Improvs.com

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the owner of BrownCastle Games, a board game manufacturer primarily known for making crokinole boards.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Improvs.com?

We needed help creating an online platform for our customers to connect with other players. World Crokinole Rankings exists to unite players across the globe in a competitive and community-driven platform that celebrates skill, achievement, and the growth of the game. Our mission is to provide an engaging ranking system that tracks player ratings, statistics, and tournament performances in both singles and doubles.Through kingdoms that represent states and countries, players rise in rank, earning titles and recognition for their accomplishments. Our interactive world map makes it easy to discover, create, and join events, while our tournament system rewards not just participation but performance against the strongest fields.By combining global leaderboards with local clubs and communities, World Crokinole Rankings empowers players at every level to measure their progress, celebrate their victories, and connect with a worldwide network of crokinole enthusiasts. At its core, our mission is simple: to grow the game, honor its players, and bring the world of crokinole closer together.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

From the visual layout to the database and complex calculations, Improvs.com has built both the front- and backend of the system for us. They’ve even helped with programming mathematical challenges related to our matchmaking system. One of the most impressive things they’ve done is design all the complex types of tournament modes and structures that we need to play crokinole in doubles or singles. They’ve made the program handle anything our players could need.After this was completed, they helped produce a companion app for iOS and Android to make the system easier to access and use.

What is the team composition?

We’ve worked with an unknown number of teammates from Improvs.com.

How did you come to work with Improvs.com?

We found them on Upwork. They had high ratings, their pricing fit our budget, they offered good value for the cost, and they were located in the US.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent around $10,000 to $49,999.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with them in August 2025, and our engagement is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Improvs.com has broken down each step required to build the system from the ground up. They report when each step is completed, like creating the database and basic wireframe of the app. Then, they move on to completing more specific features, like adding the leaderboard ranking system, different types of tournament structures, and a map where users can view upcoming events. Users can also host events and create clubs.

We’re about to test the system with club leaders across the world before opening it to the public. Once the testing phase is complete, we’ll track how many events are created, how many matches are played, and how many tournaments are hosted. Since it’s primarily a ranking system and a way for users to create events for other players to find, monitoring how many events are created and how many ranked matches are recorded will help us track engagement and player statistics.

How did Improvs.com perform from a project management standpoint?

They’re highly responsive to our needs. When I report bugs or errors we find while testing, they fix those issues within the same week. We communicate via virtual meetings, emails, and messaging apps.

What did you find most impressive about them?

I didn’t expect them to be as contactable and personable as they are. It’s nice to work with someone in my time zone. When I want to video chat, Anton (CEO) always finds time to be available for us.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, there aren’t any. We’ll continue using them for ongoing feature updates.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Executive of NRFI Algorithm

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

NRFI Zone is a premium sports analytics application focused on Major League Baseball betting, specifically No Run First Inning and Yes Run First Inning markets. The platform combines advanced AI modeling with real time data to generate highly accurate probabilities for each game.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Improvs.com to accomplish?

• Build a high performance sports analytics application that delivers accurate NRFI probabilities using AI driven models and real time MLB data.
• Develop a clean, modern, and user friendly interface with fast load times, real time updates, and intuitive navigation across dashboards, pitcher data, and team analytics.
• Implement core monetization and growth features including subscription tiers, promo code functionality, and a fully functional bet tracking system.

SOLUTION

How did you find Improvs.com?

Online Search

Why did you select Improvs.com over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost

How many teammates from Improvs.com were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

The scope of work included building the NRFI Zone platform from the ground up as a full scale sports analytics application. This involved both frontend and backend development, UI and UX design, data integrations, and implementing core business features to support growth and monetization. Improvs developed a clean and modern mobile and web interface that allows users to easily navigate between dashboards, pitcher analytics, team data, and matchup insights. They built real time data pipelines to support live odds tracking and continuously updating statistics, ensuring the platform remains fast and reliable. A major part of the project was implementing the AI driven probability system, allowing users to view NRFI and YRFI predictions based on multiple data inputs. They also integrated subscription functionality with multiple tiers, payment processing, and promo code capabilities to support user acquisition and retention. Additional deliverables included a fully functional bet tracking system where users can log bets, track performance, and analyze results over time. They also ensured the platform was scalable for future feature expansion and optimized for performance across devices. Overall, Improvs delivered a complete, high quality application that exceeded expectations in both functionality and design.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project delivered strong early traction and measurable success across key growth metrics. Within the first 4 weeks of launch, the app reached over 3,000 downloads, demonstrating immediate market interest and effective execution. The platform also scaled quickly to over 5,000 total users, showing strong adoption and engagement. In addition, more than 1,000 users signed up for free trials within the first 2 weeks, highlighting the effectiveness of the onboarding experience, product value, and subscription strategy.

