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Cases
Qwire
Modernizing a music-licensing platform with a lean, senior-led team
Team restructuring · Architecture modernization · Custom BI · DevOps
Tech stack
- FrontendFlutter
- BackendNode.js
- DatabaseFirebase
- Cloud / DevOpsBluetooth LE
- BIAWS IoT Core
Challenge
Seven years of growth left a fragmented team, a complex legacy stack and rising DevOps costs.
Highlights
50%
Lower DevOps costs
Q1
Faster feature releases in the first quarter
Parallel
Delivery lanes for features and integrations
Challenge
Seven years of growth left a fragmented team, a complex legacy stack and rising DevOps costs.
Highlights
50%
Lower DevOps costs
Q1
Faster feature releases in the first quarter
Parallel
Delivery lanes for features and integrations
Context
Qwire helps major studios, broadcasters and music supervisors manage music licensing, cue sheets and royalties. After seven years of growth, clients still loved the platform, but the engineering behind it was slowing down.
The challenge
The challenge
01
Fragmented team
A large internal team with specialized, siloed roles.
02
Legacy complexity
A stack built up over seven years that made every change slower.
03
Rising costs
DevOps and infrastructure spend kept growing, leaving less for product work.
04
The constraint
Fix all of this without risking client trust or daily operations.
Our approach
Start small, then scale to the need. A couple of senior specialists assessed the setup first; then we brought in exactly the skills each project needed.
1.
Flexible senior team
Lean, per-project teams of designers, front-end and back-end engineers, DevOps experts and product managers, instead of a large fixed staff.
2.
Architecture modernization
Simplified the legacy architecture and moved Qwire to a modern, scalable stack within weeks.
3.
Real-time BI
A new business intelligence tool that gives Qwire’s clients, including major studios, real-time data for faster decisions.
What we delivered
What we delivered
01
Efficiency
A faster, more responsive platform, noticed by clients right away.
02
Savings
50% lower DevOps costs, with budget moved from maintenance to product.
03
Capacity
Parallel workflows to ship features, improvements and integrations at the same time, without losing quality.
04
Autonomy
The internal team now runs complex tasks like music library imports and validation, with fewer cross-team dependencies.
05
Satisfaction
“Their transition into our operations was smooth and virtually undetectable by our clients.” Scott Freiman, CEO, Qwire
What’s next
// the partnership continues
What’s next
// the partnership continues
In progress
Caching layers
In progress
BI cost monitoring
In progress
Clearance & bulk updates
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