No-code document generation and assembly platform Kim has opened an IT development centre in Cancun, which is expected to grow to around 20 people during 2023. Kim’s chief technology officer Richard Yawn is already based in the Mexican city.
Speaking to Legal IT Insider about the new office opening, Kim’s founder, Karl Chapman, said: “The Cancun office will have mixture of staff from IT developers to project managers and business analysts. Put in the context of our new Atlanta office, the existing New Jersey office and the hire of Melody Easton and Sam Jefferies, it’s all part of scaling the business up.”
Kim hired Easton and Jefferies from Fliplet just this month and announced the opening of the new Atlanta office at the end of August.
Chapman says: “Historically we have been very developer led with no business development capacity but as we grow in maturity, we’re now investing heavily in business development and that’s already showing signs of accelerating our growth.”
According to Chapman, the new Cancun development center will significantly enhance Kim’s development capacity and provide additional resource pools to draw from alongside the existing teams in the US and the UK.
Chapman, who sold Riverview Law to EY in 2018, said: “We’re trying to get ahead of the curve and support existing customers and the new ones coming on board now and in the next 12 months, and making sure that we’re ahead on our R&D.”
Having established strong foundations with blue chip Fortune 500 companies, Kim is now expanding out from its enterprise roots to offer SaaS product Kim Document as a standalone offering to small and medium sized businesses. Chapman said: “Kim Document allows us to expand materially our market opportunity. It’s also providing an additional entry point to enterprise customers, showing them the art of the possible.”
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