# Very Good Ventures (VGV)

> Software consultancy specializing in Flutter, Dart, AI/ML, and cross-platform app development.

Website: https://verygood.ventures
Contact: https://verygood.ventures/contact-us/

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## Services

- Application Development
- Product Strategy
- Product Design
- AI Strategy Workshops
- Agentic AI Solutions
- Marketing & Growth

## Industries

- Entertainment
- Financial Services
- Travel & Hospitality

## Key Technologies

- Flutter
- Dart
- Firebase
- Braze
- AI/ML

## Open Source

VGV maintains a number of open source projects including Very Good CLI, Very Good Workflows, Flame (a Flutter game engine), and many Flutter packages.

## Content Overview

- 277 blog posts
- 30 success stories
- 29 podcast episodes
- 3 webinars
- 9 whitepapers

## Blog Topics

- ADK
- AI
- AI Tooling
- AI developer tools
- Accessibility
- Agent Development Kit
- Agentic Development
- Agentic Workflows
- Agents
- Anthropic
- App Development
- Architecture
- Automation
- Automotive
- Automotive Grade Linux
- Backend
- Best Practices
- Betterment
- BloC
- Bloc
- Business Value
- CI/CD
- CLI Development
- Case Study
- Certification
- Claude
- Claude Code
- Claude Design
- Clean Architecture
- Code Review
- Conference
- Customer Engagement
- Dart
- Dart Frog
- Design
- DevOps
- Developer Tools
- Developer Workflow
- Engineering
- Engineering Collaboration
- Enterprise
- Entertainment
- Figma
- Financial Services
- Firebase
- Flutter
- Flutter at Scale
- FlutterCon
- Fluttercon
- Full Stack
- Games
- Gemini
- GenUI
- Generative UI
- Genkit
- Genui
- Google
- Google Cloud Next
- Google I/O
- GraphQL
- Hackathon
- Hospitality
- MCP
- MCP Server
- MCP server
- Maestro
- Marketing
- Mobile Testing
- Model Context Protocol
- Multi-Platform
- Navigation
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- Product Management
- Product Strategy
- QSR
- Rive
- Routing Best Practices
- Rust
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- Shorebird
- Software Engineering
- Sports
- Testing
- Tutorial
- UI Development
- UI Testing
- VGV
- Very Good CLI
- Very Good Engineering
- Very Good Ventures
- WCAG 2.2
- Web
- Wingspan
- agentic-engineering
- dynamic-workflows
- go_router
- monorepo
- multi-agent
- multi-device
- retail technology
- vgv-wingspan

