Accubits Technologies Inc

What was the scope of their involvement?

Accubits Technologies Inc developed a mobile app that helps fitness professionals remain accountable by allowing them to cultivate their reputation on a consolidated platform. Professionals can advertise their services, highlight relevant qualifications, and manage their brand. There’s also a referral and rating component, where users can connect with professionals and write reviews about their experience. It’s a way of promoting more transparency within the health and wellness community so that people feel comfortable procuring services.

Accubits Technologies Inc’s team has been integral in every step of the development process. Initially, we presented them with our problem statement. The CEO then led discussions and requirements workshops to better understand our business challenge on a deeper level. Afterward, they helped scope out the high-level architecture of the solution, which involved creating the entire interaction map and system workflow along with all of the user journeys.

For the development phase, we provided them with preliminary wireframes, which their UX specialist used to develop their own prototype. It’s a set of native iOS/Android apps with a Google Firebase backend. We’re currently preparing to launch the app within the next month or so along with a marketing campaign.

What is the team composition?

We’ve worked with about six team members in total, including the CEO, a project manager, and developers. The core team consists of 3–4 resources, and we call in others as needed.

How did you come to work with Accubits Technologies Inc?

A colleague had worked on a similar project with Accubits Technologies Inc and referred us to them. He mentioned that they had a decent number of available developers and solid experience to boost.

Ultimately, we went with them because they were flexible with price and understood that this was a long-term engagement. Furthermore, the CEO was incredibly professional and assisted us every step of the way. During the initial discussions, it was clear that he’d taken the time to understand our problem deeply.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent about $40,000–$50,000 AUD (approximately $28,700–$35,900 USD) thus far.

What is the status of this engagement?

Their work started in August 2017 and is ongoing. We’re now at a part-time capacity, mostly because my business partner and I aren’t available to work on this project full-time. We plan to retain them for all future phases of development and actually have plans to migrate our backend into AWS, using APIs to integrate with the frontend apps.

What was the scope of their involvement?

We’ve worked together on two different models. Sometimes, we hire specific resources to assist our in-house team. When we work on fixed-rate projects, our internal onsite resources handle all the business analysis and requirements. Once we clearly define a scope of work that’s easy to execute, Accubits Technologies handles everything from product development to testing and remote deployment support. Our first project was the most challenging since we had to learn each other’s processes.

Accubits Technologies builds products based on the exact requirements we send. They mostly work with OpenStack and use PHP, LAMP, Perl, and NumPy among a few other frameworks. Quite a few of our projects have centered around blockchain. Recently, Accubits Technologies has been developing customer and visitor experience solutions that include automated processes and AI. 

What is the team composition? 

Our typical projects include 4-5 developers from Accubits Technologies. For large-scale projects, they assign us a project manager, and we scale up to about eight developers. We also have an onsite project manager who works with these teams. 

How did you come to work with Accubits Technologies?

I'm from the town where Accubits is headquartered. Their name came up in my search for companies to work with from that region. When I met with their CEO a long time ago, I could tell they were passionate about what they do. Their mission seemed much more substantial than a typical service-oriented company. I mostly hired them based on their company culture and vision. Later on, I came to discover the extent of their capabilities during our actual collaboration. 

How much have you invested with them?

We've done quite a few projects together. The typical cost ranges from $150,000–$250,000. 

What is the status of this engagement?

This project started in March 2017 is still ongoing. We're looking forward to working with them on a few projects in the future. 

What was the scope of their involvement?

They get the requirements from us and deliver the work according to our spec. Sometimes we explain things over the phone and sometimes we send them a document saying what we want. They suggest process improvements because they know the subject really well.

There have been multiple projects. We were making an ID platform and a user provisioning platform for a big client of ours. They did all the development work for that in a quick turnaround. They helped us make multi-signature wallets and smart contracts for our clients and distribute our apps. We also wanted to make a wagering app as a distributor app. This was done on Solidity. They did the whole thing, the frontend, the website, the apps, and published it. They’re building multi-signature wallets for multiple projects. There are many other things that are in scope. We’re in project discussions with our clients.

What is the team dynamic?

There are close to 35 people are on the team. We have project managers, and sometimes I do project management myself. For some of the clients, I’m personally involved. For some of the clients, we don’t have project managers; we get the requirements and get the work done because they don’t want to waste time and cost on project managers.

How did you come to work with Accubits?

A friend of mine suggested them. We gave them an initial project and they delivered. We gave them the next one and continued giving them projects. They have the knowledge of the subject, which is key for us.

How much have you invested with them?

We have invested $320,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in December 2016, and the work is ongoing.