The {VISION} story.

Mobilize VISION is a Colorado-based product and data company with extensive experience creating software for large enterprise clients. We know that organizations’ toughest problems aren’t solved by tools—they’re solved by people with the right tools. With that in mind, our ever-growing team of experts makes purpose-built solutions for users that create breakthroughs out of barriers, collaboration out of chaos, and direction out of data.

The story of VISION is the story of our team’s culture. It informs why we take smart risk, why we think like others won’t, why we demand a vector pointed at excellence.

We’ll start in 2019. Our co-founders, Jade and Jerry, had been working together for years after having combined their marketing and technology businesses to take on innovative solutions in the government and nonprofit space.

They were in San Antonio for Innovation Rodeo, one of the early Air Force idea contests, after having been invited back the previous year to be able to coach presenting Airmen. It made sense—startup owners know how to pitch an idea.

This was the big time. One hundred ideas had been whittled down to eight, each vying for their share of a half million dollars of funding.

Except really it was seven, because two Airmen—Nadisha and Kevin—were presenting essentially the same idea.

Great news for the Air Force because this meant these Airmen were addressing an issue not isolated to one base. Not so great news for Nadisha and Kevin, only one of whom would pitch.

After an exhaustive vetting process to get to the final presentation, there couldn’t be two people presenting the same idea. This meant one Airman was going home empty-handed, having poured time and passion into a solution no one would hear.

Their look of disappointment was the spark of change. “It doesn’t have to be this way.”

That was the conversation with the event’s organizers that evening. Had they connected at any point along the way, not only would these Airmen have been spared their dashed hopes, but they might even have been able to make each other’s ideas better.

So there in the green room, Jerry sketched out a simple cluster map on a bar napkin to show it, in fact, did not have to be that way.

Military, government, and commercial bureaucracies are clogged with innovation. Too often, disparate silos completely reinvent a wheel that already exists…or they’re obliviously hard at work on substantially similar projects. 

Duplication of efforts, working in silos, disconnected processes … they could be solved with data properly leveraged.

That was the night VISION was born (though it wasn’t called that at first), because there was a need, and Jerry and Jade had the right tools and drive to fix it.

To do what no one was doing, we had to think like no one was thinking.

Getting our company off the napkin was the startup phase of VISION. Today VISION is the market leader for government innovation with a thriving ecosystem of thousands like Nadisha and Kevin who can connect to drive solutions that transcend the walls of organizations.

It’s a remarkable view from such a vantage point where finally - you see over the red tape that’s been in your way. And where cross-department teams and solution-oriented minds finally see each other. 

People united in purpose and working at what’s truly significant - this IS the new paradigm. It’s how organizations stay competitive. And more importantly…stay ahead. 

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