Ahex Technologies

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

In the past, I was a co-founder of Siri and sold the company to Apple. I started three other companies including Viv Labs, which was sold to Samsung; Change.org, which is the world’s largest petition platform for good; and Sentient Technologies, an AI company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Ahex Technologies Pvt. Ltd.?

I needed someone with frontend and backend web expertise, as well as some graphic design.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

I’ve done a few different projects with Ahex. I required help outside of my normal business work and mainly needed frontend web skills with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. For backend skills, I needed Python and MongoDB. I’ve also done a smaller project with them that involved building an Apple Watch application using Objective-C.

What is the team composition?

Their co-founder was my main point of contact. There was a second engineer involved as needed.

How did you come to work with Ahex Technologies Pvt. Ltd.?

They were recommended by a friend that I used to work with at Siri. He said that whenever he wanted to get a perfect translation from a design to HTML and CSS, he would use Ahex Technologies and that they could do it quickly and cheaply.

How much have you invested with them?

I’ve spent over $15,000 with them so far.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in June 2016 and the collaboration is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

I’ve been working on several different projects that are potential startup companies, and though none of them are released yet, I’m very satisfied with our collaboration. Their communication skills have been excellent and the quality of the software has been strong.

How did Ahex Technologies Pvt. Ltd. perform from a project management standpoint?

They’ve done a good job. I’ve asked them for proposals and budget estimates and they’ve met them pretty accurately. Overall, I’ve gotten excellent value in terms of quality for cost. We use Skype almost exclusively to communicate.

What did you find most impressive about them?

I’ve gotten really high-quality web and software engineering capabilities and I’m extremely happy with the price that I’m paying.

Are there any areas they could improve?

They’re based in India, so there’s a time difference. There are only certain periods of the day when I can communicate with them, but it hasn’t been an issue.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

If you have a web or mobile project and particularly need frontend skills, I strongly recommend them.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

We're a cybersecurity firm, headquartered in Mumbai and with a second office in San Francisco. We provide enterprise security products for mitigating attacks. I'm the CTO.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Ahex Technologies?

We approached them regarding web development for our internal tools.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

They've provided web and app developing, along with cloud solutions, including internal tools and products offered by our company. They provided HTML, CSS, Python development. They have also helped us with work concerning Amazon Web Services (AWS), like setting up cloud servers.

Our first project was a web application, for which they provided development and UI/UX design from scratch. The application was used by managers for curated news, as well as for determining whether their emails had been compromised. The application also scanned the dark web to collect information.

They're currently working on web and mobile applications. We've signed a contract through which we're making updates every month, fixing bugs, and adding new features. In terms of cloud services, they’ve worked on EC2 database migrations and Lambda application development.

What is the team composition?

They have a very good team. They assigned different teams for UI/UX, coding, and troubleshooting. Ajeet (Co-Founder, Ahex Technologies) was in touch with me and coordinated the team members.

How did you come to work with Ahex Technologies?

I met Ajeet at a conference, where we started chatting. I was looking for an organization that could help us with technology as we didn’t have an in-house team. We wanted to focus on cybersecurity, which was our main skill set. I gave their team a small project and was impressed by their work. They produced high-quality work, so I started sharing more projects with them.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with them in 2016 and have an ongoing collaboration. We've now worked on 5–6 internal projects with them.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

They always deliver quality projects and products. Ajeet remains engaged with the team and is focused on making the customer happy.

I needed to engage the team a lot in the beginning, but after a few weeks, they learned how things needed to be done. I only needed to engage them once or twice per week from that point. They can work through and make modifications by themselves, which I like—I can talk to them about UI/UX, app design, and web applications.

How did Ahex Technologies perform from a project management standpoint?

They stand out in terms of the update process with the client. They give me updates on a weekly basis, during a call including the engineers. They outline our progress up to that point, explain the reason for any delays we might have had, and give estimates for our recovery time. They provide regular updates through a project management tool. We also use Skype for video calls.

What did you find most impressive about them?

I’ve been impressed with the work process of the team. They typically deliver projects before the deadlines and they do good-quality work.

Are there any areas they could improve?

Not right now. They're doing brilliantly at the moment.

Do you have any advice for future clients of theirs?

They need to focus more on branding and online. They need to engage in more activities, such as this review, in order to get genuine feedback.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

 I am the Founder/CEO of a legal company 

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Legal tech solution for common man and corporates

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Ahex Technologies to accomplish?

• LLM pipeline for extraction & summarization
• Design of databases
• Integration with front end website

SOLUTION

How did you find Ahex Technologies?

Referral

Why did you select Ahex Technologies over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Ahex Technologies were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

Work was about data extraction from large corpus of court documents in India using large language models, summarizing and then adding that into a RDMS (postgres). It was also on writing various extraction mechanisms to ensure data extracted is valid and no hallucination is happening in extracted/summarized data. Post that it was about creation of a vector similarity search to find similar court cases.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

It was a complicated project that did not really have any parallels in their line of work. However, I started getting confidence when I spoke to their lead, given his knowledge, and then later when I gave a small project where they could prove themselves on it. Post that, success was measured based on the key deliverables agreed on weekly calls within the stipulated time (barring unexpected challenges, which I was okay as long as they kept me in the loop).

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

Initially started with small project to get confidence in their work. The initial brief was shared, and then that was followed up with more work. The medium of communication was weekly calls, where the status of the previous week and work for the next week were discussed. There were also some shared Excel sheets that were created where progress was added by them daily. We were also in touch over WhatsApp, there was a group created with developers and the lead for any on-the-fly communication, and if needed, we got on a quick conference call on WhatsApp itself a few times.

