Engineering Your Vision
BrightMarbles is a world-class software engineering house busy designing and building beautiful software, digital products, and experiences.
BrightMarbles team averages 7+ years per member, bringing over 47 decades of collective software engineering experience, developing complex projects across industries and markets, bringing maximum impact for our client's business while minimizing the costs.
BrightMarbles have been working with clients of all sizes and developing strategic partnerships with world-leading tech providers, such as Microsoft and other market leaders. We're proud to be referenced as "startup builders" with more than seven unicorns in our client portfolio, along with five award-winning software products.
Recently our work has been honored
By Clutch. Awarding us with the Clutch Leader (Region) and the Top 1000 B2B Company in the World Awards.
By Digital Knights. Recognizing us as the Top 7% of Europe's tech talent.
By Microsoft. Recognizing us as Gold Level MS Partners.
We help companies develop transformative software that moves people, businesses, and the world forward.
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LiteBit, MediaMonks, Gopuff, Reichle & De-Massari, ArKaos, Reichle & De-Massari (R&M), ArKaos (inMusic Brands), and more. We’re proud to be referenced as “startup builders” with more than 7 (seven) Unicorn ventures in our client portfolio, along with five award-winning software products.
Safe & Simple Way to Crypto
Helping over six hundred thousand (600000+) crypto-traders buy, sell, and store almost 60 cryptocurrencies with a fast, simple, and secure mobile app.
LiteBit - cryptocurrency broker, rising fast to become the largest of its kind in the European market. Their platform allows users to manage their digital assets in the LiteBit platform, including BitCoin and around 60 currencies that they provide. In 2019, the company was voted the best crypto broker.
The Challenge
Together with the LiteBit team, we set out to develop and improve their mobile app to help crypto-traders store and manage their assets. Simultaneously improving their ReactNative made iOS app with new features and making the android app from the ground up proved to be a considerable time drain on the development team.
In the end, LiteBit was looking for a fast, secure, and straightforward way to enable their users while expanding to the android market segments.
Overcoming the Challenge
While the team worked on the ReactNative app, simultaneously, we were able to implement a fast and secure cross-platform solution using Flutter. Inside six months, a Flutter-made app for Android and iOS was developed, surpassing the initial reactNative application. All the focus was soon shifted to the Flutter project, resolving our challenge by hitting all the LiteBit set requirements ahead of schedule.
Benefits
BrightMarbles’ Flutter based solution allowed users to buy, sell and store Bitcoin and over 60 other cryptocurrencies offered in the LiteBit platform securely and effortlessly via their mobile android iOs devices. As a result, LiteBit significantly reduced development, maintenance, and time costs while reaching desired market segments by focusing on their mobile-focused traders.
"BrightMarbles is our strategic development partner. They heavily influenced what LiteBit is today, sharing a big part in achieving our success. With a deep understanding of both the Crypto and Fintech industries and their engineer’s excellence, they helped LiteBit position as one of the fastest-growing and respected cryptocurrency brokers globally. BM breathes Crypto!" -
Erwin Veldhuis, CPTO, LiteBit, Netherlands
Technology
#Flutter, #ReactNative
Perfecting Group Travel
Rebuilding tourism for the future by providing all functionalities for stress-free travel. Dream, plan, and coordinate trips and activities with friends as soon as Covid restrictions subside.
Their Story
Escapist (LL Ventures Ltd) is a company based in England and Wales that provides a unique travel planning platform designed to help choose, modify, and book each travel activity.
The Challenge
Escapist (LL Ventures) set out to develop a travel app designed to help organize and plan any travel activity of a single user or specific to a group of travelers. The main functionality is to allow users to plan every step of their trip and share valuable information regarding their transport, accommodation, tours, car rentals, etc. That will be up and running before Covid-19 restrictions lift and millions of travelers emerge yearning for adventure.
Overcoming the Challenge
We gathered a team of experts to work on a travel app with the functionality of creating a shared itinerary with all vital information that you and your fellow travelers can access at any time. Each traveler can be added as a participant or observer. Making decisions as a group can be tricky; therefore, polls enable you to get everyone’s opinion and agree on moving forward. The Escapist app also allows you to create a bucket list of all the places you plan to visit, searchable and categorized by country.
Benefits
Implementation of this travel app has led to increased user satisfaction that resulted in an ever-growing number of app downloads, thus increasing profits and ROI. Resulting in an elaborate group travel app that enables you to dream, plan, and coordinate trips with your friends, providing all the functionalities you need to make your travel seamless and stress-free. Travelers will never have to ask (or answer) “What are the dates again?”, “Have we booked a restaurant for Saturday?” or “Who is staying at the villa with us?”.
Redesigning Coffee Experience
The future is here, coffee at a push of the button! Creating an immersive experience around obtaining the product and connecting with customers.
Their Story
Bandit is a company serving high-quality coffee and other products, per customers’ tastes, at a technology company's speed and innovation rate. The service is simple, fast, and reliable. But the company is further carefully observing their customers’ likes and dislikes to make their service fit their consumers like a glove.
Challenge
Having a good quality product is the first half of the road to customers’ satisfaction. The other half is creating an immersive experience around obtaining the product and connecting with customers. The same as their products, Bandit’s visual identity, and the app had to be of the highest quality. The app had to be fast, intuitive, easily navigated, bugless.
The team of senior iOS and back-end engineers and a senior UI/UX, fit to hold the task to this standard.
