STAFF AUGMENTATION

How Nouveau Labs built their conversational platform with Kibibit’s staff augmentation

As Nouveau Labs shifted their focus toward enterprise clients, they needed a powerful technical foundation to turn their AI vision into their biggest competitive advantage. With Kibibit's comprehensive talent solutions and technical expertise, Nouveau Labs has supercharged their development capabilities to deliver the most sophisticated conversation analysis platform in the market.

5x

Increase in Development Velocity

65%

Faster Time to Market

80%

Improvement in Product Quality Scores

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“We needed a complete technical team that could move at the speed of innovation. Kibibit delivered vetted specialists who didn't just fill roles—they became integral to our product vision and helped us build something truly groundbreaking.”

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Lakshmi Polishetty

Director of Operations, Nouveau Labs

Nouveau Labs set out to revolutionize how businesses understand and leverage customer conversations through AI. Their vision was ambitious: create an intelligent platform that could analyze conversations, extract meaningful insights, and drive data-driven decisions across entire organizations. But transforming this vision into reality required more than just great ideas—it demanded a world-class technical team capable of building sophisticated AI systems, scalable infrastructure, and intuitive user experiences.

As a startup in the competitive AI space, Nouveau Labs faced the classic scaling challenge: how to build a comprehensive product quickly without the luxury of time for traditional hiring cycles. They needed frontend developers who could create compelling user interfaces, backend engineers to build robust data processing systems, DevOps specialists to ensure scalable infrastructure, and AI engineers who could push the boundaries of conversation analysis technology.
In a market where speed to market often determines success, every month spent on recruiting was a month competitors could gain ground. That's when Nouveau Labs turned to Kibibit—not just for staffing, but for a complete technical partnership that would accelerate their journey from concept to market-leading platform.

Building a Complete Technical Foundation

“We didn't want to compromise on quality while moving fast. Kibibit delivered exactly the specialists we needed—front end experts who understood user experience, backend engineers who could handle massive data volumes, DevOps engineers who built for scale, and AI specialists who pushed our technology forward.”

- Shrikant Janagonda, Director of Engineering, Nouveau Labs

Kibibit provided Nouveau Labs with a carefully curated team of senior technical specialists, each selected for their expertise in the specific technologies and challenges Nouveau Labs faced. The front-end developers brought deep experience in building intuitive interfaces for complex AI systems, ensuring that powerful analytics remained accessible to business users. Backend engineers contributed expertise in processing large volumes of conversation data, building APIs that could handle real-time analysis while maintaining performance at scale.

The DevOps specialists implemented infrastructure that could grow with Nouveau Labs' ambitions, creating deployment pipelines and monitoring systems that ensured reliability as the platform scaled. AI engineers brought cutting-edge experience in natural language processing and machine learning, helping Nouveau Labs implement state-of-the-art conversation analysis capabilities that differentiated their platform in the market.
The results were transformational. Development velocity increased by 5x as the expanded team could work on multiple product areas simultaneously without bottlenecks. Time to market accelerated by 65%, enabling Nouveau Labs to launch key features months ahead of their original timeline. Product quality scores improved by 80% as experienced specialists brought best practices and rigorous testing standards to every aspect of development.
The impact extended beyond basic productivity gains. Technical debt remained minimal as senior engineers implemented scalable architectures from the start. Code coverage increased to 92% through systematic testing practices, while deployment frequency improved by 4x as DevOps automation eliminated manual processes and reduced risk.

Creating Seamless Integration Across Technical Disciplines

“It felt like we suddenly had the technical depth of a much larger company. Every specialist brought not just skills, but experience in building products that scale. That expertise accelerated our entire development process.”

- Lakshmi Polishetty, Director of Operations, Nouveau Labs

The true value of Kibibit's approach became evident in how the different specialists worked together as a unified team. Frontend developers collaborated closely with AI engineers to create interfaces that could visualize complex conversation insights in intuitive ways. Backend engineers worked with DevOps specialists to build infrastructure that could process massive datasets while maintaining sub-second response times for users.

This cross-functional collaboration resulted in a platform that felt cohesive and polished rather than like a collection of separate components. The intuitive frontend made powerful AI capabilities accessible to non-technical users, while the platform handled massive data processing volumes while maintaining responsive performance.</testimonial/>The platform's AI capabilities reached new levels of sophistication as machine learning engineers implemented advanced algorithms for sentiment analysis, intent detection, and conversation summarization. Processing accuracy improved by 45% while maintaining real-time performance, enabling Nouveau Labs to offer enterprise-grade AI insights that competitors couldn't match.

Scaling Innovation Without Scaling Complexity

What made this partnership exceptional was how it enabled Nouveau Labs to scale their technical capabilities without the typical growing pains of a rapidly expanding team. Each specialist integrated seamlessly with existing workflows, bringing expertise that immediately elevated the entire technical organization.

Customer acquisition accelerated as the improved platform delivered more value and better user experiences. The sales process became faster and more seamless, as prospects could directly see and experience the platform’s sophisticated capabilities in action. Customer satisfaction rose significantly, with users appreciating the combination of powerful AI features and an intuitive design that went beyond their expectations.
The DevOps foundation further proved its value as Nouveau Labs began onboarding larger enterprise customers. The platform scaled smoothly to handle much higher data volumes without performance issues, while automated monitoring and deployment systems ensured the level of reliability that enterprise clients required.

“Kibibit's team didn't just help us build a product—they helped us build the foundation for a company that could compete with anyone in the AI space.”

- Shrikant Janagonda, Director of Engineering, Nouveau Labs

Transforming Startup Potential Into Market Leadership

The comprehensive technical expertise provided by Kibibit enabled Nouveau Labs to punch above their weight class, delivering a platform that rivaled offerings from much larger, more established companies. Feature development that might have taken a smaller team years was completed in months, while the quality and sophistication of the final product exceeded what most startups achieve.

The platform's reputation for technical excellence became a key competitive differentiator, leading to partnerships and opportunities that accelerated growth beyond original expectations, Perhaps most importantly, the technical foundation built with Kibibit's specialists positioned Nouveau Labs for long-term success. As AI technology continues to evolve rapidly, they now have the infrastructure, processes, and expertise needed to continue innovating at the cutting edge while maintaining the reliability and performance that enterprise customers demand.
The partnership with Kibibit transformed Nouveau Labs from a startup with a great idea into a market-ready company with the technical capabilities to execute on their vision and compete successfully in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.