Bold Penguin

About the project:

Anyone that has tried shopping around for insurance knows that there can be an unbearable number of questions to answer, and it can feel like you are repeating yourself a lot. Bold Penguin, a company local to Columbus, focuses on helping eliminate some of this friction by providing workflows that collect this information in an insurance-company-independent manner. A key part of this is understanding what data is needed by different insurance vendors and how the answers to questions map to eligibility.

Using data Bold Penguin provided, our team designed a system they could use to maintain this data and manage the Q&A portion of their service. We then built a Ruby on Rails web service to return eligibility status based on the information provided by a customer through these questions.

While the problem itself is interesting, we think this project particularly highlights our technical flexibility, as Ruby on Rails was a Bold Penguin request rather than necessarily the path we would have taken ourselves. However, it was important to us that we build the service in a way that fit into their existing ecosystem so they could continue to extend it themselves if they chose to. Rather than simply "making it work," we aligned with modern Ruby/Rails standards so that the tool would be of maximum value to Bold Penguin.

At Software Verde, we take software engineering very seriously and aren't afraid to learn new technologies (or new versions of them) when necessary. When we do, we focus on understanding current patterns and best practices, producing work that we are just as proud of as systems built with technologies we’ve used for years.