
40 minutes from downtown
Close enough to be a real partner
HQ is based in Ogden, 40 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City. Close enough to meet in person, far enough to stay focused. We've worked with SLC-area companies across healthcare, edtech, fintech, and more since 2012.
Salt Lake City is one of the fastest-growing tech markets in the country, and we've been building software here since before it was called Silicon Slopes. We know the ecosystem, the investors, and the kinds of problems growing companies run into when they need software that actually ships.
SLC-area work
Companies we've built for near Salt Lake City
WGU Labs
Salt Lake City, Utah
445K+ graduates
The innovation arm of Western Governors University, headquartered in Salt Lake City. We built platform tools supporting 28 portfolio companies and 180,000+ learners through the College Innovation Network.
Nomi Health
Lehi, Utah
30,000+ Americans served daily
Lehi-based direct-care company that raised $110M Series A and operates 200+ sites nationwide. We designed and built their patient app, bill payment, video intake, provider search, and health history unified in one experience.
Parallel
Utah
$4.25M raised
Utah startup backed by Peak Capital and Night Capital, plus founders of Spiff, Weave, and Divvy. We built the product prototype that helped them close their pre-seed and seed rounds.
What we do
Services for Salt Lake City businesses
Our work

RISExp

Messenger & My Designer Lab

Revere Health

Show&Tell

Messenger Memorial Maker

Nomi Health

“The way you've handled this is such a testament to why HQ is so damn good.”
Elizabeth Waite
CMO, Collegewise

“This team is insanely reliable.”
Randall Bennett

“These are my favorite vendors.”
Hayden Hill
CMO, Christensen Institute

“As a way to get to a phenomenal product, hiring this team is the best way to go. Overall we're 1000% pleased.”
Austen Allred
CEO, GauntletAI

“There's no doubt in my mind that we picked the right partner in HQ to help us with this.”
Shobin Uralil
CMO, Lively

“If I'm not your happiest customer, I'm willing to fight whoever thinks they are for that title.”
Jeff Allen
CEO, BlueCar

“We feel like HQ has been our secret weapon.”
Jerome Paul
CEO, Spiff (acq. by Salesforce)
Questions about working with an SLC software agency
Yes, several. WGU Labs is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where we built platform tools for 28 EdTech portfolio companies and more than 180,000 students in the College Innovation Network. Nomi Health, based in Lehi, raised a $110M Series A and runs 200+ sites serving 30,000+ Americans a day. Parallel, backed by Peak Capital and Night Capital, raised $4.25M across pre-seed and seed rounds on a prototype we designed. We take on new SLC projects regularly and know both sides of that market, the startup ecosystem and the enterprise one, which don't behave the same way at all.
About 40 minutes, from our office in Ogden to downtown. Close enough for a kickoff, a design review, or the conversation where a project changes direction, and far enough that we're not dropping by for things a call would cover. In practice proximity matters most at the beginning, during discovery and kickoff, when a room beats a video call. After that we run on whatever cadence keeps your team moving. We've held long partnerships with SLC-area clients in healthcare, EdTech, and fintech without the drive ever being the thing that mattered.
Yes. Parallel raised $4.25M across pre-seed and seed rounds, backed by Peak Capital, Night Capital, and founders from Spiff, Weave, and Divvy. Nomi Health in Lehi is a $110M Series A company. Both know the pressures that come with building there: fundraising timelines, investor demo dates, and the constant question of whether you're moving fast enough. We're comfortable working to those deadlines. We'll also tell you when a deadline is going to cost you quality you'll pay for later, which founders don't always want to hear in the moment.
Everything from a founder with no product to an enterprise replacing a legacy system. WGU Labs, with more than 180,000 students and 28 portfolio companies, sits at one end. Parallel, pre-revenue and pre-product when they walked in, sits at the other. In healthcare we've worked with organizations handling more than a million patient visits a year. In EdTech, fintech, and HR tech we've built both the first version and the fifth. What actually changes between those engagements is the decision-making speed and who has to sign off, not the work itself.
Custom web and mobile development, UX design, AI product development, product strategy, and website design and build. We can embed with your existing engineering or design team, or own the build end to end. For SLC-area companies we've shipped patient apps, AI-powered recruiting platforms, workforce planning prototypes, EdTech innovation sites, and marketing sites. Covering the full stack means you're not coordinating three vendors on one product, which is usually where timelines go to die.
Building something in Salt Lake City?
We're based 40 minutes away in Ogden and have worked with SLC-area companies across healthcare, tech, and fintech. Let's talk about your project.
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