HubbleIQ

— Revolutionizing the digital employee experience

Industry

IT Infrastructure

Size

Startup

Solutions

Research

Product Design

Strategy

HubbleIQ

— Revolutionizing the digital employee experience

Industry

IT Infrastructure

Size

Startup

Solutions

Research

Product Design

Strategy

HubbleIQ

— Revolutionizing the digital employee experience

Industry

IT Infrastructure

Size

Startup

Solutions

Research

Product Design

Strategy

Context

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Revolutionizing the digital employee experience

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Audio Summary

Revolutionizing the digital employee experience

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Audio Summary

Revolutionizing the digital employee experience

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Hubble is a digital employee experience (DEX) platform designed to help distributed teams stay productive and supported. By monitoring the performance of remote devices, networks, and applications, HubbleIQ empowers IT teams to proactively identify issues, reduce support tickets, and improve the tech experience for end users.

As remote work becomes standard, DEX tools like HubbleIQ are playing a central role in shaping productivity, satisfaction, and digital access across industries.

Challenge

Challenge

Challenge

HubbleIQ entered a fast-growing category with a strong product vision and early offering, but needed to sharpen its messaging, improve user adoption, and reduce acquisition costs. With increased pressure to demonstrate traction ahead of a funding milestone, the team partnered with us to address key challenges.

Core User Research

Build a clearer understanding of buyer needs, competitive context, and customer pain points to help the value proposition break through.

Elevated Product Experience

Redesign onboarding and core flows to reduce friction, showcase value faster, and create a more intuitive, conversion-ready experience for new and returning users.

Scalable Growth

Develop a go-to-market approach focused on product-led growth, scalable messaging frameworks, and cost-effective channels to replace broad, unsustainable paid campaigns.

Key Contributions

Research, Product Design, Strategy

Research

Customer Research

Usability Testing

Market Intelligence

Competitor Review

Market Segmentation

Messaging Audit

Ad Testing

Product Design

UX Design

UI Design

Prototyping

Design Systems

Interaction Design

Responsive Web Design

Quality Assurance

Strategy

Go-to-Market

Product Roadmaps

Content Strategy

Positioning

Product Management

Campaign Strategy

Team

Matt Kulp

Alonzo Felix

Jide P.

Gertruda F.N.

Owen L.

Andrew W.


Key Contributions

Research, Product Design, Strategy

Research

Customer Research

Usability Testing

Market Intelligence

Competitor Review

Market Segmentation

Messaging Audit

Ad Testing

Product Design

UX Design

UI Design

Prototyping

Design Systems

Interaction Design

Responsive Web Design

Quality Assurance

Strategy

Go-to-Market

Product Roadmaps

Content Strategy

Positioning

Product Management

Campaign Strategy

Team

Matt Kulp

Alonzo Felix

Jide P.

Gertruda F.N.

Owen L.

Andrew W.


Key Contributions

Research, Product Design, Strategy

Research

Customer Research

Usability Testing

Market Intelligence

Competitor Review

Market Segmentation

Messaging Audit

Ad Testing

Product Design

UX Design

UI Design

Prototyping

Design Systems

Interaction Design

Responsive Web Design

Quality Assurance

Strategy

Go-to-Market

Product Roadmaps

Content Strategy

Positioning

Product Management

Campaign Strategy

Team

Matt Kulp

Alonzo Felix

Jide P.

Gertruda F.N.

Owen L.

Andrew W.


Solutions

We led research, redesigned key user flows, and developed a product-led go-to-market strategy to drive clarity, conversion, and scalable adoption.

Fig 01

Overview quickly highlights application and issue status

Fig 01

Overview quickly highlights application and issue status

Fig 01

Overview quickly highlights application and issue status

Fig 01

Overview quickly highlights application and issue status

Research

Research

Research

Research

To support HubbleIQ’s product and growth ambitions, we conducted research across user, competitor, and market layers. This included qualitative interviews with IT leaders and end users, competitive benchmarking, and messaging audits. We also implemented a system for continuous user feedback to drive product improvement and support product-market fit discovery.

This work revealed opportunities to streamline onboarding, strengthen messaging, and position HubbleIQ as a proactive, user-first platform for digital experience management.

