Exposit

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Head of Dept. / Product Owner of Bamboo Group OÜ

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We're an international IT company providing digital products and services.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Exposit to accomplish?

• Getting consultancy on the ML project

SOLUTION

How did you find Exposit?

Referral

Why did you select Exposit over others?

• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost

How many teammates from Exposit were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

The project is aimed at using ML to count the number of streetlights for a customer in the Arab state. The Exposit team interviewed our developers, inspected our dataset, analyzed our workflow, and discovered existing and potential pitfalls that could hinder our progress.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

From the get-go, the Exposit team wasted no time and conducted a top-to-bottom analysis of the project, including thorough interviews regarding our work methods and technologies. They quickly revealed flaws in our code and data set, and promptly gave recommendations on how to improve the existing system, rather than rework anything from scratch. This was especially valuable, as it helped save time and effort. 

Thanks to Exposit’s expertise, they were able to formulate detailed instructions on how to improve our system within just 8 working hours. Thanks to their precise guidelines, we were able to make a breakthrough in our development process (improved accuracy, optimized script operation, streamlined team workflow) in just 3 working days. 

We not only managed to successfully complete this project, but also got a wealth of knowledge that helped our own specialists considerably improve their skills. Such results are nothing short of outstanding.

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

Exposit is very proactive in communication, with regular calls and email exchanges. Time was of the essence, and we could feel that our Exposit counterparts were eager to help us in any way they could without wasting a second. Working with such consummate professionals is always a pleasure.

What was your primary form of communication with Exposit?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Exposit’s specialists welcome a challenge, and they don’t look for easy solutions. While it is customary for consultants to completely dismiss the work you have already done and propose a solution of their own, the Exposit team took the more difficult approach of taking what we had and making it better. They succeeded admirably. In addition to fulfilling their duties, they also shared lots of useful advice on how to improve the quality of our work.

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

We are very happy with the work we’ve done together and look forward to a chance to cooperate again in the future.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of Wizart Inc.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Wizart is an ecosystem of hi-tech solutions for visualizing finishing materials and home decor. We aim to transform the home improvement industry and create a new standard of selling building materials and home decor.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Exposit to accomplish?

• We wanted to collaborate with experts in computer vision and AI who shared our excitement and had the needed experience to give Wizart a solid start for future development. The main goal was to shape the concept and develop product MVP.

SOLUTION

How did you find Exposit?

• Referral
• Other

Why did you select Exposit over others?

• Good value for cost
• AI Experts

What was the size of Exposit’s team?

6-10 Employees

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

We started from scratch having only the idea of software that can solve the imagination gap problem in the home improvement industry. Together with Exposit, we were searching for the best-fit technology approach. The team designed the self-developed unique data processing, training, and modeling process based on ready-made software.

They collected and labeled photos to build a dataset for model training to achieve the most accurate outcomes. The developed algorithm worked, preserving the room's shadows, scale, and perspectives. At the end of the project, we got a web demo and widget for instant wallpaper modeling. They also implemented an AI-driven iOS app based on a convolutional neural network running on mobile devices.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• We presented the product demo at the Heimtextil trade fair, where we got our first clients.

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

The team worked in a well-shaped agile project management style and used the DIET methodology to implement AI-based projects. We used Jira to manage project activities and regularly communicated online and offline. The team met all the deadlines and was open to any inquiries regarding the project.

What was your primary form of communication with Exposit?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting

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

Strong technology expertise, a detail-oriented approach to development, and open-minded communication enabled Exposit to create a dynamic work environment required for effective startup development.

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

We are absolutely satisfied with the results and are continuing to work with Exposit on related AI-driven projects as partners.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CTO of Plend, an alternative consumer lender in the UK.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We wanted to engineer a custom-built affordability assessment engine to write smarter, safer loans than the competition.

SOLUTION

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

We found Exposit through industry connections. Their clear grasp of the problem, related experience in fintech, and depth of thought during the original tender process and its supporting documentation were the deciding factors.

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

They designed and developed a full-stack underwriting and assessment engine with us from the ground up. We started by laying out the user journey, how open-banking data would be pulled in and categorised, and then how the underwriters would interact with the dashboard and data. We even built tools and editors for Plend to manage dynamic filtering rules and scorecards for our backend. Tech stack is diverse, but includes Java 11, Spring 5.3.8 Spring Boot 2.5.6, Hibernate 5.6, Apache Maven 3.6.3, PostgreSQL 14, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch.

