With expertise in finance, technology management, software engineering, systems engineering, and metrics, Silverthread was originally launched to address commercialization of several years of research undertaken by the principals while at MIT and Harvard Business School developing methods to measure software design quality and its business and financial impact. With facilities in Boston MA and Reno, NV., the leadership team has led large development programs, spearheaded refactoring efforts and quality improvement initiatives, published several books, authored many articles, and consulted for various Fortune 500 firms. Offering visualization and analytic tools develped by the firm, Silverthread systematically explores and addresses complexity in large-scale software systems enabling users to make better decisions by providing them tools to visualize and analyze their systems and to quantify - in financial terms - project cost and risk. Silverthread has also developed tools and techniques to help organizations improve large codebases, track improvement, and measure improvement in business outcomes