security concerns seriously and we employ a host of best practices, published by organizations like NIST and OWASP, to ensure that all of our web apps are safe and secure. For apps that are at a high risk of being hacked, we work with customers to help them understand what level of investment in privacy and security makes sense for their project.

We invest heavily in our developers’ professional development to ensure they have a solid and up-to-date understanding of common vulnerabilities, security strategies, and modern tools to support security before they engage your project.

Our quality assurance process involves multi-stage, rigorous testing, including unit testing, integration testing, randomized testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing.

This robust approach assures the highest quality standards for all changes or enhancements before their deployment.

Atomic is dedicated to producing high-quality, well-maintained software products. By building a strong foundation that supports scalability, adaptability, and future iterations, clients can avoid costly overhauls as their user base expands.

When confronted with numerous potential features and requirements, we prioritize and identify key areas for future opportunities and flexibility. Instead of incorporating every conceivable feature, your team will emphasize designing a flexible architecture to accommodate future enhancements. This forward-thinking approach enables scalability, adaptability, and the ability to respond to changing market dynamics.

As part of the enhancement process, we offer training and support to your staff. Our aim is to ensure a seamless transition for your team, promoting a smooth adoption of the enhanced software functionalities.

If you’re looking for additional support after the engagement’s end, we also offer Continuous Improvement Engagements that allow you to reserve a developer’s time on a regular cadence, typically one full day each week (or month). This model proactively helps you sustain the performance and overall health of your enhanced software.

In Continuous Improvement Engagements, developers will typically perform performance monitoring, error triage, infrastructure tuning, basic updates, keeping the test suite healthy, and maintaining documentation.

The need for software modernization or overhaul is often indicated by several signs. If you are experiencing frequent downtime, compatibility issues with newer technologies, poor performance, difficulty adding new features, or security concerns, these are all red flags that your software systems may need an upgrade.

A well-architected modernization plan allows for incremental implementation, thus reducing disruption. We break down the modernization process into manageable phases, allowing regular progress without needing a full system outage.

The cost of modernizing an existing software product is highly variable depending on several factors, including the project's size, complexity, and chosen technology stack. After a comprehensive analysis of your software modernization needs, we’ll provide you with a thorough budget model.



Over the last ten years, clients have invested between $50 thousand to more than $1 million in product modernization efforts.

Since Atomic Object deploys teams of full-time employees on projects, our start date for projects depends on their availability. This means you won’t get stuck with an outsourced team, and when a project team is assigned to you, your needs become our priority.

Completing the form above will get you in touch with a Managing Partner who will work with you to understand your schedule constraints and do their best to meet them.

While it's true that hiring an offshore or nearshore team might seem like a simple way to cut costs, we’ve put together a guide to help you understand the nuanced benefits and risks of teams located in a variety of geographies.

Though they cost more, U.S.-based firms provide the benefit of high throughput, high-quality deliverables, cultural alignment, and ease of communication. You can expect a high probability of project success, driven by top-quality deliverables and innovation.

Leaders that opt to work with nearshore teams will benefit from closer cultural and time zone alignment compared to offshore options and cost-effective solutions. However, it's important to note that the cost advantage for securing top nearshore talent compared to onshore talent is diminishing and is expected to continue to decline. Working with nearshore firms invites the potential for issues with quality, communication, and culture trade-offs that may increase cost, extend timelines and reduce cost advantages. They deliver a medium to high level of project success, balancing cost and quality, though they cannot match the innovation level of U.S. firms.

Offshore firms offer the lowest hourly rates, but face challenges like significant time zone and cultural differences, which complicate communication and collaboration, and necessitate extensive specification documentation. Geopolitical and legal resolutions also pose potential issues.

The cost savings are significant, but challenges in communication and time zone will impact project timelines and quality. For this reason, they result in a low to medium level of project success.

Yes. We are a true one-stop shop for product, design, development, and support software consulting needs. We specialize in particularly complex, multi-domain projects.

We’re not a good fit to create a marketing site. Over the last 10 years, clients have invested more than $70 million building new software products with our teams, and they’ve offered us a perfect 5.0 referral rating on Clutch.

This question comes down to a trade-off between the value of niche expertise versus management and coordination overhead.

If you have the interest and skill to manage consultancies to each aspect of your innovation project, then you may find some benefit. But if you have competing priorities, hiring a full-project team gives you one team to hold accountable, reduces interdisciplinary friction, and keeps everyone focused on the same business outcomes.

