Monday, October 27, 2025
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"By combining technical expertise with a strong focus on team collaboration, Stride ensures that its clients not only achieve their goals but surpass them."
Stride was founded in 2014 by Debbie Madden, an experienced technology entrepreneur, and the company focuses on custom software development and team coaching. Having scaled technology startups across SaaS platforms, e-commerce, and enterprise organizations, Madden serves the Chairwoman with more than 25 years of leadership experience. Stride is based on collaboration and transparency, consisting of a diverse group of engineers, designers, and product managers working closely with clients. The company delivers software solutions that are designed to scale and to help teams improve efficiency, with emphasis on best practices in technology development. Stride's goal is to help clients not only meet but also exceed their delivery goals and build stronger, more capable technology teams in the process.
Stride's Comprehensive Software Solutions
Custom Software Development
Stride offers custom software development services that can be created to help businesses bring high-quality products to market while simultaneously fostering the growth and success of their internal teams. The company understands that great products and great teams are interconnected, which is why their approach emphasizes both the technical execution of software solutions and the improvement of team efficiency.
Tailored, Scalable Solutions
Stride specializes in developing robust, tailor-made software applications that are aligned with each client's unique business goals. That means no generic, one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, Stride embraces a product-centric approach that starts by asking the right questions and uncovering the needs of the business. This thoughtful approach ensures that the software not only meets delivery goals in the short term but is also built with scalability and adaptability in mind. By focusing on creating flexible, high-performing solutions, Stride ensures that the software will continue to evolve alongside the needs of the business, users, and teams in the long run. This commitment to both immediate results and future growth allows Stride to deliver lasting value that stands the test of time.
Stride100x GenAI Service
Stride's Stride100x GenAI Service will solve and destroy the superhuman-sized impediments that slower software development. Using power GenAI and automation, engineering teams AI-driven work together with clients to overcome some of the most difficult challenges, such as surpassing organic architectural constraints or managing big re-platforming
projects with scopes that seem almost infinite.
With Stride100x, teams can quickly transform massive, overwhelming problems into manageable tasks, greatly slashing down timeframes. Among the key use cases for Stride100x is Re-Architecting & Re-Platforming. With GenAI and automation tools, Stride100x expedited migrating processes by more than 100%. Clients can see years of amassed complexity in just moments, document past behaviors to ensure business logic remains intact, and generate both strategic design recommendations and tactical, mergeable code.
This in turn allows human interaction to be placed at critical, high-leverage checkpoints, so that business priorities are met without delay. Through the streamlining of these complex processes, Stride100x empowers businesses to adapt faster and more effectively to overcome barriers while scaling faster. It sets a new path for tomorrow-to-face the problem-solving mechanism in software development as more efficient, structured, and impactful.
Process & Methodology
Stride's development process is founded on progressive Agile and XP practices with a focus on iterative development, continuous feedback, and adaptability. Through close work with its clients, it ensures that each project evolves with feedback, delivering working software incrementally, then refining the features over time. This is how, at the end of the development process, the final product fully meets both user expectations and business goals.
Francisco Martin - CEO
Francisco Martin, serving as the CEO is a senior technology executive with over ten years of technology as well as commercial leadership experience. Mr. Francisco has had key roles at global consulting and product organizations across North America, Latin America, and Europe. Francisco has a reputation for combining technical expertise with strategic business insights, having successfully led large-scale projects, driving innovation, and fostering collaboration across functions. He understands the global tech landscape so perfectly well, and this allows him to help organizations navigate complex digital transformations into sustainable growth and competitive advantage. Francisco brings the experience to lead the company forward.