The Smartest Way to Unlock the Power of Text Messaging

The fastest, easiest way to input data.

Even people who hate technology love texting. It's fast, easy, and ubiquitous. Side Nerd® replaces almost any native app, website, or form-based workflow with a textable contact number.

Building and managing custom software or chat bots is time-consuming and expensive, and often results in low utilization due to a lack-luster end-user experience. Out-of-the-box software may be faster and cheaper, but usually only solves part of the buisiness problem, so you need additional software, expensive professional services, training, and manual processes to fill the gap.

Instead, Side Nerd® lets you unlock frictionless adoption, real time data capture, and instant response, fully customized, and at a fraction of the cost and time of alternitives.

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"Very easy."

Side Nerd’s AI-powered SMS workflows let end users instantly share data, update tasks, and get answers by sending a simple text.

1.

Add Contact

End users access any Side Nerd™ App through a defined phone number.

2.

Track, Request, or Report

Text a request or simple description of your activities or events.

3.

Instant Access Links

Access visual reports and key resources via a response link.

SMS App Marketplace

From streamlining field service reports to simplifying volunteer check-ins, Side Nerd’s text-based workflows adapt to countless scenarios. Each example below highlights the core features—templated replies, AI parsing, and seamless data integrations—in action. Whether you’re managing contractors, volunteers, or sales reps, these demonstrations show how easy it is to replace workflows with a quick text message.
Ither

A customizable volunteer & donation tracking app for nonprofit and corporate social impact, expanding your positive impact in the community.

Employee Connector

Unify your organization’s documents, portals, databases, links, and resources into one secure, branded mobile app—fully accessible via SMS.

Link Lead

A customizable solution for event marketers and BD teams, boosting revenue through faster, more consistent follow-ups.

Services and Features
Discovery & Workflow Definition: We begin with a collaborative conversation to identify your exact data and workflow requirements. Together, we define an extraction schema that ensures every text-based interaction captures the right information.
Advanced Language Parsing: Side Nerd’s primary models, trained on thousands of real messages across at least ten distinct use cases, deliver unmatched accuracy in extracting actionable data from natural-language texts, regardless of complexity or volume.
Templated Responses and Searchable Context: Our platform supports custom, brand-aligned responses that dynamically adapt to user inputs and reference contextual data for each interaction. The system quickly surfaces relevant information, ensuring every communication is on-point, consistent, and effortless for end users.
Hosted Interfaces, Admin Tools, & APIs: Outsource your user-facing SMS interface. When required for your workflow, we integrate seamlessly with your existing SaaS platform backend or third-party systems. On top of providing your SMS layer, we build custom:
- analytics dashboards
- admin portals
- message channel APIs
- data APIs
This all-in-one approach removes complexity, streamlines deployment, and maintains reliability at scale.
Pricing & Deployment Timeline: Our pricing combines hourly rates for custom development with a monthly tiered subscription. Simple systems can launch in less than a day, while more advanced workflows typically roll out within two to four weeks.

Case Study: Volunteer Tracking

Before Ither, the Barrier Island Free Medical Clinic relied on a cumbersome, paper-based system for logging volunteer hours.

Ither by Side Nerd Apps allows volunteers to log hours in natural language via text message, enabling real-time, digital tracking in a way described as "easy to use" and "very user friendly" by the volunteers.

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Older man and younger woman looking at a cell phone together

"I am LOVING THIS WAY OF TRACKING!!! I think this will be the first time I’ve ever gotten my tracker submitted on time! And it was so easy to use October’s report when preparing my recent court report."

Debbie McPhillips
Court Appointed Special Advocate Volunteer, Piedmont CASA
re: Ither for Organizations (with advanced customization)

"Some of our volunteers were nervous about the change, fearful of relying on this new technology, but with the customized training videos by Emily and the ability to generate a customized log of their hours within any time frame, our volunteers have all embraced the technology, and we have fully implemented the Ither platform!"

Melissa Frank
Executive Director, Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic
re: Ither for Organizations

"[Our old processes] seem drastically medieval compared to what we're able to do today... There's just no comparison of the value or the time commitment after this adoption."

Dr. David Peterseim
Medical Director, Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic
re: Ither for Organizations

"The responses the app sends to the volunteers are really awesome and actually really encouraging. The volunteers love it because it reflects that they are doing amazing work and what they are doing is impactful and important."

Megan Ferronetti
Clinic Manager, Barrier Island Free Medical Clinic
re: Ither for Organizations

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