Homebot acquired Nest Ready, a residential real estate listings platform, that needed to be fully integrated with Homebot’s home equity valuation product. We were asked to integrate this acquired tech product in 100 days.
Through our extensive experience consolidating products in the financial services industry, we had the skills needed to pull off a technical product integration of this size. OBLSK played important roles in planning, strategizing, and implementation that resulted in stellar results while meeting the aggressive deadline.
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Challenge
- Homebot acquired Nest Ready, a residential real estate listings platform, that needed to be fully integrated with Homebot’s home equity valuation product
- Planning, strategizing, and implementing Homebot’s first large product integration in 100 days
- Quickly getting up to speed with the new client due to the aggressive timeline
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Solution
- Scoped the deliverables with escape hatches (simple fallbacks in response to potential schedule pressure) where available
- Integrated a newly acquired product utilizing Ruby on Rails and React
- Implemented working end-to-end data flows within Homebot’s custom data pipeline product using Ruby on Rails and AWS
- Regularly met with the internal product team to understand feedback from customers
- Actively assisted in the user study process run by Homebot’s in-house UX/UI team
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Result
- Completed the product acquisition integration in 100 days
- Resulted in an extension of our contract to work on other projects
- Homebot was able to enter the online residential real estate listings market in 2022
