BEON.tech

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Founder and CEO of CSR Innovations. We market a natural supplement effective in the prevention and treatment of cold sores, under the brand name CSoreX.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire BEON Tech Studio, and what were your goals?

We required customization of a subscription back-end to accommodate a 30-day free trial offer.

SOLUTION

How did you select BEON Tech Studio and what were the deciding factors?

A former colleague referred me to BEON.

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

We use a Shopify template for our website, with a subscription app provided by Bold Commerce. The subscription app does not have the capability of offering a free trial, but BEON was able to build a custom workaround to sequence the customer order sequencing in alignment with the terms of our free trial offer.

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

Two engineers, one in a project coordinator function, and the other performing the actual development work.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

BEON delivered the required functionality in a timely manner, and were diligent in testing and validating the accuracy of the functionality. They were helpful,  responsive at all times, and exceeded the expectations. I fully expect to engage BEON in future projects.

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

We communicated by phone and (primarily) email. BEON communicated well, keeping me in the loop at all times in terms of progress and timing.

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

BEON impressed me with their commitment to and ownership of the project, as though they were partnering with me to find the best solution, versus just delivering the minimum functionality.

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

No. I was very pleased with my entire experience of BEON, and expect to engage them again on future projects.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CEO of a software company. We are a startup building an application called Stalgia, a collaborative journaling platform for people who want to share their journey with others.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with BEON Tech Studio?

We hired BEON Tech Studio to develop our MVP.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Since we didn’t have the in-house capabilities to create our mobile app, BEON Tech Studio helped us from the brainstorming stage up to the product implementation stage. It was us who defined the scope, and their team sped up the process after the first ticket.

We started by putting our designs together and sending these to them for review. After that, they collated our ideas and created the final prototype. We had a freelancer who worked on the actual design of the MVP, but we still needed BEON Tech Studio’s expertise to review the design and make suggestions when it was necessary. They then proceeded to develop an Android and iOS-enabled app, our startup’s MVP.

What is the team composition?

We mainly worked with Damian (Co-Founder), Su Veng (Project Manager), and two app developers. Additionally, their design team assisted us in reviewing our freelancer’s work.

How did you come to work with BEON Tech Studio?

One of our mentors introduced BEON Tech Studio to us during an incubation program at Colgate University. We spoke with a few other companies, but their team really stood out. We decided to work with them because their services were reasonably priced, and they had a great working culture.

How much have you invested with them?

We spent about $60,000–$70,000 in total. Over the course of the project, we paid their developers $6,500 per month.

What is the status of this engagement?

The project ran from September 2020–March 2021.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

BEON Tech Studio built the app according to our preferences — their performance met our company’s expectations. Since they executed what we needed, the members of our internal team, including my co-founder, were simply impressed. The product worked well and there weren’t a lot of issues to fix before its release.

How did BEON Tech Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

The communication was fantastic. We mainly used Slack to reach out to their team. BEON Tech Studio’s turnaround time was generally good, and they were helpful in speeding up the entire development process.

Su Veng was an effective project manager — he worked as one of our team members. He was really sharp, and he responded promptly whenever there were areas that we needed them to fix.

What did you find most impressive about them?

We were a startup with sparse members, and this was really our first attempt at creating our own product. BEON Tech Studio shared their expertise and experiences with us — they simply guided us throughout this project. We thought it was unique and exemplary for a company to go above and beyond just to help beginners like us.

Are there any areas they could improve?

I really couldn’t think of anything off the top of my head. Everything was really great.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Take the time in making sure that your values align with theirs. People might skip over that just to get results right away, but it’s an important aspect. We communicated this well with BEON Tech Studio’s team, and we were happy that they shared the same enthusiasm for our ideas.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I am the webmaster and tech advisor for a vehicle recovery company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with BEON Tech Studio?

