Collaborative Innovation

Strategic Innovation

Big‑picture thinking that connects ideas across disciplines, grounded in business outcomes.

We help you solve complex problems, uncover new opportunities, and bring ideas to life. Take advantage of our expertise in cross-pollinating ideas. We’ve worked in aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, consumer products, and healthcare, with a strong focus in oral healthcare claims systems and patient education and engagement.

Hands‑On Implementation

From concept to working solution, we can roll up our sleeves and build alongside your team.

We work collaboratively, equally comfortable in a boardroom strategy session or working side‑by‑side with engineers, designers, and analysts to build, test, and refine ideas. Our name (think "symbiosis" without the last syllable) and logo reflect this collaborative approach. By combining your team’s deep subject matter expertise with our cross‑industry experience, systems thinking, and hands‑on technical skills, we can, together, create solutions that are both practical and innovative.

AI‑Enhanced Problem Solving

Using AI responsibly to accelerate research, improve decisions, and unlock new possibilities.

Combine human ingenuity with the power of AI. We bring a unique blend of human skills — communication, creative problem‑solving, and adaptability — and AI fluency to help teams work faster, smarter, and with more confidence.

Corporate Oral Wellness Sites

Customized sites allow dental insurance plan members to educate themselves on dental topics through articles and animations.

Challenge

Create a modular, flexible, customizable website development and delivery platform for oral health.

Approach

A variation of Symbyos' Dental Patient Education System, tailored to the dental insurance industry.

Solution

• Developed proprietary dental web applications and APIs.
• Integrated dental insurance company content and tools from third parties.
• Extremely customizable system.

Impact

• By focus on the dental member’s experience, helping to improve member satisfaction.
• Site customized to client's corporate web design UI/UX is a differentiator.
• Fast, efficient site development and updates allow clients to adapt quickly to changes.

Employer-Funded Dental Plans

ERISA-compliant dental benefit plans and claims processing for employers that want to self-fund dental benefits.

Challenge

Create a new type of dental benefit.

Approach

Create web‑based system to automate employer-funded dental benefits.

Solution

• Originally developed in ASP.NET and SQL Server.
• Original system automated the American Dental Association's concept of Direct Reimbursement.
• Evolved to replicate traditional dental insurance plans.

Impact

• No dental network. Employees could see the dentist or dental specialist of their choice.
• Employees had access to dental education. See 'Dental eLearning Systems.'
• Employers saved an average of 35% over traditional dental insurance plans.

Dental eLearning Systems

Web-based dental patient education systems educate patients chairside or via a secure online account.

Challenge

Create a proprietary dental 'WebMD-like' system flexible enough to be used for a variety of solutions.

Approach

Worked with a dentist with deep medical and dental knowledge to create a web application.

Solution

• Originally developed in ASP.NET and SQL Server.
• Extremely modular, extensively linked database.
• Developed extensive set of modular building blocks of written and animated dental content for symptoms, conditions, procedures, prevention, terminology, oral anatomy, informed choice/informed consent, and oral-systemic connections.

Impact

• Used in dental schools to also help educate dental students.
• Integrated with third-party practice management software and patient reminder applications.
• Public‑facing version was the #1 oral health resource on the web for a brief time.

PCB Interference Checking

Converted printed circuit board (PCB) design data into intelligent CAD solid models to allow interference checks, avoiding costly prototype rework & reducing time to market.

Challenge

Compact laptop designs caused late-stage Printed Circuit Board (PCB)/enclosure clashes discovered only via physical prototypes.

Approach

Bridged PCB software outputs with mechanical Computer Aided Design (CAD) software inputs to verify fit virtually.

Solution

• Built software to read PCB outputs and create 3D solid CAD models.
• Used interference checking to detect conflicts early.
• Automated computational checks to run overnight.

Impact

• Resolved clashes virtually without physical prototypes.
• Improved electro-mechanical collaboration on shared data.
• Saved months—and potentialy $millions over multiple product designs by reducing time to market and redesigns.

Custom Hip Implant Design

Reduced engineering time from 100 hours to 30 minutes by processing CT data, standardizing cross sections, and automating 3D model generation.

Challenge

Expanding into custom implants required up to 100 hours per case due to unique anatomy, complex CT data, and CAD software limitations.

Approach

Collaborated with medical engineers and designed software to streamline data prep and implant positioning and design.

Solution

• Custom app processed and standardized CT data for rapid review.
• Engineers selected anatomical landmarks for accurate positioning.
• Automated 3D model generation was computed overnight (this was in 1990!).

Impact

• Engineering time cut from 100 hours to 30 minutes plus computation.
• Freed engineers for higher-value work while maintaining quality.
• Enabled cost-effective custom hip implant design for possibly the first time in the industry.

Unwrap Wire Harness

Ended multi-day on-site measurements by multiple engineers by mathematically unwrapping the wire harness geometry to compute connector angles.

Challenge

Determining exact connector angle required travel, physical wrapping on the engine, and manual measurement.

Approach

Built a Computer Aided Design (CAD)-based algorithm to analyze the selected spline and simulate unwrapping.

Solution

• Converted CAD spline to thousands of segments for analysis.
• Simulated unwrapping while preserving orientation.
• Automated angle calculation.

Impact

• Eliminated travel and on‑site measurement costs.
• Saved thousands per project in time and expense.
• Reduced turnaround from days to minutes.

CAD eLearning

Modular web training with firewall-aware integration blended secure internal content with external modules seamlessly.

Challenge

Move technical training to the web, then integrate proprietary behind-firewall content.

Approach

Converted legacy materials and designed a hybrid, firewall-aware architecture.

Solution

• HTML/JS web modules from paper training manuals and Computer-Based Training materials.
• Pointers to integrate Boeing-hosted proprietary content.
• In-house authoring via licensed software.

Impact

• One of the first large-scale web training systems at Boeing.
• Internal and external access without proprietary data exposure.
• Flexible foundation that evolved with needs.

CAD eLearning

First-of-its-kind platform generating synchronized web and paper training with personalized remediation.

Challenge

Require fully customizable web training plus a parallel paper version from a single system.

Approach

Engineered a dual-output, database-driven platform.

Solution

• Produced synchronized web and paper materials.
• SQL Server + Classic ASP for dynamic delivery.
• On-the-fly remediation based on quiz results.

Impact

• Tailored content to teams and workflows.
• Closed knowledge gaps faster via personalization.
• Set a new bar for enterprise training flexibility.

CAD eLearning

Help internal team deliver the first web training for CAD software with single-source vector/bitmap graphics and an authoring app.

Challenge

Migrate Computer-Based Training to the web and paper using a simultaneous vector + bitmap image workflow.

Approach

Prototyped in HTML/JS and standardized graphics for dual web-paper output.

Solution

• First web-based prototype for Computer Aided Design (CAD) training.
• Single-source graphics feeding web and paper.
• Authoring app via Microsoft Office + Visual Basic.

Impact

• Avoided duplication across formats.
• Scalable foundation for future courseware.
• Accelerated development cycles.