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

Improvs demonstrated excellent project management throughout the entire process. They consistently delivered items on time and often moved faster than expected without sacrificing quality. Their team was highly organized, communicative, and proactive in keeping the project on track. They were extremely responsive to any questions or requests I had, often replying quickly and implementing changes just as fast. Feedback was handled efficiently, and they were very flexible when adjustments or new ideas were introduced.

What was your primary form of communication with Improvs.com?

Virtual Meeting

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

What stood out most was the level of design quality and attention to detail they brought to the project. The final product looks and feels significantly better than anything else in my space, both in terms of functionality and overall user experience. They have a great ability to take an idea and turn it into a clean, modern, and highly intuitive design that actually enhances how users interact with the platform. Everything from layout to flow to small details was executed at a very high level. Their design work alone sets them apart, and it is a major reason why the platform stands out so much compared to my competitors.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Improvs.com could have done differently?

No

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO/Founder of Fantabase Inc.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Fantabase is an AI-first fantasy football platform launching for the August 2026 NFL season. We do the work so users can watch football — our personal agent, Howie Wynn, handles the scouting, analysis, rankings, and trade math so users don't have to. Live on iOS and Android today, freemium model with the first league free.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Improvs.com to accomplish?

• Build the core backend for Fantabase's mobile and web platform — the .NET 8 / Azure architecture powering Howie Wynn's league-aware analysis, including Sleeper integration, multi-format dynasty valuation, trade analyzer, and the chatbot tooling surface.

SOLUTION

How did you find Improvs.com?

Online Search

Why did you select Improvs.com over others?

Great culture fit

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

Milestone-based engagement covering backend systems for an AI-driven fantasy football platform.Milestone-based engagement covering backend systems for an AI-driven fantasy football platform. Each milestone is scoped with clear acceptance criteria and a fixed price, delivered with a test report documenting scenarios run and results observed. Representative work includes: Multi-format dynasty valuation system supporting 12 league-format variants (dynasty/redraft × 1QB/Superflex × PPR tiers), including a production database migration on a 4,897-row table, a 12-URL sync loop against FantasyCalc's API with partial-failure handling, and refactor of the chatbot tooling to honor format arguments end-to-end. League-aware chatbot infrastructure integrating Sleeper league settings detection, so the same player returns different values and recommendations depending on which of a user's leagues they're asking about. Trade analyzer logic, historical value fetching, and Vegas odds reasoning integrated into the Howie Wynn chatbot surface. Schema migrations with documented rollback plans, composite index design, and backward-compatibility handling. Full test-fixture updates across multiple test files, with a recent delivery including 1,147 automated tests passing and 20 out of 20 real-user scenarios validated across four production-configured fantasy leagues.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Resolved a data-correctness gap affecting the majority of the user base; Howie now serves format-accurate dynasty values across 12 league-format variants instead of a single hardcoded format. 20 out of 20 real-user scenarios across four production-configured leagues passed end-to-end validation after deployment. 1,147 automated tests passing post-refactor with zero regressions. Trade analyzer payload reduced from approximately 5KB to 400 bytes per request, with corresponding latency improvement. Production migration on a 4,897-row table completed additively with zero data loss and a documented rollback path.

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

Milestones are delivered on the timelines we scope. When complications arise — schema ordering, backward-compatibility concerns, migration risk — Anton raises them proactively in planning rather than surfacing them at delivery. On the recent multi-format sync project, he flagged a migration-ordering risk that would have caused duplicate-key errors if handled wrong, identified it in the planning phase, and structured the deployment sequence to avoid it. Improvs.com's communication is fast and asynchronous-friendly. He works across time zones and responds in hours, not days. When I push back on scope, cost, or technical approach, he engages directly and substantively rather than defensively.

What was your primary form of communication with Improvs.com?

