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Ryan Foster
Co-founder
About
Built by operators. Run by engineers and designers.
DF Intelligence Group was founded by Ryan Foster and Luis Despiau to connect the disciplines companies usually buy separately. The firm began in ecommerce operations, where fragmented systems cost real margin, and grew into the technology, design, data and growth work that fixes them.
Leadership
Two co-founders, on every engagement.
The people who scope the work are the people who do it. That is the simplest promise we make and the one clients notice first.
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Luis Despiau
Co-founder
How the disciplines fit
One team, four groups of work.
Software development leads because most problems we are hired for end in a system that has to be built. The rest exists so that system is designed well, measured honestly and adopted by the people who use it.
Build
Software, websites and applications engineered by senior developers who own the architecture and the production system.
- Software Development
- Web Development
- Application Development
Intelligence
Data pipelines, analytics and AI systems that improve decisions and automate work, with the controls to trust them.
- Data Science and AI
Grow
Brand, design, motion and growth programs run as measured experiments rather than campaigns on faith.
- Digital Marketing and Growth
- Graphic Design and Animation
Operate
The operational expertise the company was founded on: process, systems integration, ecommerce operations and transformation.
- Business Operations and Transformation
What we believe
Principles we are willing to be held to.
Senior people do the work
The people you meet in discovery are the people who design, build and ship. No handoff to a junior team after the contract is signed.
Measured against a baseline
Every engagement starts by agreeing what good looks like in numbers, and ends by reporting against them, not by claiming results in a proposal.
Built in your accounts
Code lives in your repositories, data in your cloud, analytics in your properties. You can walk away with everything at any point.
Honest about what we don't do
If a problem is better solved with an off-the-shelf tool, a different partner or no project at all, we say so in the first conversation.
Work with a team that has run the business side too.
Describe the project, the problem or the idea. We reply within two business days with questions and a recommended first step.
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You write to us
A few sentences is enough. Attach nothing you would not share with a new vendor.
- 2
We reply with questions
Within two business days, from one of the founders, with a recommended first step.
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We agree on scope
A short discovery or a direct proposal with phases, deliverables and success metrics.