Mobile App Dev & UX/UI Design Staff Aug for FinTech Co
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IT Staff Augmentation Mobile App Development UX/UI Design
- Confidential
- May 2025 - Ongoing
- Quality
- 5.0
- Schedule
- 5.0
- Cost
- 4.5
- Willing to Refer
- 5.0
"We particularly appreciate their professionalism, structured leadership of agile teams, and ability to integrate."
- Financial services
- Prague, Czech Republic
- 51-200 Employees
- Online Review
- Verified
Cleevio leads several agile squads for a fintech company. The team handles feature delivery within the client's mobile app and multibanking products, as well as UX/UI design of the client's financial platform.
Cleevio's project management is professional, transparent, and well-aligned with the client's way of working. The team brings deep experience from similar fintech and digital product projects. Cleevio contributes not only engineering capacity but also proven approaches to product development. This review is an update by the client company. The original content is located below the new review.
BACKGROUND
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I’m the CEO of Direct Fidoo, a Czech fintech platform that helps companies manage finances in one place. We offer company cards, expense management, multibanking, cash flow analysis, and a marketplace for financial services — all in real-time.
OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE
What challenge were you trying to address with Cleevio?
We needed help leading several agile squads and defining the overall design of our financial platform.
SOLUTION
What was the scope of their involvement?
Cleevio has provided both product strategy and execution capabilities. They lead dedicated agile squads responsible for delivering features within the mobile app and multibanking products, including product management, design, engineering, and agile delivery support.
Beyond feature delivery, they work with us on the end-to-end UX/UI design of the financial platform to ensure a consistent customer experience across products. They also develop interactive prototypes and proof-of-concept for future AI-driven features, enabling us to validate customer value and product direction before committing to full-scale development.
What is the team composition?
We work with 6–10 teammates from Cleevio.
How did you come to work with Cleevio?
We found them through a referral. We chose them over other options because they had high ratings, were close to our geographic location, had a great culture fit, and had experience with finance management apps.
What is the status of this engagement?
We started working with them in May 2025, and the engagement is ongoing.
RESULTS & FEEDBACK
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
Cleevio's project management is professional, transparent, and well-aligned with our way of working. Their teams quickly adapt to our Spotify-inspired agile operating model and integrate seamlessly with our internal product and engineering organization.
They maintain clear communication, provide regular progress updates, proactively manage delivery risks, and collaborate closely with our teams throughout the engagement. As a result, the agreed scope is delivered on time and within budget.
Moreover, the agile squads led by Cleevio's product owners remain on track throughout the entire project lifecycle — from product development and testing through to deployment — ensuring consistent execution and delivery.
Additionally, Cleevio's leadership team is actively engaged throughout the engagement. They provide regular executive status updates, proactively address delivery risks, and maintain hands-on involvement with the project teams to ensure successful outcomes.
Finally, the results from the friends and family phase are positive, and all acceptance criteria are met before launch.
How did Cleevio perform from a project management standpoint?
We communicate with them through in-person and virtual meetings.
What did you find most impressive about them?
What we’re most impressed with is Cleevio's combination of strong execution capabilities and strategic product thinking. Their team brings deep experience from similar fintech and digital product projects, enabling them to contribute not only engineering capacity but also proven approaches to product development.
We particularly appreciate their professionalism, structured leadership of agile teams, and ability to integrate seamlessly into our organization. They also demonstrate excellent UX/UI and mobile app design capabilities, helping us create a consistent and intuitive customer experience.
In addition, they’re early adopters of AI-assisted software development practices, which contribute to greater development efficiency and faster product iteration.
Are there any areas they could improve?
Overall, we’re very satisfied with the collaboration. If there’s one area for improvement, it would be team integration during the early stages of the engagement.
Initially, some Cleevio team members tend to operate as a separate group rather than as a fully integrated part of our tribe. While this improves over time and the teams eventually blend well — both professionally and informally — earlier integration into the wider organization and team culture could accelerate collaboration even further.
