A week in Atlanta

Atlanta welcomed us in the middle of winter, with temperatures close to zero and a team arriving straight from the Chilean summer. For a week we worked from Fusen World’s founders’ house, sharing days and conversations with people who have spent decades building companies and writing software.

It was an intense week, but an especially important one for PAIR. Between work sessions and conversations came decisions that are still part of our product and our strategy: how to explain PAIR in a few words, what a North American buyer expects and, perhaps most importantly, telling apart which parts of the product were genuinely solved and which still needed work.

It was also during this trip that PAIR was incorporated in the United States, a concrete step in our goal of taking the product beyond Chile.

But not everything happened in front of a computer. We used the visit to test PAIR in a context different from the one we originally had in mind: we produced structural reports of Atlanta landmarks and of Fusen World’s own founders’ house. Photographs, coordinates and field information went through the same flow we use in Chile.

The test was simple, but meaningful. The form worked outside the context it was originally designed for.

And perhaps that turned out to be the most important lesson of the trip: a tool built to make field inspections easier does not have to be limited to one territory or one industry. An inspection can happen on a site in northern Chile, on a job in Georgia or anywhere else field information needs to be turned into useful data.

Atlanta was not only a work trip. It was a first proof that PAIR can travel.