# STX Next STX Next Reviews (101), Pricing, Services & Verified Ratings - Premier Verified - 4.7 out of 5 average review rating - 8 connections joined STX Next's Network [Visit Website](https://stxnext.com/?utm_source=clutch&utm_medium=referral) [Get a Custom Proposal](https://clutch.co/profile/stx-next) **AI and Data Solutions built on Python heritage** **STX Next is Europe’s largest Python-focused digital engineering partner, specializing in Data, AI, and Cloud solutions that help organizations unlock business value from their data.** With delivery centers in Poland and Mexico, we combine deep technical expertise with a flexible nearshore model trusted by clients across **Industrials, Financial Services, Technology, Energy & Utilities, and Healthcare**. Our teams design and build **modern data platforms** (Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg), **AI-powered applications** and **agents**, and **cost-optimized cloud architectures** on AWS and Azure—always grounded in pragmatic delivery and measurable ROI. For nearly 20 years, our strong **Python heritage** has been the foundation for our growth, enabling us to bridge software engineering with data science and AI innovation. As an **ISO-certified AWS partner,** we maintain rigorous data security and compliance standards while helping clients scale through automation, intelligent workflows, and AI readiness. At STX Next, we build technology that works in practice, not just in theory—turning complex systems into simple, scalable, and impactful solutions. Get in touch with us today! ## Company Information - Minimum project size: $50,000+ - Hourly rate: $50 - $99 - Number of employees: 250 - 999 - 5 Locations: - Poznań, Poland (Headquarters) - London, England - Mérida, Mexico - Spring, TX - Eschborn, Germany - Founded in 2005 - 4 languages: English, Spanish, German, Polish - 2 timezones: Central European Time (CET), Central Standard Time (CST) ## Services, Focus Areas, Industries, and Clients ### Service Lines - 60% AI Development - 25% Web Development - 15% Generative AI ### Focus Areas - Programming & Scripting: - 80% Python - 20% C# - Application Platforms: - 70% Amazon Application Development Framework - 30% Azure Platform - Frameworks and CMS: - 70% Django - 30% .NET - CMS Focus: - 70% Wagtail CMS - 30% Microsoft SharePoint - AI Technologies & Models: - 50% Anthropic - 50% Open AI GPT-3 - Generative AI Focus: - 45% AI Code Generation - 40% AI Text Generation - 15% AI Speech Generation - AI Expertise: - 40% Natural Language Processing - 30% Machine Learning - 10% AI Recommendation Systems - 10% Chatbots & Conversational AI - 10% Computer Vision ### Industries - 20% Manufacturing - 15% Energy & natural resources - 10% Insurance - 15% Advertising & marketing - 30% Financial services - 10% Medical ### Clients - 5% Small Business (<$10M) - 60% Midmarket ($10M - $1B) - 35% Enterprise (>$1B) ## Pricing Snapshot Average rating for cost based on this provider's reviews: 4.4 out of 5 **What Clients Have Said** *(This summary is based on verified Clutch reviews.)*: STX Next offers competitive pricing with good value for cost, appealing to various clients including startups and established firms. Projects range from $15,000 to over $1 million, with many clients noting high satisfaction and effective communication, though some mentioned the need for improved documentation and resource availability. **Most Common Project Size**: $50,000 to $199,999 based on 61 reviews *(Pricing information for this provider is based on reviews where the project size was available.)* ### Pricing by Service - Custom Software Development: $200,000 to $999,999 based on 34 reviews - Web Development: $50,000 to $199,999 based on 20 reviews - IT Staff Augmentation: $1,000,000 to $9,999,999 based on 7 reviews - DevOps Managed Services: $50,000 to $199,999 based on 3 reviews - UX/UI Design: $10,000 to $49,000 based on 3 reviews - AI Development: $50,000 to $199,999 based on 2 reviews - Mobile App Development: $50,000 to $199,999 based on 2 reviews - CRM Consulting and SI: $50,000 to $199,999 based on 1 review - Business Consulting: $10,000 to $49,000 based on 1 review - Market Research: Less than $10,000 based on 1 review - Application Management & Support: $50,000 to $199,999 based on 1 review - Other Design: Less than $10,000 based on 1 review - Application Testing: $1,000,000 to $9,999,999 based on 1 review - API Development: $50,000 to $199,999 based on 1 review - Branding: Less than $10,000 based on 1 review - Architectural Design: Confidential based on 1 review - Computer Engineering: Confidential based on 1 review - E-Commerce Development: Confidential based on 1 review - Engineering: Confidential based on 1 review - IoT Development: Confidential based on 1 review ## Reviews Clutch investigates each reviewer's identity and work history. 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[Learn More](https://help.clutch.co/en/knowledge/how-clutch-verifies-reviews) ### STX Next Review Insights Overall Review Rating: 4.7 - Quality: 4.7 - Schedule: 4.5 - Cost: 4.4 - Willing to Refer: 4.8 ### Top Mentions - High-quality work (32 mentions) - Communicative (22 mentions) - Flexible (19 mentions) - Great project management (17 mentions) - Proactive (16 mentions) - Timely (15 mentions) - Collaborative (13 mentions) - Team players (13 mentions) - Transparent (11 mentions) - Professional (9 mentions) - Experienced (7 mentions) - Easy to work with (6 mentions) - Unique expertise (5 mentions) - Well-organized projects (5 mentions) - Detail-oriented (4 mentions) - Exceptional performance (4 mentions) - Great team (4 mentions) - Honest (4 mentions) - Knowledgeable (4 mentions) - Receptive (3 mentions) ### Review Highlights **Positive Client Feedback and Testimonials** Many clients provided positive feedback and testimonials, highlighting STX Next's professionalism, technical acumen, and dedication to delivering quality work. These endorsements reflect the company's reputation as a reliable development partner. **Impressive Adaptability and Flexibility** STX Next's ability to adapt to client needs and provide flexible solutions is frequently highlighted. They effectively manage changing requirements and timelines, ensuring that projects progress smoothly despite potential challenges. **Challenges with Onboarding and Initial Setup** Some clients experienced challenges during the initial onboarding phase, including delays and miscommunications. However, these issues were generally resolved as the projects progressed, indicating a need for improved initial setup processes. **High Client Retention and Repeat Business** STX Next's ability to build strong, long-lasting relationships with clients is evident in their high client retention rates and repeat business. Clients often return for additional projects, indicating trust and satisfaction with their services. **Expertise in Python Development** STX Next is recognized for their strong proficiency in Python, making them a reliable partner for projects requiring this expertise. Clients appreciate their ability to handle complex tasks and deliver high-quality code, which is often crucial for the success of their projects. **Positive Impact on Client Businesses** STX Next's contributions have positively impacted client businesses, leading to increased efficiency, user satisfaction, and in some cases, significant revenue growth. Their work often results in improved user interfaces and enhanced system performance. **Proactive and Collaborative Approach** STX Next is praised for their proactive approach to problem-solving and collaboration. They engage with clients to understand their business goals, often suggesting improvements and additional features to enhance project outcomes. **Commitment to Client Success** Clients value STX Next's commitment to their success, noting the team's willingness to go above and beyond to ensure project goals are met. This dedication is a key factor in maintaining long-term partnerships with their clients. **Need for Improved Documentation** A few clients mentioned that documentation could be provided earlier or more comprehensively during the project. While STX Next eventually delivered the necessary documentation, earlier availability could have facilitated smoother project execution. **Successful Delivery of Complex Projects** STX Next has a track record of successfully delivering complex projects, often involving cutting-edge technologies and integrations. Their ability to manage intricate requirements and deliver high-quality solutions is a key strength. ### STX Next Reviews #### Python Development for Investment Management Firm (Featured Review) **The Project** - Services: Custom Software Development - Project size: $1,000,000 to $9,999,999 - Project length: June 2019 - Ongoing **Project Summary**: STX Next used Python to develop an interactive frontend for a data discovery application. Additionally, they provided a team of engineers to build tooling for discretionary hedge fund portfolio managers. **Review Rating**: 5.0 - Quality: 4.5 - Schedule: 4.0 - Cost: 4.0 - Willing to Refer: 5.0 **The Reviewer** COO, Alpha Technology, Man Group - Industry: Financial services - Client size: 1,001-5,000 Employees - Review Type: Phone Interview - Verified **The Review** — Jun 30, 2020 **Feedback Summary**: STX Next provided excellent work, resulting in an ongoing partnership. The team took the time to get to know their partners and project requirements. They can be described as disciplined and experienced. "“They’re very inquisitive engineers, plugged in designers, and want to know your business in a genuine way.” " **BACKGROUND** Introduce your business and what you do there. I’m the COO of the front office technology team of an investment management firm. **OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE** What challenge were you trying to address with STX Next? The demand for Python developers in cities like London, Boston, and New York is fairly intense. We’re very much a Python shop and we invest a lot of time in our recruiting process and hiring standards. It was becoming increasingly more difficult to find good talent in those geographic hubs and so we wanted to expand our talent pool. We were looking for a firm with a track record of expertise. **SOLUTION** What was the scope of their involvement? We’ve undertaken two main approaches with them.  