IntexSoft

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.

Adriatic Tech Srl operates in the Fashion & Apparel sector out of Milan, Italy. In my role as VP of Engineering I am responsible for both the technology strategy and day-to-day delivery. We hold our vendors to the same standards our clients hold us to.

What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?

Our IoT Development capability had become the bottleneck for everything. Feature requests, client requirements, internal initiatives — all of them were queuing behind a platform we had patched past its design limits. We needed a proper rebuild.

What services did the company provide for your project?

The core engagement was IoT Development delivery. During discovery they also provided technical consultancy that materially improved our requirements — things we would not have caught until development if they had not raised them. They also took ownership of the third-party integrations that had caused problems in previous projects.

Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?

We had a fixed budget and a non-negotiable timeline. Several vendors told us it could not be done. These were the ones who said it could and explained clearly why. They turned out to be right.

How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?

Well. They pushed back on areas where our requirements were vague or poorly thought through and helped us arrive at something more considered. That consultative approach during discovery is not universal and it made a real difference to the quality of what was built.

How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?

Good. The sprint cadence worked well for our team. Fortnightly reviews gave us the checkpoints we needed. The one friction point — time zone overlap — was resolved after the first sprint and did not reoccur.

Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?

On time and on budget. The estimation accuracy was the part I found most impressive — they had broken the work down thoroughly enough during discovery that the forecast held throughout rather than drifting with every scope conversation. We had one change request, and it was for scope we had added ourselves.

What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?

Hard to isolate perfectly given other business variables, but the metrics attributable to the IoT Development work are meaningful — session time up, conversion up, error rate down, NPS for the digital channel improved by double digits. Account managers say it is coming up positively in client conversations for the first time.

What did you like most about working with this company?

Honestly, the quality of the questions they asked. It sounds simple but good questions at the start of a project make everything easier. Their discovery process was better than any briefing our internal team would have run independently.

Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?

Yes, without reservation. I have already referred two peers in the Fashion & Apparel sector who were facing similar IoT Development challenges. I gave those referrals confidently because I know the experience I described was not a one-off — it reflects how they work.

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.

Catalonia Digital SL operates in the Legal Services sector out of Barcelona, Spain. In my role as Head of Digital Products I am responsible for both the technology strategy and day-to-day delivery. We hold our vendors to the same standards our clients hold us to.

What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?

We had a clear product vision for our next growth phase in the Legal Services market but the Digital Marketing expertise we needed was not something we could recruit for on our timeline. An external specialist was the pragmatic answer.

What services did the company provide for your project?

End-to-end Digital Marketing delivery with particular focus on the data migration and integration workstreams, which carried the highest project risk. A dedicated QA resource was embedded throughout development and they left us with a proper operations runbook at handover.

Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?

The questions they asked during the briefing were the first signal. Vendors who ask precise questions in the sales process tend to apply the same discipline during delivery. The technical proposal was detailed, the team was senior, and the pricing was transparent. All three were factors.

How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?

Extremely well — partly because they had enough Legal Services context to ask the right questions without us having to explain the basics. The functional spec translated our business requirements into technical language with a precision that meant the development phase had almost no clarification cycles.

How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?

Communication was proactive and well-calibrated. Technical detail for the engineering audience, executive summaries for the steering group, and risks raised with proposed mitigations rather than just problem statements. The fortnightly sprint reviews kept our stakeholders informed without pulling them into every working session.

Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?

Delivered on time. We had one week of unplanned delay due to an external API issue that neither party controlled. They communicated it early, proposed a workaround, and the launch date stayed the same. That is how delays should be managed.

What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?

Biggest impact: our internal team is no longer spending three days a week maintaining a platform they hated working with. That productivity is now going into building. The platform change was as much about our engineering team's quality of life as it was about the end user.

What did you like most about working with this company?

Team continuity. The engineers who ran the discovery sessions built the system. That consistency over a five-month engagement is valuable in ways that are hard to articulate until you have worked on projects where it was absent. Every conversation built on the previous ones.

Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?

Yes, without reservation. I have already referred two peers in the Legal Services sector who were facing similar Digital Marketing challenges. I gave those referrals confidently because I know the experience I described was not a one-off — it reflects how they work.

