From zero to hero
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How Dark Matter Helped Boreas Launch a Cryotank Monitoring Platform Across 122 Clinics
Client: Boreas Monitoring SolutionsIndustry: Fertility & Cryostorage Monitoring
Engagement Start: February 2023
First Sellable Product: September 2023
CLIENT SUCCESS STORY
Client: Boreas Monitoring Solutions
Industry: Fertility & Cryostorage Monitoring
Engagement Start: February 2023
First Sellable Product: September 2023
Status: Still Engaged
When Boreas’ early platform struggled to reach a state ready for real-world deployment, the team partnered with Dark Matter to rebuild the system and bring their product to market.
❋ 650 Cryotanks
❋ 58 customers
❋ 122 clinics
❋ 7 months to market
CLIENT OVERVIEW
Boreas provides weight-based cryotank monitoring
for fertility clinics, designed to detect issues
early and reduce the stress of manual monitoring.
The Boreas system combines hardware sensors and
a cloud monitoring platform that gives lab teams
24/7 visibility into tank health across locations.
Dark Matter built the software platform powering
this monitoring system.
DARK MATTER PROVIDED BOREAS WITH THE ALL-IN-ONE PRODUCT TEAM THEY NEEDED TO SUCCEED IN THE FERTILITY SOFTWARE MARKET
Before working with Dark Matter, Boreas had
invested nearly $1M building an MVP platform.
Unfortunately the product was not usable.
Major issues included:
• unreliable tank data
• broken onboarding workflows
• tank setup failures
• confusing UX
• missing core functionality
Despite over a year of development, Boreas
still could not deploy their system in the
field or begin selling their product.
They didn’t just need developers.
They needed a product team.
the challenge
Dark Matter stepped in as Boreas' full product
team, providing strategy, design, development,
and product management.
Instead of attempting to salvage the unstable
MVP, the platform was rebuilt from scratch.
Our process focused on:
our approach
Product Strategy
Defining a true MVP aligned with clinic workflows
UX Design
Creating an interface lab staff could use easily
Technical Architecture
Designing a scalable system for hardware data
Agile Development
Rapid release cycles to stabilize the platform
the product
Customer Portal
Clinics can now:
• Monitor tank weight trends
• Configure alarm thresholds
• Manage multiple clinics and tanks
• Receive alarm notifications
• Generate regulatory tank reports
from seamless desktop and mobile experiences
Admin Portal
The Boreas team can:
• manage organizations and clinics
• provision tank modules
• calibrate devices
• run device quality checks
• manage users and alarms
ThE RESULTS
PLatform metrics
650
cryotanks monitored
122
clinic locations
58
organizations
773
devices managed
343
users managed
installation time
35m → 5m
Dark Matter took a tedious and clunky workflow and simplified it via an intuitive UI and automated software to reduce tank install time in the lab from 35 to 5 minutes, resulting in 86% faster installs.
reliability
100%
uptime
0
customer facing bugs
why dark matter?
Dark Matter provides a complete product team
under one engagement.
Our clients work with us because we combine:
Product Strategy
UX Design
Full-stack Engineering
Product Management
This approach allows companies to move faster
than traditional development outsourcing.
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