We started with a standalone project where we wished to enhance data discovery via a rich and interactive frontend. It was a relatively packaged up type process. Alongside STX Next, we gathered requirements from end-users, and STX Next provisioned a team that worked alongside our in-house data engineering team to build that out. A month later, we kicked off a team augmentation approach also. During this project, STX Next provided engineers to augment our existing engineering team, which was aligned to our discretionary hedge fund building out tooling for the portfolio. The STX Next engineers became part of that team’s daily workflow, their prioritization process, and engage directly with their end-users. What is the team composition? They brought a team of engineers with a mix of front- and backend. They had a product owner on their side, which was really key to the success. They came to London and we did design sessions in-person. The product owner really built up a very good understanding of our business, as did all of the engineers. They handled the project management for the standalone project. In the team augmentation set up, they provided the engineers, and we provided the project and product management. How did you come to work with STX Next? We knew them from a few years back when we used them to build out a performance attribution tool which is still in use to this day. We were aware that they positioned themselves as Python specialists, and it felt there would be natural synergy in partnering up with them. How much have you invested with them? We spent about $1 million. What is the status of this engagement? We started working together in June 2019, and the work is ongoing. **RESULTS & FEEDBACK** What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement? We’re happy with the results on the standalone project approach as well as the team augmentation. From the very start of the data catalog piece they built for us, they were thinking about how to track adoption metrics for this tool when it gets released into the world. We have a set of metrics for that particular tool that we can see the uptake in our user base. I can only characterize it as a success. We started with one standalone project, one small team augmentation, and we have since added some of their resources in the DevOps space with ongoing maintenance. The fact that we’re adding more building blocks into this STX Next ecosystem tells you about our conviction to work with them. How did STX Next perform from a project management standpoint? They do product management in addition to project management. They have a well-honed, agile delivery process. The other element that really complements that is they are incredibly strong in design.  They have a very capable design team of in-house designers. That’s a great leverage effect for any firm that doesn’t have that in-house expertise, to be able to draw upon that and get that rich design layer built into your products. It creates a very nice UX on an end-to-end basis. They really want to get to know your company. They’re very disciplined. We wanted to spend that first year learning how to best interact with them. Now we’re in a place where we can plan for potentially more work. What did you find most impressive about them? I spent a lot of time speaking with other firms in the analysis phase of this initiative. STX Next had built a really nice culture, one that we felt would be compatible with ours. They’re very inquisitive engineers, plugged in designers, and want to know your business in a genuine way. Are there any areas they could improve? When we first started working with them, I don’t think the finance industry was their biggest vertical. There has been a learning curve of domain knowledge. The nature of their firm is they will provide their services pretty much across industries. Do you have any advice for potential customers? Do a proof of concept. Pick a project and make it something not too scary and not too close to your core intellectual property. Embrace the STX Next way of doing things as a starting point. The process can be adapted to suit your team’s working style but get a sense of how they would approach it so that you can map the differences and similarities. They will come to your office to carry out rich design and requirement gathering sessions with your end-users. It is critical that you spend that initial few weeks answering all the questions that they ask and prompting them to ask you 10 more questions. The more time you spend with them upfront, really getting them to understand your business domain knowledge, the better the work they will deliver. --- #### Platform Migration & Algorithm Dev for Data Analytics Co **The Project** - Services: Web Development - Project size: $10,000 to $49,999 - Project length: Aug. 2018 - Aug. 2020 **Project Summary**: STX Next initially supported a platform migration to the latest versions of Python and Django and worked to reduce backend technical debt. They later aided in the development of a machine learning algorithm. **Review Rating**: 4.0 - Quality: 4.0 - Schedule: 4.0 - Cost: 4.0 - Willing to Refer: 4.0 **The Reviewer** Director, Data Analytics Firm - Industry: Information technology - Client size: 1-10 Employees - Review Type: Online Review - Verified **The Review** — Jul 11, 2019 **Feedback Summary**: While initial deliverables exacerbated the platform's downtown, the second partnership resulted in a framework that supports advancement. STX Next provided video updates that added value to the engagement. To support successful collaboration, future clients should encourage direct communication. This review was originally 2 stars overall. It was updated by the client on August 31, 2020. ""Their machine learning developer most impressed us." " **BACKGROUND** Please describe your company and your position there. A data analytics based company, providing data analytics and insights in both a B2B and B2C manner. **OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE** For what projects/services did your company hire STX Next? Technical debt work and devops What were your goals for this project? We hired STX Next to help without technical debt moving us to latest Python and Django versions and ultimately get our backend up to date for a migration to a react.js front end. **SOLUTION** How did you select this vendor? We selected this vendor based on their reviews here on Clutch, so we thought we best give back to the community and provide our feedback. Describe the project and the services they provided in detail. Migrate from python 2.7- python 3. Migrate to latest version of Django. Reduce technical debt of all backend to enable us to focus on a react migration. What was the team composition? 1 Backend developer, 2 Devops and a Project Manager **RESULTS & FEEDBACK** Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business? Unfortunately, I am here to report that the project was not a resounding success. Costs ran away from us and we are still cleaning up a lot of issues after we ended their engagement with us. How was project management arranged and how effective was it? Project management was ad hoc at best. Multiple times I was asking their PM for updates with nothing back. Also, we were sold on a final terraforming project, which was not fit for our purpose. What did you find most impressive about this company? Their backend developer was very good, he worked tirelessly to fix the backend of the system. He was very accountable and responsive. Are there any areas for improvement? Communication, and properly qualifying project requirements before going down that route. As businesses, we do not want "yes men" we want to be challenged if a particular path is not correct or not fit for purpose. The terraform project has had to be completely rewritten to be compatible with our react branch. We are still trying to eliminate daily downtime caused by STX next. **UPDATED REVIEW** BACKGROUND Introduce your business and what you do there. I’m the director of an analytics firm. This review was updated by the client on August 31, 2020. The original star ratings were: Overall – 2, Quality – 2, Schedule – 2, Cost – 2, NPS - 2 New content is below: OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE What challenge were you trying to address with STX Next? We engaged STX Next to improve our Django backend, updating it, and removing all of the technical debt. We also engaged them in a data analytics project. SOLUTION  What was the scope of their involvement? For the first project, the goal was to remove technical debt and upgrade our platform to the newest extension of Platnum Django. After that project, their team came to the table again and engaged in a data analytics project for us. They helped to build essentially a machine learning algorithm. What is the team composition? I worked with three people from STX Next. It was a tight-knit team, which I preferred because it was a technical project. I worked with a delivery manager, a developer, and a data analytics teammate. How did you come to work with STX Next? I originally found them on Clutch. How much have you invested with them? At this point, we’re probably knocking on $50,000. What is the status of this engagement? We began our collaboration on the data analytics project in March 2020, and it’ll come to a close soon. RESULTS & FEEDBACK What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?  