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The Case of Kolmeo
The Case of
Kolmeo
“The product we were
building was wrong, the
way we were building it
was wrong and the way
we were running our
teams wasn’t effective.”
Kolmeo’s vision was simple: to build a product that makes renting, owning and managing property easy and enjoyable. But before they knew it, they had spent a ton of money and were a year and a half late in delivering the product. They ran out of time yesterday and were bleeding resources - fast. Something wasn’t working, yet they couldn’t quite put a finger on it.
That’s when we came in.
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“It only took those three
for us to get a sense of
what would be possible
for our business if we
built a whole company
like the Daniel's and the
Farida's that we brought
on at that time.”
Great tools, innovative ideas and skilled execution revolve around people. At Beaker & Flint, we put people at the centre of every solution. To accelerate the process of delivering a product that users would love and rave about, we helped Kolmeo find talent with complementary skills to help bring the product to market.
We started with three key hires to join Kolmeo’s team:
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“If we had kept going on
the path that we were
on, we would have
flushed millions down
the toilet, building a
product that our users
would never have been
able to use - in
situations most useful
to them”
One of the first things Daniel, Meir and Farida discovered from research was that Kolmeo’s users were highly reliant on mobile devices to do their job, yet the software that was being built wasn’t mobile-friendly.
So much time, money and hard work had already been poured into the existing product. But CEO Scott Bateman knew they couldn’t stay on the rocky path they were on. And so we went back to the drawing board.
“It only took those three
for us to get a sense of
what would be possible
for our business if we
built a whole company
like the Daniel's and the
Farida's that we brought
on at that time.”
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Only this time, by leveraging on the user research gathered, we knew which direction to go into. After years of being stuck in the build phase, a brand spanking new prototype was built in a matter of months. As a result, a few things happened for Kolmeo.
“We've taken on more
and more of the team
because each time
we've got one of them
from Beaker & Flint,
they've just been mind-
blowing.”
Since we helped Kolmeo with their first three key hires, they've gone on to recruit an additional 40 people. And they're not done yet. The initial three allowed Kolmeo to understand the sort of calibre person that they should be looking for, the type of tools that best-in-class people in this industry actually work with and why that matters. Most of all, they’ve been able to drive the cultural change they needed to thrive.
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“The product we were
building was wrong, the way
we were building it was
wrong and the way we were
running our teams wasn’t
effective.”
Kolmeo’s vision was simple: to build a product that makes renting, owning and managing property easy and enjoyable. But before they knew it, they had spent a ton of money and were a year and a half late in delivering the product. They ran out of time yesterday and were bleeding resources - fast. Something wasn’t working, yet they couldn’t quite put a finger on it.
That’s when we came in.
“It only took those three for us to get a
sense of what would be possible for our
business if we built a whole company
like the Daniel's and the Farida's that we
brought on at that time.”
Great tools, innovative ideas and skilled execution revolve around people. At Beaker & Flint, we put people at the centre of every solution. To accelerate the process of delivering a product that users would love and rave about, we helped Kolmeo find talent with complementary skills to help bring the product to market.
We started with three key hires to join Kolmeo’s team:
“If we had kept going on the path that
we were on, we would have flushed
millions down the toilet, building a
product that our users would never
have been able to use - in situations
most useful to them”
One of the first things Daniel, Meir and Farida discovered from research was that Kolmeo’s users were highly reliant on mobile devices to do their job, yet the software that was being built wasn’t mobile-friendly.
So much time, money and hard work had already been poured into the existing product. But CEO Scott Bateman knew they couldn’t stay on the rocky path they were on. And so we went back to the drawing board.
“It was amazing how quickly
we started to see change
once Beaker &Flint came on
board.”
Only this time, by leveraging on the user research gathered, we knew which direction to go into. After years of being stuck in the build phase, a brand spanking new prototype was built in a matter of months. As a result, a few things happened for Kolmeo.
“We've taken on more and more of the
team because each time we've got
one of them from Beaker & Flint,
they've just been mind-blowing.”
Since we helped Kolmeo with their first three key hires, they've gone on to recruit an additional 40 people. And they're not done yet. The initial three allowed Kolmeo to understand the sort of calibre person that they should be looking for, the type of tools that best-in-class people in this industry actually work with and why that matters. Most of all, they’ve been able to drive the cultural change they needed to thrive.
