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title: "A platform, a team, and a way to keep building."
description: "Neol needed to turn an early talent marketplace into a working business. We helped build its product and engineering team, establish development practices, and develop an AI platform for people and expert networks."
url: https://coyotiv.com/work/neol/
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# A platform, a team, and a way to keep building.

Neol needed to turn an early talent marketplace into a working business. We helped build its product and engineering team, establish development practices, and develop an AI platform for people and expert networks.

[Book a call](https://coyotiv.com/work/neol/#book) [See all work](https://coyotiv.com/work/)

Client

Neol

Sector

Talent networks and enterprise software

Our role

Fractional CTO, product design, and engineering

Today

An in-house team and an AI platform serving enterprise work

The story

1. [The idea was there. The product organization still had to be built.](https://coyotiv.com/work/neol/#the-idea-was-there-the-product-organization-still-had-to-be-built)
2. [An in-house team and an AI platform serving enterprise work.](https://coyotiv.com/work/neol/#an-in-house-team-and-an-ai-platform-serving-enterprise-work)

## The idea was there. The product organization still had to be built.

Neol began as a UK talent marketplace startup without an in-house team, a platform, or an established product development culture.

The work therefore extended beyond building an initial application. Neol needed people who could design and develop the product, practices for continuing that work, and technology that could evolve with enterprise requirements.

## An in-house team and an AI platform serving enterprise work.

Neol gained a product design and engineering team with its own hiring and delivery practices, alongside a platform for search, matching, and collaboration.

The engagement moved from early prototypes into continued AI product development. The team, the product, and the ability to respond to enterprise requirements grew together.

How it went

## Create the foundations for continued product development.

1. Team  
### Build the product team  
We helped establish product design and engineering, with technical leadership, a hiring pipeline, and continuous delivery practices. The team and its way of working developed alongside the platform.
2. Profiles  
### Develop useful network information  
The platform connects experience, expertise, and relationships through enriched profiles. That information supports how organizations understand their people, partners, and external experts.
3. Search  
### Make search and matching part of the product  
We developed AI-powered capabilities including natural-language search, candidate matching, and evaluations against project briefs. Shared shortlists and workspaces support collaboration across internal teams and external networks.
4. Enterprise  
### Support enterprise use  
Our work included enterprise access controls, localization, and custom deployment requirements. Platform development also supported Neol’s work with government organizations in Dubai.

The result

## An in-house team and an AI platform serving enterprise work.

A product design and engineering team with its own hiring and delivery practices.

In-house team

A platform for search, matching, and collaboration across people and expert networks.

AI platform

More work

## More work.

[See all work](https://coyotiv.com/work/)

Personalized products and fulfillment

### [A critical application, ready to run the business.](https://coyotiv.com/work/thefreshener/)

Months of continued development added features and integrations, allowing the company to expand its operations to new product types.

TheFreshener

HR technology and hiring

### [A hiring workflow that had outgrown a single agent.](https://coyotiv.com/work/klareda/)

Klareda could take on larger hiring use cases, with the work divided across agents and their steps available for review.

Contact

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