STX Next came back to the table to rectify the relationship, and they’ve done a good job with the data analytics project. We’ve definitely seen improvements. Their team tried to grasp our technical problems and solve it in the best way possible. While it’s too early to provide quantitative metrics, their work’s promising. They set up a framework for our data analytics to improve and evolve going forward. How did STX Next perform from a project management standpoint? There was clear communication about their progress and availability. They sent routine emails, and we had meetings. As we worked across different time zones, they often recorded video presentations of their progress during which their team explained their decisions. Those videos were probably half an hour long and definitely a value add. What did you find most impressive about them? Their machine learning developer most impressed us. His grasp of the problem as well as his ability to effectively communicate his solutions to us was impressive. While it’s difficult, he managed to communicate highly technical ideas in completely understandable terms. Are there any areas they could improve? They could schedule more calls. We probably needed slightly more meetings to keep the project moving forward at the right pace. Do you have any advice for potential customers? Communication’s key to any engagement. Written emails may not be as effective as meetings, especially if you’re working across time zones. If you meet, it’s more efficient than 50 emails back and forth. It would be helpful to hold STX Next to a meeting schedule where you review their work. --- ## Portfolio & Awards ### Wunderman Thompson: Transforming Brand with AI Wunderman Thompson (current VML), a company constantly growing and accelerating new data, needed an ML solution that would evaluate the quality of their assets on a larger scale, speeding up the process. Their existing data-gathering process was a significant bottleneck – which slowed them down, creating a need to redesign their architecture. Additionally, they designed The WPP Open Brand Guardian – an AI platform that can be plugged into the existing production process, allowing for brand governance – and sought a reliable partner to assist in developing it. Designing ML-powered microservicesTo address the client’s needs we created an advanced architecture, allowing existing models and algorithms to be reused and run on a large scale. The full scope of our work included: 01 Redesigned architectureOur team redesigned the existing architecture, introducing ML-focused microservices with better-defined responsibilities. By doing so, we were able to more easily auto-scale with an independent group of computing endpoints in Kubernetes. 02 Enhanced AI microservicesSTX Next suggested a messaging system for running most Machine Learning and computer vision tasks by multiple Celery workers in parallel. 03 Image processing pipelines We addressed the challenge of detecting undefined, custom image parts (logos, fonts, particular objects, etc.), and created a framework for generating new training datasets, using data augmentation and synthetic data. 04 The WPP Open Brand GuardianOur experts developed an AI-driven platform, offering brand governance, inclusion, compliance with legal, industry, and market requirements, and creative excellence. It reviews creative assets and provides valuable and immediate insights ### Podimo: Transforming search with Machine Learning Podimo, a Danish leader in the podcast and audiobook industry, sought to revolutionize their search functionality to better serve their diverse user base. With a focus on rewarding creators and providing a seamless listening experience, Podimo aimed to enhance the accuracy and relevance of the matches according to user preferences. Podimo's existing search system faced challenges in meeting user expectations, often delivering irrelevant results due to a limited understanding of queries and content semantics. To address this, STX Next proposed the incorporation of advanced methodologies such as Learning to Rank (LTR), semantic search, and conversational search to elevate the experience. Additionally, we decided to implement Machine Learning models that would allow analysis of user interactions, understanding their intent, and facilitating a conversational search interface. Combining Machine Learning with semantic search modelsTaking the customer's needs into consideration, our dedicated team proposed the implementation of new features, including:A Machine Learning model: A dynamic ML model trained on user interactions to adjust podcast and audiobook rankings, aligning search results with user preferences.A semantic search model: A sophisticated language model designed to understand user queries' context and semantics, enabling content discovery beyond lexical matching.Conversation search: Introduction of a conversational search assistant to bridge user interactions with the search engine, gathering feedback for further enhancements.Search results combination: An integration of lexical and semantic search outcomes through an ML model to re-rank results for accuracy and relevance.The incorporation of these features led to significant benefits for Podimo and its users: Average position of clicked shows improved by 27%.  Conversion rate (searches resulting in a selected show) increased by 3.5%.  Meaningful listens (plays exceeding 5 minutes) rose by 1.3%.  ### appliedAI’s Use Case Management Tool Reacting to the EU AI Act regulationsAs the regulatory landscape in the European Union evolved with the introduction of the EU AI Act, businesses sought effective ways to manage their AI use cases to ensure compliance and maximize their tools’ potential. Recognizing the significance of this challenge, appliedAI joined forces with STX Next to equip enterprises worldwide with a competitive edge through a unique Use Case Management Tool. The solution serves as a strategic asset, facilitating not only risk assessment but also AI portfolio optimization and driving progress in AI initiatives. Compliance, transparency, and data-driven planningAddressing the potential issues and confusion related to the EU AI Act, our comprehensive product gives companies a clear overview of their AI use cases. Here’s how our solution empowers businesses: 01 Comprehensive Compliance OversightOur platform provides a centralized dashboard offering a holistic view of all AI use cases within your organization, ensuring adherence to the EU AI Act. Simplified tracking, auditing, and reporting processes support legal and compliance departments. 02 Data-Driven Decision-MakingLeveraging extensive research and innovative design, our platform features robust data analytics tools. These tools equip corporations with actionable insights to optimize AI strategies and enhance return on investment. 03 Enhancing European Industry LeadershipAimed at AI and legal departments, our platform fosters innovation while ensuring regulatory compliance. This positions the European industry as a leader in AI on the global stage. ### EssenceMediacom: AI-Powered Media Management EssenceMediacom, a leading media agency, sought an innovative solution to enhance their media activation process. Together with STX Next, they developed OCTRA, an advanced campaign management solution that enhances efficiency and quality in advertising across multiple platforms.Addressing the challengesThe need for improved accuracy and simplified media processes led EssenceMediacom to seek an innovative tool. They wanted a comprehensive system to reduce manual tasks, enforce best practices, and enhance overall campaign quality across platforms. To address these challenges, EssenceMediacom partnered up with STX Next to deliver OCTRA, which incorporated various key features and functionalities: Consistent naming conventions Quality Assuracne processes Platform Integration User and client management Best practice implementation The implementation of the OCTRA tool brought significant improvements in the daily operations of EssenceMediacom's media activation teams: Effective quality controlComprehensive QA processes ensured that all campaigns adhered to set quality and compliance benchmarks, enhancing overall output quality. Streamlined managementImproved user and client management simplified access and role assignment, optimizing team efficiency. Future-ready technologyAdvanced AI and ML features ensured the tool's adaptability and continuous improvement, supporting long-term operational goals. ### Tour Partner Group: Simplifying hotel bookings Tour Partner Group, a leading B2B tour operator and destination management company for Northern Europe, wanted to test whether AI algorithms could improve their internal company process related to hotel bookings.The goal was to demonstrate that AI could aid in email classification, extract relevant information from emails, and generate suggested responses, including details on additional hotel availability and event impact information. Tour Partner Group asked for STX Next's assistance during the Proof-of-Concept stage of their project. The main challenge was to integrate an AI-based solution into their existing process, which heavily relies on email communication between clients and Tour Partner Group travel specialists. The company aspired to significantly reduce response times to client inquiries by equipping specialists with meaningful information derived from AI, enhancing both efficiency and client satisfaction.The AI-based solution cut busy dates verification time from 30 minutes to 15 seconds, as noted by the sales team. Due to the email classification step and optimized process pipeline, salespersons were instantly ready to engage with clients. The ML solution summarized and provided relevant information immediately upon receiving a client request, significantly shortening response times. As a result, sales representatives gained hours of preparation time for each request, as the entire process was completed in just a few seconds. ### Tiqets—a ticket-booking platform ABOUT Tiqets is an innovative platform for booking tickets to museums and attractions around the world. Since it was founded in 2014, the company has sold over 10 million tickets to more than 2,000 venues in 60+ countries. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Tiqets employs over 200 people and has offices in various locations globally. It’s raised €54 million in a recent funding round led by Airbnb.   CHALLENGE The main challenge for STX Next was to find ways to integrate the Tiqets platform with as many ticket providers as possible, so that users would no longer need to register with each of them individually while planning their trip. We were able to meet the client’s expectations by moving from a monolithic system to a microservice-based architecture, which was able to make direct contact with ticket suppliers via a variety of APIs. To make sure that the platform was fully integrated with vendors at all times without disruptions, we also delivered round-the-clock, real-time monitoring services. They allowed us to have a full picture of the integrations at any given moment and step in to fix any issues before they escalated. Where vendors didn’t provide any API for us to integrate with, we created web crawlers that went through their pages to purchase tickets. ### Blocktrade—a crypto trading platform ABOUT Blocktrade is a state-of-the-art crypto trading platform that prioritizes speed, reliability and safety. It allows retail users, brokers, professional traders as well as institutional money managers to trade with crypto assets and indices in a fully audited and highly secure way. CHALLENGE Blocktrade’s challenge was to build a top-of-the-line trading portal in the shortest possible time window and build an internal team of experts who will take over the development of the solution provided by STX Next. Working with Blocktrade, we created a web application that will allow retail users, brokers, professional traders as well as institutional money managers to trade with crypto assets and indices in a fully audited, highly secure way, performing similarly to Nasdaq.     ### CAS, visa, and arrival automation platform ABOUT Enroly provides the first CAS, visa and arrival automation platform. It makes post-acceptance administration simple and secure, allowing universities to easily implement the solutions into their existing systems. Not only does it help improve enrolment systems, but it also automatically detects risk factors to help higher education institutions to prevent mistakes that would otherwise become deferrals, withdrawals and refusals. Enroly's range of products are used by universities, students, agents, and regional offices in more than 100 countries around the world. PROJECT DETAILS Enroly CAS SHIELD, one of the company's three core services, helps university staff manage applications from prospective students. By offering functionalities such as smart prioritization of large applicant volumes, student interview booking system, and automated reading and assessing of documents, the company helps improve enrolment numbers. The platform also automatically detects risk factors and assigns enrolment confidence scores to applications. STX Next collaborated with Enroly to increase efficiency and effectiveness with machine learning solutions, including by automating document processing and information extraction. CHALLENGE Since Enroly's platform hosts large volumes of documents, the company was looking for ways to make their processing more efficient, free up their clients' employee time, as well as speed up the verification of documents and the application for the CAS statement. The first challenge, therefore, was to identify the specific areas that would benefit from the introduction of machine learning, and create a workable project scope.   Once the scope was established, Enroly needed the right tools to help it process and extract the relevant information from the huge range of documents it receives from all over the world (for instance birth certificates, bank statements, and handwritten notes) in varying quality and formats (for instance scans and photos). ### Lamden—Python Blockchain Development ABOUT Lamden is a suite of developer tools that speed up the process of creating new and custom blockchains and apps. The Lamden Tau token connects these new projects together to create the first ever blockchain enterprise solution. The Tau token has a more general use as a universal swap token between most existing cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others. This will allow TAU to exchange seamlessly between endless cryptocurrency pairs. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Clove, which we are working on, is a decentralized application that makes atomic swaps between chains easy. Most Bitcoin-based and Ethereum-based chains, including ERC20 tokens, are compatible with the protocol. Clove enables decentralized payment channel swaps and facilitates trustless communication between compatible blockchains on the network. ### NOTA NOTA—personal fragrance-mixing system ABOUT NOTA NOTA allows designers and creators from all over the world to design and share perfumes. It’s a new concept of mixing perfumes as part of your daily routine, just like using your coffee machine. NOTA NOTA received the iF Design Award in the Product category in 2018.   CHALLENGE NOTA NOTA wanted to build an app that would streamline the user flows and interface, as well as expand the social functionalities. STX Next worked in continuous feedback mode, adjusting features and screens to the client’s needs as quickly as possible. We put a great deal of effort into making the product easy to develop and maintain by using automation and containerization, static typing and static code analysis support, and automated unit testing. To reduce the costs both during and after development, we built the new NOTA NOTA app from scratch using React Native for cross-platform mobile development. We also used tried-and-tested, out-of-the-box solutions to limit the cost of features such as analytics, push notifications, or crash and error reporting. Product Design played a key role in the development process, working hand in hand with the development team to create a seamless experience. All the core app functionalities were redesigned by applying new user flows and interactions for designing, producing, and sharing perfumes. ### Newable—easy business loans ABOUT Newable Limited is a leading SME lender in the UK. Newable Limited and Liberis Limited. Newable Business Finance is focused on enabling growth of UK SMEs through the provision of finance to those who feel they are unable to access finance through mainstream providers (such as banks).   CHALLENGES Newable reached out to us with a complete idea for the product’s MVP and a very short deadline. They were faced with the task of transferring their whole loan application process from paper printed documents to the Internet. The system had to be easy to understand and use and reduce application time for end-customers while still including several levels of approval. STX Next delivered the entire platform along with automatic payments/payouts, integration with external tools, and additional mentoring services. ### Quality-focused IPR&D solutions ABOUT Evalueserve is the largest service provider of quality-focused IPR&D (In-Process Research & Development) search, intelligence, and IP prosecution solutions that brings together first-rate data analysis with cutting-edge technologies. Evalueserve uses their proprietary methodology to help organizations across various industries achieve better performance, become more connected, and generate more value. They combine the insights emerging from data and research with the efficiency of digital tools and platforms to design impactful solutions, tailored for their clients’ business needs. PROJECT DETAILS The client initially wanted to speed up the development of their product Insightloupe™ by extending their team with Python specialists. That was the original reason they had picked STX Next, the largest Python software vendor in Europe, as their outsourcing partner. Being a Dutch subsidiary of a large Indian company, their in-house team had already been working with a mixed team of developers from both India and the Netherlands, but they were looking for backend support closer to the Netherlands. Teaming up with a Python shop based out of Poland made sense for Evalueserve. CHALLENGE Evaluserve’s product Insightloupe™ was created predominantly for large corporations with internal R&D departments. The goal of Insightloupe™ is to help analysts research patent data, which is then presented to Evalueserve’s clients—such as managers, R&D specialists, or patent attorneys—helping them decide whether to invest in a particular technological domain. Simply put, it means that Evalueserve supports and facilitates making high-stakes business decisions within the field of data analysis.       ### Single-molecule scripting platform ABOUT LUMICKS arms life science researchers and drug development professionals with Nobel Prize-winning technology to uncover how single-molecule and single-cell level processes work. With LUMICKS’ solutions, researchers can quickly perform large amounts of automated single-molecule experiments with more accuracy. As a result, researchers can improve human health and answer life science questions that people couldn’t answer before. PROJECT DETAILS Harbor is a platform created specifically for researchers which enables them to make experiments easier, more reproducible and faster than ever before.  On this platform, researchers can easily publish, download, review and cite automation scripts and data analysis methods used for dynamic single-molecule research.   Joining the platform means that researchers can also benefit from becoming part of a community based around single-molecule experimentation where they can share knowledge and talk about their experiences. CHALLENGE At the moment when they approached STX Next, LUMICKS had a big picture idea of what Harbor would be. But the devil was in the details, and in the many unanswered questions LUMICKS faced: How should the platform look and feel? What features should be included in the MVP?  What should the tech stack be? What team size and budget are needed to deliver the MVP, and how quickly can it happen? Lumicks needed not just to answer these questions, but to actually get the work done: create the design; get aligned around one common product idea; present that product idea to potential users at an upcoming science fair only one month away;   actually build the MVP of the product within four months. ### BuildFax—property intelligence solutions ABOUT BuildFax provides business-critical property condition and history data to the largest insurance and financial institutions in the world. Based in Austin, Texas, the company delivers detailed data on remodeling, solar installations, major systems, new construction, maintenance history, and more. Their database encompasses over 84 billion data points on commercial and residential structures. In 2019, BuildFax was acquired by Verisk—a leading data analytics provider in the US.   CHALLENGE Our goal was to provide BuildFax with modern tools for handling big data. Before working with STX Next, their speed of receiving data sometimes took up to four times longer than the maximum time business logic allowed. Our solution to BuildFax’s challenge was using the Spark technology; or, more specifically, its Python implementation: the PySpark and Databricks tools. To accomplish this, STX Next provided a team of three developers whose task was supporting the BuildFax team throughout that difficult and trying process. BuildFax were very happy with our services and expanded their team as time went by, most notably with 24/7 maintenance and monitoring. ### Vyze—financing platform for retailers ABOUT Vyze is a leading financial technology company for retailers and manufacturers, acquired by Mastercard in 2019 and then Ally Lending in 2021. By combining a comprehensive lending supply, technology, and support under one roof, Vyze is able to deliver businesses simpler, more satisfying financing experiences for their customers, wherever and whenever they shop. Formerly known as NewComLink, Vyze raised $13 million in series B funding in 2016, bringing the total funding to $35 million.   