Hey everyone. Brock asked us to introduce ourselves, since we’ve been the team working behind the scenes on Image Hunter for a while now.
We’re Smith Avenue Insights, a software and data engineering consultancy company based out of Chicago. The name comes from the house three of us shared on E Smith Ave back at Indiana University, where this whole thing started as a half-baked idea between roommates.
We like to think of ourselves as general contractors for your tech. Software and data infrastructure that helps your business grow instead of holding it back. We take on the hard problems and build what you actually need.
What We Do
We build and fix the stuff underneath the applications you use. That means data engineering (historical databases, ingestion pipelines, data lakehouse infrastructure), full-stack software in React, TypeScript, Python, and Node, and AWS cloud work end to end. When a catalog is dropping records, a pipeline is feeding bad numbers downstream, or an app needs to do something it was never built to do, that’s where we can help. We’re AWS Partners, US-based, and entirely in office here in Chicago
The Work With Apollo
Image Hunter runs on a catalog of more than 500 million satellite scenes across 70-plus datasets and 75 satellites. A platform like that lives or dies on whether the data is complete, accurate, and current, which is exactly the kind of work we love.
A few of the things we’ve shipped for Brock:
- Brought the newest sensors online, including WorldView Legion 5 and 6, SuperView Neo, and TerraSAR-X, so users can search for the latest imagery as it becomes available.
- Rebuilt the clip tool into a guided overlap and billing engine that cuts 30 to 60 minutes off a typical multi-vendor order, with the billing rules encoded so overlap, buffers, and priority come out right every time.
- Corrected scene footprints from rough rectangles to true geometry, so what you see on the map matches the real imagery.
- Reworked the catalog ingestion into a global sweep and cleaned out deprecated feeds and false update alerts, so the catalog stops quietly dropping scenes, and the web app is more stable than it has ever been.
A Bit Of Our Other Work
Apollo is one of several teams we’ve helped across different industries:
- Geospatial / Satellite Imagery: Apollo Mapping (everything above)
- SaaS: ActiveCampaign, an email marketing platform here in Chicago, where we turned a 30-hour-a-week manual reporting grind into a daily automated pipeline and gave them roughly 150 hours a month back
- Pharmaceutical: Ascent Pharmaceuticals, where we designed and built a brand-new website from scratch and deployed it on AWS
- Education: Kontinu-ed, where we handled application development
- Biotech Analytics: Mosaic Solutions Group, a partner we work alongside to help biotech companies turn their data into actionable insights through AI-driven dashboards, natural language query, and analytics
Why People Keep Working With Us
There are a lot of dev shops out there. What makes us different is that we listen first and ship fast. Hand us a fuzzy idea and you’ll have something real to look at in days, not weeks. No offshore handoffs, no junior outsourcing. Every client we’ve ever signed is still with us.
Want To Talk?
If you want what Image Hunter has (a platform that’s stable, accurate, and just works), we’d love to chat. Feel free to send an email to dylan@smithaveinsights.com, or you can find us at smithaveinsights.com.
Dylan Morozowski, Duncan Meyer, and William McKinney
Founders at Smith Avenue Insights
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