Company/Mission

About
Athile Technologies is devoted to delivering technologies and research that are:


 * High-quality
 * Intuitively Useful
 * Practical

Self-Evident Software
The company's mission is to counteract the misconception that advanced, effective software should . Instead, a tool in its ideal form should be self-evident: both the novice and the expert should be able to immediately use a tool correctly without instruction to accomplish what their goals. This statement is true both of the software at run-time as well as the code itself. Code is an evolving asset at most companies and therefore the ability to continue to use and improve that code can be as important as what the code itself does.

Easy to Use Correctly
Good software should be and 1. "Correctly" used software means should mean software both whose code and run-time save time, increase efficiency, and makes life easier. The software should never be an obstacle, but rather a tool that becomes nearly transparent to accomplishing the task at hand.

1A paraphrase of an API design guideline suggested by Scott Meyers