An Agency on a Mission

Banyan Labs is a Cutting-Edge Software Development & Design Agency with a Social Justice Mission

Watch the story of how a very special partnership between the Banyan Project and Indeed impacted lives and made a profound difference to the participants & their families.

END-TO-END SOLUTIONS TO YOUR SOFTWARE DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS

We employ justice impacted individuals who graduated from the Persevere technology training program as they re-enter society, after experiencing incarceration. Here, they receive mentoring from an array of experienced technology partners and learn to excel on cross-functional development teams. Working with Banyan Labs provides your business with innovative information technology solutions and opportunities to make lasting, positive social change. Our work is proven, professional, and affordable.

Our Expertise on Your Terms

We meet you at any stage of project development and provide the manpower. You bring the project, we’ll bring the prowess.
What Can We Do For You?

AUGMENTED STAFFING

Take back your time as we bring your vision to life with precision and skill. Our expert developers do the heavy lifting so you can focus on what matters most in your business.

PROGRAMMING

We build websites, mobile apps, website applications, artificial intelligence, LMS, and more. Let us handle your next project at any stage of development.

DESIGN SERVICES

You wouldn't put a Ferrari engine in a Prius,  at Banyan, we  make sure your project is beautiful inside and out. From logo design to full branding projects, trust us with your entire project.

PARTNERSHIPS

Banyan Lab is always looking for new partners in our mission to train and employ justice involved individuals. Opportunities range from internships, scholarships, and apprenticeships, to mentorships and job search opportunities. 

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TECHNOLOGY MEETS INNOVATION 

Experienced in a variety of languages and disciplines from cutting edge to tried and true, our expert team optimizes every solution for you.

Our commitment is to build exceptional products for clients and cultivate lasting professional relationships with partners. We seize opportunities to change the lives of our employees through work—the marriage of stories and technology, people working together as they strive for something better.

TECHNOLOGY MEETS INNOVATION 

Experienced in a variety of languages and disciplines from cutting edge to tried and true, our expert team optimizes every solution for you.

Our commitment is to build exceptional products for clients and cultivate lasting professional relationships with partners. We seize opportunities to change the lives of our employees through work—the marriage of stories and technology, people working together as they strive for something better.

Banyan Labs is great to work with. The team meets deadlines and exceeds expectations. I’m very impressed with their problem-solving skills, customer service, and technical chops. I will continue to use Banyan Labs and highly recommend them!

MICHELE LANZA
Founder of Work Wider

OUR OTHER HALF: PERSEVERE

Persevere is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to empower justice-involved men and women and individuals at risk for justice involvement to succeed as productive members of society. We do this by helping them develop the skills they need to be employable within the technology industry, either as employees or entrepreneurs, and helping them find jobs in the field. Our goal is to change lives through education, mentoring, and ongoing support.

OUR OTHER HALF: PERSEVERE

Persevere is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to empower justice-involved men and women and individuals at risk for justice involvement to succeed as productive members of society. We do this by helping them develop the skills they need to be employable within the technology industry, either as employees or entrepreneurs, and helping them find jobs in the field. Our goal is to change lives through education, mentoring, and ongoing support.

Our Clients

OUR VALUED PARTNERS 

The Banyan Project is proud to work with the following organizations on projects of all sizes. We would love to talk about a partnership with your organization too! Contact us for more information today.

DETAILS

Indeed is a staff augmentation partner. They have hired a team of (8) Banyan Labs developers as an extension of their software engineering team to produce a new product called OnDemand. They are now in the process of hiring (2) developers to work with another branch of the organization on a new platform for their internal systems.

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DETAILS

Forbes is a staff augmentation partner. They currently hire (2) of our Banyan Labs developers to work with their teams. This is a rolling 90 day opportunity that can turn into full-time employment if the developers prove themselves during that allotted time frame. Currently, our developers are the primary front-end team at Forbes.

DETAILS

Bounteous provides opportunities for Internships and Apprenticeships with potential to be hired on full-time every (6) months. This opportunity is currently provided to (4) of our developers on a rolling basis. These opportunities can be from E-Commerce and CMS systems to front-end / React Development.

DETAILS

Amazon is providing $50,000 in scholarships for AWS nano-degrees from Udacity. This provides about 28 nano-degree opportunities to our teams at Banyan Labs and Persevere. Banyan Labs is currently working to become an AWS Cloud Services provider for AWS. Any remaining funds from this partnership will be applied to laptops for the nano-degree students. Staff augmentation is also a current discussion.  

DETAILS

Girls In Tech provides mentorship and job search opportunities to the Women in Persevere and Banyan Labs. They also are providing press releases and marketing materials to help get the word out about Banyan Labs. Girls In Tech CEO Adriana Gascoigne is a huge advocate for our cause and stands behind us and our mission. More partnership opportunities may arise. Girls In Tech has welcomed us to their Girls In Tech Nashville Conference in September.

DETAILS

The next chapter is partnered with (11) companies that provide apprenticeship opportunities to formerly incarcerated men and women who have been introduced to software development / coding and are interested in pursuing a career in this field. Average salary of Alumni is reported to be $140,000. Some partners of The Next Chapter include Dropbox, Slack, Square, Affirm, Checkr. This is open enrollment and is always an available opportunity for our graduates and employees.

DETAILS

Vant4ge is the parent company of Banyan Labs. Vant4ge works to provide executable data to Probation, Parole and Correctional teams in order to help release those who should not be incarcerated. Vant4ge believes in supporting all justice impacted individuals and employs Some of our graduated to work for them full time.

DETAILS

Udacity (working under a grant from Amazon) is providing 50 Scholarships for a tailored Software Development course to our Justice Impacted team members at Banyan Labs. Udacity, Amazon and Banyan Labs have worked together to perfect the curriculum in order to bridge the gap between education restrictions enforced during incarceration. These scholarships will help our justice impacted team members who have been recently released from prison become more employable as a Software Engineer upon release.