Our company has training components, hardware components, and we wanted to add a third component — an app. We previously developed the app through a developer whose relationship soured, so when we needed to update the app we looked for a new developer.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

There was no vehicle recovery app on the market. We developed a pay calculator that calculates the total resistance for recovering a vehicle. We wanted to expand the app to include a customizable tool for vehicle recovery with training.

We shipped what we had code-wise, but I think they dismissed it before they could really develop it. They essentially started the project from scratch. The key features that they developed are that you can input the gradient that your vehicle is on to the degree, the angle, the number of wheels that are stuck, the weight of the vehicle, the terrain type, the weather, and more. It’ll give an output on the recorded recovery configuration and how strong they need to be, as well as training videos.

What is the team composition?

We initially connected with Damian (Co-Founder) who served as our entry point. We ended up working with a manager named Julian (Project Manager) and a graphic designer.

How did you come to work with BEON Tech Studio?

We didn’t know much about app development, so we went with the recommendation of a friend who said they did a great job. We reached out to them after that recommendation and reading their website.

How much have you invested with them?

I like that they bill us differently for graphics, an hourly rate, and the development of the app, which is a flat monthly rate. I think we spent $8,000 to $9,000 in total.

What is the status of this engagement?

We began in June 2020 and the bulk of the project is done, although we retain access to them for critical local issues. We’ll revisit the app when we get a month’s worth of work that fills it up, but for now, it’s completed.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The feedback thus far has been very positive. We’ve already sold more than 100 copies of the app, primarily at Apple. Android has been slower, but that’s because of the Android marketplace. I have no issues though and am very happy with the outcome.

How did BEON Tech Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

We used Slack as a project management tool to communicate, as well as phone calls here and there. They did a great job of keeping us informed.

What did you find most impressive about them?

They were incredibly organized. They’d show us the screen and talk through an idea — capturing what we were talking about very quickly and very accurately. They’re also incredibly efficient at capturing data, incorporating it into the process, and resolving all issues.

Are there any areas they could improve?

I don’t think there’s anyways they could improve — the slow parts were on us.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Anyone going into an app development process should have a general understanding of what they want. Come in with a vision or concept as opposed to asking them to do something. They did a great job of capturing what we wanted from the start.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the Regional Director of Business Development at Zetech S.A., the company behind TuRecibo.com, the most complete portal for the dispatch of all processes in the Human Resources area, especially the digitalization of payslips.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire BEON Tech Studio?

We tried to build the native apps to let our users access their payslip in a digitalized way, and we struggled to find the right resources for the project. As soon as BEON jumped in, things started to progress smoothly, helping us to achieve a key milestone for our business.

What were your goals for this project?

Develop TuRecibo APP, our Android and iOS apps.

SOLUTION

How did you select BEON Tech Studio?

It was a friend of ours that made the referral.

Describe the project in detail.

BEON provided the resources and management to build our Android and iOS apps. Our backend was already in place, so they seamlessly interfaced with our team to make use of our APIs to bring this product to life.

What was the team composition?

BEON provided a project manager and a Senior mobile developer that knew both Android and iOS, making it super flexible and easy to work with.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Everyone in our team was pleased to work with the different resources BEON provided along the way. Our app reached over 20.000 installs, and that number is consistently growing. They helped us take the app in the direction we strategically needed and recently came back to them with new plans of building a new native app, embedding part of our web features in it.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

BEON provided a project manager who oversaw everything and helped us with specs and planning, implementing SCRUM when we needed it. It's good to know that there's a role involved in the project that helps us cross the technical bridge. Sometimes it's hard to understand the technical language, so having a good communicator always increases the throughput and quality of the work. We really liked how this was structured.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They find outstanding talent in Latin America, and you can tell that on the first days of work. We got different resources assigned, and each of them was amazing to work with. It's good to know that you can get a team ready to start making good progress as there is a large pool of resources, and it's hard to be able to find this type of talent.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Not out of the top of my head. Everyone was pleased to work with them.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the co-founder of Legal Decoder, a legal invoice analytics software company. Our offering is a SaaS software solution that takes invoice data and runs it through a rules engine.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with BEON Tech Studio?