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

There were 6 people in the core team, including project manager, business analyst, senior architect lead, full stack coder, testers and graphic designer. Additional members were bought in as needed.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Plend was able to launch fully in May and is closing in on its first million pounds of lending volume by the end of this month. The assessment engine Exposit developed is what allows us to deliver a seamless, digital borrower assessment with a wealth of rich OB data to write safer loans than the competition.

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

Their project management style is very hands-on with lots of back and forth communication every day. Slack, Jira, and Figma were the main tools we used to get the project over the line and support it post-launch.

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

Exposit has implemented the project from idea to the development and testing of the fully-featured product; Exposit delivers deep tech expertise and a business-centered approach to development; Exposit provides stable project teams of solution-oriented specialists.

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

We updated our methods partway through the project to include more detailed release builds when we found ourselves deploying a host of smaller fixes and updates - but that was more reacting to our changing needs, rather than a problem that needed fixing.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Belarusian-Jewish Cultural Heritage Center is a non-profit organization, which mission is to promote awareness of the rich Belarusian-Jewish cultural heritage within the national and global context, to preserve and enhance this heritage, aiming at the creation of the Jewish Museum in Belarus. Founder and Curator

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

VR tour and reconstruction of the Great Synagogue of Slonim is the first of its kind project in Belarus that brought researchers, artists, conservationists and IT engineers together to remake and preserve an important piece of Jewish heritage.

The team utilized historical archival information in conjunction with high-tech modelling to establish an interactive visualization solution and has managed to virtually renovate the synagogue to the ideal historic appearance at its height.

An immersive 15-minute VR session allows visitors, after putting on VR glasses, to fall into the past and take part in a guided tour where they can get acquainted with the history of the synagogue, see its original appearance, see all the painting and hear the sounds that used to be there several centuries ago.

SOLUTION

How did you select Exposit and what were the deciding factors?

Selected by tender. Factors - expertise, terms and price.

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

Exposit took part in the Belarus Shtetl project as a Unity development team and implemented VR visualization of the Great Synagogue of Slonim for an interactive exhibition.

The team began the development by visiting the historical building in Slonim to better understand the architecture and create a 3D model of the synagogue as realistic as possible.

Exposit explored the real object, saw elevation plans and historical materials, took photographs of interior and exterior details as well as made photographic materials for creating a 360-view inside and outside the synagogue.

The company chose the Unity technology for the 3D model development to allow the project creators to quickly adapt the solution for other devices (for example, as a smartphone app), if necessary.

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

We worked with 5 people from Exposit: Customer Service Manager 3D Artist Unity Developer Project Manager QA Engineer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Currently, the project is finalized and being readied for launch and presentations.

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

Working with the Exposit team was very comfortable. The deadlines were met.

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

Colleagues plunged into the complex context of the project, related to history and heritage, demonstrated a caring attitude towards socially significant projects.

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

The result fully met our expectations.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Our company builds collaboration software and I'm taking care of product partnerships.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We needed assistance with the development of an integration. The timeframes were short, hence we looked for outside help and we were happy to find Exposit.

SOLUTION

How did you select Exposit and what were the deciding factors?

We've made a short list of companies able to deliver the required results. Exposit ended up being our choice based on their prior projects, communication and their flexibility.

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

Upon agreeing on the scope, we scheduled a kickoff meeting with all stakeholders. This kickoff meeting laid out the steps, Exposit proactively explored all APIs, came back with a prototype and we iterated to the end result.

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

We spoke to about 5 people throughout the process and have been working closely with two Exposit team members.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The integration was delivered within a very impressive timeframe and does everything we imagined it'd do.

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

It has been a pleasure working with Exposit, the communication was easy and Exposit's flexibility was delighting. We've communicated per email, Zoom and opened up a Slack Channel.

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

Exposit's quick turnaround and skilled team were impressive.

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

I have no areas of improvement based on this interaction.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am Founder and CEO at Ereztech LLC providing world-class organometallic precursor R&D and manufacturing to our customers worldwide. Our experts work with a wide range of organometallics, metals, air-sensitive materials, rare-earth derivatives, ligands and other building blocks used in deposition precursors for the production of electronics, photovoltaics, and fine and specialty chemicals. 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We worked on our web application for selling chemical products and plugin for optimizing online catalog data management working in integration with this website. Services provided by Exposit within these projects included business analysis, software development and software testing.