Atomic’s position as a mid-size company strikes the perfect balance. In the U.S., there are many small companies and relatively few large ones in our industry.

We find that employing more than 100 people allows us to fully meet your needs, while keeping our team smaller than those of 1,000+ employee consultancies ensures we offer personalized attention and flexibility.

Layer on the benefits of a fully on-shore team that works from in-person offices, and you’ll gain additional personalized attention from our mid-sized team.

Managing Partners are your guide through the sales process. Each of them is a former software practitioner, and each owns P&L responsibility for the success of your project.

Other firms set you up with a detached salesforce that is paid on commission to close the sale, and then they pass you off to the project team.

Atomic’s Managing Partners are responsible for finding the best in-person teams to work from their office, and they talk to the practitioners on your project every day. Because of their practitioner background, they understand how to sell projects that have the best possible chance to succeed.

Managing Partners oversee both clients like you and the project team assigned to your project, so their priorities are aligned with yours.

We strongly believe that our teams can deliver great work for clients located across the country. But we also believe that the best teams must work in physical proximity with one another to maximize their success.

While many consultancies have opted to save resources with a remote-first approach, we’ve continued to invest in project success through our four offices where in-person teams collaborate on client projects every day. Our project work goes through collaborative cycles of generative activities, synthesis, and execution. The cycle repeats during the course of a project.

Our deliberate choice for a co-located team structure stems from a deep commitment to delivering unparalleled value to our clients and nurturing a vibrant company culture of learning and excellence.

Access to talent is essential, and Atomic Object’s offices are strategically located in regions with rich access to top talent. Our Career Accelerator, an accelerated professional development program for newly graduated computer science majors, helps us build our team of world-class software developers. Fair pay, strong benefits, continuous learning, ownership opportunities, and a sense of belonging help recruit top senior practitioners and help us grow an amazing team. Our retention of employees outperforms the market because of the added benefits of team cohesion and social bonds.

We believe in an open, transparent communication approach throughout the modernization process.

Every project at Atomic has a team lead known as a Delivery Lead. This person is your consistent point of contact. Delivery Leads are tasked with three big responsibilities:

1. Equipping the team with everything they need to make forward progress,
2. Making sure that your priorities are our priorities, and
3. Keeping you informed about the project’s status.

Regular updates will be provided by your Delivery Lead, keeping you informed about every step and decision throughout the project.

At Atomic, we invest in an in-house technical recruiter who finds us the best U.S. talent. Our interview process, honed over more than two decades, helps us bring on not only exceptionally talented technical practitioners but also team members whose values align well with ours. These practitioners are adept at navigating consulting relationships and finding win-win situations for both clients and teams.

Atomic is carefully run by leaders who make decisions that prioritize the long-term. This means not only are your projects staffed by full-time employees for success, but the employment offering is designed to retain smart, talented consultants. Our turnover rate is only 8.8%, well below industry standards, which reflects our employees' high engagement and satisfaction.

This dedicated and engaged set of team members translates to proven client value; over the last decade, 38% of our revenue has come from satisfied clients coming back to Atomic for additional projects.

A software modernization project's timeline can vary greatly depending on the size and complexity of the system being upgraded. For a project of X complexity, it could take anywhere from Y weeks to Z months. A more accurate timeline can be provided upon in-depth system analysis.

The protection of your data is top priority during the modernization process. We leverage state-of-the-art security measures, including encryption, regular backups, and strict access controls to ensure complete integrity and safety of your data.

Any modernization project comes with inherent risks such as potential downtime, unforeseen complications, and cost overruns. They are mitigated through a combination of stringent project management, thorough planning, risk assessment, and comprehensive testing.

Our team conducts rigorous testing at different stages throughout the modernization process to ensure all functionalities are preserved and enhanced. This includes both automated and manual testing and examining compatibility, usability, performance and security.

Yes, a modernized software system will indeed be easier to maintain and update compared to the legacy system. It's designed with scalability in mind, coupled with the use of modern design principles and technologies which reduce the time spent on updates and bug fixes.

We offer a variety of post-modernization support options to help you maintain the optimal performance of your modernized system. This includes services like troubleshooting, regular patches & updates, additional feature enhancements, and a dedicated helpdesk.