We were looking to build the third version of our engine that includes external-facing APIs, and needed additional development resources to achieve that goal.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

BEON is developing the pieces that go around the version-three engine. We use a fully Microsoft stack: it’s a C# application hosted in Azure that uses Azure SQL as its backend database. We’re in the process of moving that database to Azure Cosmos DB, one of Microsoft’s cloud offerings.

We’re changing the technology for scalability. In addition, many customers want to work with us programmatically without any humans in the process. We also want to open the API to the public and let clients pull data into their own internal systems.

BEON does development in C#. They have been building more backend processes and how the APIs will interact internally. Now they’re working on the client-facing UI that will control and run the engine.

What is the team composition?

We started with one developer who has been fantastic. Then we brought in a second developer to help us and to start the UI work. There’s also a project manager.

How did you come to work with BEON Tech Studio?

It was a referral from another entrepreneur of a startup I was familiar with.

What is the status of this engagement?

The partnership began in August of last year and is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The quality of work is fantastic. BEON is pretty much our development team. One of our in-house teammates is leading the effort, but BEON’s project manager works with me and our VP of development to define each two-week sprint and stay on schedule.

The backend developer researches the technologies that we’re using, which involve brand-new materials as well as proprietary technologies. He brings up a lot of valid concerns around our decisions and recommends different paths we can take. The team is very smart and driven and can deliver stuff on time and of high quality.

How did BEON Tech Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

Our project manager is great. She set up stand-up calls three days a week and drives the scheduling, taking a load off my plate. She has no problem with reaching out. When there are different ideas, she’s a great mediator to keep the discussion going.

What did you find most impressive about them?

The competence and intelligence of BEON’s developers are better than any outsourcing company I’ve worked with in the past. They can speak clearly and concisely about issues and have no problem raising any concerns. They also get our industry, which is not a common one. They’re even helping our summer intern get up to speed on the work he’s doing.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, I’m overall incredibly pleased. I’d recommend BEON to anyone who asks.

Any advice for potential customers?

Having a project manager in place has definitely been a big help for us in making sure we don’t go off the rails.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the COO of IonSupply, a supply chain tracking platform.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with BEON Tech Studio?

We were working with another outsourced development agency that was developing too slowly for us. BEON stepped in and got us the right kind of development process for our company’s stage and corporate growth.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

BEON works for us on a time and material basis. They provided development resources at first, but that grew into project engineering with support to product management. They also supply QA resources and UI/UX expertise.

They develop in the Angular framework, Goa, and Golang for the backend.

What is the team composition?

We work with seven people.

How did you come to work with BEON Tech Studio?

We considered other companies with good references. BEON came to us through a successful entrepreneur that has launched several startups that have made it to a positive exit.

How much have you invested with them?

We currently pay about 1$5,000–$20,000 per month. That rate’s increased since we first started, and I expect it will go up to $40,000–$50,000 per month as we continue to work together. I estimate we’ve spent about $175,000–$200,000 on their services since the start.

What is the status of this engagement?

We made introductions in December 2018 and started development in January or February 2019. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We have a very large customer that’s come in because of the functionality BEON helped us develop. We’re also pursuing an even larger customer because of their help. BEON helps translate our vision into firm requirements and then execute on them with minimal rework needed, whether that’s due to bugginess in stack or an incomplete scope. We usually nail everything within 1–2 sprints.

How did BEON Tech Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

They’re always punctual and willing to stretch to meet their commitments. If BEON is falling behind because a sprint had a larger scope than we expected, they’ll push and work overtime in order to meet the full commitment. They also do very well in leverage the philosophy of story points in order to create realistic scopes of work that are not full of fat or cushion. They still can get pretty ambitious but tend to meet them by executing efficiently or stretching to meet it.

What did you find most impressive about them?

