Case Study: Carbon Five achieves 35+ client apps a year and rapid time-to-market with Heroku

How Carbon Five Builds 35+ Client Apps a Year on Heroku

Carbon Five is a collaborative software design and development firm founded in 2000 that helps startups and enterprises build products while training client teams. Their challenge is delivering high-quality, iterative software quickly—often with minimal operational overhead—while keeping clients involved and able to take over post-launch.

To meet that need they use Heroku for about 90% of projects, bootstrapping working demos in week one (using their Raygun starter) and building roughly 35 apps per year across Rails, Node.js, React/Angular and newer languages like Elixir. The result is faster time-to-market, continuous client feedback, less DevOps burden, smoother onboarding and handoffs, and production-ready apps with client teams fully ramped to own them.

Carbon Five

David Hendee

Partner & Director of Design