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Business Proposal
Saddle Creek Apps is not just a startup company - it's a vision, a dream, and a commitment to excellence. Our team is dedicated to creating innovative and high-quality apps using enterprise project management workflows that will revolutionize the digital landscape.
We believe in pushing boundaries, challenging norms, and exceeding expectations. With unwavering passion and relentless determination, we strive to deliver nothing but the best to our clients and research partners.
A Home for the Midwest Work Ethic.
The American Midwest work ethic is sometimes described as, "An unwavering belief that hard work and perseverance pays off in the long run." It has also been said that "People in the Midwest are willing to rise earlier, work harder and stay longer to get the job done" and "Midwesterners are genuinely friendly and willing to help others." We have created a home to harness this work ethic and strive to push Nebraska forward.
NOVEMBER 2024
Saddle Creek Apps
A Modern Development Studio
BUSINESS PLAN
Omaha, Nebraska
68198
CONTENTS
Table of Contents
OVERVIEW
About Saddle Creek Apps
Saddle Creek Apps is not just a startup company - it's a vision, a dream, and a commitment to excellence. Our team is dedicated to creating innovative and high-quality apps using enterprise project management workflows that will revolutionize the digital landscape.
We believe in pushing boundaries, challenging norms, and exceeding expectations. With unwavering passion and relentless determination, we strive to deliver nothing but the best to our clients and research partners.
Full Solution Ownership
Delivering quality web apps & websites is what we excel at, but we have found many of our clients coming to us with half-built or broken systems that were built by our competitors.
Software development is an imperfect science and difficult to make promises on. However, we have focused on refining our practices, optimizing our pipelines, and continually improving our project management workflows. This focus enables faster development builds and delivery of better products to our clients.
We communicate at every stage of development and partner with our clients to ensure their vision is captured and requirements are met.
Actual report out documents to our stakeholders
SUMMARY
Executive Summary
Our plan to make a big impact
MISSION
To improve the impact of researchers & programs using technology.
VISION
Project based solutions using refined processes.
Microsoft Silver Status requires 3 employees to have Azure Certifications.
STUDIO
Development Studio
A Home for the Midwest Work Ethic
The American Midwest work ethic is sometimes described as, "An unwavering belief that hard work and perseverance pays off in the long run." It has also been said that "People in the Midwest are willing to rise earlier, work harder and stay longer to get the job done" and "Midwesterners are genuinely friendly and willing to help others."
We have created a home to harness this work ethic and strive to push Nebraska forward.
Founders
Jesse Carlberg
Founder
For the past two years, Jesse has been with Saddle Creek Apps building best-in-class solutions.
Before founding Saddle Creek Apps, Jesse built core technology & solutions for Fortune 500 companies.
Frank Bogatz
Founder
Amber Mekush-Harter
Founder
STUDIO OVERVIEW
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This proximity enables effortless collaboration with industry leaders and access to tap into the wealth of knowledge that the institution has to offer.
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Omaha, Nebraska
68198
STARTUP PLAN
Business Description
A Proven Path to Delivering for our Clients
END-TO-END WORKFLOW SOLUTIONS
We create sustainable and maintainable technology solutions to support our clients, partners, & research collaborations.
The solutions are built with the latest enterprise-grade frameworks and hosted in a cloud architecture that can scale to meet the needs of any user base.
BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY THAT SCALES
We are collaborators and an in-house resource. We have partnered with technologists at Nebraska Medicine, College of Nursing, MMI, and more. Our goal is to build a community of shared knowledge and best practices.
We provide the spark that gets everyone to come up with novel solutions.
STARTUP PLAN
Our Process
Deliverables Driven Development
Collaborating
We have repeat clients, partners, and collaborators. We select projects that have a high probability of success.
Design & Architecture
Our design-first approach lets us set expectations early and execute on deliverables.
Build
The Saddle Creek Apps team has a robust, reusable component library with 100% code coverage.
Testing & Validation
We test everything, all the time, always. Our apps are always up-to-date and working as expected.
Implementation & Support
We provide support at competitive near cost pricing, pay for what you use. We also provide 24/7 support and integrated monitoring services.
WHAT SEPARATES US
We are enterprise developers that can turn MVPs into Scalable Solutions. We have a repeatable, scalable, and tested infrastructure, component library, flexible authentication systems, and more.
As we add solutions, apps, and collaborations we don't have to add developers. The scaling is built into the framework. Our security is built into the infrastructure. Your data governance and compliance requirements are continuously assured with integrated cloud services.
STARTUP PLAN
Our Work
Design & Development Made Easy
HD Health Equity Project ECHO
An informative website & hard-copy PDF created for UNMC's ECHO Project utilizing instructional design.
Ai Pilot / Sandbox
Research Tools
A pilot web app showcasing secure deployment & implementations of many popular Ai products.
Data Capture App
Analytics - Dashboards
Data science, data analysis, etc.
iEXCEL Academy
Learning Modules - Resources
Experiential learning resources made approachable.
STARTUP
Financial Plan
Our plan for profitability and sustained growth
SEED FUNDING
| VALUE | PERCENTAGE |
|---|---|
| $125,000 | 100% |
| TOTAL | $125,000 |
CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS
Based on the current expenses, revenue generation, and title, staffing, & salary changes.
| VALUE | PERCENTAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Infrastructure | $25,000 | 14% |
| Marketing | $20,000 | 12% |
| Operations | $125,000 | 74% |
| TOTAL | $170,000 | 100% |
FINANCIAL OUTLOOK
Based on current number of Apps in development, returning clients & yearly hosting & maintenance fees.
| US$ | FY'25 | FY'26 | YOY CHANGE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 250,000 | 300,000 | 20% |
| Expenses | 170,000 | 200,000 | 17% |
| Profit | 80,000 | 100,000 | 25% |
STARTUP
Future Plans & Milestones
Minimum Benchmarks & Profitability Projections
SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
4 projects year 1 x60K
Maint. is 15k per year per app
Year
2+ we would do 6 Projects x60k
2025
Polish offerings, harden services, & build word of mouth.
Potentially add a project manager to improve communication
2026
With a pipeline of projects, we just need to execute and scale
2027
Year 3 we would want to add staff, a cross-trained Designer /Developer would complete the team
2028
A sustainable +6 projects a year and maintaining the existing applications going forward