We built a foundation of actionable insight through mapping user behavior, surfacing friction points, and identifying high-potential market segments to guide product and growth strategy.

Insights

01

Dig into the friction

Our interviews uncovered patterns of frustration around onboarding and platform clarity, which informed feature prioritization and UX changes across the product.

02

Go beyond features

We found that decision-makers were more motivated by the business impact of digital experience than the technical features themselves, and shaped our messaging strategy to focus on outcomes.

03

Position for confidence

Market analysis revealed that many competitors leaned into fear-based messaging. We recommended a tone shift toward assurance and capability, helping HubbleIQ feel like a strategic ally rather than a reactive tool.

Fig 02

Refined onboarding design informed by research insights

Fig 03

Improving legibility & understanding in user hierarchy and role clarity

Fig 02

Refined onboarding design informed by research insights

Fig 03

Improving legibility & understanding in user hierarchy and role clarity

Fig 02

Refined onboarding design informed by research insights

Fig 03

Improving legibility & understanding in user hierarchy and role clarity

Fig 02

Refined onboarding design informed by research insights

Fig 03

Improving legibility & understanding in user hierarchy and role clarity

Product Design

Brand and Positioning

Product Design

Product Design

Trends surfaced during our research efforts highlighted the need to gain ground in the market during the consideration phase of the buyer’s journey. We focused our product experience improvements around these insights.

This included an updated onboarding flow, an improved new user experience grounded in communicating the platform’s value, and clearer site architecture and data visualization elements. A revamped design system tied in these updates and supported efforts to hone in on key brand concepts.

The redesigned experience showcased HubbleIQ’s capabilities with clarity and laid the groundwork for faster, more confident adoption.

Insights

01

Make complexity feel simple

We simplified onboarding and early UX flows to orient users quickly, emphasizing what the platform does, and guiding them towards quick wins and deeper engagement.

02

Design with the pitch in mind

Every screen was reframed to reinforce HubbleIQ’s core value proposition through structure, language, and hierarchy.

03

Unify the system

The new design system brought cohesion to disparate parts of the product, streamlining future development and creating a more trustworthy, enterprise-grade user interface.

Fig 04

Simplifying navigation and key actions

Fig 05

New icons make primary actions easier to find

Fig 06

Browser extension adds value beyond the core app

Fig 07

Redesigned overview page clarified value props and prioritized key actions

Fig 08

Responsive design carried the new UX across devices

Fig 09

Updated components enabled scalable, consistent UX

Fig 04

Simplifying navigation and key actions

Fig 05

New icons make primary actions easier to find

Fig 06

Browser extension adds value beyond the core app

Fig 07

Redesigned overview page clarified value props and prioritized key actions

Fig 04

Simplifying navigation and key actions

Fig 05

New icons make primary actions easier to find

Fig 06

Browser extension adds value beyond the core app

Fig 07

Redesigned overview page clarified value props and prioritized key actions

Fig 08

Responsive design carried the new UX across devices

Fig 09

Updated components enabled scalable, consistent UX

Fig 04

Simplifying navigation and key actions

Fig 05

New icons make primary actions easier to find

Fig 06

Browser extension adds value beyond the core app

Fig 07

Redesigned overview page clarified value props and prioritized key actions

Fig 08

Responsive design carried the new UX across devices

Fig 09

Updated components enabled scalable, consistent UX

Strategy

Strategy

Strategy

Strategy

As HubbleIQ approached a critical growth phase, we supported a shift toward product-led acquisition, while testing and optimizing early paid efforts. We mapped key buyer journeys, identified effective acquisition channels, and developed messaging tailored to IT buyers.

Our recommendations helped HubbleIQ ramp down broad ad spend in favor of more targeted, cost-effective tactics—ultimately driving down CAC while improving lead quality and conversion.

We combined early growth marketing with long-term GTM planning to set HubbleIQ up for sustainable, repeatable traction.

Insights

01

Follow the signal

Early channel testing showed strong traction on select platforms, enabling a shift in ad spend to higher yield opportunities.

02

Turn usage into adoption

Improving onboarding and in-product messaging helped turn usage into conversion, reducing reliance on expensive paid acquisition.

