15 years of ideas,
an MVP in the hands of the first groups.
Since 2009, Olivier Laffut had carried the idea of a collective decision-making tool for non-profits, cooperatives, federations and boards of directors. Our role: turn this long-matured vision into a concrete, simple, testable mobile app — and open-source.
A project carried since 2009.
Olivier Laffut is a Belgian entrepreneur with a well-known track record, notably the creation of the successful Belgian company "Les tartes Françoise". Since 2009, he had carried a personal project: a tool to help collectives — non-profits, cooperatives, federations, boards of directors — make decisions together, truly together.
The project had had several names and several lives without ever being usable.
The maturation trap.
Fifteen years of thinking is a strength — and a trap. A project kept in your head too long tends to become too complex to simply build. The challenge wasn't technical: it was to distil 15 years of ideas into a simple, testable MVP, in the hands of the first groups.
Our role: scope the project, simplify without betraying the vision, and deliver a concrete first version.
Our approach.
This is exactly the kind of project where Andromede's positioning makes the difference — rigorous scoping, distilled ambition, concrete delivery.
- →Distil the vision. Identify the functional core — what makes the tool unique and useful — and set aside anything that would delay getting it into the hands of the first users.
- →Design a UX that steps back. The interface guides without dominating. The decision process is the content; the tool is the frame.
- →Deliver a testable MVP. Not a mockup, not an internal demo: a real app, in the hands of the first pilot groups.
- →Open-source by conviction. The code belongs to the community. No dependency on a provider, no captive data.
Choices made
to last.
No experimental stack. Solid, documented building blocks, with maintenance guaranteed for 10 years.
The results.
- →15 years of vision distilled into a concrete, usable MVP.
- →A mobile app in the hands of the first pilot groups.
- →An open-source codebase, free, with no provider dependency.
- →A solid base to iterate on from the first users' feedback.
"Andromede did what no one had managed to do: turn 15 years of ideas into something you can really put into people's hands."
