As a services provider, I also have to recognize that our market has bifurcated between marketplaces and traditional services providers.
Software developers and their time are not commodities. And while the freelance market offers individuals globally a chance to improve their lives to a degree – the lifestyle introduces a tremendous amount of uncertainty into their lives.
For instance a developer through one of the marketplaces could be paid well for their services for 6-8 months out of the year – but what about the rest of the time? Typically these folks find themselves looking for jobs the rest of the time creating stress and anxiety for them and their families. While the marketplaces can provide a contract for the developer they cannot provide a career. On our website you may have read the words “empathy for the developer.” The marketplaces treat developers hard earned skills as commodities and do nothing to differentiate one from the other to the customer. In other words the marketplaces present customers the choice of “here’s Developer A and Developer B … you choose who you like. Good luck with your project.” In no part of that transaction is there a relationship. There is no empathy.
On the other hand, the traditional services providers have all grown based on an industrial age idea of organization. Essentially they gathered all their resources at a single site and produce widgets for delivery to market. That industrial age idea of production has worked for nearly 150 years. Most companies – even tech companies – still relied on this idea of the company to compete.
The global pandemic has demonstrated for good that knowledge workers no longer have to organize themselves in the same ways we did in the 1800s. We don’t have to sit around in rows of cubes or super-hip standup desks in an office to get things done or communicate anymore. We can work productively from anywhere. We can share ideas or brainstorm together from anywhere. Azumo is a distributed company and we have been so since our founding in 2016. We take advantage of the global base of energetic talent and the ubiquity of communications tools to create value for all of our stakeholders.
I built Azumo with the belief that companies like yours would choose to build intelligent applications. It’s the reason our team combines expertise in modern front-end technologies, data infrastructure, and machine learning. From a business perspective we believe in collaboration and true alignment with our customers. That belief extends to how we interact with you and how we think deeply about your challenges. Hopefully through our website and speaking with us, you gather that we believe you can build a scalable, flexible, technical competitive advantage, from which both you and your customers can benefit.We may not be the best fit for you and your current needs but regardless of where you are in your technical journey maybe we can connect and start a conversation.
Best,
Chike Agbai
Founder and CEO