- Ecommerce Payment App and Inventory Management System
BUILDING A DEMO AUTOMATION PLATFORM
Client
Demos are critical to the buying experience. But pre-sales teams often struggle to cope with increasing demand for live demos, and growing a team of expert solution consultants takes time.
Consensus helps businesses create a more successful and tailored sales process through video asset management solutions and interactive video demos. The custom solution allows their customers to deliver a fully customized and interactive video demo on demand to each new prospect in the sales process.
Then, as an internal “champion” shares a Consensus video with other stakeholders at the company, the system automatically discovers each of their unique interests and re-configures the sales video to educate the new stakeholders in a more personalized way.

Challenge
The key to scaling for Consensus was attracting more enterprise-level clients like Oracle, IBM, and HP. The demands of these types of Fortune 500 companies required Consensus to enhance their demo automation platform with a more comprehensive website system architecture, higher-level security procedures, compliance with European laws, and features like single sign-on.
Strategy
While we supported, maintained, and fixed the existing application focused on digital asset management for video production, we were also hard at work estimating, planning, and creating a new system architecture design to replace it.
Solutions
- Amazon AWS
- PHP5/PHP7
- Node.js
- Codeigniter
- Golang
- Spiral Framework
- MySQL
- Influxdb
- SQL
- ORM
- RPC
- auto-scaling video
- processing with FFMPEG
- Elixir
Our web development company provided outstaffing services to build an entire engineering team, initially assigning a system architect, six senior frontend and backend engineers, a senior project manager, and a QA engineer to work for Consensus full-time. We reduced their total dev costs while implementing a number of improvements to their legacy platform to address the needs of Consensus’ current enterprise-level clients.

Results
Right from the start, the upgrades our team made helped them eliminate the need for a costly third-party platform, saving them over $100k a year, as well as lowering their overall spending associated with servers, hosting, and video storage by a few thousand dollars a month.

Review
At Spiral Scout, we believe that when it comes to software development and delivery, it’s time for a change.