Atomic Object

I’m the founder and CEO of GripFusion. We develop a smart baseball with grip-sensing technology that provides real-time biomechanical feedback, helping athletes improve their training, performance, and injury prevention.

We needed help building a functioning beta app to test and deploy with early customers. We also needed to build the software framework to connect with the smart baseball, handle device operations and data, and present the information to the user in a novel and impactful way.

Atomic Object has been helping us with the BLE stack and building a mobile app using React Native. They’ve also been conducting customer discovery and user interviews and doing design work.

We’ve been working with 3–4 teammates from Atomic Object.

We found Atomic Object through a local referral. We chose them because we had confidence in their technical competency and ability to work flexibly and creatively on our project. We also felt they had a deep understanding of our product needs and were interested in tackling hard problems together. Atomic Object also did a good job scoping the project requirements, budget, staffing model, and overall complexity. They had worked on a few other hardware plus software projects, so there was precedence.

We started working together in April 2025, and the engagement is ongoing.

We’ve seen a technical spike, demo app, and feature implementation. We review these with the team at each step and make adjustments.

Atomic Object has great communication and transparency. They continuously refine and adapt based on challenges. We use Linear to track initiatives and issues.

We’re impressed with the combination of technical prowess, design excellence, and overall project framing. John and Jonah (managing partners at the Ann Arbor office) have great business sense, which is invaluable to GripFusion. We’re paying for not only a technical team but a resource that’s able to help us in many other ways navigate the uncertain launch phase of a startup.

They could slow the team’s growth to match the rate of business growth.

I am the President and CEO of MISS DIG 811

Coordinates underground infrastructure construction in Michigan.

Create a technology roadmap with options for future years.

Leadership Cohort

2-5 Employees

This deliverable will be structured, actionable, and positioned to guide MISS DIG’s next chapter of investment, development, and innovation.

Defines decision pathway from Board Strategic Planning Session.

Atomic delivered on time and within budget. The project scope fit our needs and successfully gained traction with our board.

Great communication and great insights from the team.

I would have liked to hear more about how technology in a different industry could be utilized and implemented into our niche market. We did briefly touch on this but would have liked to go more in depth. Otherwise, nothing of note, it was great working with the team.

I am the Co-Founder & CEO of a Fundraising Platform

Helps non-profit reduce the time it takes to receive funds and maintain compliance, so they can focus on raising more money and scaling impact.

Referral

2-5 Employees

The scope of work for Phase 1 of development includes the strategic selection and implementation of our core tech stack. This will incorporate a full-stack meta framework such as TanStack Start or React Router v7, a relational database using Postgres, and cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS with SST for infrastructure as code. We will establish a monorepo with a foundational routing structure, component architecture, and a CI/CD pipeline to support seamless deployment across staging and production environments. A multi-tenant database schema will be developed, following Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles, alongside a robust authentication and ABAC permissions system. Core platform features will include basic organization and campaign setup flows, a complete donation workflow supporting both guest and authenticated users, and integrated Stripe and PayPal payment processing. Secure file upload and media management will be implemented using S3 and CloudFront. Additionally, the portal will support full organization management including a setup wizard, branding customization, and team role assignments. Campaign management features will include dashboards with key metrics, campaign previews, and transactional notifications via MailChimp. A detailed data migration plan will guide the transition from the legacy Thrinacia platform, including staging tests, final production migration with full validation, and a clear rollback strategy with pre-migration backups and contingency protocols.

To ensure the successful development of our software, we partnered with Atomic Object to create and follow a clearly defined, outcome-driven roadmap. Together, we structured the engagement around a phased development approach, beginning with careful tech stack selection, multi-tenant architecture design, and a well-scoped feature set to support core fundraising functionality. We planned and executed the build of a new platform skeleton using modern tooling like SST, Postgres, and a React-based monorepo to support scalability. A detailed data migration strategy was developed and tested in staging to ensure a smooth transfer of legacy data from Thrinacia, resulting in over 98 percent accuracy during validation. We also prioritized the development of essential user flows, including donation processing, organization onboarding, role-based permissions, and campaign setup, and deployed continuous integration pipelines to maintain velocity. Each component was validated with milestone testing and production-readiness checks, ensuring that the software launched on stable infrastructure with the foundational features required for growth.

Atomic Object was diligent, professional, and timely in every aspect of project management. They consistently delivered items on schedule and maintained clear timelines with strong accountability. Their team was highly responsive to our needs, adapting quickly when requirements evolved and ensuring we always felt supported. Communication was seamless, and their organized, proactive approach gave us full confidence throughout the development process.

What stood out most about Atomic Object was their welcoming and people-centered culture, which reflected the kind of environment all companies should strive to achieve. From the start, their team fostered a sense of mutual respect, open collaboration, and genuine care for our success. They balanced technical excellence with a strong human touch, making it clear that they valued both the product and the people behind it. This rare blend of professionalism, empathy, and cultural alignment made working with them not only effective but truly enjoyable.

Not at all!

I am the Partner / Sales Manager of an agriculture company

Wholesale provider of floral and garden products to big box stores.

Current Vendor

Willingness to integrate with in-house staff.

2-5 Employees

Target deliverables during this engagement include a software system that:

Achievment of deliverables within time and budget.

They consulted on the project management and timeframe, but deferred to our in-house management.

In-Person Meeting

Willingness to adapt to our project needs and management decisions. They have a broad set of skills for various company sizes and needs. They are also very transparent with their capabilities.

Not on this project. Total satisfaction.

I'm the founder of Silly Sports. We run pickleball leagues for young adults with a unique format of skill-based matchmaking. Pickleball is a sport that's very sensitive to skill-level discrepancies, and our format solves that.

It is very administratively burdensome to run pickleball leagues, and no existing software products allow us to run our leagues more efficiently. There is a considerable administrative burden to run this type of differentiated format. This format has resulted in great success for our company, but behind the scenes, it's been incredibly laborious to manage the leagues, hence the need for custom software.

Atomic Object has designed and built a custom software solution from scratch. The team and I are developing the software. They've built it based on my company's relevant pain points and our situation so we can automate admin work.

The project has three staff members: a software engineer who does the coding, a creative designer who visualizes the end product's appearance, and a product lead who acts as a liaison between the designer, the software engineer, and myself.

They were a referral. Someone I know in the venture capital space talked to us, and we made a recommendation for Atomic Object.

We have spent around $300,000.

We've been working together since October 2024, and the engagement is ongoing.

We don't have any metrics yet. We're launching the first version of the app in about three weeks. However, I've seen many versions of it, and I anticipate that the software will probably reduce admin time by about 70%. I'm confident I made the right decision after working with them.

They've all been great. They've been very communicative, transparent, forthcoming, and pleasant to work with. We've communicated predominantly via email and Slack. They use GitHub and other platforms internally, but I requested not to be a part of those workflows. They send me weekly progress updates in PDF files.

They're really good at their jobs and can read between the lines. I have never built software before, but from my understanding, working with offshore labor requires being incredibly prescriptive and leaving no room for judgment. With Atomic Object, I can give them ideas and example use cases and explain my pain points and what would be helpful in jargon-free lay terms. They've consistently come back with extremely pointed and amazing solutions and ideas. They've just been incredible, and they have a very talented group of people working at their agency.

No. I've only had this one experience and heard horror stories of people going down this route. I was very nervous at first, but I did my due diligence and talked to people they've worked with, and Atomic Object has certainly met my expectations.

If you are a non-technical person considering developing custom software for your business, Atomic Object is an incredible one-stop-shop solution. It's a little pricier, but it's well worth it in the long run.