7Devs

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO of Quos.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Indoor Air Quality monitoring

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire 7Devs to accomplish?

Develop frontend of our main real-time platform

SOLUTION

How did you find 7Devs?

Mailing

Why did you select 7Devs over others?

• Pricing fits our budget
• Great culture fit
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from 7Devs were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

• Driving full FrontEnd project 
• Suggest backend modification 
• Communicate in English with different company teams 
• Full functionality testing

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Planning and specifications sheets were updated weekly with teams and project leader. Progression was regularly shown by screen sharing.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

The project management was great, with good communication with the project leader. Some delays are caused by our teams. When delays, arrangements were made to put more people from 7dev to meet original planning.

What was your primary form of communication with 7Devs?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

A really good follow-up with high technical skills. Pricing is perfect with totally implicated teams.

Are there any areas for improvement or something 7Devs could have done differently?

No

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Senior Director of Natural Factors

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Global manufacturer of vitamins, minerals and supplements.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire 7Devs to accomplish?

• Customized e-commerce experience
• Best in class user experience
• Bug-free customer experience

SOLUTION

How did you find 7Devs?

Referral

Why did you select 7Devs over others?

• Great culture fit
• Referred to me

How many teammates from 7Devs were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

We required 7Devs to handle the entire development process, including project management, front-end development, back-end development, custom Shopify integrations, QA, and UAT.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• Excellent customer feedback
• bug-free experience
• excellent site speed an stability

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

7Devs project management is fantastic. They are responsive, organized, and very communicative. At critical moments in the project, they organized daily meetings to review progress. They raise issues at appropriate times, and the project managers have a deep understanding of web development and can talk to us in both complex and simple terminology.

What was your primary form of communication with 7Devs?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

At the end of the day, they produce very high-quality, stable, bug-free work. They are very easy to communicate with and they can scale their teams quickly and as needed. They were very flexible and understood how the scope and priorities could change throughout a project.

Are there any areas for improvement or something 7Devs could have done differently?

They have completely met and often exceeded our expectations.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of Pillar Financial Technologies

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Pillar is a NeoBank for Canadian Entrepreneurs

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire 7Devs to accomplish?

• Internal administration and customer success dashboard and portal
• Email parsing and storage in a database

SOLUTION

How did you find 7Devs?

Referral

Why did you select 7Devs over others?

• High ratings
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

What was the size of 7Devs’s team?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Deliver a Retool based frontend connecting to GraphQL and REST Backend APIs using Oauth2 authentication. Using a low-code email parsing service, parse CSV attached to emails and deliver the results to a database via webhooks and SQS queues on AWS using serverless.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• Reduced costs of email parsing by a factor of 10
• Enhanced productivity of CS team by 2x

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

They were super flexible and always responsive on slack. They were always able to find a solution and work independently.

What was your primary form of communication with 7Devs?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Very flexible and fast

Are there any areas for improvement or something 7Devs could have done differently?

None

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the COO of FRAMEN

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Framen.com is a platform that allows brands to show their ads on screens in different locations. They can choose where, when and how often they want their ads to appear. Framen.com works with screen managers who make their screens available for advertising.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire 7Devs to accomplish?

• Website Developement & UI/UX Design

SOLUTION

How did you find 7Devs?

Online Search, Referral, Other

Why did you select 7Devs over others?

Great culture fit, Good value for cost, Referred to me, Company values aligned

What was the size of 7Devs’s team?

2-5 Employees

What was your primary form of communication with 7Devs?

Virtual Meeting

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Build a complete new website with its own CRM for non-dev teams to change contents, as well as maintainance and further development of it. Product Design and UX for our client-facing dashboard. Refactoring of the views and establishing a design system.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• Quality of outcome
• Independentness

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Mostly yes, PM was done by us internally and we have daily interactions

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The team is professional and thinks fast, which makes for easy communication.

Are there any areas for improvement or something 7Devs could have done differently?

Availability of resources on a long-term period.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I lead a number of the projects that contribute to our product suite at a major telecommunications company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire 7Devs?

Hired 7Devs to design a new product that we're concepting.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

Searched and received bids on Upwork.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

I sent wireframes to 7devs. We had a zoom call to discuss the wireframes. They delivered initial versions. We did a couple rounds of feedback and the project was complete. Subsequently, I've gone back to 7devs to ask for additional components to be designed using the same process.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

Two: designer and project manager.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Just a fantastic result. Smart work, good questions, good decisions where there was no direction. And a beautiful end result. I wouldn't be filling out all of these forms on clutch (holy forms!) if it wasn't fantastic.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Really smooth.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The team was easy to work with and we were very impressed with their high-quality deliverables. And smart decisions in the face of ambiguity. It's that last point that really makes a project move fast... when the design team can make the right decision without having everything spelled out.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Nope.