Complex software that ships, and moves the numbers.
A design studio that turns nascent ideas into shipped software, for enterprise and healthcare leaders who need results this fiscal year.
Ipsos Facto. The share of analysts using the AI research platform we shipped across the firm, with 10M+ API calls and 700K prompts per month.
Twenty years designing enterprise and healthcare software for Fortune 500s, federal agencies, and funded startups.
designing enterprise and healthcare software. One studio, deep specialism.
Founded 2009 · Boston, MA
shipped products across enterprises, hospitals, payers, federal agencies, and funded startups.
Full client list
of clients return for a second engagement without a pitch.
Retention since 2020
sponsored open source projects since 2009, used in universities and on product teams.
CC BY 4.0 or Apache 2.0
What we do
We design and ship enterprise software.
01 / Shape
Bring a product to life.
We join at any stage, from a blank page to a stuck backlog, and design the product into shipped, adopted software.
02 / Regulate
Make a regulated workflow usable.
Clinical, payer, and patient software that satisfies HIPAA and FDA constraints without becoming unusable.
03 / Translate
Turn research and IP into a product.
From genomic data to AI tooling, we design the thing customers actually adopt.
Selected work
Outcomes you can put in front of a CFO.
Global Market Research
Ipsos
Facto AI platform
A global research firm's analyst workflows took weeks. Insight generation was bottlenecked behind manual coding and report-stitching.
Outcome
enterprise adoption
Hospital systems
3M CodeRyte
Medical coding workspace
Memorial Hermann's coders were buried under a backlog of thousands of charts. Throughput, accuracy, and auditability all needed to move at once.
Outcome
coding efficiency increase
Public benefits
State of Massachusetts
SNAP online application
In 2017, only 7% of SNAP applicants applied online. Fax, mail, and walk-ins carried the rest of a program ~1M people rely on.
Outcome
of applications now online
Why GoInvo
Focus and Range.
The generalist agencies (McKinsey Digital, Accenture Song, IDEO) staff your project from whatever practice has capacity. We staff it from a studio that has only ever designed software, with a particular depth in regulated and healthcare work.
That depth is the moat: a Fortune-500-and-federal roster, a regulated-shipping track record, and a citable public body of work no boutique can match.
01
Software, not slides
Most consultants describe the future in slides. We make it tangible, a vision you can see, tap, and sell.
02
We meet you at any stage
Whether you're starting with a blank page or a build that's been stuck for months, we embed with your team and ship.
03
Built for regulation
HIPAA, FDA, payer, and federal constraints are our starting conditions, not a late surprise.
04
The proof is public
Our open-source frameworks are used and cited across the field, including by organizations that later hired us.
Open Source Design
Open-source framework
Determinants of Health
A model of what actually shapes a person's health (genetics, behavior, environment, medical care, social circumstances) used in universities and on product teams.
2,174 citations, including Wikipedia
Open health visualization
hGraph
A one-glance visualization of a patient's health metrics. Open source. Adopted by clinicians, researchers, and EHR vendors.
Used by Walgreens and many other organizations
Vision
Precision Medicine for Autism
Mapping where autism diagnosis and care could be in 2030, from samples through wearables to a longitudinal record.
Read by industry, NIH, and academia. Featured in a documentary
The studio
Small by Design.
Heavy on Experience.
The people who scope your project are the people who do it. Boston-based and deliberately small.
Testimonials
"I haven't yet figured out how they know so much about medicine and its future."
Eric Topol, MDFounder, Scripps Research Translational Institute
"With Invo, design wasn't just design. It impacted our IP portfolio. It changed our business."
Serban Georgescu, MDChief Medical Officer, InfoBionic
"Invo beautifully helped shape our next-generation clinician and patient experience."
Igor GershfangDirector, Walgreens Emerging Tech
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