Business Plan

1. Overview

The Polyfen Group LLC is a fully-remote, US based company parent to multiple brands in the creative and software engineering industries.

The most significant brand we operate is Polyfen. A fully-remote creative & software boutique offering design, marketing, and engineering services for US businesses.

The company was founded on March 23rd, 2018 by Boris Hrnčić —Argentinian-Croatian, art director & product designer— with the support of colleagues sharing the same passion for building something that we can be proud of.

The stock is 100% independently owned by the team with no dependency on investors or any other kind of external funding.

Our location-independent business model takes advantage of the latest advancements in technology to work seamlessly with a fully-remote team years before the Covid pandemic made it the new normal.

We are a certificed LLC registered in the state of Delaware, USA and we offer our clients solutions in the same market as US based competitors at a fraction of their costs.

2. Purpose

We believe that focusing on developing a team culture that we can be proud of provides the ideal environment to grow, innovate, and push the boundries of what we can do.

3. Core values

Our Core values are the "How" in Simon Sinek's Golden Circle. They are the medium through which we translate our Purpose into amazing products and services.

3.1. Education

As a forward-thinking company we explore the latest techologies and nurture professional growth through internal Research & Development projects, like Poly Qwerty and Polykit. That way, our clients count with the advantage of our top-tier talent to beat the competition and never be left behind in an always moving market.

3.2. Collaboration

Together we can achieve much more than we ever could alone. We are heavily commited to providing our team with all the tools, resources, and support to maintain a healthy and thriving work environment.

3.3. Flexibility

We can't compete with the comp packages of big tech companies. But where we can compete and win, is in flexibility. That allows us to have the best talent in the world at a sustainable cost.

Found the perfect surf break in some remote paradise? Having a stable job shouldn't mean you have to sacrifice doing what makes you happy, wherever that may be.

3.4. Transparency

Our Business Plan and Team Wiki are just some of our documentation that is publically available. We also contribute to the open-source software community with public code repositories in Github. We believe that the world of business could learn a lot from the practices and culture of the open-source community. Sharing our work allows us to:

• Reach more people with through content marketing.
• Make accessible educational resources for free to students starting out in a new career as well as well-stablished professionals looking to grow.
• Gain the interest of potential clients and talent.
• Document, standardize, and optimize our workflows.
• Give our team-members an accessible framework to provide feedback, share ideas, and have more participation in the direction of our team culture.

We don't perceive the idea of anyone "copying" us as a threat, because we value the innovative potential of our team miles ahead of any individual idea that we might've had and shared.

Wired's documentary of Shenzen, China, the hardware capital of the world shines a light on the philosophy that if somebody tries to copy your work and ends up doing better, it's because your results where lacking and the market recognized the value of a more capable competitor.

4. Family of Brands

Our Family of Brands answers to the "What?" in Simon Sinek's equation. An array of products, services, and other ventures all leveraging the marketing synergy and resources of The Polyfen Group as a parent brand.

What sets our business model a part is the possibility to explore and pivot into new technologies and niches as the market demands, as well as fostering an innovative and passion-driven culture within our company.

Creative & software boutique empowering US businesses with design, marketing, and engineering services since 2018.

polyfen.com

Open-source step-by-step guide to the Branding process, including practical tips, case studies, template files, and many other useful resources.

polyatlas.wiki

Open-source solution to privacy policy implementing a cookie consent banner with Google Tag Manager.

polycookies.com

Your keyboard's assistant. Click on a character to copy it. Easily find the right emoji, punctuation signs, and other symbols.

polyqwerty.com

// Work in Progress //

Open-source design system for User Interfaces with CSS code for developers and Figma library for designers.

polykit.xyz

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TBD

polyforum.org

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TBD

polypress.xyz

5. Services

These are the Services we offer through our primary brand Polyfen, a creative and software boutique.

5.1. Build

Brand Identity

$7,600

2-6 weeks

Institutional Website

$7,800

3-6 weeks

Web/Mobile App

$39,000

4-6 months

5.2. Hire

Sr UX Designer

$45/hr

Sr Software Engineer

$45/hr

Sr Scrum Master

$35/hr

6. Value Proposition

7.1. Low cost, high value

Our cost-efficient, fully-remote business model offers services from top-tier professionals around the world at a small fraction of the price from our competitors in the US.

7.2. Wealth of experience

Founder & Art Director Boris Hrnčić brings to the table 10+ years of experience in design, development, and marketing. Vetted in the top 3% of designers worldwide by Toptal in 2017. Led high-performing teams for small start-ups and big enterprises in Croatia, Argentina, and the US.

7.3. High-performance

We rely on a healthy cadeance of communication and Scrum practices with efficiently ran Sprint plannings and retros to ensure growth on a weekly cycle.

7.4. End-to-end service

We've got you covered next time you encounter any new requirements in the area of business development, marketing, design, or tech. Our growing list of satisfied customers is testimony that we go above and beyond to help your business grow and to develop a long-lasting and solid partnership.

7.5. Fast-track kick-off

Our standardized and automated workflows ensure that no time is wasted. Send us an enquiry and we'll promptly engage in understanding your requirements, proposing a solution detailed in a comprehensive agreement, and prepare for a prompt project kick-off.

7.6. Socially-cohesive team

This very same Business Plan being in existence and easily accessible along with our Team Wiki all work together as tools to (A) qualify the cultural fit of potential candidates, (B) have a swift and succesful onboarding of new hires, (C) define a common language to nurture collaboration and promote feedback and new ideas.

7.7. Near-shore availability

The market of remote services for US clients is very competitive. The same technology that allows our business to operate remotely and sell services to US clients is the same toolset that allows other remote businesses from lower-cost countries to compete with us. However, we bring a near-shore service in US timezone with most of our talent being based in Latin America, specifically Argentina, with senior-level engineers up to date with the most adavanced industry standards.

7. Buyer Personas

	Buyer Persona No.1 Founder Frank
Occupation	Founder & CEO at Early-Stage Tech Startup
Location	San Francisco Bay Area, USA
Company Size	12 employees
Bio	Frank has an Ivy League education and has 15+ years of experience in business. He was leading a business development team at Accenture, working on projects for Bank of America until, during the uncertain time of the Covid pandemic, he decided to make use of his gathered professional experience to start a venture of his own. He bootstrapped his initial efforts investing money from his own pocket into building an MVP of a fintech app with the aid of a couple of close colleagues. He came up with a name for the company himself, posted a job on Upwork to get a quick logo done by a cheap designer, and he built the website himself on Squarespace. Lastly, they put together a pitch deck and confirmed funding from an investor.
Company Profile	Recently received Seed funding to scale their working MVP into a high-revenue business.
Problems	A. High costs of US talent B. Competing with other brands for market-share C. Complexity of design-development integration
Solutions	A. Near-shore outsourcing/staff augmentation B. Brand identity design C. Hiring leading-edge talent experienced in the latest tech and best practices of design-development integration
Definition of Success	A. Affordable design and development costs B. High conversion rate C. Quick time to market
Brands they follow	Forbes, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Inc., Ted Talks, Ideo, Deloitte, Accenture, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Harvard Business Review, TechCrunch.
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