03

Think beyond launch

We prioritized feedback loops between product, marketing, and sales, ensuring our GTM was a responsive system of growth inputs.

Fig 10

Branded social templates extend the new system across channels

Fig 11

Out-of-home applications stress-tested the system at scale

Fig 12

Optimizing onboarding on the most important platforms

Fig 13

Browser extension helps easily drill down to specific issues

Fig 10

Branded social templates extend the new system across channels

Fig 11

Out-of-home applications stress-tested the system at scale

Fig 12

Optimizing onboarding on the most important platforms

Fig 13

Browser extension helps easily drill down to specific issues

Fig 10

Branded social templates extend the new system across channels

Fig 11

Out-of-home applications stress-tested the system at scale

Fig 12

Optimizing onboarding on the most important platforms

Fig 13

Browser extension helps easily drill down to specific issues

Fig 10

Branded social templates extend the new system across channels

Fig 11

Out-of-home applications stress-tested the system at scale

Fig 12

Optimizing onboarding on the most important platforms

Fig 13

Browser extension helps easily drill down to specific issues

Outcomes

Hubble is accelerating productivity for companies and cities, with a seamless and intelligent digital experience suite, proactively driving performance of critical applications.

Our work helped HubbleIQ streamline its user experience, focus its go-to-market efforts, and demonstrate measurable traction ahead of a key funding milestone.

The redesigned onboarding and dashboard experience drove faster adoption and reduced drop-off, while a more focused growth strategy improved lead quality and reduced customer acquisition costs. These improvements helped support a successful fundraising, and public-sector recognition, and AWS partnerships.

Funding Secured

$1M

Funding Secured

$1M

Funding Secured

$1M

Funding Secured

$1M

city-wide digital equity grant

$15M

city-wide digital equity grant

$15M

city-wide digital equity grant

$15M

city-wide digital equity grant

$15M

Components designed

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Components designed

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Components designed

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Components designed

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Press

March 2023

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March 2023

AWS Startups

HubbleIQ: Transforming Global Tech Support

Startup HubbleIQ is enabling its customers to better serve their end-users, by empowering self-service technology support. Partnering with AWS and the Generative AI Innovation Center…

March 2023

AWS Startups

HubbleIQ: Transforming Global Tech Support

Startup HubbleIQ is enabling its customers to better serve their end-users, by empowering self-service technology support. Partnering with AWS and the Generative AI Innovation Center…

March 2023

AWS Startups

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Startup HubbleIQ is enabling its customers to better serve their end-users, by empowering self-service technology support. Partnering with AWS and the Generative AI Innovation Center…

May 2025

Collab Capital

Community Infrastructure: HubbleIQ

Hubble's mission is to make remote tech support easy, data-driven, and accessible so that all businesses can operate with more agility and efficiency in an ever-changing world.

May 2025

Collab Capital

Community Infrastructure: HubbleIQ

Hubble's mission is to make remote tech support easy, data-driven, and accessible so that all businesses can operate with more agility and efficiency in an ever-changing world.

May 2025

Collab Capital

Community Infrastructure: HubbleIQ

Hubble's mission is to make remote tech support easy, data-driven, and accessible so that all businesses can operate with more agility and efficiency in an ever-changing world.

May 2025

Collab Capital

Community Infrastructure: HubbleIQ

Hubble's mission is to make remote tech support easy, data-driven, and accessible so that all businesses can operate with more agility and efficiency in an ever-changing world.

February 2025

Amazon Web Services

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February 2025

Amazon Web Services

HubbleIQ bridges the digital divide with generative AI-powered IT support

Digital connection is at the heart of public sector services: students connect to online resources or log into digital classrooms; clinicians use critical apps to provide patient care…

February 2025

Amazon Web Services

HubbleIQ bridges the digital divide with generative AI-powered IT support

Digital connection is at the heart of public sector services: students connect to online resources or log into digital classrooms; clinicians use critical apps to provide patient care…

February 2025

Amazon Web Services

HubbleIQ bridges the digital divide with generative AI-powered IT support

Digital connection is at the heart of public sector services: students connect to online resources or log into digital classrooms; clinicians use critical apps to provide patient care…

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