About Us
History
N-BRAIN, Inc. is a privately-held corporation founded in 2004 by John A. De Goes. As a software engineer of nearly 20 years, John saw a need for tools designed to improve the quality and efficiency of software engineering.
Deep in the trenches of a legacy application with more than 3 million lines of code, John often found himself faced with a single statement bug that could take a week to identify, or a new feature that needed to be completed yesterday. Addressing these challenges required struggling against a wall of code so tangled, not a single developer on the thirty-person team could fully understand how it worked.
Faced with this challenge John discovered the fastest way to make progress was to put two heads together: to grab a coworker, and collaborate on the solution.
As John learned firsthand, every developer has their own unique set of strengths and weaknesses. Every developer catches different defects, and has different ways of solving the same problems. Alone, they can do tremendous things. But working together, nothing can stop them.
Through these observations, the idea of real-time collaboration as the default paradigm emerged, and John began work on a software product that would later be called "UNA".
UNA
N-BRAIN's flagship product, UNA, represents a shift in the paradigm that has dominated the software development industry for the past 40 years. Traditionally, lone coders have worked in isolation, without the aid of their peers. With the launch of UNA, developers can — for the first time in history — collaborate in real-time in the development of software, to create innovative, robust solutions that exceed what any developer can produce alone.
This new paradigm enforces peer review, boosts employee productivity, and fully takes advantage of the collective engineering power of a group of software engineers. The results are an improvement to the quality of code, lower long-term maintenance costs, shorter time-to-market, and more satisfied customers.
Creed
N-BRAIN believes that collaboration is our greatest asset in the ongoing struggle against inefficiency and waste. We are dedicated to making tools that empower developers to collaborate in ways never before realized.
N-BRAIN is headquartered in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, in Boulder, Colorado.