## Recent Blog Posts

- [Introducing GenUI Kit](https://verygood.ventures/blog/introducing-genui-kit.md): GenUI Kit packages VGV's Flutter and Dart expertise for building secure, cost-effective GenUI apps that boost activation, retention, and conversion.
- [Flutter@Scale Office Hours at FlutterCon USA 2026](https://verygood.ventures/blog/flutter-at-scale-office-hours-fluttercon-usa-2026.md): Flutter@Scale speakers hold drop-in office hours at the booth during FlutterCon USA 2026, July 16-17 in Orlando. Stop by to talk through their sessions.
- [The Future of Software Development: Embracing AI and Quality](https://verygood.ventures/blog/chris-sells-gas-city-future-of-software-development-ai-and-quality.md): Software engineering veteran Chris Sells on how AI coding agents are changing software quality and the rise of the software factory, on Very Good Engineering.
- [Building Production-Quality Software with Minimal Code: How a Flutter Engineer Builds with AI](https://verygood.ventures/blog/peter-trost-1komma5-building-production-quality-software-with-minimal-code.md): Flutter engineer Peter Trost shares how he uses AI to build production-quality software with minimal code, on Very Good Engineering.
- [Top Open Source Packages Every Flutter Developer Should Know in 2026](https://verygood.ventures/blog/top-open-source-packages-every-flutter-developer-should-know-in-2026.md): The top Flutter packages for 2026 across state management, databases, testing, and backend, plus the new AI and Dart tooling every developer should know.
- [Building Custom Figma Plugins: How a VGV Designer Codes with AI](https://verygood.ventures/blog/murphy-orourke-very-good-ventures-how-to-build-custom-figma-plugins.md): Designer Murphy O'Rourke shares how he uses AI to build custom Figma plugins that automate design system work at Very Good Ventures, on Very Good Engineering.
- [Ten Days, Three Practice Runs: Passing the Claude Certified Architect Exam](https://verygood.ventures/blog/passing-the-claude-certified-architect-exam.md): How I passed Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect Foundations exam with a 738: ten days of prep, three practice runs, and what the score report revealed.
- [Flutter Generative UI: Claude vs Gemini in the Same Shopping Assistant](https://verygood.ventures/blog/flutter-genui-claude-vs-gemini.md): We wired the same Flutter GenUI shopping assistant to Claude and Gemini and ran both side by side. Same app, same catalog, different experience.
- [WWDC 2026, Through a Flutter Lens](https://verygood.ventures/blog/wwdc-2026-through-a-flutter-lens.md): Flutter teams face real changes from WWDC 2026: the iOS 27 SDK requires UISceneDelegate, App Intents are the new path to Siri, and on-device AI opens up.
- [What Is GenUI?](https://verygood.ventures/blog/what-is-genui.md): What is GenUI? A complete guide to generative user interfaces: how they work, how they differ from GenAI, and how to build them with Flutter.
- [VGV at FlutterCon USA 2026: Speakers and Flutter@Scale Sessions](https://verygood.ventures/blog/vgv-at-fluttercon-usa-2026-speakers-and-sessions.md): Very Good Ventures brings 20+ speakers and 13 sessions to FlutterCon USA 2026 in Orlando, July 16-17, including sessions with Etsy, Toyota, and Universal Studios.
- [From draft to deck: a two-tool workflow with Claude and Claude Design](https://verygood.ventures/blog/building-presentations-with-claude-design.md): How I pair Claude chat with Claude Design to go from a rough idea to a markdown outline to a finished, on-brand presentation deck.
- [Designing AI to Fail: What a Capture the Flag Game Taught Us About Where LLMs Still Break](https://verygood.ventures/blog/andy-gibel-yum-brands-designing-ai-to-fail.md): Andy Gibel of Yum! Brands built an AI Capture the Flag game to push engineers past surface-level AI use — and learned where LLMs still break.
- [Claude Code Dynamic Workflows for Flutter at Scale](https://verygood.ventures/blog/claude-dynamic-workflows-flutter.md): Claude Code dynamic workflows solve the three failure modes that break single-agent sessions on large Flutter codebases. Here is how VGV applies them.
- [What Changes About Code Review When AI Writes Your Code](https://verygood.ventures/blog/code-review-ai-generated-code.md): When Wingspan and the VGV AI Flutter Plugin are in your workflow, automated review handles more than you think. Here is what actually remains for human code review.
- [Flutter GenUI Hackathon in San Francisco](https://verygood.ventures/blog/flutter-sf-genui-hackathon.md): Join VGV and the Flutter SF community for a GenUI hackathon. Build AI-generated interfaces for automotive, QSR, and financial services apps. Register on Luma.
- [Accessibility as a slash command](https://verygood.ventures/blog/accessibility-wcag-compliance-skill.md): Learn how the `/vgv-accessibility` skill integrates WCAG 2.2 compliance audits into Flutter development, with platform-aware severity and conformance levels.
- [The Art of Retro UI: Building NES UI in Flutter](https://verygood.ventures/blog/erick-zanardo-very-good-ventures-how-to-build-an-8-bit-design-system-with-nes-ui.md): Erick Zanardo, Technical Delivery Lead at VGV and Flame engine lead, on building NES UI, a retro 8-bit design system for Flutter.
- [A GenUI Tutorial: Building a Flutter Home Screen Your AI Composes](https://verygood.ventures/blog/flutter-genui-home-screen-tutorial.md): A hands-on Flutter GenUI tutorial. Walk through catalog, transport, surface, and interactions with real code from a working Gemini-powered demo app.
- [Flutter Socket.IO Chat: Real-Time Production Messaging](https://verygood.ventures/blog/flutter-socket-io-realtime-chat.md): How a Flutter team built a production real-time chat on Socket.IO across iOS, Android, and web, with clean architecture, read receipts, and dual transports.

