Product
Healthcare & MedTech
Nga Taro
Tech stack
- NestJS
- Next.Js
- MongoDB
- Prisma
- MailChimp
- Google Analytics
- Clear product direction rooted in healthcare & medtech goals
- Interfaces tuned for real workflows, not demo-day theater
- Reliable foundations that stay maintainable after launch
- A launch-ready experience teams can iterate on with confidence
Services provided
Case study
Nga Taro
Problem
Existing healthcare solutions often overlook or fail to adequately address the specific cultural values, narratives, and wellness paths of indigenous populations. This creates a significant gap in accessibility to relevant health resources and personalized guidance that truly resonates with the cultural identity of communities like the Māori, leading to disengagement and less effective health outcomes.
Solution
Ngā Toro is an empowering and culturally-centered digital tool that bridges this gap. By leveraging AI for personalized guidance, offering a directory of health professionals, and integrating a rich library of resources, the platform delivers a deeply engaging and intuitive user experience. Its unique approach, rooted in Māori cultural heritage, ensures that health advice and wellness journeys are not just accessible but also meaningful and aligned with the community's values, fostering a more holistic and engaged approach to well-being.
Overview
Ngā Toro is a culturally immersive digital platform designed for the Māori community, offering a unique health and well-being management experience. It integrates traditional Māori narratives (pūrakau), art, and values with modern digital functionalities to guide users through personalized health journeys. The platform features an animated homepage with narration, an AI-driven Q&A interface, a personal dashboard for progress tracking, a health professional directory, and a rich resource library, all designed with a strong emphasis on cultural authenticity and user engagement.
How we delivered
Our delivery rhythm stays consistent across products: discovery and scope alignment, design and technical planning in parallel, iterative build with demos your stakeholders can react to, and a launch checklist that covers performance, accessibility, monitoring, and handoff documentation. We prefer incremental releases over big-bang launches whenever the business can validate earlier.
Design and engineering stay paired throughout implementation so interface details, API contracts, and edge cases are resolved together. That pairing reduces rework and keeps the shipped product faithful to the intent agreed in discovery.
After go-live we can stay on for enhancements, operational support, or a clean handoff to your in-house team — whichever match your capacity and roadmap. The goal is always the same: software that keeps working when real users, real data, and real edge cases show up.
Every launch includes a short runbook for your team: how deployments work, where to watch errors, and who to contact when something unexpected appears in production. That handoff is part of the product, not an optional extra.
We also capture the open questions that did not make the first release so your backlog reflects reality instead of wishful thinking.