Helpful Best Practices

FlightDeck's Best Practices help you create better reading experiences. Get feedback on potential issues that impact the quality of your EPUB file. [more]

Power at Your Fingertips, No Coding Required

Not a developer? Not a problem! Anyone can use FlightDeck and benefit from the power it provides to the QA process. The output is human-readable, and we give examples and tips for hard-to-understand errors. Every report can be exported as a PDF, allowing you to easily pass along the output to your development team or conversion vendor.

Who are we?

FlightDeck is developed and maintained by the the team at Firebrand Technologies. The team has many decades of combined eBook development experience, and FlightDeck draws on the breadth of that experience.

Derek Kurth, the lead software architect on the FlightDeck project, has a long history with eBook development. Derek has a bachelor's in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University and a master's in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a software developer in the publishing space since 2003, developing tools and processes to create and sell eBook files more efficiently.

Joshua Tallent, the Director of Sales and Education at Firebrand, has been an eBook developer, teacher, and quality advocate since 2002. He serves on multiple industry committees and working groups and teaches at industry conferences year-round.