Firstly, we aimed at global website upgrade with updating Wordpress CMS, changing layouts, analysing and improvement of our catalogue, creating smart search for chemical substances on the basis of chemical formulas, etc. Our second goal was to automate the processes of entering information and creating online-catalog pages, that accelerates adding new products to the site.

SOLUTION

How did you select Exposit and what were the deciding factors?

By reference of our mutual customer.

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

Exposit engineers updated the website of 2007, developed UI and integrated a search engine. It automatically searches for suitable chemical substances by the periodic table on the basis of chemical formulas that we enter or draw.

They organised dynamic generation of products pages and generation of PDF files with more product details. They have also developed a plugin for administering an online catalog of our chemical products, automated the processes of entering information and creating online-catalog pages.

This allows the administrator to quickly and easily transfer information without manual data filling. The plugin also can generate product specifications in PDF format allowing users to easily share product information. Exposit also conducted manual functional testing of the implemented functionali

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

Project manager, business analyst, three developers, two software testers. Currently one software developer finalises tasks within the project and another one supports.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We have successfully updated our website, added new functionality. This positively affected on its usability and the number of orders, but I cannot disclose this data.

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

Project Management was arranged from their side, that was very comfortable for our team. We communicated mainly via mail and Skype. They often organized intermediate demos and meetings as issues arose.

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

I appreciate their professional understanding of how Ecommerce platforms should work and how to make web applications user-friendly. By the way, they worked in a very organised way taking into account all our business needs.

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

Can’t think of anything, because our cooperation went smoothly. I will be happy to recommend them for web apps development.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Product Owner at It Works GmbH, a provider in the field of public media. We specialize in consulting, optimizing and purchasing all classic and special advertising media for outdoor advertising.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We needed Frontend engineers to develop the client side of our corporate web platform for drawing up trading offers for the sale of advertising space in Germany. The main destination of our platform is providing a full cycle of preparation of advertising campaigns: from setting goals and choosing advertising space to visualizing available advertising statistics. All that to easily generate advertising presentations for our clients.

SOLUTION

How did you select Exposit and what were the deciding factors?

We started our cooperation with the trial period, that showed expertise and reliability of Exposit.

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

Frontend team of Exposit has been working on our project since Jan 2019. The web application helps our managers to prepare advertising plans, save them and create a map visualization with suitable advertising points in Germany. The Frontend part is built using JavaScript, Vue.js.

Among already implemented functionality:

• Planning of advertising campaigns: the ability to choose campaign period, budget, locations, types of sites, their visibility and much more.
• Filtering advertising space by various characteristics, including type of advertising campaign, borders and rating.
• Displaying available (not yet booked) ad points.
• Ad points visualization - the ability to see how the advertisement will look in a real location.
• Graphical presentation of the saved advertising campaigns with cartographic and statistical data.
• Ability to import external files, e.g. of a .KML, geoJson, CSV and other formats to display additional geographical entities. Export of documents in .PDF and .PPTX formats, ready for presentation to end customers.

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

The team consists of two Frontend engineers from Exposit’s side. Initially, we started with one specialist but expanded the team for further needs.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our presentation with our customers in Hamburg was very well received. Thank Exposit especially.

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

Project management is arranged from our side, but Exposit specialists are always in touch, they answer all inquiries asap as well as deliver completed tasks as planned. We handle weekly meetings to discuss the project status.

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

We are generally satisfied with the results of our joint development because of their commitment to the project. They totally exceeded our expectations in terms of code quality, timing and level of communication.

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

Nothing comes to my mind.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work at Noveo LLP as an Account Manager. Noveo has representative offices in Russia, France, UK, USA and provides a full range of IT services for different business domains. Our key activity area is software development, testing and support.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Exposit is our outsourced partner that adds talent to our project teams. We worked mainly with their Java, PHP, React and fullstack JS software engineers via Dedicated Resources model of cooperation and have already developed three web projects together. We needed to extend our project team within several projects to fasten development and deliveries to our end customers. The projects scope included finalization of the backend and frontend part of web and mobile applications, bug fixes, migration of web applications using open source frameworks and support.

SOLUTION

How did you select Exposit and what were the deciding factors?

They initially contacted us and marketed themselves to us. We received a number of proposals from other companies, but after various interviews and research selected Exposit. They seemed to truly understand what we needed and provided resources quickly.

