Fifth Tribe

Fifth Tribe is a small agency in Washington, DC, made up of designers and developers. It takes on software and web projects for companies, non-profits and government agencies, and leads clients through each stage by hand. The name comes from a book on tribal leadership and stands for a culture built around customer success.

What Fifth Tribe offers

• Product design — design sprints, roadmaps and functional prototypes.
• Application development — React and Node applications and cross-platform mobile apps.
• Cloud implementation — moving and building systems in the cloud.
• Data work — data engineering, exploratory analysis and clustering analysis.

Who it works with

Past case studies name the US Peace Corps, Kaiser Permanente, AARP Foundation, KPMG, Oxfam America and the Hult Prize, along with a climate accelerator launched with the Vatican.

Key facts

• Based in: Washington, DC, USA
• Process: meeting, action plan, mockup, then revisions