Project Fusion

We’ll be at Birmingham NEC for Procurex 2010. If you’d like to meet up, please use the contact form, or call 020 7739 4252.

We’re working with our partner Codex Global on translating PROJECTFUSION. Let us know if you have any requirements.

We’re looking for developers to join our UK based team. For the right person, this might be the perfect job. No meetings, no hassles, no 9-5, flexible working and people who respect you and your work. This is a full or part time position depending on you. Read on for details.

We’re also interested in hearing from anyone in the M&A space, or with interest in business collaboration products - send us your details and we’ll get in touch if any jobs popup.

WHO YOU ARE (which is even more important than what you know)

We want someone who is passionate about the work, about pushing the envelope, and helping our clients do their job better. You care about clean simple design, good code, and building stuff that works. You’re reliable, and and understand that doing what you say you’ll do and paying attention to every detail is important. You can spot the typo in this advert.
Most of all, you’re really interested in usability and layout of simple, effective interfaces.

We’d prefer someone who was within a few hours of our offices in London.
–you need to be in our office 20 days during the first three months.
–after that, you can show up three days a month (or more if you want)
–travel is your expense, but we’ll buy the beers.

Pay is negotiable, based on individual circumstances. If this feels right for you, fill in the form below, and share links to your online work. We’ll get back to everyone promptly.

WHAT YOU’LL BE WORKING ON

The PROJECTFUSION.com service, new services like safedrop.com, and other client work in a mix of technologies, using PHP and Python. We’re big on simplicity and speed, and love simple interfaces that really work.

WHAT YOU KNOW

We expect you to be a good at: JavaScript/Ajax XHTML and CSS, OOP

Significant experience with: Subversion or CVS, REST and SOAP APIs

Big pluses for experience with any of: C, Java, PHP, Python, .Net, Ruby, Zope, Django, Air, Flash.

And it would be great if you could build Facebook apps and were pretty good at Scrabble.

No agencies please!

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February 2009, London.

PROJECTFUSION’s 2008 turnover showed over 300% growth on 2007, despite general cooling in the marketplace.

“With companies increasingly focused on managing cost, our unique pricing model is becoming more attractive as customers move away from legacy ‘per page’ pricing” says Angus Bradley, Managing Director at Projectfusion.

Preparing a document index for due diligence can be incredibly time consuming, and when doing it manually there is scope for errors. Typically a sell side team can spend 2-10 days getting indexes together, and then spend even more time re-issuing amendments during the course of a deal.

We have introduced our Indexing option to make this easier. Just go to the siteadmin menu, and check ‘indexing’. Almost immediately, all your users will see a customised index, showing everything they have access to.

Key features:

* a star appears before anything that’s changed in the last few days
Each folder gives a file and folder count, so buy side teams can allocate resource accordingly
each document gets a unique 6 digit tag, which also appears on the dataroom and on printouts.
With the combination of easy file and folder uploading, automatic indexing, and tagging, sell side teams will be able to use PROJECTFUSION to generate the index documents, by simply collecting documents and putting them in appropriately named folders. No work needed with spreadsheets, or tricky naming strategies, and creation and distribution of index documents will be automatic.

In this index excerpt, users can see immediately that ‘properties’ has been updated.

Index showing a new item
The documents tag is also in view (d7e.6d5). That tag is unique to the document (for those of you with a technical bent, its a truncated MD5 Hash*)
The tag also appears on printouts (where printing is allowed) allowing fast reference back to the dataroom. On the dataroom, just type the first few characters of the tag, and the document will appear.

Sample section from an index
*Note about truncated hash referencing.
Truncated hash references is a new concept that has been used in several large litigation cases.. Some background information is here http://ralphlosey.wordpress.com/computer-hash/ It could be described as a form of fully automated bates numbering for digital documents.