Koreisma Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2000. What began as a consulting practice in the video game industry pivoted within a few years to government health care IT — where it has remained, deepened, and grown ever since.
Koreisma is a coined word in two parts. Kore means core, or essence. isma is taken from charisma — from the Greek khárisma (κάρισμα), meaning “favor” or “divine gift,” derived from kháris: grace, kindness.
In its earliest English use, charisma had a strictly theological meaning: a gift or power bestowed by the Holy Spirit, like prophecy or healing. You can still see this religious sense preserved in the word “charismatic” when applied to certain Christian movements.
The modern secular meaning — personal magnetism, compelling charm — is more recent. It was popularized in the early twentieth century by the German sociologist Max Weber, who used “charismatic authority” to describe leaders whose power came from their perceived extraordinary qualities rather than from tradition or legal structures. From there the word filtered into everyday English by the 1950s and 60s, often in discussions of political figures like John F. Kennedy.
Joined together, Kore·isma names the goal of the firm: to bring the core of that quality — the gift, the magnetism, the grace — into the world. The wordmark places a small accent between the two halves so that the syllable break is visible, and so that the core sits, literally, at the center.
Koreisma exists to bring good things into the world — through the consulting we deliver to the largest contractors in U.S. government health care IT, through the software products we design and ship of our own, and through the technology and philanthropy we choose to support.
We do not chase trends, headcount, or scale for its own sake. The work itself, done well, is the goal.
Three practices anchor what we offer: System Integration Architecture for the disparate systems inside a health care IT system of systems; Enterprise Architecture for organizations operating under federal compliance, procurement, and oversight; and Software Design and Development for the custom software those organizations need built to last.
Alongside the consulting, we design and ship our own software products — both to keep our practitioners sharp and to bring useful tools into the world that we control end to end.