Ricochet Labs

We love making things and learning new technologies. As part of that passion we work on internal projects making tools to better serve our clients, our team and the web in general.

Here are a few of the projects we're working on now.

Evercurrent

Drupal security updates are a regular part of our lives, and while their importance is hard to overstate, keeping up with code updates for hundreds of modules across dozens of sites can get to be a bit of a headache. Enter Evercurrent - a way of managing and being notified of Drupal updates across multiple sites and platforms.

Planalyze

Improve your team's productivity. Planalyze is a real-time daily planning and check-in tool that keeps your team in sync and ahead of the day. Get more done.

Slack Bot

What could be better than Elixir and Slack? Our original internal Slack bot was showing signs of age so we undertook creating a new bot that would leverage Elixir’s lightweight asynchronous threads to quickly and efficiently interact with our favorite messaging service, Slack. We’ve used the framework for everything from time tracking to meeting managing, all from within Slack.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is a complex field and is being applied in a lot of different ways. We wanted to see if machine learning might help us and our clients to better anticipate customers needs. We also wanted to check out the state of Python and Javascript frameworks that implement machine learning algorithms. We’re still in-process, but are having fun learning how to predict customer churn and parse through huge sets of data.

Augmented Reality

Augmented reality (AR) frameworks are becoming more commonplace, so we wanted to see what business value an AR application might provide to our clients. Being able to show how a large appliance might look in your house or garage using a smart device could be a great way of showing off products, and a fun way to engage users. We’ve made several mobile apps over the years, and wanted to try our hand at this new technology.