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.

We are a Healthcare company based in Perth, Australia. My role as GM of Technology at Pacific Rim Commerce Group means I sit at the intersection of business goals and technical delivery — which means I care a lot about vendors who can translate between both.

What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?

Our internal team was good but maxed out. The Blockchain Development work needed for this phase of the product required a depth of experience we did not have internally, and could not build in time.

What services did the company provide for your project?

The core engagement was Blockchain Development delivery. During discovery they also provided technical consultancy that materially improved our requirements — things we would not have caught until development if they had not raised them. They also took ownership of the third-party integrations that had caused problems in previous projects.

Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?

A peer in the Healthcare sector had used them for a similar Blockchain Development engagement and recommended them without qualification. Our own due diligence confirmed the picture they described. The combination of domain knowledge and delivery track record made the decision straightforward.

How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?

Very well. The discovery process was more thorough than anything we had experienced before. They challenged requirements that were vague, proposed better alternatives where our thinking was limiting, and produced a spec that our stakeholders agreed was the clearest articulation of the product they had ever seen written down.

How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?

Good. The sprint cadence worked well for our team. Fortnightly reviews gave us the checkpoints we needed. The one friction point — time zone overlap — was resolved after the first sprint and did not reoccur.

Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?

On time. Budget was within the approved ceiling, including one scope addition we introduced mid-project that was quoted fairly and handled in parallel without affecting the main delivery stream. No surprises at invoice stage.

What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?

Biggest impact: our internal team is no longer spending three days a week maintaining a platform they hated working with. That productivity is now going into building. The platform change was as much about our engineering team's quality of life as it was about the end user.

What did you like most about working with this company?

Team continuity. The engineers who ran the discovery sessions built the system. That consistency over a five-month engagement is valuable in ways that are hard to articulate until you have worked on projects where it was absent. Every conversation built on the previous ones.

Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?

Yes, without reservation. I have already referred two peers in the Healthcare sector who were facing similar Blockchain Development challenges. I gave those referrals confidently because I know the experience I described was not a one-off — it reflects how they work.

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.

We are a Food & Beverage company based in Adelaide, Australia. My role as Co-Founder at Ironbark Software Pty Ltd means I sit at the intersection of business goals and technical delivery — which means I care a lot about vendors who can translate between both.

What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?

We had a clear product vision for our next growth phase in the Food & Beverage market but the IoT Development expertise we needed was not something we could recruit for on our timeline. An external specialist was the pragmatic answer.

What services did the company provide for your project?

End-to-end IoT Development delivery with particular focus on the data migration and integration workstreams, which carried the highest project risk. A dedicated QA resource was embedded throughout development and they left us with a proper operations runbook at handover.

Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?

Referral from someone whose technical judgment I trust. The due diligence we ran confirmed what we had been told. The proposal stage was also notably more thorough than the alternatives — they clearly understood the IoT Development requirements better than the other vendors we evaluated.

How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?

Honestly, better than we understood them ourselves going in. The workshops they ran surfaced assumptions we had not examined and caught three requirements that were in direct conflict with each other. Resolving those before development started saved us a significant amount of rework.

How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?

Very strong on the async side, which mattered given the time difference between Adelaide, Australia and the delivery team. Written updates were specific and consistent, decisions got responses the same day, and nothing was dropped across a five-month engagement. That discipline is harder than it looks.

Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?

On time. Budget was within the approved ceiling, including one scope addition we introduced mid-project that was quoted fairly and handled in parallel without affecting the main delivery stream. No surprises at invoice stage.

What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?

Five months post-launch: zero P1 incidents, Core Web Vitals in the green, and two enterprise clients who had been citing platform limitations in renewal conversations have since renewed without raising the issue. The system is doing what we needed it to do.

What did you like most about working with this company?

They kept the business objective visible throughout technical decision-making. I have worked with excellent engineers who lose the strategic thread as complexity increases. This team maintained a clear link between every architectural choice and the outcome we had agreed to achieve.

Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?

Yes, without reservation. I have already referred two peers in the Food & Beverage sector who were facing similar IoT Development challenges. I gave those referrals confidently because I know the experience I described was not a one-off — it reflects how they work.