Brainstack Technologies

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Senior Project Manager of an Agriculture company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We are a non profit dedicated to measuring sustainability in agriculture for systemic change.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Collect survey data automatically
• Collect reliable data
• Agile Data management
• High quality data collection
• Automated and fast collection
• Reduce collection cost
• Get higher engagement from the audience

SOLUTION

How did you find Brainstack Technologies?

Referral

Why did you select Brainstack Technologies over others?

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

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

6-10 Employees

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

We hired the development of a farmer App to collect data on cost of production and actual income directly from coffee farmers, eliminating the intermediary while collecting data. Farmers will be able to better undertand their coffee production costs and see if the income they receive is enough to cover these costs. It will allow traders to understand the reality of the farmers they supply from and if their price is good enough to ensure farmer livelihoods. The deliverable was 1. supporting us to better design the app flow according to content and 2. to develop and ensure the overall functionality of the actual app 3. provide us with a data management platform where we can oversee the use of the app as well as download the data for analysis.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Delivery of a functional app with a well thought,  simple design to enable the use by farmers who at many times do not have experience with technology. 

Ease of use

Scalability

Cover low network areas

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

Items were delivered on time and they were very flexible with changes in request.

What was your primary form of communication with Brainstack Technologies?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

They impressively thought about the design to simplify a complex topic so the farmers could use it. Their respnsbility in meeting deadlines and flexibility and patience with the changes we requested

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

no.

UPDATED REVIEW

This review was published on (7/19/2023)

Research Coordinator, NonprofitConsulting

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

11-50 Employees

Jan 2022 - Mar 2023

$10,000 to $49,999

Verified

Project summary
Brainstack Technologies was hired by a nonprofit organization to help with their data gathering and sharing efforts. The team was responsible for programming the survey questionnaire and pilot testing.

Feedback summary
Brainstack Technologies’ efforts resulted in a higher number of responses via WhatsApp. They communicated with the client through virtual meetings and were responsive throughout the engagement. Moreover, their problem-solving skills were impressive.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Research coordinator of a consulting company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Our company is a neutral nonprofit dedicated to helping organizations understand and accelerate their sustainability.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Agile data technologies

SOLUTION

How did you find Brainstack Technologies?

Referral

Why did you select Brainstack Technologies over others?

• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

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

Programming survey questionnaire in WhatsApp, pilot testing, data gathering and sharing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Rate of response of the surveys submitted through WhatsApp

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

The delivery of the items was made on time. Responsive communication and problem solving orientation.

What was your primary form of communication with Brainstack Technologies?

Virtual Meeting

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

Problem solving attitude

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

better data validation

STAR RATINGS
Overall rating: 5   

Quality: 5   

Cost: 5   

Schedule: 5   

Willing to refer: 5   

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am CEO of GDi partners which in India’s premier governance consulting firm based out of India We work on population scale projects across the country

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired Brainstack Technologies to build a web-based decision support system. Our goal was to solve a few critical problems in the Indian agriculture sector using the wide data sets existing silo. The challenge was to build a system that could collect huge amounts of data, clean it, process it, and further help in detailed data analytics.

SOLUTION

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

We got their reference from another client. After that, we interviewed their technical team to understand their perspective on our problem statement. They impressed us with their understanding of software architectures and proposed a design that seemed pretty impressive and scalable

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

The SOW included building a web-based decision support system that’s highly scalable and robust at the same time. When we shortlisted their proposal during the initial phases, they gave us a detailed development plan that included all the milestones and deliverables. They proposed using the latest web development tech stacks and helped us host the solution on our preferred cloud provider- AWS. They engaged expert team members to help at different stages of software development.

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

There was a mix of team members, including the architects, UI/UX designers, front end and back-end developers. The architect was involved full-time initially and on a need basis later on, while other members worked full-time on the project.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The final solution delivered was of excellent quality and very user-friendly. The system helped us make important decisions using critical insights. The performance is perfect; it’s a very intuitive and easy-to-use system.

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

They followed the the Agile methodology to develop the system. The project coordinator kept us informed at all stages. We appreciated that they showed us a demo of the working functionality every two weeks, which helped us track the development very closely

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

What we liked most about them is, being an agile team, they still followed multiple processes at all times and never tried cutting corners. The pricing has been quite competitive, and the quality has been excellent so we got maximum value for money. In our experience with other vendors, we encountered spillage in the project logistics, which surprisingly didn’t happen with them. They charged what they committed in the beginning, and more importantly, it was done on a milestone basis which ensured us that we were paying for the actual deliverables

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

They have done a tremendous job, and I recommend them to companies looking for software outsourcing and staff augmentation services. You can trust their expertise and skills.