I appreciate the commitment they show as a team along with the full range of services they provide. The strength of their project management is also a supplement to higher-level management functions in a startup.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, there’s nothing I would call out. The stability of the team is excellent. We’ve had the same developers for the whole time we’ve worked with them. 

Any advice for potential customers?

Communicate openly with their project management personnel. The people are well versed in taking the product vision and turning it into project structure.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the founder of a software development studio.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with BEON Tech Studio?

I was looking for a Reactive Native developer and mobile engineering expertise. They provided me with an engineer as a staff augmentation service.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

They provided the engineering resource to our team, making sure that the individual was the right resource for our company before passing them to us. Once the engineer was selected, they integrated into the team pretty simply. They joined our Slack channel and project management tools. That person functioned as my employee for this project. 

What is the team composition?

I had two main points of contact for this project. 

How did you come to work with BEON Tech Studio?

I found them on Clutch. After reaching out to hear more about their services and pricing, they seemed like a good fit. 

How much have you invested with them?

I’ve spent about $13,000 on their services so far.

What is the status of this engagement?

The project began in February 2020 and is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

They were able to find a resource relatively quickly. To meet our client’s expectations, we needed a React Native developer pretty fast. After reaching out to them and explaining my need, they provided me with someone in a short turnaround time and at a good rate. Additionally, they went out of their way to make sure they were the right resource for us.  

How did BEON Tech Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

The developer himself has been easy to communicate with. They’ve conformed to project management tools and mediums that I require to communicate properly. We communicated through Slack, Jira, video chat, and in-person. 

What did you find most impressive about them?

They provide high-quality customer service and are trustworthy. I knew I could count on them.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, I can’t think of anything.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

During an early call with them, communicate your needs clearly. That will allow them to take the time to find the right candidate for the project.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CEO and founder of Evvnt. We provide an events marketing platform for event creators and media publishers.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with BEON Tech Studio?

We needed help with direct development services.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

BEON Tech Studio provides developers to accomplish the tasks I set out for them. When I need a developer, they will hire one, and manage them against the project. We have a monthly fee, and we provide tools like Jira, hosting, and everything else. 

They’re working on our core platform, a “submit one, publish everywhere” service that is desktop-based and hosted on AWS. It has over 4,600 event listing sites and calendars that sit within an algorithm. When someone submits an event to our site or to a calendar—which we host with news, radio, and TV stations globally—the algorithm looks at which event listing sites will want that content, so that we can publish it. 

Aside from that service, the tech has to do a ton of other things involving payment and transactions through Stripe. We’re trying to make a one-stop-shop for event creators and publishers—our major stakeholders. They need dedicated interfaces with multiple tools and features to promote and publish events, including syndication, email, SMS, messaging, calendars, content widgets, add-event URLs, an editorial CMS, and a sales CRM.

BEON Tech Studio has been involved in a variety of tasks. They’re building out functionality to manage payments, billing, and invoices via Stripe transactions and Xero. We just finished migrating the primary task of developing our event creator and publisher environment. Technically, BEON Tech Studio is running the full stack. We’ve spent a lot of time training the developers and building practical technology. For each task, we provide wireframes and technical documentation alongside one of their testers. 

My goal for next year is to gear up the team size and move to a more advanced SaaS platform that uses AI for automated campaign creation. We want to replicate the kind of service you’d get from a major marketing agency, but at an affordable price point in the local market, for a local event. There’s a lot of pieces to our tech roadmap, ranging from very basic invoicing needs, through to product requirements.

What is the team composition?

Their organization provides me with a project manager, a tester, and a full-time developer. They’re the core of our development, project management, testing, and design. I aim to get 5–6 developers from them.

How did you come to work with BEON Tech Studio?

We were relocating our business from London to the US. Our development resource at the time was in Poland, and the time zone difference wasn’t working for us. We were looking to find a resource in the US time zone that was still cost-effective. Buenos Aires was a good time zone and as affordable as Europe. That’s how we came across BEON Tech Studio.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent around $80,000 so far. 