What was your primary form of communication with Ahex Technologies?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Their commitment to work, they did not take any work lightly. If I gave some expectations which were beyond their scope, they would say so but at same time be willing to push their team to try. In some cases I was able to get work from them that they initially believed wasn't possible, in other cases they tried but didn't succeed (which was okay).

I also liked that they were professional, maintained transparency on their work, and kept me in the loop on important decisions. It was a good cultural fit as well.

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

Yes, in some cases I had to directly interact with some junior developers but found they do not have good communication skills and so I had to ask them to involve the lead or better structure their thoughts via chatgpt before they share with me.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Founder & CEO of K'ept Health

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Healthcare telehealth and data/analytics company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Ahex Technologies to accomplish?

• Develop mobile app and admin portal

SOLUTION

How did you find Ahex Technologies?

LinkedIn

Why did you select Ahex Technologies over others?

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

How many teammates from Ahex Technologies were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

The project was to develop a native app for iOS and Android while also building an admin portal for the team to seamlessly update important features.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Meeting milestone deadlines
• Responsiveness and Communication
• Proactiveness
• Quality of product

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

The team was very responsive and communicated expectations, needs, and changes. They also responded to emails within 24-48 depending on the task being completed and were able to meet weekly. In addition, when a feature needed to be changed or added, the team provided the best ways to move forward.

What was your primary form of communication with Ahex Technologies?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Their proactiveness in helping create better features, improve the system functionally, and ability to be agile with the changing needs of a startup on top of the high quality of work exceeded expectations.

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

Allocated more time for more testing.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am an Executive at Data Island

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Data Science and consulting.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Ahex Technologies to accomplish?

• Build a dashboard

SOLUTION

How did you find Ahex Technologies?

Online Search

Why did you select Ahex Technologies over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget

How many teammates from Ahex Technologies were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

I hired Ahex to create a dashboard of analytics for my company.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Number of users

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

Amazing work from Ahex. His years of experience are definitely worth all the money. We had to develop a dashboard and Maninder was very fast and responsive.

What was your primary form of communication with Ahex Technologies?

Email or Messaging App

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

Their fast job at high efficiency was impressive.

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

No

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am Founder & CEO of Techno Tackle Software Solutions

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Ahex Technologies ?

Required a Senior Angular developer for contract for a long term Fintech client.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Based on the interview performance of the resource in client interviews and performance in probation period

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

Its a Fintech, loan management system. Cant describe more due to NDAs

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

One resource, Sonali

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

End client is happy and contract is going on for 8th month as I write this

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Pretty satisfactory

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

Good support

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

NA

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the owner of a technology company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Ahex Technologies , and what were your goals?

We needed someone with good experience on angular

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We chose this vendor based on the skill sets they have.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

The team helped us build complex UI components.

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

1 angular expert

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The vendor’s team helped us build robust and scalable UI.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

We have daily standup and the tools we used slack, git, Jira

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

They work in a very professional manner

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

NA

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I was the President of an IT services firm, a software development company based in the USA.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Ahex Technologies , and what were your goals?

I first hired to develop a backend REST services for our client's IoT product, Due to the small size of our internal development team and the lack of resources, we could not develop this product in the timeframe the business demanded. We approached Ahex and asked them to investigate if they could complete the project within the budget and timeframe.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We reviewed their website and reviews online before contacting them to start initial conversations. We asked to talk to previous customers to find out if they were a reliable development partner. We decided to go with Ahex because their references were very good and they were by far the most responsive and professional company out of all being considered.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

We supplied them with a very detailed scope. We also had a weekly review meeting with Ahex tech team. Tech Stack: PHP, AWS, MySQL

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

Their team consists of six Sr. developers and one Project Lead.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

They delivered a high-quality product. We were able to launch the project as per the schedule.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

The project management was great. We used to communicate via WhatsApp and weekly review meetings.

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

Their ability to quickly overcome the most complicated technical obstacles is a rare talent.

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

I am impressed with their work. I suggest improving their tech documentation.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

MobiSprint is a Software development and IT consulting company. We are into both services and products. I head Global Sales for MobiSprint.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Ahex Technologies ?

Staff Augmentation for a project

SOLUTION

How did you select this agency and what were the deciding factors?

Response timeliness, quality of candidates and overall cost

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

This is a straightforward staff augmentation project where we had taken 5 resources from Ahex for a period of 12 months+

Describe the recruitment process in detail.

The selection process consisted of three rounds of technical interviews with the candidates.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project was executed successfully and on time. The main credit goes to the sincerity and commitment towards work from every team member involved. Developers from Ahex were very responsible in execution of task and very prompt.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The engagement was successful and worked well.

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

Clear communication, competitive pricing and high-level priority towards customer satisfaction

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

I am very glad that I came across Ahex Technologies. They have the right mindset of providing superior service to clients. Employees at Ahex are very good and we would love to work with them on multiple opportunities in the future.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Chief Product Officer.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Ahex Technologies ?

This was for creating a new website and transferring data from a old site.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Past work, and team were very professional.

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

We 3 design stages and bi-weekly touch base to review progress and approval.

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

One project manager.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

They did a great job following directions and meeting deadlines.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

It was very effective. There was no issue, even with the time zone differences.

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

Professional and knowledgeable fast working staff.

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

None. They were great.