CHALLENGE The main challenge for Vyze was scaling up their internal development team—bringing resources on board with the right skill set, who could hit the ground running and be able to execute on their strategy. They required qualified developers with extensive knowledge and prior experience. STX Next is meeting the challenges of the project head-on. Firstly, simultaneous dedication to two platforms alone is quite demanding. Secondly, certain solutions implemented in these products could not be found in other financing platforms, meaning the developers had to design the solutions from scratch. Finally, as the project progresses, the team is not only developing a cutting-edge fintech application, but also working together with Vyze to implement the best Scrum practices. STX Next Delivered On-site financing platform for retailers Fulfilling eCommerce financing experience Advanced and robust API Full automatic test coverage with Behave and Selenium Secure online credit applications and payments Quick credit assessment Intuitive front-end design  ### Unity—BuildBot-based continuous integration tool ABOUT Unity Technologies is the creator of a flexible and high-performance end-to-end development platform used to create rich, interactive 2D, 3D, VR, and AR experiences. Unity’s powerful graphics engine and full-featured editor serve as the foundation to develop beautiful games or apps and easily bring them to multiple platforms: mobile devices, home entertainment systems, personal computers, and embedded systems.   CHALLENGE Due to their large scale of operations and specific needs, Unity Technologies decided to create in-house tools for software development. Unity Technologies asked STX Next for assistance in maintaining and steadily improving one such tool called Katana. Katana is a fork of BuildBot—a continuous integration tool written in Python using the Twisted framework. With one master server, Katana is able to use an unlimited number of slave machines to perform builds. STX Next helped create Katana to meet the demand of more than 10,000 builds per day. With its scale, Katana is crucial for Unity’s daily operations, as any downtime would affect hundreds of Unity’s developers. Challenges included resolving memory leaks, dealing with race conditions, and adding new features to the highly sensitive system. ### Fleet Command mobile strategy game ABOUT DIGIT Game Studios is the largest game developer in Ireland, founded in 2012. With their vastly talented team of over 70 people, DIGIT makes free-to-play mobile strategy games. Released in 2014, the studio’s first game, Kings of the Realm, became a worldwide hit and the highest-grossing strategy game in over 50 countries. DIGIT followed up on their successful debut in 2018 with the release of Star Trek Fleet Command. PROJECT DETAILS STX Next supported DIGIT Game Studios in the final phases of getting ready for the worldwide launch of the free-to-play strategy mobile game set in the marvelous world of one of pop culture’s largest and greatest phenomena: Star Trek.   Star Trek Fleet Command is one of the biggest strategy games on mobile. Getting into the skin of a bone fide fleet commander, you assemble a crew, forge alliances, and set out on an epic adventure to rule over the galaxy with your armada. The game allows you to pick a side in the galactic war and fight arm in arm with the Federation, Klingons, or Romulans. Alternatively, you can be your own man or woman and walk a path of your choosing in the power struggle for galactic conquest. The choice is yours. CHALLENGE DIGIT Game Studios came to us for support in finalizing the mobile game they were building with Python on the server-side. At the time, development was already well underway and in the late stages. In order to deliver the product in time and of the highest possible quality, DIGIT decided they could use an extra pair of hands to help them out. ### Decernis—regulatory and safety compliance ABOUT Based in Washington DC, Decernis provides regulatory expertise and systems to manage food, consumer, and industrial product safety compliance across more than 180 countries. Decernis gives clients a complete regulatory intelligence on the market through unique, fully integrated, patented technology platforms covering over 80,000 regulations.   CHALLENGE Decernis’ application was based on a fairly old technological stack. Supporting the technology was a growing challenge, and Decernis saw the need to push the project into a direction where they could switch to newer technologies with better support. Another challenge for Decernis was finding a partner who could work with their multiple offices in various locations around the globe and across multiple time zones. ### Seerene—a code and people management platform ABOUT Seerene is a code+people management platform that sets a new standard for how CIOs manage their most important resources – their codebase and engineering capacity. The company is based in Germany with additional offices in Hong Kong and the US.   CHALLENGE The biggest challenge for the multiple product teams in this project has been finding the right way to implement deep analytics algorithms that transform low-level code-related metrics into KPIs and insights for C-Level users, Seerene’s target group. The team is constantly developing new features and machine learning capabilities into the product to make the raw data more consumable and full of value for decision makers of large corporates.   STX Next tackled the challenge by providing 2 full Scrum teams (+ Product Design support) and integrating their work with Seerene’s internal teams. ### Zappi—a platform supporting supply teaching ABOUT Zappi is a new company on the UK supply teaching market. They come with 20 years of experience in recruitment and education and a strong focus on positive user experience and employee happiness. Their new app effortlessly connects teaching and support staff with local schools for supply work—making the process faster, easier and more transparent. Zappi teachers lead to happy kids!   CHALLENGE Zappi approached us with the need to design and build their application almost from scratch. But they knew they wanted Python, as they were well-versed in its advantages. They emphasized developing the application following good practices. We used the design thinking process to shape the solution and agile methodology to implement it. Thanks to our joint efforts, the Zappi idea of creating freedom of choice for schools and supply staff is live. ### Signal Kit—smart communication tools for the K-12 Signal Kit is a complete communication suite for the K-12 community. With cloud-based mass communication, internal collaboration, business intelligence and industry leading oversight.   STX Next delivered: - Discovery workshops followed by a UX Audit of the existing web system to understand the potential risks, test usability and accessibility, find friction points, and recommend improvements. - A full-featured React Native mobile app. - Web App Improvements. We took an existing system and improved its design coherency to create or adjust the features that met the requirements of the users and business partners. We also prepared the product for future improvements. - Product recognition support through various design tasks, from product marketing materials, through motion and interaction designs and vision, to small interface tweaks. ### meet.mba—an MBA social networking platform ABOUT meet.mba is an online networking and communication tool designed for MBA admits, students, and alumni. It was created by Matthew Brooke-Hitching, an MBA who noticed the need to improve communication and collaboration throughout the business school journey. The resulting online platform now connects almost 4,000 MBAs and Executive MBAs around the world.   CHALLENGE The reason to create the meet.mba platform was the lack of an appropriate tool that would allow MBA students and alumni to effectively communicate with each other. Matthew Brooke-Hitching chose STX Next on account of the knowledge, tools and experience we could provide. We had a tight deadline for completing the product, but managed to stand up to the challenge. STX Next delivered a full Scrum team with support from a PO, advised on the scope of the MVP, and helped prioritize tasks. Our tech stack included Django, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, and more. The MVP allowed meet.mba to gain 500 users in the first 3 months from launch. Its features include intuitive private and group chat, user profiles with deep privacy customization, and a global board for requests for help, all tailored specifically to the MBA experience.   ### Online B2B fish and seafood marketplace ABOUT Procsea is the first online B2B fish and seafood marketplace. It simplifies and optimizes seafood purchases by putting buyers in direct contact with fishermen, suppliers, and fish merchants across Europe. Procsea has revolutionized the previously overly complex maritime industry by removing the need for intermediaries and promoting short supply chains. The platform’s innovative approach, which focuses on sustainable and traceable fishing, is free to use for both buyers and sellers. PROJECT DETAILS Procsea was looking to give an overall upgrade to its fish-selling platform to make it more efficient and user-friendly. CHALLENGE To achieve this objective, the company needed to migrate its website to the latest version of Python, make improvements to the code, integrate with a new CRM, and fix some of its databases.   ### Data analytics platform for debt securities ABOUT Credit Rubric is a UK based data analytics platform for European debt securities. They provide independent quantitative analysis combining financial performance, credit metrics and market pricing. Credit Rubric is also a part of the financial information group, Acuris. Their main goal is to store and share information regarding High Yield Bonds, the issuing companies, all details of the bonds, as well as up to date information. PROJECT DETAILS Credit Rubric is a tool that will help traders make better decisions.   