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Cottrell Consulting: Leveraging No-Code Tools for Data Visualization Services

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Buildings
Cement

Use Cases

Building Automation & Control
Digital Thread

Services

Data Science Services
Testing & Certification

About The Customer

Cottrell Consulting is a data visualization consulting service founded by Joshua Cottrell-Schloemer, a product manager with a background in startups. The company primarily focuses on Data Studio work and aims to provide custom and fine-tuned products to its clients. The founder, while traveling around east and southeast Asia, was looking for ways to leverage his product skills without heavy coding. He started with visualization tools like Data Studio, Tableau, and PowerBI but realized that to achieve truly custom products, he needed a platform with more customization. This led him to Bubble, which he has been using as a learning tool and hopes to use for building performance dashboards for his clients.

The Challenge

Cottrell Consulting, founded by Joshua Cottrell-Schloemer, is a data visualization consulting service. The main challenge faced by the company was to find a way to leverage the product skills of its founder without heavy coding. The company needed a platform that could offer the same level of customization as a full-time developer. The goal was to create a portfolio and contact page for the consulting services, which would also serve as an onboarding portal for new clients. The company also wanted to test out new portfolio designs and describe their work in a language that non-technical clients could understand.

The Solution

The solution was found in Bubble, a no-code platform that offers a high level of customization. Bubble allowed Cottrell Consulting to build an app that serves as a portfolio and contact page for their data visualization consulting services. The app also provides live examples of their dashboards, making it easier for non-technical clients to understand their work. The app is also used to test out new portfolio designs. In the future, the app will also serve as an onboarding portal for new clients, allowing them to log in, see their project status, submit documents/specs, message the consultant, submit bug reports, and more. This solution not only made the process of building new things more efficient but also improved the way projects are specified.

Operational Impact

The use of Bubble's no-code platform has resulted in several operational benefits for Cottrell Consulting. It has made the process of building new things more efficient, eliminating the need to whittle down a designer's idea into something that can be handed to a developer. It has also improved the way projects are specified, leading to better communication and understanding with developers. The app has also served as a learning tool, providing a deeper understanding of building digital products. The ability to test out new portfolio designs and provide live examples of dashboards has made it easier to describe the company's work to non-technical clients.

Quantitative Benefit

The app has attracted new clients, validating the idea and the consultancy's visibility.
The app has facilitated learning, with milestones related to building a responsive page and setting up a flow for receiving messages in email.
The app is expected to scale the consultancy's operations by serving as an onboarding portal for new clients.