Case Studies.

Digital Solutions
Media

Leveraging large language models to provide an intuitive, conversational interface for users to access their data.

Data Butler is a cutting-edge AI prototype developed by Ascendum that leverages large language models to provide an intuitive, conversational interface for users to interact with their data.
Digital Solutions
Healthcare

We developed a cutting-edge personalized search platform that leverages LLM-backed chat experiences.

We developed a cutting-edge personalized product search platform that leverages LLM-backed chat experiences to transform consumer review data into a powerful search tool.
Digital Solutions
Media

We designed a powerful, containerized, and configurable private instance of ChatGPT for enterprise environments.

AscendAI is a powerful, containerized, and configurable private instance of ChatGPT designed for enterprise environments. Unlike traditional productivity tools tailored for individual users, AscendAI enables organizations to deploy smart AI agents across their entire user base.
Digital Solutions
Mortgage & Title

We developed a mortgage system that uses AI to automate the pre-approval process for potential home buyers.

The Mortgage Pre-Approval AI System automates the pre-approval process for potential home buyers, providing accurate and quick mortgage eligibility assessments.
Digital Solutions
Education

Our client asked us to design an engaging Functional Skill System.

The Functional Skills System provides easy to understand information that allows learners to become more capable of functioning independently in their homes, schools, communities and workplaces.
Digital Solutions
Education

Our client asked us to design a robust user management system.

The MECA System is comprised of four unique parts (Interest Indicator, Work Samples, Assessments, and Career Planner) tied together by a comprehensive management system.
Digital Solutions
Healthcare

Our client asked us to design a healthcare experience that rewards users every step of the way.

The client is a nationwide healthcare insurance company with an extensive suite of mobile and web apps. They wanted to work with us on creating a brand new, focused experience that really rewarded members for adhering to their prescriptions and taking a more active lifestyle.
Digital Solutions
Education

Modernizing learning with AI-driven chatbot.

The goal for this project was to redesign our client’s existing website, which featured a chatbot, to make it smarter, more modern, and user-friendly.
Digital Solutions
Society

Conveniently meet up with friends anytime, anywhere.

A start-up based in San Francisco needed help to bring their app idea to life. Their mission was to reinvent how people arrange to meetup with their friends.
Digital Solutions
Education

Skills Assessment to Predict On-the-Job Success.

The Ascendum Design Team was asked to bring cognitive testing to mobile devices. The catch was, the interactions had to pass behavioral psychology testing to ensure there was no bias created through the design process.
Digital Solutions
Media

Working together with ABP, we designed an intuitive AI search solution to provide enhanced document discovery capabilities.

ABP, a global consultancy specialising in business process management and AI-powered automation, approached us for support with a client.
Digital Solutions
Healthcare

Easy and intuitive way for members to find the best medication prices at pharmacies near them.

The Ascendum Team diligently navigated detailed requirements, asked critical questions, and established a realistic roadmap for seamless execution.
Digital Solutions
Branding

Rebranding the Ascendum identity to strategically align the design with our ethos.

In 2024, our brand teams set out on a mission to transition from a departmental structure to a unified team, known as 'One Ascendum', leveraging the diverse talents scattered across our organization to form one cohesive and exceptionally talented team.
Digital Solutions
Automotive

We developed a proof of concept to increase miners performance and safety using AR.

In India, mining operations encompass both underground and surface mines. The need for strict safety protocols and the use of personal protective equipment to safeguard miners' well-being amidst hazardous conditions is crucial.
Digital Solutions
Automotive

We developed the technology to enable smart transportation for a global automotive company.

Our client is globally known for high safety ratings and quality. They were seeking a partner to assist them with improving fleet logistics and enriching driver experiences.
Digital Solutions
Branding

Creating a brand identity for a location based rewards platform on mobile.

Radius needed a strong brand identity after they introduced a groundbreaking location-based marketing technology with a gamified experience for shoppers. The experience guides you to discover promotions as you shop and navigate new products.
Digital Solutions
Branding

Creating a brand identity for a global retailer's automation integration team.

The Curio design team was tasked with crafting a brand identity for a global footwear companies automation integration team, operating within an industry typically lacking visual excitement. The brief was simply to convey the team's excellence and grant them a distinctive voice in their daily accomplishments and for an event that they were attending.
Digital Solutions
Healthcare

We designed an AI-based product that empowers claims examiners to process claims faster.

Our client approached us to design and brand an AI based product that empowers claims examiners, enabling them to process claims more accurately. The claims assistant should give them the information they need and offer tailored suggestions on how to resolve issues.
Digital Solutions
Society

A secure, reliable and anonymous ratings system for any industry or venue. Designed and built by Ascendum.