The platform will provide the traders the necessary support by collecting and displaying data regarding High Yield Bonds and performing complex calculations. CHALLENGE Our challenge was to prepare an MVP of a system that will allow users to query for high yield bonds and display their details including financial performance statistics and yield calculations. ### System for financing the lease of vehicles ABOUT VB Leasing Poland SA is part of VB-Leasing International Holding GmbH. It is a member of the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken association of banks. Today it is one of the leading leasing companies in Central and Eastern Europe and the leading company on the Polish market. PROJECT DETAILS The system allows for intuitive negotiation of financial parameters, comparison between multiple variants of hundreds of offers and simplification of this procedure by issuing automated decisions and compliance reports. ### Cashback and Rewards ABOUT TBSeen is a startup run by 12 British female celebrities, including the founder Kate Thornton. TBSeen.com brings together money-saving deals, offers, and rewards from 500 carefully-curated brands, blended with original, entertaining and helpful content.   CHALLENGE TBSeen is a unique start-up case. Due to celebrities bringing in followers that immediately converted to sales, the site is making money from day one. The problem was scaling up: with a London agency of just a few devs, TBSeen could not keep up with the pace of their business growth. The need to scale rapidly and within budget brought TBseen and STX Next together.   STX Next provided TBSeen with discovery workshops, a full Scrum team, full-stack development, automated testing, business analysis, continuous integration and product design services. ### Sales & Marketing software for live entertainment ABOUT Verve (Formerly known as StreetTeam) is the world’s leading peer-to-peer sales and marketing software for live entertainment. Verve enables its customers to turn their most influential fans into ambassadors who promote their events, selling more than 300,000 tickets in 14 countries since 2012. CHALLENGE Verve came to us with an original product built in PHP and a long list of reasons why they wanted to switch to Python going forward, referring to it as a more modern solution. Their current development team is well-versed in PHP but not Python, so they were looking for a provider to manage development in the midterm while their own developers got up to speed on using Python. STX Next Delivered A global platform that enables advocates to experience the products that they love with their friends A unique SaaS application for brands, campaign managers and ambassadors A system that builds a strong relationship between events and their fans Advocacy driven model that can work in almost any vertical that has a shared experience at its core ### Ticket distribution platform ABOUT Connecting the world to tickets. Based out of Dublin, Coras allows customers to purchase tickets for any event or activity, through whatever online channel they choose.  CHALLENGE For Coras, the challenge was releasing a working MVP of their product in a short period of time in order to secure another advance of their financing. They were looking to create an app from scratch to serve as a ticket distribution platform for cultural and entertainment events from many content providers. One of the main issues was finding a common solution for all stakeholders of the project and integrating it with one of the major European airlines.   STX Next Delivered 2 Full Scrum teams to meet the designated goals of the project. Manage the mark back of tickets from one seller to the other for both general admission and seated events Track ticket sales across all allocated sellers with a complete audit trail from allocation to sale Create events and allocate tickets to ticketing agents or through user’s ticketing system API that allows any ticketing system to integrate with Coras, helping to adjust the process to meet specific needs  ### Preprocessing automation for a visual effects Pixomondo is an international visual effects company with a global network of studios in Los Angeles, Toronto, Stuttgart, Beijing, Vancouver, Frankfurt and Shanghai. The company is revolutionizing its industry offering visual effects production and supervision, CG character creation, 3D animation and pre-visualization for the feature film, television, and commercial industries. Among their projects are Game of Thrones, Star Trek Discovery, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., X-Men, Fast and Furious and Wonder Woman. CHALLENGE: Pixomondo receives video frames from their clients in different formats with different naming conventions and file structures. Each asset requires specific preprocessing which until now was done semi-automatically with console tools. Their challenge was to create a configurable desktop application with a UI for automating the preprocessing step, allowing Pixomondo to implement further image processing. SOLUTION: To achieve this goal, STX Next used sophisticated logic combined with regular expressions. It led the team to create a variety of unique processors dedicated to transforming the required files. All of the logic is easily configurable through a dedicated desktop application. This allowed us to retain the flexibility of console tools, but also greatly speed up batch operations and minimize the manual work behind repeatable tasks. ### Transportation dispatch system ABOUT T Dispatch was a progressive software development company which has built a unique dispatch system for passenger transport fleets. CHALLENGE Due to T Dispatch’s diverse, global customer base, there was a demand for localized customer features and payment service provider integrations. The development team also had to focus on improving the performance of the overall system in order to handle an increasing number of end-users. STX Next Delivered New search engine, over 10 times faster than the previous one  Increased performance which eliminated system outages  Security improvements related to booking and payment processes  Integration with payment providers in 7 countries  ### Online cookery platform ABOUT Founded in 2005, Key Ingredient is based in Austin, Texas, and features more than 2 million recipes that have been shared by cooks over the years. With about 3,000,000 unique visitors per month, their largest demographic segment consists of millennial home cooks. CHALLENGE The website, despite its long existence, was poorly optimized for SEO and the design required some refreshment, especially on the mobile site, because the majority of the users access the website from a mobile device. Another issue was that the page loading time was highly insufficient. The code itself contained a lot of legacy code, with outdated libraries and unused features.   STX Next Delivered Site speed improvement (4-5x faster) The highest SEO ratings due to front-end, back-end, and sitemaps improvements Streamlined technical stack by moving categories to elastic search (removing Oracle), moving pages to site (removing Unbounce) Moved ad code to site for better targeting, and higher revenue (managing ads and vendor in Doubleclick) 4,5 TB of unused stored data cleaned
 Secure https protocol, instead of previously used http Fully responsive web design (still in progress) Food industry articles available to users Admin Panel, redesigned and upgraded with new tools (such as image management) Automated tests (Selenium, Behave) to increase site quality  ### Realface (Acquired by Apple in 2017) ABOUT RealFace was a company whose mission was to revolutionize the way people are recognized. They were creating A.I software with the aim of bringing back human perception to digital process, delivering to customers the technologies needed to connect with their consumers in the digital era. Acquired by Apple in 2017. CHALLENGE RealFace was looking for a tech partner who could integrate their library written in C and take over development from a previous company. Their real challenge, however, was to find developers who could understand the logic of the AI face recognition system and deal with GPUImage and the dlib face detector. STX Next Delivered Using the most advanced technologies in A.I, developed in-house, STX Next created a user centered authentication service. Meet the first anti-spoof application tailored for everyday use on your device. FEATURES iOS and Android Face detection functionality Libraries: OpenCV, dlib
 Mp4 with av-Foundation Connections with Amazon S3  ### Fintech consulting services ABOUT finstreet GmbH provides consulting services to banking and financial services organizations in Germany. Their focus is on the conceptual design, as well as the development and distribution of digital products and business models. CHALLENGE finstreet’s biggest challenge was the race against time. They needed to create a banking application in less than 4 months. The app required fully responsive web design while providing the highest quality of user experience. At the same time, server-side app security was a top priority for this banking project. STX Next Delivered 1 Full Scrum team Backend Development Frontend Development UI Design Automated Testing Automation of deployment processes ### Strategic partner for digital commerce brands ABOUT FusePump is a strategic partner for brands, helping them understand and apply technology to succeed in digital commerce. Established in 2009, FusePump started by offering technology that scrapes websites and returns organized, high-quality, real-time data. In 2011, the company launched the first ever BuyNow solution which uses the same data-retrieving expertise to connect customers with live retailer prices. CHALLENGE The client came to us with an idea for the product’s MVP. The system needed to be easy to use and flexible enough to build different types of advertisements. The biggest challenge for FusePump was to provide a common solution for all clients who had different needs. STX Next Delivered One permanent and one temporary Scrum Team available exclusively to the client A set of features and tools extending the basic functionalities of the platform (e.g. providing a data validation tool and
a data mapping tool) Analysis and ideas for improvements to the development process – delivered as a workshop in the spirit of Lean process management ### Online media marketing ABOUT Analytics, DMP and DSP solutions based on cookie-less technology. Myntelligence helps companies put their customers first, to transform these customer’s digital model into a user-centric business and manage audience buying independently. CHALLENGE TheOutplay was looking for a tech partner to create an MVP of their product. Their goal was to present the MVP to potential clients and investors and secure further rounds of funding. They were looking for a quick and cost-effective solution to have a presentable prototype as soon as possible. STX Next Delivered User’s data visualization with interactive charts Ability to group unique users into segments
