KC development firm lands app project for Southwest Airlines

A Kansas City-based development company has seen their business take off after landing of one of the country’s biggest airline carriers. Aware3—which helps community-minded organizations drive traffic and user engagement through mobile platforms—recently created an event-related app for Southwest Airlines …

A Kansas City-based development company has seen their business take off after landing of one of the country’s biggest airline carriers.

Aware3—which helps community-minded organizations drive traffic and user engagement through mobile platforms—recently created an event-related app for Southwest Airlines.

After an introduction to digital marking agency VML, the Aware3 team began working with the group and recently received a call about an opportunity to build an app. 

“VML’s mobile lead gave us a call and said, ‘We have a project we think you could help us on,’” Aware3 co-founder Tony Caudill told Silicon Prairie News. “That project was building this app for Southwest.” 

The app Aware3 created functioned as part digital scavenger hunt, part networking and engagement enhancer for Southwest’s corporate conference.

Caudill and co-founder Joe Terry started Aware3 about three years ago after a mobile app they built for a friend was a success. The company also applied to Digital Sandbox KC and received funding earlier this year.  

“We were on the fence about spending the time and energy to apply,” Caudill said. “In hindsight, we’re absolutely glad we did.”

After that, they created an app for a local church and found the under-served community loved having a way to interact with its members. Since then they’ve helped create mobile apps for a wide array of community organizations, including a network of churches connected to Church Community Builder.

“We really focused in on the church space,” Caudill said. “We found a really big gap there and had a way to help them do Sunday better.” 

Most recently the Aware3 team used a back-end system similar to the Southwest app’s to place QR codes on bunnies during an Easter event in Kansas City. 

This story is part of the AIM Archive

This story is part of the AIM Institute Archive on Silicon Prairie News. AIM gifted SPN to the Nebraska Journalism Trust in January 2023. Learn more about SPN’s origin »

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