In recent years, there has been a real cultural shift towards reporting or highlighting anything that would have a cause for concern within the public space. This included reporting concerns about practices or policies in the workplace or school environment. However, there was no efficient and anonymous way to log such issues quickly.
Process Solutions
Mortgage & Title

Efficient back-office support to a leading US consumer finance lender.

In the summer of 2021, a leading consumer finance lender was experiencing an overwhelming spike in mortgage lending volumes and refinances.
Digital Solutions
Society

A fast two week POC design to support our client's staff portal application bid.

Our client takes a comprehensive approach to New York City's economy. Grow innovative sectors, with a focus on equity; build neighbourhoods as places to live, learn, work, and play; and deliver sustainable infrastructure for communities and the city's future economy
Digital Solutions
Accounting

Accounting software for small businesses with Acclivity data.

Acclivity Group LLC's AccountEdge is a top-tier accounting software designed to provide an intuitive and efficient solution for small businesses across the globe.
Digital Solutions
Retail

We developed a global footwear companies award-winning app, Greenhouse. Driving new trends and youth culture.

Our client is a multinational brand and a leader in the sports casual market. They have thousands of stores globally and are partners with the largest brands in product and distribution. Their internal innovation team wanted to launch a private label that could cater to the needs of millennials.
Digital Solutions
Healthcare

Looking into future innovation with visionOS.

Our team had an opportunity to peek into the world of visionOS, allowing them to conceptualize an innovative healthcare solution that seamlessly blends technology and wellness. See for yourself what they came up with...
Digital Solutions
Banking

Our client banked on us to deliver their wealth management app in just 14 weeks. We delivered.

With more than 30 years in business, our client is a leader of private banking and wealth management. A large concentration of their customers are in the technology, health care, and financial service industries.
Digital Solutions
Media

Hitting a home run for our local professional baseball team.

An American professional baseball team needed a partner for the development of a new web-based solution to become the backbone of their daily baseball operations. The team had a suite of apps for various functions of the organization (Scouting, Chief, Advance) that they wanted to integrate with their data analytics platform.
Digital Solutions
Healthcare

Developed a simplified employee portal for a Fortune 500 health insurance company.

A leading Health insurance company enterprise utilizes a corporate intranet portal where employees search for information and resources. The organization has 60,000+ employees, excluding contractors. A key challenge to using the portal was its inaccessibility from mobile devices.
Digital Solutions
Education

Creating an engaging virtual preschool experience for children learning remotely.

Our client is one of the largest early childhood education partners in the country, with over 500 franchised schools across dozens of states. Because of the global pandemic, parents were unable to send their children to school in person.
Process Solutions
Mortgage & Title

Optimizing efficiency for a leading US mortage lender.

As the adverse economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold, interest rates dropped sharply, and mortgage lenders were suddenly deluged by a wave of refinancing contracts and new purchasing activity.
Digital Solutions
Healthcare

Our client asked us to design an innovative, digital-first, pharmacy experience.

A digital pharmacy that offers insurance companies easy, affordable, and understandable pharmaceutical options to their members. A current client within the healthcare space referred Ascendum to the company.
Digital Solutions
Accounting

Expanding AccountEdge Desktop into cloud-based accounting platform.

The objective is to extend some AccountEdge Desktop functionality into a browser-based environment for remote users or employees who would not want an entire accounting application (i.e. AED) installed on their computer.
Digital Solutions
Banking

Scaling our client's Data Engineering team with top talent.

A Fortune 500 FinTech provider was struggling toscale their strategic Data Engineering team to driveincremental results. The enterprise had recently shiftedto agile, and they needed team members with a “can-do”attitude to deliver results over a series of incrementalsprints and provide guidance to other agile teams.
Digital Solutions
Automotive

Developed the technology enabling smarter transportation for a global automotive company.

Our client is globally known for high safety ratings and quality. They were seeking a partner to assist them with improving fleet logistics and enriching driver experiences. They needed a global team that could rapidly deliver inventive ideas and working prototypes.
Digital Solutions
Manufacturing

Created IoT digital systems for a manufacturing leader to remotely manage their machinery.

Our client is a leader in the engineering and manufacturing of products used for dispensing adhesive, sealants, coatings, and fluid management. With operations in more than 35 countries, they knew that digitizing certain aspects of their business could take them to the next level.
Digital Solutions
Healthcare

We built a predictive analytics system to help our client reduce their call center calls by 10% in 90 days.

