About -- Red27

Web Strategy & Development For Startups

Our goal, focus and passion

The Red27 team strives to use its experience and agility to help early-stage companies take ideas to the Web as quickly as possible, providing value to them as soon as possible.

Our Founder

Dusty Candland profile image Dusty Candland is Red27 Consulting's founder and director of technology. He is responsible daily operations, team leadership and technical development. Dusty has a degree in graphic design and has developed software for more than a decade. He has been involved in two successful start-ups, eonBusiness and GoToast (which was acquired by aQuantive), and dozens of successful business projects. Dusty also has ventured out on his own with the development of Visutext.com, a software project that enables group text messaging. To learn more about his approach to development, check out Dusty's blog, Candland.Code, at http://www.candland.net/blog.

Web Basics

Testimonials

We worked with Dusty Candland of Red27 Consulting for about 1.5 months on a project supporting development of a Java-based Web service using the Play! Framework. Dusty was very easy to work with. During and after the project's execution, he and Red27 were readily available to answer questions and help us fix bugs. Another important aspect of the consulting we did with Red27 was our need for a developer who understood how quickly things move and can change in a startup environment. Dusty did a great job of filling that role. He quickly adapted to multiple revisions of the project's specifications and integrated his work with our existing codebase. Omniar would choose to work with Red27 again.
—Zach, CTO, Omniar, Inc.

Red27 Consulting has provided us with excellent service for seven years. From web design, to content management, to maintenance and security, Red27 takes care of all our IT needs, allowing us to focus on our business.
—Gary Scott, CEO, Dynasty Painting

Red27 is a mission-critical part of the team that is steering our young market research and communications company full steam ahead. We have entrusted short-term projects and long-term technology planning in Red27 -- which has always exceeded our expectations on time and on budget. It's invaluable to have the support of expert Web developers, who act with integrity and with a competency that allows us to focus on growing our entire company.
—Christine Tatum, chief executive officer, Media Salad, Inc.

It was a pleasure working with Dusty Candland of Red27 Consulting on fluidmeetingspaces.com. Being a small business it was critical that the project be completed on time and within our budget, Red27 helped make this happen while staying true to the vision and specifications of the project. Dusty was very responsive during the project and remains very responsive even after project completion. I always had a comfort level with Dusty that the projects success was as important to him as it was to me and the rest of our team.
—Jeff Aitken, Owner, Fluid Coffee Bar