Email or Messaging App

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

Two things. First, the insistence on milestone-based contracts rather than hourly. This aligns incentives cleanly — I pay for outcomes, they get paid for delivery, and we both know what "done" means before work starts. Most contractors I interviewed defaulted to hourly arrangements. Anton's milestone-based default is a signal of confidence in his own estimates and throughput, and it's made our working relationship simpler from day one. Second, the willingness to push back. On more than one occasion Anton has challenged a technical decision I came in with, and on more than one of those occasions he's been right. That's worth significantly more than a contractor who executes whatever you specify without question.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Improvs.com could have done differently?

nope.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am a treasurer of Noodynamics Institute

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

educational

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Improvs.com to accomplish?

• education and history

SOLUTION

How did you find Improvs.com?

Other

Why did you select Improvs.com over others?

• High ratings
• Close to my geographic location
• Great culture fit
• Company values aligned

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

build new website

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

new improved website to attract followers

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

professional and excellent services

What was your primary form of communication with Improvs.com?

Email or Messaging App

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

 We had made a sufficient tentative--i.e.,"working"--website and then literally searched for years trying to find the right webdesign team capable of a redesign to do justice to the extraordinarily complex and recondite needs of the Noodynamics Institute. Despite many promising leads and prospects, we simply could not find the necessary blend of technological brilliance, creative vitality, and inspired vision capable of building the cyberspace facade our virtual academy needed for many years. Then we discovered Anton Zalis and his team at Improvs.com. It is not hyperbole to describe this crew as a veritable "dream team" of webdesign. They exemplify the type of expertise that does not merely actualize every structure and function desired, but expands and intensifies even the loftiest of hopes and expectations; the type of excellence that does not do every single thing one asks for without omission, but NOT due to oversight, rather based on the fact that many of their ideas are so superior to one's own, that one is simultaneously humbled and honored to be countermanded. It is the policy at Improvs that the customer gets what they want, with unlimited revisions to make this promise a reality, but I can state unequivocally that there was not a single occasion in which an alternate scenario was used by Anton and his team, and we asked for it to be done as originally specified. One knows one is in the presence of true greatness when one's best laid plans are frequently revised and the result is so awesome that emberassment at one's own limited vision forestalls any possibility of disappointment. Nor is this massive array of talent and skill aprioristically detached from content, but instead thoroughly inspired, well beyond sufficiency, making the team no mere temporary employees of the company, but a de facto part of one's project and its aspirations from conception to conclusion. The team is a pleasure to work with, both in talent and temperament, and their professionalism is second nature, whether the interactions are related to conceiving great plans or correcting insufficient attempts. They are blessed with brilliance coupled with an openmindedness that is too rare in this imagination-constrained domain. Moreover, this is one of the very few tech-oriented companies that is remarkably free of ideological pretense or specialist bias, and is therefore meritocratically driven. In a field full of many great intellects but also many impoverished souls, with a surprisingly large percentage sincerely believing that little of importance preceded the so-called Information Age, this is a tight-knit team of young avant-garde creatives whose work is enhanced by a deep culture-historical sensibility.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Improvs.com could have done differently?

no

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the founder of Eva Ready Reading, a children’s bookstore.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Improvs.com?

We needed help building a website to create personalized e-books.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Improvs.com built the entire system for our company to have an e-book. The team handled all the development work.

What is the team composition?

We worked with one teammate from Improvs.com.

How did you come to work with Improvs.com?

We found them on Upwork. We chose them over other options because their reply showed knowledge and value.

How much have you invested with them?

We spent less than $10,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked together from April–May 2026.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Improvs.com delivered a functional website for our business. We had no ability to make sales before, so this was a great result.

How did Improvs.com perform from a project management standpoint?

Improvs.com delivered on time. We communicated via virtual meetings.

What did you find most impressive about them?

We were impressed with their timeliness, quality, and communication.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, there weren’t any.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

 I am the Chief Marketing Officer of a gaming company 

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We are an app start-up 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Improvs.com to accomplish?

• Design MVP
• App Store and Play Store approval
• AI video tracking

SOLUTION

How did you find Improvs.com?

Other

Why did you select Improvs.com over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost

How many teammates from Improvs.com were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

We hired Improvs to build a cross-platform mobile app for our startup. The project involved creating a beta/MVP version of a consumer-facing app with authentication, payment processing, real-time features, and admin tools. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

App Store approval. 

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

We enjoyed working with Improvs and will engage them for more projects in the future. 

What was your primary form of communication with Improvs.com?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Anton is very easy to work with, flexible, and extremely compassionate/understanding when working with stakeholders who do not have a technical background. The Improvs team had no problem pivoting when needed. 

Are there any areas for improvement or something Improvs.com could have done differently?

Nothing I can think of at the moment.