Ascendum collaborated with the Fortune 500 health insurance company to enhance insights into customer usage across three external customer-service channels – the mobile app, website, and call center.
Process Solutions
Mortgage & Title

Bringing our global expertise to support a leading US mortgage company, reducing their processing time by 35%.

The mortgage industry is highly regulated, fragmented and still paper intensive, with a reliance on many third-parties that are necessary to complete a transaction. Data security and non-public information (NPI) are key considerations.
Digital Solutions
Automotive

Empowering cities for smart parking using IoT.

At any point in time, one-third of the traffic in a crowded downtown area is searching for parking. When city planners need to plan for parking revenue, utilization of existing assets and creating new revenue models are crucial.
Digital Solutions
Retail

Developed a global customer experience and loyalty platform for a global footwear retailer.

Athleisure and sports casual is a competitive market. It’s not uncommon to see lines of customers for the launch of must-have sneakers and clothing. The demand for these products is so high that buyers resort to using online bots to hit the website sooner and secure as much of the product as possible.
Digital Solutions
Retail

Brewing up the largest marketplace for facility management services in North America.

The largest marketplace for facility management services in North America embraced a razor-sharp focus on "business powered by technology. "The global firm needed a proof of concept for a new enterprise data warehouse infrastructure and analytics.
Digital Solutions
Retail

Developed a Bitcoin, Google, and Apple Pay mobile payments app for a self-service retailer.

A global software and payments company that provides end-to-end technology solutions for the unattended retail market needed a technology partner that could help them build an integrated mobile app that could bolster loyalty programs and add multiple methods of cashless payment methods.
Digital Solutions
Banking

Digital lockbox migrations for a large US consumer bank.

Ascendum collaborated with the client, one of the largest consumer banks in the Midwestern United States, to address the challenge of migrating existing customer lockbox accounts.
Digital Solutions
Healthcare

Simplifying a prescription drug coverage portal with an intuitive UI.

The client launched a new Pharmacy benefit manager to help simplify prescription drug coverage. They needed an intuitive client portal and web interface offering a one-stop location for payers and employer groups to seamlessly interact with a growing suite of tools.
Digital Solutions
Retail

Automation of a machine to machine (M2M) platform for a leading vending retailer.

Addressing the challenges faced by the global leader in vending commerce, Ascendum focused on revitalizing the software testing team. The client, known for its innovative Bezel technology for payment processing in vending machines and a suite of operational management products, was encountering delays in product launches due to prolonged regression testing cycles.
Digital Solutions
Healthcare

Improving a leading health insurers visual experience on their digital product.

A leading health insurance company, that has more than 60,000 employees, excluding contractors, utilizes an internal platform where employees insert new and search for medical claims, patient and providers information and other resources.
Digital Solutions
Retail

Developing technologies
to unify food, beverage and retail transactions at amusement parks.

An American amusement park company operates 27 properties throughout
North America, including them parks, amusement parks,
water parks and a family entertainment center.
Digital Solutions
Retail

Bringing a seamless self-checkout experience to 1 Million retail customers.

Our client is one of the largest online grocery store business in the country, with over a million customers across dozens of states. Our client are rapidly expanding into the offline stores as well and they wanted to create a best in class self service checkout experience in the existing market.
Digital Solutions
Retail

An OTT platform expansion for Jewelry Television.

A company specialising in jewelry television to Ascendum to take their current OTT platform offering from two platforms and increase them to six in total. This allowed their live show to reach more potential customers overall.
Digital Solutions
Retail

Next-gen architecture resulting in 99% cart match rates, for real-time purchasing.

Our client had a tremendous opportunity to drive accelerated product sales through their online e-Commerce channels. Their dated mainframe applications for purchasing, however, only provided synchronized and accurate inventory data across stores once each day.
Digital Solutions
Media

Delivered an OTT solution in 8 weeks, that increased viewer engagement by 5x.

Our global Fortune 500 client is a leading broadcaster, pay TV operator and India's first premium Over-the-Top Television (OTT) video-on-demand service.Our client acquired digital rights for FIFA World Cup soccer games and Indian cricket tours.
Digital Solutions
Media

How we helped our client increase viewer growth and engagement by 475%

Our global Fortune 500 client is a leading broadcaster, pay TV operator, and India's first premium OTT, video-on-demand (VOD) service. India is a highly competitive environment with more than 30 OTT and VOD platforms.
Digital Solutions
Education

Digitalising the classroom experience for both teachers and students.

Tata Class Edge approached us with a request of designing a comprehensive suite of applications that enhance engagement for both teachers and students, inside and outside of the classroom.