your team excels at engineering

let us help you unlock higher revenues,  satisfaction, and repeat business

let us help you

win bigger, higher margin projects

Go after larger, more strategic, more lucrative projects by offering powerhouse discovery, strategy & design in your bids

compete with full-service firms

Stop being edged out by consultancies that offer product, strategy, ux and design in house on juicy projects

avoid built-right, wrong problem

Tight problem definition and business-cased plans, with stakeholder alignment baked in ensures your team hits the mark

even the best teams get stuck when projects don’t have clear strategy, scope, or artifacts from the start. that’s where we come in.

product & service strategy

We blend innovative discovery and prioritization methods to uncover the most meaningful solutions to the most challenging pains you and your users face –– meticulously building a crawl, walk, run, product or service roadmap.

user experience
& service design

We'll help you increase customer satisfaction and engagement by creating products your customers can't live without and elevate your product with thoughtful, clean and simple user experiences.

visual design & branding

Our talented designers expertly weave your essence, personality and DNA into imagery and messaging that crystallizes what your business stands for, and speaks to the hearts and minds of your target audience.

40

%

more engaged clients

30

%

higher project profits

2x

likelihood of
repeat customers

70

%

less wasted dev / pivots

50

%

less wasted dev rework

40

%

better client outcomes

what we do

• strategic framing that shifts you from “feature builder” to “business partner"

• product-mindset allows you to identify the right problems to solve, especially when they’re not immediately obvious – naturally expand the engagement while keeping delivery tight

• design and UX leadership that uncovers new opportunities your clients actually want to fund 

• crawl / walk / run roadmaps that immediately define two additional engagements after the current is complete

Tension is an end-to-end strategy-through-design partner for dev shops like yours. We help you compete with larger consultancies, offer the complete end-to-end package, and deliver strategically-aligned, beautiful, engaging solutions that clients, and end users, actually love.

you're ready.
we're ready. let's go!

If you’re tired of losing opportunities to firms that aren’t better—just bigger—let’s fix that. Together.

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we make you look better, do better work & drive better revenues

We can turn your task oriented projects into strategy-led, beautifully designed, full product-development engagements that reorient the customer relationship, build future project opportunities, and create outstanding case studies to use in future sales.To tension, projects are promises. Time, resources, budgets. Fixed, and guaranteed. We don’t build in contingencies.

We don’t have overage rates. If we mis-scoped your project, that’s on us — and we’ll make it right, every time
This isn’t a gimmick. It’s not a ploy. It’s simply ethical and moral, and it’s just good business.

We understand technology, no matter what the platform, the framework, or the language. We’ve seen it all — so when we come in we hit the ground running. Our process adds a bit of time upfront, but it increases your revenues significantly, streamlines your dev process, and defines a path to higher customer satisfaction.

We’ve built our project engagement model atop decades of best-practices, proprietary insights, speed, efficiency, meaning, value and an insatiable need to deliver tangible outcomes.

Workbench experience rearchitecture and design

xiQ’s Workbench is a powerhouse content marketing machine. We reimagined the experience to allow anyone to take advantage of, to automate their content creation, quickly, easily and authentically.

Tension is incredible to work with. Hard-working, diligent and truly customer obsessed. They deliver fantastic value at very fair rates and I have always seen them go above and beyond for their customers.

Scott McTavish
VP, Strategy & Corporate Development at Purdys Chocolatier

we make it crazy-easy to level up your client engagements. two ways to engage with us:

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