## Success Stories

- [Fintech Leader Achieves Seamless Flutter Migration](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/betterment.md): See how Betterment adopted Flutter, established best practices, and transformed its mobile engineering with training and strategic guidance.
- [From Audit to Action: A Strategic Braze Optimization Roadmap](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/blade-braze-optimization-roadmap.md): Auditing Blade’s Braze implementation and delivering a strategic optimization roadmap—lifecycle campaigns, technical fixes, and personalization plays that drive first and repeat purchases.
- [Blade Elevates Luxury Travel App With Flutter](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/blade-mobile-flutter-app.md): Transforming Blade’s luxury travel experience with a high-performance Flutter app, seamless booking, and scalable architecture engineered by VGV.
- [Modular Email Design System Built for Scale](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/building-a-modular-email-design-system-to-boost-speed-consistency-scalable-personalization.md): VGV helped BLADE modernize its email CRM with a modular HTML design system, improving speed, personalization, accessibility, and premium brand consistency.
- [Cross-Platform Game Development With Flutter](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/catan-inspired-game-playable-on-mobile-and-web.md): Discover how a Catan-inspired game used Flutter and Firebase to overcome technical challenges and deliver seamless cross-platform gameplay for players.
- [Elevating NASCAR's VIP Experience: Driving Engagement, Sponsor Value & Scalable Growth](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/elevating-nascars-vip-experience-driving-engagement-sponsor-value-scalable-growth.md): Elevating NASCAR’s VIP experience with real-time data, sponsor engagement, and cloud-free race-day innovation built by VGV for Trackhouse Racing.
- [Holobooth Photo Experience Powered by Flutter](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/flutter-forward-holobooth.md): We partnered with Google and the Tensor Flow team to create a virtual photo booth experience showcasing Flutter and machine learning.
- [Flutter News Toolkit Helps Publishers Ship Faster](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/flutter-news-toolkit.md): VGV provided Design and Engineering Services along with Open Source tools to create Flutter News Toolkit allowing 80% efficiency when publishing a mobile app
- [Building the First Major Flutter macOS App](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/flutter-slides.md): Google tasked us with building a slides desktop application for macOS using Flutter to demonstrate how Flutter Desktop Embedding works.
- [Modernizing Tax e-Filing With Flutter and Cloud](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/h-a-berkheimer.md): We built a best-in-class E-File Flutter app for Pennsylvania’s largest tax authority, H.A. Berkheimer.
- [Hespress Launches News App in 6 Weeks With Flutter](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/hespress-case-study.md): VGV partners with Hespress to create a better mobile experience engaging a larger and more diverse audience in less than two months
- [Interactive Photo Booth Built for Google I/O](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/i-o-photo-booth.md): We partnered with Google to build an interactive photo booth experience for Google I/O 2021 using Flutter and Firebase.
- [Advancing Flutter Game Development With I/O Pinball](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/i-o-pinball.md): VGV and Google teamed up to build the classic Pinball Game using Flutter and Firebase
- [Dow Jones Cuts Development Costs 50% With Flutter](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/marketwatch-stock-market-game.md): VGV helps Dow Jones MarketWatch bring a new Flutter app to market in three months
- [FinTech Platform Doubles Adoption With Flutter](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/nav-increases-user-adoption-and-moves-to-mobile-first-development.md): Our Programming and Design teams worked on updating Flutter Nav’s codebase and trained the in-house team on best practices.
- [NYT Launches First Commercial Flutter Web App](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/new-york-times.md): Working with the incredible teams at the New York Times and Google, we created a multi-platform KENKEN game that showcases the power of Flutter on the web.
- [Slickdeals Doubles Releases With Flutter](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/slickdeals-unifies-around-flutter-development.md): Slickdeals selected Very Good Ventures to help mitigate risk while rebuilding their native app from the ground up in Flutter.
- [Amusement Park Leader Scales With Flutter Apps](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/streamlining-development-improving-efficiency-increasing-revenue-for-an-amusement-park-leader.md): Learn how VGV helped Universal Destinations unify mobile and web, streamline in-park ordering and boost efficiency, revenue and guest experience.
- [High-Performance Unlimited Comics App Launch](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/the-app-with-unlimited-access-to-worldwide-comics.md): Learn how GlobalComix built a scalable Flutter app to offer unlimited access to comics, connect creators and deliver a premium reader experience.
- [5-Star Air Carrier Scales Digital Experience](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/transforming-a-5-star-air-carriers-digital-experience-for-growth.md): See how VGV partnered with JSX to rebuild its Flutter app for scale, ownership and premium digital travel experiences.
- [V1 Sports Doubles Revenue With Flutter Migration](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/v1-sports.md): V1 Sports Teams Up with VGV and RevenueCat for Efficient Cross-Platform Flutter Apps
- [AI-Powered Race Car Performance Optimization](https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/valkyrie-race-team-case-study.md): Leveraging data for growth while building a race car maintenance optimization algorithm and assisting with in-race strategy decisions.

## Resources

- Blog: https://verygood.ventures/blog/
- Blog RSS: https://verygood.ventures/blog/rss.xml
- Success Stories: https://verygood.ventures/success-stories/
- Resources (podcasts, webinars, whitepapers): https://verygood.ventures/resources/