Technology · Design · Marketing · Operations
Build smart, right from the start.
Marish Quest helps businesses figure out what comes next and then helps make it happen.
We work across technology, design, marketing and business operations, bringing together the strategy, execution and specialized expertise a project actually needs.
Who we are
Not everything fits in a box.Neither do we.
Some projects start with a technical problem. Others start with an idea, a deadline, a stack of disconnected tools, an unfinished product, or simply, "We need to figure this out."
That's where we're useful.
Marish Quest works across technology, design, marketing and business operations, which means we can look at the whole problem instead of just the piece that happens to fall inside one department.
Sometimes we provide the strategy. Sometimes we build the thing. Sometimes we clean up what's already there. And when the job calls for expertise outside our wheelhouse, we help find the right people and keep the work moving.
You don't need to know exactly what kind of help you need before you call us.
What we do
We have a pretty big toolbox.
We've worked on hardware and firmware, software and cloud infrastructure, websites and brands, marketing campaigns and communications, business plans and financial models, grant applications and government contracting, company operations and the systems that hold all of it together.
That doesn't mean we try to be everything to everyone. It means we're comfortable working across the lines where projects usually get complicated.
Advice is useful. Execution is better.
We're not limited to handing over recommendations and wishing you luck. We can help define the problem, develop the plan, build what needs to be built, manage the work, coordinate vendors and specialists, and stay involved until the pieces actually work together.
Need direction?
We'll help figure out what the problem actually is and what should happen next.
Need someone to do the work?
We do that too.
Need expertise beyond ours?
We'll tell you, help find the right people and make sure their work connects to everything else.
We can guide it, build it or help assemble the right team to get it done.
How it goes
Some projects don't come with a map.
Some projects arrive neatly scoped. Others arrive with half a plan, three logins, an old spreadsheet, six competing priorities and a deadline.
We work with both.
We're comfortable getting into the messy middle of a project, figuring out what matters, learning what we need to learn and finding a practical route forward.
The process may involve prototypes, experiments, workarounds, research, revisions and more than a little problem-solving. The finished product shouldn't look like it.
Comfortable with the complicated.
We've worked in environments where the details matter: technical products, regulated industries, government-facing work, grant programs, complex business requirements and projects involving multiple disciplines at once.
- Product and technology development
- Connected hardware and software
- Medical and health technology
- Grant writing
- Government contracting
- WOSB-related requirements and processes
- Business planning
- Investor communications
- Operational and financial systems
We're not intimidated by complexity. We just start breaking it into pieces.
Messy problems in. Thoughtful, functional, polished work out.
Selected Work
Good company.
Some of these are clients. Others are partners we've worked alongside. Either way, the work takes a lot of forms: sometimes building the product, sometimes shaping the business around it, sometimes working behind the scenes on the technology, systems, communications or infrastructure that help it operate.
Dreams are nice. Deliverables are better.
The Team
Small by design.
Marish Quest is a small team, and that's intentional. The people you talk to are the people thinking through the problem, making decisions and doing the work. We stay close to the details because details are usually where projects succeed or fail.
Matthew Smith
Lead Technical Consultant
Kimberly Marques
Lead Consultant
We solve the problem, not just the part that fits our job description.
Tell us what you're working on.
You don't need a perfect brief or a fully scoped project. Tell us what you're trying to accomplish, what's getting in the way or what you've been meaning to finally get done. We'll take it from there.
Interesting problem? Even better.