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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2025 Exceptional Employer Mira Award

SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Tech Employer, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana – SEP has been named Exceptional Employer by TechPoint at the 26th annual Mira Awards. This award recognizes companies that are developing talent through skills-based hiring…

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SEP Strengthens Leadership Team with Key Promotions to Drive Future Growth

Westfield, IN, 06/30/2025 – SEP, a leader in software product development, announces key promotions as part of its long-term leadership strategy. As a 100% employee-owned company, SEP prioritizes succession planning and empowering leaders to ensure sustained success and alignment with its core values. Chris Atkinson, has been promoted to Chief Delivery Officer. With nearly 30 […]

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Learning AI Optimization w/ Factorio 1/x

Who am I? My name is Keith Hanson, I graduated from Rose-Hulman with a degree in Software Engineering in 2021. In my time since graduation I worked extensively with infrastructure as code and on backend systems. Notably what you won’t find in my project background is anything to do with AI. I took 1 course […]

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Meet Our 2025 Summer Interns!

Each summer, we welcome a new class of interns to SEP. These talented students bring fresh perspectives, curiosity, and enthusiasm to their teams—and this year is no exception. Let’s meet the 2025 software engineering and business operations interns, and hear what they’re excited to learn this summer! Adnan Farid Software Engineering Intern School: University […]

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Navigating AI + Team Effectiveness with Llewellyn Falco: Highlights from SEPTalks

At a recent SEP Talks event—“AI, Team Effectiveness & the Future of Software Development”—we hosted a live fireside chat with industry expert Llewellyn Falco. We invited Llewellyn to help us think more deeply about the impact of AI on how we build software, collaborate, and grow as teams. What followed was a series of sharp […]

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SEP Appoints Marty Draper as Vice President of IT, Security, and Compliance

WESTFIELD, IN, June 4, 2025 – SEP, a leading software product design and development firm, announces the appointment of Marty Draper as Vice President of IT, Security, and Compliance. This newly created role highlights SEP’s commitment to strengthening its foundation in technological advancement, data security, and regulatory practices. The addition of Draper positions SEP to […]

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Basics of Retrieval Augmented Generative (RAG) Systems

Lately, we’ve been fielding a lot of interest in custom Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. And honestly, it’s easy to see why. RAG systems are incredibly flexible tools for injecting up-to-date, domain-specific knowledge into AI responses for answering questions, generating content, analyzing internal data, or any other task that’s primarily completed by producing an artifact. […]

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Intentional AI: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere these days: headlines, investor decks, your last team meeting, and dinner conversations. Just because AI is hot doesn’t mean it’s well understood. Too often, people reach for AI like it’s duct tape: a fix-all solution for any digital dilemma. But like duct tape, AI has its limits. Some problems need glue, […]

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SEP Recognized as Top Workplace in Central Indiana for 2025

Westfield, IN – May 12, 2025 – SEP, a top software development firm based in Westfield, Indiana, has once again been awarded the first-place honor in Central Indiana’s Top Workplaces. This year, SEP captured the top spot in the Midsize Companies category based exclusively on employee feedback collected through a third-party. The anonymous survey is […]

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How AI, Design, and Creativity Landed Me 2 Weeks of ClusterTruck Lunches

Some contests are worth more than the prize, and this was one of them. Indy Design Week recently hosted a poster competition to help ClusterTruck revamp their promotional flyers for Dine to Donate events. The prize? Two weeks of free ClusterTruck lunches. The challenge? Taking a bland Illustrator template and transforming it into a design […]

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