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with BEON Tech Studio in April 2019, and they’re still our full-time remote development team. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Just as we started with BEON Tech Studio, we took a different approach to development, going from a two-week development cycle to releasing code twice a week, It’s an incredibly agile approach. We also moved the methodology to Kanban, which supported this constant release methodology. Through BEON Tech Studio, we get developers to develop code, and a lead tester to test it. When it works well, we can release lots of code very quickly. The testing doesn’t slow us down at all.

Overall, we’re churning out more code, allocating more projects, and progressing development at a faster speed. We have three times the code output today than when we had another 2–2.5 developers on the project. BEON Tech Studio plays a role in that, and so does our new methodology. The tester was also a critical part of our ability to output development. We’ve launched more projects and improved the technology more in the last 10 months than within the whole of last year.

As the CEO, I spend one hour every week doing training with a developer. That’s very unusual, but this way, they get to ask questions as we’re building their understanding of the platform. I believe that the team at BEON Tech Studio has bought into the purpose of our development. Because of that and their fluency in English, I can have a solid conversation with them about what we’re doing, and they will advise me on better ways of doing it. We have an unusual and exceptional relationship with the development team they’ve provided so far. 

How did BEON Tech Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

They’ve had some challenges in this respect. The original project manager was one of the founders, but that wasn’t working, so they brought in another project manager. The project managers we’ve had, who were very good very quickly, were historically project managers in the organization. BEON Tech Studio has had to hire new project managers, have them learn their system, and then have them learn ours. There’s a slight language barrier with our current project manager. 

The project management could be a bit better, but because I’m so heavily involved in the project as a project manager and the CEO, it’s quite hard to take over my role fully. I’d love to step back and give them more project management ownership, but, at the same time, having someone spend 15–30 minutes every week, project managing a team, they’d struggle to project manage the team with the visibility that I have. I’m probably part of the reason it’s not as good as it could be—I have an overbearing role in the project. They’re still doing a good job.

In terms of tools, we use an Excel sheet for general team and project management. That works against tickets and tasks inside Jira.

What did you find most impressive about them?

What I like about BEON Tech Studio is that they hire interesting, talented, and thoughtful developers. They contribute back to the plan, as opposed to just coding. That’s very valuable.

Are there any areas they could improve?

I told Damian (Co-Founder, BEON Tech Studio) that BEON Tech Studio is nothing without their ability to hire competent developers. If I get a bad developer, then BEON Tech Studio is a bad service. His first two hires have been exceptional, which means that my opinion of BEON Tech Studio is outstanding. If he goes and hires the next developer, and they’re terrible, it will change my opinion of that agency. 

To date, he’s provided me very good development, and it’s had a massive impact on our business. It’s a combination of methodology and good, reliable individuals who enjoy working. I hope that the next two developers they deploy in January come with the same skillset. It’s been very good so far.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CEO of Bushman Studios. We're an agency that works with a lot of small businesses—entrepreneurs who are looking to build technical products.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with BEON Tech Studio?

I was looking for a competent team to help me tackle these bigger projects I was starting to get. That vendor needed to come in and seamless take over a couple of my projects.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

They've provided me with software development, product management, and UX/UI design. Though it’s been mostly straightforward development, they’ve been really good at coming up with ideas to improve the product itself. Across a couple of projects, we’ve pretty much conquered every kind of platform.

They provide wireframes on a project-by-project basis. Sometimes I come to them with just an idea, and sometimes it’s a little more scoped out. If the end-customer wasn't technically savvy, then BEON and I would come up with a technical outline, and then they'd go into the nitty-gritty documentation and the wireframes.

Our most recent project was a cross-platform solution for a Netflix-style company for documentary films. It’s a streaming video-on-demand platform. We're actually building an iOS app, an Android app (both phones and tablets), an Android TV app, an Apple TV app, a Samsung app, an LG app, and lots of smart TV apps. We are working on an Xbox app and Roku as well.

