Our History
TAGE has been building for the web since 1994. Here is how we got here.
2018–2020
Continued development of futures trading portfolio management tools for Hawksbill Capital Management.
Built a live data tracking platform for Compressor Energy, LLC.
2015–2017
Partnered with Kaiser Permanente to run a twelve-week health initiative for the United States Patent and Trademark Office using our Fitness Journal platform.
Delivered a health and fitness challenge for the DC Government Department of Human Resources.
Designed and built a new website and e-learning platform for Blue-U Corporate Defense Seminars.
2014
Deepened work with financial clients, insurance companies, and federal agencies while preparing the next generation of Fitness Journal for relaunch.
2013
Successfully transitioned our infrastructure to a cloud-based environment. Continued development on next-generation health and wellness tools and prepared new federal challenge programs for early 2014.
2012
Focused on advanced online collaboration and analysis tools for financial data, incorporating both real-time and historical information for our trading clients. This platform continues to evolve today.
2011
Launched a platform for the nonprofit End Slavery Now (now maintained by the Cincinnati Museum of History), including a college campus program called The Free Project and tools designed to help NGOs share critical information.
2010
Expanded our Fitness Journal platform to serve additional federal accounts, including Naval Sea Systems Command. Continued close partnerships with Kaiser Permanente and our financial clients.
2009
Began building health and wellness challenge programs for federal agencies including the Department of Energy, the FCC, the EPA, and the Superior Court System.
Relocated to the East Coast, establishing a new office in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Team members on the West Coast maintained our physical presence for client meetings and data center access on both sides of the country.
2008
Expanded our Kaiser Permanente partnership to include East Coast clients such as the Montgomery County Public School System in Maryland. Released programs for the California State Games and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Opened a second colocation facility in Bedford, New Hampshire for redundant operations and failover.
2007
Built a custom health platform for the United States Marine Corps in partnership with JWT, featuring over eighty animations and a complete visual integration with the marines.com website.
2006
Partnered with Kaiser Permanente to deliver a pilot health and wellness challenge for the United States Postal Service.
2005
Began work with BlueCross BlueShield on an employee health and wellness incentive platform. We continue to operate and maintain this system today.
2004
Launched Fitness Journal, our first standalone SaaS product. This platform enabled us to build customized health and wellness programs for some of the largest companies and federal agencies in the country, and expanded our expertise in e-learning into the health and wellness space.
2003
Started development on a web-based futures and commodities trading portfolio management platform, enabling multiple traders to share real-time data and analysis. We continue to maintain and evolve this system today.
2002
Established an office and our first leased colocation cabinet at the Sonic.net data center in Santa Rosa, California.
1999
Built a range of e-commerce platforms, inventory management systems, and franchise management websites.
1998
Developed and launched one of the first online traffic schools in the nation, working extensively on industry standards for online testing and walk-in testing centers.
1997
Began designing e-learning systems with large-scale test and content databases for training and education platforms.
1996
Built one of the first online mortgage applications, including direct integration with a desktop underwriting system and a broker network that we helped establish and manage. Also registered tage.com—we are the only company that has ever owned this domain.
1995
Partnered with Waite Group Press to convert over one hundred thousand pages of published books into interactive digital content for Macmillan Publishing.
1994
TAGE was founded by Christopher Watson in Anchorage, Alaska. Before long, the company relocated to a small office on 2nd Street in Santa Rosa, California, where we assembled our first development team and took on our earliest web clients.
The web was just starting to come alive in the early nineties, and we quickly built relationships with Northern California companies looking to carve out their own corner of the internet.