UPDATED REVIEW
This review was published on July 30, 2026
Michal Míka
CMO, Direct Fidoo
Financial services
Prague, Czech Republic
1,001-5,000
Jan 2026 - Jun 2026
Verified
Project summary
Cleevio built a website for a financial tools company. The team handled the strategy, information architecture, UX/UI design, design system, hosting architecture, penetration testing, and security hardening.
Feedback summary
Cleevio's work improved the client's conversion rates and discoverability for LLMs. The team had the project under control from day one, helping the client manage communication with stakeholders and tolerating the client's changing requirements. Their fast review cycles stood out.
BACKGROUND
Please describe your company and position.
I am the Chief Marketing Officer of Direct Fidoo
Describe what your company does in a single sentence.
We're a regulated payment institution and have spent over a decade building financial tools for CEOs, CFOs and finance teams — corporate cards, expense management, multibanking, FX, and a partner marketplace. More than 1,650 companies use us.
OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE
What specific goals or objectives did you hire Cleevio to accomplish?
- Future-proof solution (AI, LLM search etc.)
- New website development
- New techstack
SOLUTION
How did you find Cleevio?
Referral
Why did you select Cleevio over others?
- Pricing fit our budget
- Great culture fit
- Good value for cost
- Company values aligned
How many teammates from Cleevio were assigned to this project?
2-5 Employees
Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.
Cleevio delivered the site end to end. That started with strategy and information architecture — restructuring how we present seven product areas so each one stands on its own while the platform story still holds together — then UX, UI and a design system, then the build on a modern headless stack.
They also owned the parts most agencies hand back to the client. Infrastructure and hosting architecture, penetration testing, and security hardening were theirs, coordinated with our internal risk and security people. For a regulated financial institution that mattered a lot: our website is a trust signal, and we couldn't have a gap between what our security page claims and how the site itself is built.
Two pieces went beyond a standard website. They built an AI-powered knowledge base for customer support, structured by product, so customers find answers themselves instead of waiting for our support line — and a structured FAQ layer feeding the same content. They also built out our reference and case study section, media room and blog as proper content systems rather than static pages.
RESULTS & FEEDBACK
What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
Time to market for new sites is now within minutes
We are now discoverable for LLMs
Improved conversion rates across the entire site
Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?
Excellent! And honestly one of the clearest strengths of the whole engagement.
Tomáš, their Head of Delivery, and the team had the project under firm control from day one. We always knew what stage we were at, what was waiting on us, and what a late decision on our side would cost. That meant the deadline never turned into a surprise, and everything was delivered on time. What set them apart was how far outside their scope of work they were prepared to go.
For example - they helped us manage communication toward stakeholders inside our own company. A website rebuild at a company our size touches product, sales, customer care, risk and compliance, and legal — a lot of people with strong opinions and a legitimate claim on the outcome. Cleevio helped us structure that: presenting decisions, explaining trade-offs, building alignment. Nobody contracted them to do it. It took a significant load off my team and it's a large part of why the project moved as fast as it did.
On responsiveness: our requirements kept moving (as usual). The product was evolving underneath us during the project, so we were still changing things well into the build — more than most agencies would tolerate. Cleevio handled it well.
What was your primary form of communication with Cleevio?
- In-Person Meeting
- Virtual Meeting
- Email or Messaging App
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
Their pace and engagement were impressive.
Cleevio has rebuilt its own delivery process around AI, and the effect showed up directly in our review cycles. UX and UI iterations that would normally come back in days came back in hours.
We reviewed variants in the same session instead of waiting for the next round, which changed how we worked as a client: more decisions, with more options in front of us, in less time. This is the difference between an agency that talks about AI and one that has actually restructured delivery around it.
Second, the way they engaged. They pushed back when our thinking was weak and brought proposals instead of waiting for a brief, but they stayed flexible when our priorities shifted mid-project.
Are there any areas for improvement or something Cleevio could have done differently?
No issues at all
STAR RATINGS
Overall rating: 5.0
Quality: 5.0
Cost: 5.0
Schedule: 5.0
Willing to refer: 5.0
RATINGS
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Quality
5.0Service & Deliverables
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Schedule
5.0On time / deadlines
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Cost
4.5Value / within estimates
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Willing to Refer
5.0NPS