Transportation technology startup Shiplify was bursting at the seams, with three employees squished into a conference room as a makeshift office.
Traditional office layouts meant they couldn’t see each other, and didn’t interact very much during the day.
They needed room to grow, and wanted a modern loft style office with a mostly open floor plan that would encourage employees to have more impromptu chats about business.
Shiplify was interested in The Lumberyard Office Lofts on Ellsworth Boulevard in West Midtown, and had already gotten a proposal from the landlord that looked pretty good.
That’s when they engaged Transcend. We negotiated more favorable terms that improved the deal by high single digits in Shiplify’s favor, and covered costs to build out the space.
We also helped design the layout of their new office, handled IT and low voltage cabling, oversaw their move into the new space and coordinated punch list items.
“The whole process was simple and took almost zero of my time, and that’s important when you’re running a startup and you’re pressed for time,” said Dyrc McLeod, co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of 3-year-old Shiplify. “Now we have room to grow, and it helped open up conversations that otherwise wouldn’t happen because we couldn’t see each other before.”
Shiplify helps less-than-truckload carriers such as Old Dominion identify residential locations, churches, schools and other buildings that incur “accessorial charges” for pickup and delivery.
Their technology gives greater transparency on costs, more accurate invoices and fewer accounts receivable.
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