 Online campaigns management module
 Campaign efficiency analysis module Admin panel for platform management (creating accounts, managing permissions, etc.) “Demo account” for sales presentations purposes Marketplace functionality for trading the segments ### Consumer finance company ABOUT Paze was founded on the premise of eliminating the dependency on short-term credit and encourage working people to save. It is a next-generation consumer finance company that lets customers get the money they’ve already earned without waiting for payday. Paze does this by paying customers their salary on a daily, weekly, or on-demand basis and collecting from the employer at the end of the month. CHALLENGE Paze needed to scale up their development team quickly while ensuring that they bring software engineers with the right skills on board. They were about to launch their service and needed more resources for support and future development. STX Next Delivered Every day reports about reconciliation Tab for checking statuses of disbursements Using cards for paying installments after opt-out Tab for employers to manage their employees  ### Closed captions and video intelligence service ABOUT Cielo24 delivers searchable captions, media data and media intelligence for large media platform partners in the online education, enterprise, news, and entertainment markets. Their clients turn to Cielo24 to meet the growing demands on their multimedia including compliance laws, discoverability, reach and user engagement. CHALLENGE Due to limited internal bandwidth, Cielo24 sought a qualified technology partner to support their inhouse development team on a series of complex projects. They were looking for skilled developers who could develop and maintain their product. STX Next Delivered User requirements validation Project scoping Data preparation and migration Custom functional development User Interface/User Experience Performance testing, maintenance and support ### Pharmaceutical organization ABOUT KNMP (The Royal Dutch Pharmacists Association) is a Dutch umbrella organization for both professional pharmacists and the pharmacy in general. It promotes both the interests of its members and the interests of the pharmaceutical sector in the Netherlands. CHALLENGE The goal was to create a viable product that would help KNMP manage shortages and inform specialists about supply forecasts. The ambitious goal was to be completed within a fixed price/fixed scope project. Despite very thorough documentation, the final product needed to evolve to fit the needs of the end users. STX Next Delivered A custom Content Management System that allows the management of medicine shortages An application design that enables the user to easily update content A system that quickly notifies doctors, pharmacists, and patients of the availability of a particular medicine  ### Online casino and sports betting ABOUT Based in Dublin and founded in 2012, BetBright is an online UK sports betting and gaming operator. BetBright takes an innovative and disruptive technology-based approach to winning on the product, which delivers the very best user experience possible. CHALLENGE With three internal teams already working on their project, BetBright found themselves with a need to scale up their development rapidly. In order to do so, they were looking for capable and affordable developers with the ability to make an immediate impact.    STX Next Delivered Casino “Quick Deposit” allows users to continue to deposit money during the game without interruption Mobile page redesign including Blog & Widgetisation allows BetBright customers to stay updated with current events “Recall” adds personalized bet recommendations based on the customers’ bet history. (15+% conversion) “Automated Bonus” feature potentially adds 10% to every new customer LTV Live Casino for Mobile enables users to place bets using mobile devices  ### Recruitment platform ABOUT Buzzhire takes a fresh approach to recruitnig temporary staff in the hospitality and delivery sectors. Since 2015, their platform has been connecting employers with workers in a way that is fast, efficient, and effective. Clients looking for a staff on a short-term basis are matched with suitable and available people in their area. The technology-driven solution offered by BuzzHire means that last-minute staff shortages can be filled in a very quick turnaround time.    PROJECT DETAILS Buzzhire’s platform lets companies in the hospitality and delivery industries search for temporary staff who are immediately available. An extensive database of workers matches businesses with workers based on location, availability, and experience. Workers are notified of the vacancy and can register their interest in the position.   CHALLENGE The mobile app is key to the success of Buzzhire’s operation. Workers are notified of available shifts through the app with no need to see the webpage. Buzzhire wanted to raise the overall standard of their mobile app and add new functionalities to keep them ahead of the market. At the beginning of the partnership, it was clear that changes would need to be made to the operational system to keep up with ongoing regulations. Technical debt had to be reduced and maintenance was essential to continue providing a well-performing application. One of the main goals in the roadmap was to expand a locally operating system to the whole UK.   SOLUTION A priority throughout this project was to reduce technological debt, replace the old mobile app, and introduce national coverage for the system. In order to achieve this, we updated the versions of Python, React, Node, and RDS PostgreSQL DB that were being used. To ensure high-quality code for the future, we introduced monitoring for which we used the applications Prometheus and Grafana. ### Healthcare application ABOUT Medassist is a web app created to help medical professionals provide the best course of treatment for the people in their care. It allows doctors to assess skin changes remotely. If there is no cause for concern in relation to a person’s skin lesion, then the app removes the need for an in-person appointment. This means the doctors have more availability and patient waiting times are reduced. Medassist speeds up the process of diagnosis and removes unnecessary delays for patients who need treatment or face-to-face consultation.   PROJECT DETAILS Medassist is a tool to help medical professionals make informed decisions. The app is used when a patient is concerned about skin changes or a doctor wishes to monitor skin lesions. Doctors can generate a private link and send it to the patient. The patient is requested to take a photo of their skin lesion and send it securely through the web application. The doctor then examines the photo and can decide the next steps to take. The app allows doctors to store their patients' photographs and details in one safe place - with secure access for future reference and monitoring purposes   CHALLENGE When the product was first presented to our Product Design team, it had a very basic UI. We wanted to implement changes to improve the overall design of the app and include features to support the user experience. The focus has always been to make the app as simple to use as possible.   SOLUTION One of our UX designers came up with basic wireframes and the flows were made more user-friendly. We made it easier to upload photos and navigate within the app. Key features were added to the app: tags, a search function, and a dashboard. Tags notify users of a patient’s status within the app. For example, if there are newly uploaded photos or if information has already been reviewed. The search function allows doctors to go directly to a specific patient’s page. The dashboard provides quick access to all data and a review of recent activity. ### Application for copy clearance ABOUT Peach Media connects all the players in the TV and VOD markets by operating advanced market wide campaign management systems and data standardisation portals for video advertising.   PROJECT DETAILS CopyCentral is an application for copy clearance. Its goal is to allow advertisers to check their ads against the requirements of the UK Code of Broadcast Advertising. Using CopyCentral, you can create brilliant and innovative video ads and stay sure they will meet all acceptance criteria.   CHALLENGE Peach Media wanted the team to deliver a complex solution within a short timeframe as a replacement for the previous ad clearance system used by Clearcast.   SOLUTION STX Next was chosen among other companies and joined the Peach Media team to develop a complete solution which covers various workflows for different types of users, including top UK broadcasters and hundreds of advertising agencies. The solution needed to be able to handle heavy traffic and the upload/download/streaming of large video files.   ### Europe’s gateway to space ABOUT The European Space Agency (ESA) is responsible for planning and carrying out European space programs. Their mission is “to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.” European space programs are dedicated to discovering more about Earth, our solar system, and the universe. Through their activities, ESA aims to advance science, technology, and economic growth. ESA was founded in 1975 and regularly cooperates with space organizations outside Europe   PROJECT DETAILS We worked with ESA on their Kelvins platform, which is dedicated to competitions related to space, technology, and science. Kelvins was originally created by ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team in 2015. The Kelvins platform is used by a community of people with a keen interest in space, science, and technology. Its purpose is “to be a place for space enthusiasts from all over the world to set their creativity free and participate actively in the advancement of space and science.”   CHALLENGE The main goal of this project was to improve the quality and performance of the codebase and fix all known issues from the old version of the platform. This was done in close collaboration with developers on ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team.     