A lot of these platforms have proprietary systems for billing, so it’s challenging to synchronize across them. This is certainly the case when someone has canceled one service, or perhaps someone has subscribed again after canceling one service initially. BEON has done a really good job of figuring that out and making it work pretty seamlessly.

We now have apps across every platform, and that's evolving to new platforms on a monthly basis. It's been really challenging and exciting. The great thing about BEON is that even if they don't have actual experience with some of these platforms, they've been able to tackle them. They'll either find a developer who's had the experience with it or someone who is smart enough to figure it out.

How did you come to work with BEON Tech Studio?

I was looking for a team that was reputable and ideally based out of Argentina; I have a lot of connections down there. That's how I initially got connected to BEON.

We met through a mutual friend in New York and discussed working together. I looked at a couple of projects that they'd done before and decided to test them when I received a couple of smaller projects. We grew from there, which happened about four years ago.

This video project is a big project, as I said, and it involved a lot of platforms, but I had no doubt that they would be able to handle it.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent around $150,000 so far on this project.

What is the status of this engagement?

We’ve been working together since October 2018.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Since they took over the project, the growth metrics have been great. We've been growing month-over-month, and a lot of the technical stuff that they brought to the table has really helped shore up the platform. It was actually inherited from another tech studio, and the codebase was not in the best condition, so a lot of the stabilization BEON did really helped out with customer retention. We've been doubling pretty much every month for the past 6–8 months.

How did BEON Tech Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

On the project management side, we use Slack and Trello. We also use LiveAgent for ticketing, Firebase, and Crashlytics. They’ve hit most of the deadlines, but when they can’t, you’ll get a plan to tackle it and an updated deadline which isn’t too far in the future. Missing the initial deadline happens with software sometimes. They’ll brief you on why it happened and get back on track.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Taking on the smart TV apps was a big challenge. There are not that many people who have done that before, and they were able to knock it out of the park. There were a few delays here and there with them getting used to the technology, but, in general, we're very happy with the way it worked out.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, to be honest. I have no complaints working with them. Throughout all the projects they’ve done, they’ve been straightforward. They don’t beat around the bush. If they missed a deadline, they came to us first to rectify it. Otherwise, they hit the targets efficiently.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I am the CEO and founder of Educasic.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with BEON Tech Studio?

We hired BEON Tech Studio to build a web- and mobile app for a Connected Classroom that helps students in pre-K to fourth grade learn to read using a sight-based learning algorithm.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Although we provided the wireframes, they developed everything else, including the front- and backend of the mobile and web app. They started by looking at what we needed through a ticket system and assigning tasks. They took a lean stack approach, consistently performing QA, conducting more tests, and making adjustments, before eventually launching production. 

What is the team composition?

There were about three people on their team. Our CTO and I worked directly with their technical lead and their developers.

How did you come to work with BEON Tech Studio?

We’ve worked with them in the past, and all of those projects went really well. They are wonderful. Since the beginning, we knew that they would deliver the best product for us.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent approximately $150,000 with them.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in August 2014 and the project is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The platform has had a huge impact, especially for young students, kids with learning disabilities, and students learning English as a second language. It is being used by 30,000 teachers and 150,000 students and parents across the United States.  

How did BEON Tech Studio perform from a project management standpoint?

They’re very attentive and communicative. They’re always readily available and they reply quickly. We use various communication and project management tools including Slack, Google Hangouts, Jira, WhatsApp, and Trello.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Not only are they the best and smartest in their field, they're always accessible regardless of what time zone they’re in. For example, they have a few team members in Argentina, but we are based in Pacific Time. Despite being four hours ahead of us, we are always able to reach them during our normal business hours. We also don’t have a language barrier between our team and theirs, so it’s very easy to communicate with them.

Are there any areas they could improve?

Not at this time. They’re great.