NAME: Adaptech DESCRIPTION: Adaptech is an electronics and robotics focused tech-start up with a goal of creating cutting edge technology solutions to disabilities. The company's focus is spread over many forms of assistance, ranging from prosthetics to SmartTech meant to assist independent living like voice-activated doors for cabinets, closets, and even fridges to help people have more control over their lives and living situations. Their Mission statement is a horribly cliche 'Where Technology Meets Functionality'. So far the company has received funding via grants from the government, private investment firms, and even the Guardian Alliance (in hopes of assisting people that become injured in normal heroic and villainous battles).
While their areas of focus are varied, the company has been showing good progress in some prototypes, and enough interest in their work to be slowly trying to seek additional grants that will let them develop their tech, and most importantly make it affordable. The company currently maintains a staff of little over forty people and hopes to expand this staff, including through acquisitions of more back end support like PR specialists, HR, office workers, and even records management. Anyone with experience writing grants is absolutely welcomed, as well as code monkeys and aspiring roboticists. A quieter request for additional employees to help with digital security of their products is going out as well.
The atmosphere of the company is actually what a lot of businesses claim to maintain. There is a sense of community and passion in the employees, and a friendliness is fostered where possible. Of course some internal rivalries have developed because anything else would be impossible. But corporate culture does stress hour long lunch breaks (paid), and there's even one employee whose entire job is to go around and rouse the code and tech monkeys out of programming and creation fugue states so they can get rest and go home. To burn out their most precious resource of the minds that drive the tech is something that the founder, Janelle Rosenburg, abhors the idea of.
Employees are technically forbidden from the grounds on whatever days they declare as their 'weekend' upon signing on with the company, or whatever change they make to it, with their access badges even refusing to open doors unless a higher ranked employee in the building confirms the extra work hours. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: As a still relatively small company, Adaptech doesn't have its own full building. Instead it exists on floors four through six of a larger building in downtown Excelsior. This means that the offices on one side of the building have wonderful windows and views. These are typically reserved for support staff and administrative/management positions. This is mostly because programmers have tended to prefer rooms where they could more easily control lighting levels. Central spaces of the levels are often dedicated to server rooms, offices for programmers, and on the sixth floor, the clean room for prototype chips, and machine and printing rooms for parts creation.
The sixth floor windows on the south side of the building are given over to a conference room, and the north side is the employee cafeteria and lounge. Many rooms with windows have plants in them to try and create a living space, but internal rooms do not tend to have this, instead being decorated by employees when it's office space, and being kept clear in work spaces except of safety notices and walls and board covered with design specs.
Finally, they own an apartment off site where they test their domestic space help solutions, trying to ensure that they work outside of controlled lab settings.
CITY: Excelsior INFO POST LINK: N/A
CONTACT NAMES: Janelle Rosenburg (Founder and President [Non-Hero/Villain NPC]); David Alleyne (Programmer and Engineer) HOW CAN CHARACTERS GET INVOLVED: Adaptech is seeking new employees and investors. Also desired as people with current needs for their technology to assist them with testing either at the offices, or in their off-site testing house. Also useful would be people from other worlds who are coming in with adaptive technology from that world who might not mind their tech being studied. With compensation of course.
For the Villainously minded the site, being a tech company, maintains on premises expensive computer parts, and possible code or other computer programs that other companies might want to poach from them, or that villains themselves may want to use. It's an easy jump from things that might serve as robotic arms to things that could possibly be upscaled to full robot armies.
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DESCRIPTION: Adaptech is an electronics and robotics focused tech-start up with a goal of creating cutting edge technology solutions to disabilities. The company's focus is spread over many forms of assistance, ranging from prosthetics to SmartTech meant to assist independent living like voice-activated doors for cabinets, closets, and even fridges to help people have more control over their lives and living situations. Their Mission statement is a horribly cliche 'Where Technology Meets Functionality'. So far the company has received funding via grants from the government, private investment firms, and even the Guardian Alliance (in hopes of assisting people that become injured in normal heroic and villainous battles).
While their areas of focus are varied, the company has been showing good progress in some prototypes, and enough interest in their work to be slowly trying to seek additional grants that will let them develop their tech, and most importantly make it affordable. The company currently maintains a staff of little over forty people and hopes to expand this staff, including through acquisitions of more back end support like PR specialists, HR, office workers, and even records management. Anyone with experience writing grants is absolutely welcomed, as well as code monkeys and aspiring roboticists. A quieter request for additional employees to help with digital security of their products is going out as well.
The atmosphere of the company is actually what a lot of businesses claim to maintain. There is a sense of community and passion in the employees, and a friendliness is fostered where possible. Of course some internal rivalries have developed because anything else would be impossible. But corporate culture does stress hour long lunch breaks (paid), and there's even one employee whose entire job is to go around and rouse the code and tech monkeys out of programming and creation fugue states so they can get rest and go home. To burn out their most precious resource of the minds that drive the tech is something that the founder, Janelle Rosenburg, abhors the idea of.
Employees are technically forbidden from the grounds on whatever days they declare as their 'weekend' upon signing on with the company, or whatever change they make to it, with their access badges even refusing to open doors unless a higher ranked employee in the building confirms the extra work hours.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: As a still relatively small company, Adaptech doesn't have its own full building. Instead it exists on floors four through six of a larger building in downtown Excelsior. This means that the offices on one side of the building have wonderful windows and views. These are typically reserved for support staff and administrative/management positions. This is mostly because programmers have tended to prefer rooms where they could more easily control lighting levels. Central spaces of the levels are often dedicated to server rooms, offices for programmers, and on the sixth floor, the clean room for prototype chips, and machine and printing rooms for parts creation.
The sixth floor windows on the south side of the building are given over to a conference room, and the north side is the employee cafeteria and lounge. Many rooms with windows have plants in them to try and create a living space, but internal rooms do not tend to have this, instead being decorated by employees when it's office space, and being kept clear in work spaces except of safety notices and walls and board covered with design specs.
Finally, they own an apartment off site where they test their domestic space help solutions, trying to ensure that they work outside of controlled lab settings.
CITY: Excelsior
INFO POST LINK: N/A
CONTACT NAMES: Janelle Rosenburg (Founder and President [Non-Hero/Villain NPC]); David Alleyne (Programmer and Engineer)
HOW CAN CHARACTERS GET INVOLVED: Adaptech is seeking new employees and investors. Also desired as people with current needs for their technology to assist them with testing either at the offices, or in their off-site testing house. Also useful would be people from other worlds who are coming in with adaptive technology from that world who might not mind their tech being studied. With compensation of course.
For the Villainously minded the site, being a tech company, maintains on premises expensive computer parts, and possible code or other computer programs that other companies might want to poach from them, or that villains themselves may want to use. It's an easy jump from things that might serve as robotic arms to things that could possibly be upscaled to full robot armies.