We're radically transparent, committed to delivering working software every release, and passionate about solving tough problems.
Instead of having an org chart, we distribute authority through an approach called holacracy.
We’re honest with each other and with our clients, using public Slack channels for all communications.
We fight for our clients and their goals, always with our eyes on the greater good.
We want to be the best of the best. Not because that’s what clients want, but because it’s in our DNA.
We believe people do their best work when they have fulfilling lives outside of work.
Our founders launched Very in 2011 after becoming frustrated with the status quo of product development. Their goal was simple: to deliver working software on time, every time.
Armed with our first large clients, Very needed more than a handful of contractors. We began hiring our first full-time employees in Maryland, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and New York, solidifying our remote-first culture.
Demand for our services more than doubled in 2013, and we had more projects than we could possibly handle. To keep up, we more than doubled our staff in six months. This reinforced our need for a conventional office space, which we found in Chattanooga, TN.
After juggling projects and getting pretty burnt out, it was time to make some major changes. We created rules to take better care of our teams and deliver the best software for our clients: each person works on one project at a time; engineers work in pairs; extensive code reviews and unit testing are non-negotiable; Fridays are reserved for internal projects.
We tried top-down management, and it just didn’t fit. We needed the flexibility to iterate and to distribute authority in non-traditional ways. So in 2015, we decided to throw out our org chart and adopt a management approach called Holacracy. We’re still iterating on it, and in the process, we’re learning a lot about each other and about how to empower team members to be leaders, no matter their job title.
Having outgrown our office space, we started renovating in late 2016. Planning for the future, we built out our dream office, with room to grow
In the spring of 2017, we rebranded from Spartan Systems to Very. Like the word itself
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