Mobile app development in St. Louis

How Tepia serves St. Louis from Kansas City

St. Louis and Kansas City anchor the two ends of I-70 across Missouri, and Tepia serves St. Louis from its Kansas City office. The Tepia project manager and design lead travel to St. Louis for the meetings that benefit from being in a room, and the rest of the engagement runs on video in Central time. Tepia is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, with offices in Tampa, Pittsburgh, Austin, Las Vegas and Kansas City, and has built software for thirteen years.

Tepia’s US based leadership includes Abraham Agopian, Founder and CEO, Dustin Gordon, Director of Operations, Brianna Martison, Director of Engineering, and Fahad Baig, Technical Lead Manager. Every St. Louis engagement has a named project manager.

Healthcare, manufacturing and the St. Louis industries Tepia serves

St. Louis has one of the largest healthcare concentrations in the Midwest, with major hospital systems, a leading medical school, health insurers and a dense cluster of health IT and life science companies around the Cortex district. These organizations need patient engagement apps, clinical workflow tools, facility management apps and integrations with EHR and billing systems, all handling protected health information. Tepia builds with HIPAA aware architecture, including PHI handling, BAAs with vendors, audit logs and encryption in transit and at rest, and its Water Saver Solutions app for hospitals and healthcare facilities is a direct example.

Manufacturing is the other pillar, from automotive and aerospace assembly to chemicals, food and beverage, metals and building products across the metro and the Metro East. Manufacturers come to Tepia for shop floor tools, quality and maintenance apps, inventory and warehouse systems, connected equipment dashboards and integrations with ERP systems. Tepia’s manufacturing and IoT work, including the Maximum Controls project with iOS, Android and an admin portal, applies here.

St. Louis is also a financial services and agriculture technology center, a significant logistics hub on the river and rail network, and home to a large church and ministry community. Tepia built the Daily Hope iOS and Android app for Pastor Rick Warren’s ministry audience and supports St. Louis startups with MVP builds engineered for retention.

Both industries bring integration work that Tepia scopes carefully in Discovery. Healthcare apps typically need to read from and write to an EHR, a scheduling system and a billing platform, each with its own API and security review. Manufacturing apps need to talk to ERP, MES and equipment data, often over plant networks with limited connectivity. Tepia’s systems integration practice handles these connections with REST and GraphQL APIs, durable queues and audit logging.

Typical St. Louis engagements with Tepia

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How Tepia's US led team works with St. Louis clients

Tepia is US led with individually sourced global talent. Your project manager, design lead and engineering lead are in the United States, and the engineers building your product are hand picked individuals working in US overlapping hours, covering the Central time business day.

For St. Louis clients, Tepia holds the Discovery kickoff, the main design review, user acceptance testing and Training on site, with the team travelling from Kansas City. Weekly status calls run on video with a shared project board. Tepia is accustomed to hospital vendor security reviews, BAAs and the documentation manufacturers require from software suppliers, and to App Store and Google Play review rules that affect release timing.

Tepia is not a body shop. You will know the names of the engineers on your product, and they stay with it from Alpha through Launch and into Support. For a hospital or a plant, that continuity means the people who learned your workflow during Discovery are the ones maintaining the system two years later.

How Tepia approaches mobile app development in St. Louis

Tepia’s six phases run the same in St. Louis as everywhere. Discovery (typically 1 to 3 months) covers system investigation of your EHR, ERP or existing apps, user interviews with clinicians, operators or plant staff, and third party integration review. You receive an Investigation Summary, an Interview Summary and User Stories. Design produces a design questionnaire, moodboards, a style guide, detailed wireframes and sample designs, with accessibility to WCAG 2.1 AA built in.

Development and Testing runs on Alpha and Beta schedules with functional, user acceptance and non functional testing, including security testing for PHI and offline first sync for plant floors with poor connectivity. Training covers in person sessions in St. Louis and remote sessions using user story scenarios. Launch includes data migration, transition from the old system and Tepia support reps on rollout. Full detail is on the Tepia process page.

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