Proof

Past the demo. Past the quote.

Every buyer is asking two questions. Can you actually get this into the system that runs my business? And will you tell me the truth about where I stand before I spend anything? The cases below answer both. First, a platform the entire business ran on, rebuilt, shipped to production, fixed price, for less than half of what traditional partners quoted. Second, an assessment that became a build: a front office that runs from signed work order to paid invoice without a manual handoff. Third, an assessment that turned a rebuild estimate leadership couldn't vouch for into a decision they could stand behind.

/ 01Flagship cases

CASE 01Anonymized · Published with details withheld

The rebuild everyone else priced at double.

An IoT platform company with tens of thousands of devices in the field

01Problem

Every one of those devices ran through a homegrown platform on on-premise servers. It was aging, increasingly unreliable, and expensive to host. Outages came monthly and ran for days at a time. The platform was the business, and everyone knew a rebuild was coming.

But rewrites of load-bearing systems are exactly the projects that run years late, and the quotes from traditional development partners put the work out of reach.

02Approach

We spent several weeks inside their systems, their product, and their long-term plans before anyone priced a build. That’s the assessment doing its job. It answered two questions honestly: whether the current platform could be kept alive in the short term, and what a rebuilt platform would open up in market reach and revenue.

The answer became a two-track plan. We handed their team clear-cut stabilization work, specific and sequenced, that their own people executed to keep the system dependable through the transition. While they stabilized, we built the new platform on AWS. We used AI extensively throughout the build. It’s the productivity engine behind our fixed-price model.

03Outcome

The stabilization plan ended the outage cycle before the new platform ever shipped. Monthly, multi-day outages became controlled maintenance windows with minimal downtime.

Then came the migration. The platform now runs on AWS with full availability, at less than a fifth of the old hosting cost. We delivered the rebuild, fixed price, for less than half of what traditional development partners had quoted.

That isn’t a discount. It’s what AI-native delivery does to the cost of serious work.

In their words

We went in expecting to choose between a rebuild we couldn’t afford and a platform we couldn’t trust. Carbon10 gave us a third option. The stabilization plan alone changed daily life for my team, we stopped living outage to outage, and the new platform came in at a price we’d been told was impossible.

JON S. · DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY, IoT PLATFORM COMPANY

CASE 02Anonymized · Published with details withheld

From signed work order to paid invoice, with no one moving it along.

A professional services firm

Illustrated timeline running from a signed work order to a scheduled date to an invoice to a completed payment

01Problem

The complaint was simple and the cause wasn’t: too much time between a signed work order and a scheduled engagement. Work that a client had already agreed to pay for sat waiting while someone keyed it into the next system, checked who was available, matched the right people to the right services, and moved it forward by hand.

Every step worked. The handoffs between them were the delay, and they were invisible to anyone looking at the systems one at a time.

02Approach

We started with an assessment of their systems and how the work actually moved through them, and handed over a roadmap and an implementation plan.

Then we built it. Automation engines carry data across the systems that were previously bridged by people, and AI does the judgment step in the middle — reading the services on an order and matching them to the right resources and open calendar time.

03Outcome

A front office that runs end to end: signed work order to scheduled engagement to invoice to payment, without a manual handoff in the path.

The systems they already owned didn’t get replaced. They got connected, with AI doing the part that used to require someone who knew how the business worked.

In their words

Working with the team at Carbon10 created real value for our organization. Using automation and AI capabilities, our workflows went from almost entirely manual to almost entirely automated. Our accounting team went from doing all of the work to managing an automated workflow, leaving them room to focus on more meaningful tasks.

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FIRM

CASE 03Anonymized · Published with details withheld

Certainty where there’d only been anxiety.

A multi-location office-technology dealer

01Problem

Leadership was staring at modernization estimates they couldn’t make sense of. Big numbers, on projects they had no window into. A first modernization had landed roughly several months late and over budget. A second, larger one loomed at 18 months and $2M+, with very little certainty the timeline and budget could be met.

The anxiety wasn’t the number. It was having no way to know whether to believe it.

02Approach

We ran our assessment and surfaced specific problems across how requirements were defined, how the system was designed, how work moved through delivery, and how projects were reported. That last one was the root. With no reliable reporting, leadership was flying blind. So we built visibility into where each project stood, where it was failing, and why.

03Outcome

We did not fix their delivery organization, and never claimed to. We delivered certainty. For the first time, leadership could see where each project stood, where it was breaking down, and why. They could get ahead of failures instead of discovering them 18 months in.

The estimate stopped being a number taken on faith. It became one they understood and could act on.

In their words

Every project update used to be an act of faith. We couldn’t tell what was actually happening inside our own modernization, and the estimates were numbers we just had to accept. Now we finally have a clear picture of where things stand, where they’re slipping, and why. We get ahead of problems instead of discovering them months in.

TROY Q. · VP OF OPERATIONS, MULTI-LOCATION OFFICE-TECHNOLOGY DEALER

/ 02The pattern

Different industries. Same shape.

The cases above have almost nothing in common on the surface — a platform company, a professional services firm, an office-technology dealer. What they shared is the thing we actually work on: a system the business couldn’t run without, that no one could see clearly enough to make a confident decision about. Whether to rebuild it, connect it, automate around it, or leave it alone entirely.

A financial-services agency

Asked whether its internal planning process could be productized and sold as SaaS. We mapped the systems and returned an implementation plan; paired with their own market research, it showed the return wasn’t there. The value of the engagement was the build they didn’t fund.

A public utility installer

A full review of digital operations that identified the workflows where AI could cut overhead and put people back on work that actually matters, sequenced into an implementation plan.

A professional services company

Set out to rebuild its data footprint to support AI. We assessed the systems and workflows and handed over an implementation plan. Their own team executed it, and they’re building on that foundation now.

/ 03In their words

Client testimonials

Collaborating with Carbon10 has been a great experience. They’ve attentively considered our requirements and studied how our customers interact with our products, dedicating time and effort to comprehend and proactively strategize, ensuring the delivery of an intuitive design application. We sincerely value the dedication and hard work invested in our project.

CHAR REYNOLDS · VP OF SALES

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/ 04Selectivity

This is the caliber of judgment we select for.

We don’t take engagements we can’t do at this level. That’s the reason for the application. It isn’t gatekeeping for its own sake. Work like this is led personally by our most capable people, and there are only so many of them. Whether you need clarity or a system that ships, that’s what the assessment is built to find.

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