Global Spade

Global Spade offers software development resources for mobile phones to enterprise systems. The job it does: building software for you when nothing off the shelf fits.

The natural audience is companies with a specific process to automate. They also list Mobile, so expect those to show up in the feature set. They are a very small team, 1 to 10 people, which usually shapes who they work with. Small vendors mean quick answers and real influence on the roadmap, but check who covers support when someone is out.

Global Spade is based in Carlsbad, California and founded in 2011. Their site is globalspade.com.

Our checklist for this category: portfolio relevance, who owns the code, and how they handle changes. Get the renewal terms in writing before the first invoice.

If you have worked with Global Spade, tell the next buyer what you paid and what surprised you. That is the part of this page we cannot write.