Description

Hypergrove Engineering, Inc. was founded in October 1999 by John McClure, a 25-year veteran in database systems design and product development, and an industry expert in applications of the Extensible Markup Language (XML).  John is past chair of the Legal Dictionary Workgroup and past co-chair of the Legal Contracts Workgroup within LegalXML.org, a group creating XML schema for the legal profession in general, and the court system in particular.  His vision of interweaving the execution of real estate contracts with project management software both on and off the Web is the focus of Hypergrove's mission -- to build XML-based software solutions that cross-serve the real estate and legal communities.

Design Work

Hypergrove has been employed by firms and organizations in both the residential and commercial real estate sectors.  The core of our work has been designing an XML namespace for commercial real estate investors, owners, managers, and vendors. See Software Development, for more details about our work for the Data Consortium.  Learn more about the Data Consortium Namespace (DCN) on their website: www.dataconsortium.org.

Product Development

Hypergrove Engineering is also developing an XML-based software product, InterWiki Explorer, that utilizes the Legal-RDF namespace  to warehouse, organize, analyze and report real estate-related information on the Microsoft desktop. Currently, real estate professionals must turn to separate software applications to perform required real estate functions – for example, property management software, accounting software, or reporting software. Information collected from various sources and in various formats can’t easily be aggregated.  Many times, information must be re-entered manually to produce one workable database, a process that invites errors. Hypergrove's InterWiki Explorer will provide integrated real estate functions within Microsoft Windows, the software environment in which most real estate professionals operate most of the time, and it will do so with data from various sources and formats.

Hypergrove is seeking investment capital to complete product development and marketing. Interested investors who would like to see a business plan should contact John McClure.

Location

Hypergrove is located in Port Townsend, Washington, a historic Victorian seaport village about 2 hours by ferry and car west of Seattle on the Olympic Peninsula.  See our Links page for Port Townsend information and photos.