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

Can not disclose details due to NDA. Briefly, Exposit team was responsible for developing server and client parts of our web and mobile projects, their full code refactoring, rewriting legacy code, migrating it to open source Java. Then they covered the code by integration and unit tests and provided timely support. The design and concept came from our side.

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

There were six technical specialists from Exposit totally involved in these projects. Team composition varied depending on the technology that’s having problems. I usually interacted with 3-5 different teammates, including an account manager.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We have successfully completed all projects and delivered them to our end customers. Exposit team approach in working around our schedule to minimize our downtime, and the whole customer service experience were good.

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

Noveo managed all the projects. The engineering team worked according to our plan, but recognized and troubleshooted issues proactively. We used mainly Skype, email and Jira for communication.

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

Their response time, transparency during our work, and technical expertise impressed us.

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

No, we’ve worked very well together.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work as a COO and member of the Executive Board at Frox AG. We provide consulting services, integration of solutions, operation and support as well as the development of IT applications for specific clients. We also sell our own software products worldwide.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We collaborated on a software project that needed skilled Frontend and Backend developers. Exposit team provided us with relevant specialists. We focused on creating a web application for a telecommunications company working with mobile, stationary and IP solutions.

Initially, this company used a corporate ITSM for business processes' management and needed performance and scalability improvement. We decided to transmit business processes from the Camunda system to ITSM.

SOLUTION

How did you select Exposit and what were the deciding factors?

By reference

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

Exposit filled all our project requirements and organised broadcasting of Camunda business processes in the ITSM system via their React-application instead of using standard Camunda functionality.

Engineers used core Java, Node.js, React.js and other technologies for the development. Now all business processes are transmitted in both Camunda and ITSM.

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

We worked with a stable team of Backend and Frontend engineers (4 people).

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The product was released and integrated into our end-customer’s telecom business. It’s saving them a lot of time.

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

Project Management was organised from our side, but they helped us do better project management as they kept us in the loop on everything. We communicated via Skype, JIRA and emails and always received timely feedback.

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

They’re very excited about the growth and success of our company. It’s not just a job to them. They feel like a part of the team. Special thanks for the transparency and diligent work of the engineers. Deliveries were very solid and timely.

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

I don’t think they need necessarily do anything better. They met all our requirements and were easy to collaborate with.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work as a Project Manager at Teamlead company, that provides consulting and software development around Atlassian solutions such as

• CRM for Jira - Customers & Sales
• Calendar for Jira - Plan Team Activities
• HelpDesk for Jira - Customer Portal &SLA.

Our website: https://www.teamlead.ru/

Apps by Teamlead: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/22223/teamlead

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We cooperated on several projects related to business processes in JIRA. For our last project, Lead Management system, we needed a team of software engineers and testers with Project Manager from Exposit side. Lead Management System that our customer used before worked in integration with Comindware system and was obsolete and slow.

Taking into account that all their leads from all the sales channels were qualified in LMS and company business processes passed through the platform, it was decided to replace it with a more efficient solution - Atlassian JIRA. The main goal was replacing the used LMS platform with the Atlassian JIRA.

SOLUTION

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

We considered several vendors, and the Exposit team offered the most favorable terms of cooperation and was open and easy to communicate.

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

Exposit engineers have tuned the entire workflow of the company in Atlassian JIRA, including the improving and addition of new business processes, plugin and gateway implementation, system configuration.

They fully customized JIRA for the processing company's business, improved functionality and integrated the developed system with various third-party systems including treasury.gov, MasterCard, JIRA, customer's ERP-system, etc.

All our project development we were also supported by Exposit Business Analyst that analyzed and managed requirements, groomed backlog and supported the team with effective communication. Exposit QA manager carried out UI, functional, API and stress testing.

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

Initially the team composition was two software engineers, Business Analyst, QA manager and Project Manager. The team line-up changed over time and in 2020 it consisted of four: PM, BA and two software engineers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

It’s confidential as our customer is a huge Fintech company. But our continuing cooperation with Exposit may indicate that we are satisfied with the quality of work.

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

Their Project Manager planned iterations and coordinated the team effectively. The production process was built on flexible Scrum methodology. We communicated mostly via Telegram.

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

The quality of the software being developed, expertise in JIRA and the level of communication. By the way, they always work proactively.

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

There is always room for improvement. It is worth working on the accuracy of estimating the scope of work and the speed of the team. Overall, everything went smoothly. I wish their team only growth and development of expertise.