Our Company
Inara Solutions is a small, technically oriented consulting group based out of Boulder, Colorado. We improve products and services by fostering communication among and between humans and technological systems.
Deficient communication is the root of a vast majority of implementation failures, and it confounds the execution of even the most exceptional ideas. Whether it's ineffective project management and coordination among team members, or an issue with translating requirements from business divisions to a technical development team, we can work with you to resolve active concerns and implement long-term, sustainable policies and systems. We'll help you define processes to encourage more agile and responsive interactions between staff, or implement new software to better support existing programs and goals. Whatever your needs, we'll work with you to tailor the perfect solution.
Our Philosophies
Instilling Self-Sufficiency & Integrity
While our solutions vary notably from client to client and project to project, our business model includes one persistent factor: we aim to make you self-sufficient. In our role as consultants, we consider ourselves educators as much as we do problem solvers, and we bring that mindset to every business engagement. Our goal in working with you is not only to resolve fundamental issues and bring improvements to your processes, but to help you understand how to do the same for yourself in the future. We don't establish lock-in contracts, nor do we design solutions that require constant, indefinite attention. If part of our solution is a system that requires routine maintenance, we will endeavor to establish a support structure within your organization wherever possible, so that we only stay for as long as our services are actively beneficial. We love working with past customers, but when we come back, we want it to be for an exciting, innovative project, or a novel industry issue, not just to keep the engines running.
We make it a point to be exceptionally forthright in all our communications. We will always tell you exactly what we think about any issue at hand, even if it's not what you want to hear at the time. Accordingly, we ask that you be equally candid to help us provide you with the highest caliber results. In exchange for your willingness to open up your business and your thoughts to us, we promise to always direct you toward optimal solutions. We will never recommend our own services where we are aware of superior alternatives, and we will never take on a project where we do not believe we'll be able to meet or exceed the high standards we strive for.
Our Services
We provide a wide variety of business services, from policy consulting, to project management, to database and systems architecture and design. If you have a singular goal in mind when you contact us, we'll work with you to achieve it, but we find that our services are most beneficial when we engage with your organization at a higher level, to help you determine goals and define projects in addition to supporting their implementation.
We also have extensive experience supporting social services and service-oriented non-profits. Our consulting approach is holistic, so our process always takes into account your larger organizational goals while working with you on a project, whether it's bringing in more funding through superior responses to grants or attracting additional volunteers to allow you to expand your service offerings.
Finally, we work with state and local government to improve the quality and efficiency of services rendered. We focus on designing and implementing systems (whether policy-based or technical in nature) to ease human workloads, making it viable to maintain a struggling service in a downturn, or freeing up resources to explore new initiatives.