SOLUTION We updated all frontend and backend third-party technologies to their latest versions. This made the codebase more secure and easier to maintain. We added a dataset element to the web pages. Datasets can now be discussed, posted, and associated with a competition. A redesign of the user system gives users the option to post datasets and organize competitions. We also redesigned the social element of the platform including discussions around competitions. New features included OpenID and GitHub authentication for users and a management panel for users with the ability to delete accounts.     We dockerized the application to make deployment and development setup easier. ### Tailored cat food service ABOUT Launched in 2014, tails.com is a nutritionally tailored pet food service that creates a unique recipe for every single dog it serves from a million combinations, based on his or her age, breed, needs and preferences. The subscription-based product helps dog owners target their pet's specific health improvements through their diet. It offers a complete, balanced nutrition plan that also adjusts with the dogs as they age.   PROJECT DETAILS Building upon the success of the dog food platform, tails.com decided to launch a parallel service for cats, called Republic of Cats. The company chose STX Next as its software development partner to help build an application suite for the project. Republic of Cats provides subscription-based feeding plans for felines that have been tailored to each pet’s unique nutritional needs and preferences. Customers can manage their subscriptions using a desktop dashboard and a mobile application. CHALLENGE Republic of Cats operates almost as a startup within tails.com. The main challenge facing the project managers was launching the product within a short timeframe and growing it towards a positive ROI that would warrant the continuation of the project. To achieve this goal, they needed an application suite to be built from scratch. At the start of the cooperation, the project managers had initial product research and business hypotheses, but most branding elements and feature specifications were not yet available. As a result, tails.com needed flexible, scalable design and development teams to help it refine the requirements and produce the full service in a timely manner.     ### Advancing knowledge retrieval with Large Language Linde, a leading global industrial gases and engineering company, required assistance in developing an internal tool to facilitate knowledge retrieval across their multi-national organization. The goal was to design a simple, top-quality, and secure solution that could quickly and reliably answer everyday work-related questions. Addressing the challenges of knowledge retrievalLinde sought a partner experienced in Machine Learning technologies who could implement a custom Large Language Model (LLM) to enable chatting with the company’s assets, such as PDF files, while guaranteeing a secure and reliable process. To meet this need, STX Next integrated a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) tool focused on quick, easy, and expert knowledge retrieval. By utilizing a database of the company’s documents, the solution made information readily accessible to all users. This approach ensured smooth operation and significantly reduced the time required to find information.Read more: https://www.stxnext.com/case-study/linde ### Clutch Awards - [Clutch Award Badge](https://shareables-prod-static.clutch.co/badges/top_clutch.co_artificial_intelligence_company_2025_award.svg) - [Clutch Award Badge](https://shareables-prod-static.clutch.co/badges/top_clutch.co_ai_agents_company_2025_award.svg) - [Clutch Award Badge](https://shareables-prod-static.clutch.co/badges/top_clutch.co_generative_ai_company_2025_award.svg) - [Clutch Award Badge](https://shareables-prod-static.clutch.co/badges/top_clutch.co_python__django_developers_2026.svg) ### Industry Recognitions - Featured in Seth Early Podcast - Featured in Tech Radar Pro Portal - Featured in IT Pro Portal - Featured in AIThority Magazine - IT Europa Channel Awards 2023 Finalist - Featured in IT Pro Portal - Featured in Information Age - Featured in Help Net Security - Featured in Beta News - Featured in Dark Reading - Featured in Forbes - Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe - Financial Times FT1000 ## Key Clients - Mastercard - Canon - Hogarth - Man - Wayfair - Nestle Purina - Decathlon - European Space Agency - Unity ## Packages ## About the Team ### Our Story STX Next was founded in 2005 and grew from a Python-driven software house into a global technology partner serving finance, technology, manufacturing, energy, adtech and healthcare companies. As our services expanded to include AI and Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Cloud, and Product Design, so did our international reach. Today, with 500+ experts and 1,000+ projects delivered, we support clients across the US, UK, DACH, Poland and Benelux. ### What Sets Us Apart - Excellence in AI/ML, Data, Cloud & Product Design: From AI/ML development and Data Engineering to Cloud platforms and Product Design, we deliver end-to-end solutions tailored to complex, regulated, and large-scale environments. Our focus is on reliability, performance, and measurable business outcomes. - Client-centric, Solution-driven in Every Project: At our core, we partner with you to understand your unique challenges and goals. By combining deep technical expertise with a focus on practical results, we deliver tailored solutions that drive growth, efficiency, and lasting impact. - Partnerships to Power Modern Solutions: As certified partners with AWS (Advanced Tier), Snowflake, Squirro, and n8n, STX Next combines deep expertise with leading platforms to deliver integrated and reliable solutions. Partnerships allow us to tackle complex challenges and support you with partner expertise and funding where applicable. ### Quick Facts - 96 Verified Clutch Clients - 21 years in business ### Team Breakdown - Data Engineering (30) - Cloud (20) - Backend (100) - AI & Machine Learning (25) - Product Design (30) - Product Management & Agile (25) - Frontend (80) - QA Engineering (40) - Delivery Management (30) ### Commonly Asked Questions **What services are delivered by STX Next?** STX Next specializes in data engineering, cloud consulting, and AI solutions. The company supports organizations in building and operating data platforms, cloud environments, and AI systems used for analytics, automation, and decision support. Typical engagements include data lakehouse architectures, cloud consulting and migration (including sovereign cloud setups), AI and machine learning systems such as LLM-based solutions, RAG architectures, predictive maintenance, computer vision, and MLOps, as well as intelligent contact centers built on Amazon Connect. **What types of organizations typically work with STX Next?** STX Next works with organizations that face data complexity, compliance requirements, and operational scale, particularly in sectors where reliable data and AI systems are central to business outcomes. The company focuses on projects across financial services, industrial and manufacturing, technology, energy, and oil and gas services, where teams have delivered solutions like data lakehouses with Snowflake and Databricks, predictive maintenance systems, unified data platforms, and enterprise reporting transformations. Organizations with large data volumes, complex processing needs, or regulated operating environments often benefit from STX Next’s focus on stable, scalable, and maintainable solutions. **How does STX Next approach delivery?** STX Next follows a delivery approach built around engineering excellence, clear ownership, and continuous feedback. Teams apply proven architectural practices, strong data and cloud standards, and automation across development, testing, and operations to identify and reduce risk early. This enables predictable delivery, frequent iteration, and long-term stability of data platforms and AI systems. **How does STX Next typically work with client teams?** STX Next works as a technology partner, closely integrated with client teams. Engagements are typically structured around shared responsibility for architecture, delivery, and platform evolution, with STX Next engineers collaborating directly with internal stakeholders. This approach supports knowledge transfer, informed decision-making, and continuous improvement of data, cloud, and AI systems over time. **What technology partners does STX Next work with, and why does it matter?** STX Next works closely with AWS, Snowflake, n8n, Squirro and Databricks as certified technology partners. These partnerships reflect hands-on experience delivering data, cloud, and AI solutions on these platforms and provide access to platform best practices, architectural guidance, and up-to-date tooling. For clients, this means solutions are designed in line with vendor-recommended patterns, are easier to scale and operate, and are better aligned with long-term platform roadmaps and compliance requirements. ## Verification Clutch verification provides an additional layer of data to help you make the right purchasing decision of business services. - Verified Client Reviews: 97 - Overall Review Rating: 4.7 Last Updated: 2026-06-22T08:41:53Z ### Business Entity - Business Entity Name: STX Next Sp.z.o.o - Source: Central Statistical Office of Poland - Jurisdiction of Formation: Poland - Date of Formation: March 9, 2005 - Status: Active - Last Updated: March 1, 2022 - ID: 300013306 ### Credit Report Results - International Credit Risk Assessment: Low Risk - Source: Creditsafe - Last Updated: January 1, 2022 ## Locations (5) ### Poznań, Poland (Headquarters) - 38 Mostowa Street - Poznań 61-854 - Poland - 401 - 500 employees - Phone: 0048512914236 ### London, England - 77 Farringdon Road EC1M 3JU - London EC1M 3JU - England - 2 - 5 employees ### Mérida, Mexico - C. 11 310, Santa Gertrudis Copo - Mérida 97305 - Mexico - 16 - 20 employees - Phone: +52 999 544 9779 ### Spring, TX - 1401 Lake Plaza Drive - Spring, TX 77389 - United States - 2 - 5 employees ### Eschborn, Germany - c/o Rödl RAe, Taunus Tower, Mergenthalerallee 73-75 - Eschborn 65760 - Germany - 2 - 5 employees ## Connections - Bhoomi Panchal (fxis.ai) - Shalaka Teli (Gadre Infotech Pvt. Ltd.) - Nirav Patel (Kaizen Software Systems Inc) - Subhan Alam (Set 2 Close | B Corp™) ## Contact STX Next [Send a message](https://clutch.co/profile/stx-next) ### Connect on Social - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts/) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/StxNext) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/stx_next)