SpiffWorkflow was built on the conviction that mission-critical business processes shouldn't be fragile or locked to a single vendor. They should be owned by the teams that run them.
Several of us worked together at Rosetta Stone in the early 2000s, leading core infrastructure as the company went public and scaled its online platform. We learned how to build systems that support many teams under pressure.
In 2014 the team moved into consulting, working alongside research scientists and graduate students at the University of Virginia. Building with Python every day, for people who weren't engineers, taught us what a real general-purpose language looks like in practice.
In 2019 UVA asked us to build a general-purpose workflow engine for a complex approval process. We put it to work immediately during the pandemic, building applications to bring researchers and students back to campus safely. That effort led to a complete rewrite of an existing open source library called SpiffWorkflow. Status, a Web3 company, funded the next phase, which became Spiff Arena: a full end-to-end workflow management system.
SpiffWorks launched in 2025 as the hosted, commercially supported version of that platform.
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