About Elevate Innovations

You bring the vision.
We build it

A US-based team of engineers, designers, and strategists who build real products alongside founders and scaling teams. We use AI to make technology make sense for your team, fast. The partnership is still the point.

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Founded 2017 · Washington, D.C. · Orange County, CA · 35-40 People

We created Elevate to demystify technology. We wanted our clients to focus on building their business while we handle the tech with a transparent process they can trust.

Kevin Schreck · Co-Founder & CEO, Elevate Innovations

Our Story

We built Elevate to be the partner we always wished existed

A lot of technology partners optimize for billable hours. We optimize for results. The kind where you look forward to the weekly standup, where your team feels like your team, and where honest conversations happen before problems do.

Since 2017, we've built a team of US-based engineers, designers, and strategists who care about craft and the people they build for. AI is part of how we work now: woven into design, research, and delivery where it earns its place, and out of the way where judgment still matters. Your team stays in the driver's seat.

AI In Our Practice

AI is part of the team. People are still in charge

Our engineers, designers, and PMs use AI every day to move faster and catch more. We build AI into what we ship for you when it creates real value, and we leave it out when it doesn't. You'll see a demonstrable product within the first two weeks of most engagements.

Faster delivery, same rigor

AI-assisted scaffolding, test generation, and code review shorten cycles. Our engineers still own the architecture and the call on what ships.

Research and design, accelerated

We use AI to synthesize user research, explore interface directions, and stress-test copy so the humans on the team can make better decisions, sooner.

AI in your product, where it earns it

We build AI features you can trust: evaluated, monitored, and wrapped in guardrails that match your risk tolerance. If a traditional approach is simpler or safer, we say so.

Honest about the tradeoffs

AI is powerful and uneven. We flag where it's solid, where it's risky, and where a human review loop is non-negotiable. You stay in control.

Our Values

The six principles that guide
every line of code we write

Great work comes from great people. These are the values that attract the right ones and keep us honest.

Iterate to Accelerate

Bring intellectual curiosity to the work. Draw on diverse experience. Stay creative, take in feedback, and grow alongside the people around you.

Collaborate

Be a partner and build relationships. Be open to helping and ask for help when you need it. We believe the whole is always greater than the sum of its parts.

Do The Right Thing

We do everything with integrity and respect. We value our team, our clients, and our communities. The way we do our work demonstrates this.

Be A Value Add

Always approach every situation with an attitude of wanting to contribute. And leave every situation having left tangible value to the effort.

Own Your Output

Be a professional and always seek to exceed expectations. Keep those around you informed and always under-promise and over-deliver.

Take On Challenges

We look a challenge in the face and take it on. Lean on the team to fill in gaps and set out to change the status quo.

Leadership

Meet our founders

Kevin Schreck

Co-Founder & CEO

Co-founded Elevate in 2017 to demystify technology for growing businesses. Leads client relationships and company vision from Washington, D.C.

Alan Shintaku

Co-Founder & COO

Co-founded Elevate alongside Kevin to build a company where quality and trust come first. Oversees delivery and operations from Orange County, CA.

30+ engineers, designers, and strategists

Our team of engineers, designers, and strategists spans every US time zone from the East Coast to the West Coast, and every one of them chose to be here because they care about the work. When you work with Elevate, your project never leaves the country and your team always feels like your team.

Where we are

Headquartered on both coasts

Headquarters in Washington, D.C. and Orange County, CA, with team members in every U.S. time zone. We’re based in the U.S., but we partner with clients worldwide, including across the U.K., Europe, and beyond.

Washington, D.C.East Coast HQ

Orange County, CAWest Coast HQ

Every U.S. time zoneCoast to coast coverage

Why Elevate

Why teams choose to work with us

U.S. Team

One hundred percent U.S.-based

Every engineer, designer, and strategist works from the United States. Coast to coast, every time zone covered, no offshore surprises.

Risk Reversal

You owe us nothing until you see working software

No contract pressure, no upfront commitments. We prove the work first, then talk about the rest of the engagement.

Right-Sized Rigor

Enterprise rigor, startup pace

Same enterprise-grade engineering, minus the eight-layer org chart. Decisions and pivots happen in days, not months.

Long Term

We grow with you, not away from you

Build, hand off, stay close. Plenty of our partners are on year three, four, five with us. The relationship is the point.

How We Work

How every engagement works

Intro Call

Always free. We establish fit, understand your goals, and figure out the best path forward. No pitch deck, no pressure.

Discovery

We dig into requirements, select the right tech stack, and deliver an approach doc with timeline and transparent budget range.

Build & Ship

Weekly standups, Slack access, real staging environments. You see working software every week, and AI shows up where it helps ship faster or smarter.

Scale

Flexible long-term support. Pay for what you need when you need it. Scale a team to your needs on demand, on your terms.

You bring the vision.
We build it

We built Elevate to be the partner we always wished existed