CASE / 003 · NATIONAL NON-PROFIT × QREW TECH

From chaos to community:
200 locations, one database.

A national non-profit serving over 1 million family members had outgrown its own infrastructure. QREW Tech stepped in asfractional technical leadershipand rebuilt it as a custom AppSheet ecosystem on Google Cloud SQL and BigQuery.

CLIENTNational family-homelessness non-profit
INDUSTRYNon-profit · 200 locations, 43 states
STREAMFractional technical leadership
STACKAppSheet · Google Cloud SQL · BigQuery
OUTCOME+300% nationwide data access
+300%
ACCESS
Nationwide data visibility
200
SITES
Locations in one database
400
HRS/MO
Monthly support established
1,800+
HRS
Technical work delivered
01 / The Brief

An organization that outgrew its infrastructure.

After serving over 1 million family members across 200 locations in 43 states, a premier national non-profit dedicated to ending family homelessness had outgrown its own systems. Real-time reporting across multi-state operations was nearly impossible, everyday use triggered system crashes, and the data pipelines holding everything together were buckling under the weight of their own growth.

They didn't need a patch. They needed an enterprise-grade rebuild — and the technical leadership to run it.

THE ASK · ONE LINE

Turn an unstable prototype into a platform a national organization can run on.

02 / Growth KillersFour problems, taken head-on
PAIN 01

Leadership Gap

The internal team lacked the capacity for hands-on product management and engineering direction.

PAIN 02

System Lag

Heavy data workflows ran inside the field-facing apps, and everyday use triggered crashes.

PAIN 03

Broken Reporting

Pulling real-time reports across multi-state operations was nearly impossible.

PAIN 04

Manual Busywork

Historical auditing meant manual data entry, and staff hours lost to it.

03 / The SolutionAppSheet · Cloud SQL · BigQuery

A national platform, not a bigger prototype.

QREW Tech stepped in as fractional technical leadership. The result was a customAppSheet ecosystem integrated with Google Cloud SQL and BigQuery — an unstable prototype turned into a scalable national platform.

The field-facing apps stay fast because the heavy lifting moved to the backend. Leadership gets real-time reports because the pipelines underneath were re-architected.

  • Leadership · hands-on product management and engineering direction the internal team didn't have capacity for.
  • Performance · heavy data workflows moved to backend logic, keeping field apps fast and responsive — with a targeted 30% improvement in response times.
  • Reporting · data pipelines re-architected so executives can pull real-time reports without crashes.
  • Automation · backend automation for historical auditing, reclaiming hours of staff time lost to manual data entry.
04 / ResultsNational-scale results
+300%ACCESS

Data visibility

Increase in nationwide data access, giving leadership instant clarity on regional performance.

200SITES

System scalability

Separate locations seamlessly brought together into a single, unified database.

400HRS/MO

Development speed

Hours of monthly support established to clear backlogs and launch features faster.

1,800+HRS

Expert execution

Hours of technical work delivered to stabilize and future-proof the business.

The team shifted from reactive firefighting tostrategic growth — equipped to pursue an ambitious 10-year expansion.
05 / Lasting Impact & Stack

Fixed the tech. Changed how they operate.

With human error reduced and thousands of staff hours recovered, the organization moved from reactive firefighting to strategic growth.

When your data works for you instead of against you, everything changes. If your systems are the ceiling on your growth, that's exactly the problem QREW Tech is built to solve.

APP PLATFORM
AppSheet
DATA
Google Cloud SQL
BigQuery
ENGAGEMENT
Fractional technical leadership
400 hrs monthly support
OUTCOME
200 locations, one database
+300% data access
1,800+ hrs delivered