Overcoming the Challenge
The team started designing and developing the iOS app. With the team’s mindset that the app and the whole brand's visual design have to be on par with the company’s superior reputation, our team, together with Bandit’s core team, settled on redesigning the app and making the visual identity more consistent. The main tools used for the app's development were Swift, Node.js, and various Web technologies.
The app is currently available on both stores, Android, and iOS, with simple UX and the option for contactless payment integrated.
Benefit
The growing base of Bandit followers can now enjoy their fresh coffee cup without waiting in line at their own convenience. We continued our work with Bandit, making further improvements, implementing new ideas, and developing new features, creating a disruptive experience for true coffee lovers.
"We are more than happy with both the results of their work and the quality of their written code. We’re still working with BrightMarbles, satisfied with the team and their initiative." -
Jeff Hu, Head of Engineering, Bandit Coffee
Technology
NodeJS, Angular, Swift, Android
Design. Visualize. Purchase.
Helping brands impact customers at exhibitions with the ideal showcase stands by using the 3d configurator to design digital environments and bring their stand to life.
Their Story
The company Arti70 has over more than 40 years of experience creating, producing, and providing the best stands, tailor-made interiors, trade fair concepts, and exhibition concepts worldwide. Their team of professionals composes a diverse range of stands, both modular and collective, system-built or custom-made to customer-specific requirements.
The Challenge
Designing and building stands is complex, and it's expensive. Our task was to supply the client with custom software development capacity for an e-commerce solution with 3d configurator. Challenge was to streamline their entire sales process, display all their products in a very different and unique way, and create more client interaction for their customers, and above all, there was no time for mistakes and time for wasting.
Overcoming the Challenge
We gathered an experienced engineering team to work on the sales platform. Tech stack included WordPress, JavaScript, HTML, Unity, and Woocommerce. This process's outcome was a website and a webshop with 3D configuration representing the ultimate way to manifest your products online in 3D, anywhere in a full 3D application on your website, Android app, IOS app, or a touch screen. This way, we managed to develop a solution that allows customers to see and understand the final product before buying it.
Benefits
The implementation of 3D configurators and what you see is what you get approach, that has led to a marketing improvement, leading to a sales and ROI increase. By understanding the product and its purpose, clients order more items because they visualize their stand and design it to be an ideal showcase stand. One of the 3D configurators' significant advantages is that all previous stands and ordered items are stored in raw data to quickly repeat their orders.
Social Network for Sports Pros
Social Network where the most talented footballers get the visibility they deserve. A sports social network, for finding a club and connecting with scouts, agents, and managers. With the intuitive algorithm, an app finds optimal matches between user-profiles and potential clubs and agents.
Their Story
PlayerHunter is a revolutionary online career platform for the football industry. With completely new “Smart Matching” algorithm we connect players and clubs very efficiently, quickly, and easily.
The Challenge
As a startup company, one cannot afford to make a mistake. That’s why PlayerHunter approached BrightMarbles in need of a small, already well-coordinated team of professionals for quick and effective development of the frontend side of their app that needed to go live soon.
Overcoming the Challenge
Our team of front-end developers faced the main challenge was the dynamics of the project and the amount of the features needed to produce under a tight time constraint, without compromising the quality of the code.
The technology used during the development phase included Angular 2, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Our team’s involvement in the project lasted for about a year.
Benefits
With the job done, PlayerHunter’s app was ready to go live, with quality solutions, tested and developed according to principles of modern software development. The solution included all of the information relevant for a footballer, such as skills, and the possibility to endorse them, working experience, demographics, position, height, weight, even t-shirt, and shoe size. Users could post and share photos and videos, and interact with each other via comments and direct messaging.
“When we needed a reliable, responsive and flexible partner, with a strong technical background, BrightMarbles stepped in. The attitude people working at BrightMarbles brought was refreshing, they’ve shown initiative, professionalism, and most importantly, we knew we could count on them.” -
Stevan Radak, Founder & CEO at Playerhunter GmbH
Reliable & Efficient Cloud-Based Healthcare Platform
Powering the change of the USA healthcare system by improving the lives of 16 million healthcare professionals and their patients.
Their Story
MedMatch is founded by a renowned neurosurgeon from Florida, Dr. Amos O. Dare, with a mission to raise the USA's healthcare system's quality as a whole by providing concise, reliable information.
The Challenge
Over 16 million professionals, and counting, make up the US healthcare system. This number alone, together with lack of information, makes it difficult for MDs to recommend the best specialist for their patients. BrightMarbles was entrusted with creating an app and an algorithm that will analyze and structure multi-point data to provide reliable suggestions and network MDs with the best options for their patients and schedule appointments for them in just a few clicks.
Overcoming the Challenge
We assembled an experienced engineering team covering the entire app development process, front-end and back-end, quality assurance, and a SCRUM master role to ensure a top-notch quality product and fastest time to market. Tech stack included JavaScript, NodeJS, Serverless framework, Vue.js, Amazon Cloud Enterprise Services, MySQL, and Docker. Resulting in an app that streamlines medical care and helps physicians by providing the best match for the patients’ needs, easy scheduling, and making reports and laboratory results available by the subsequent follow-up visit with patients.
Benefits
Drastically increased patient satisfaction and service quality and outcomes with an elegant and straightforward solution that calculates a reliable, professional score for an easy selection that is helping millions of MDs match patients with best-rated medical professionals.
In the end, the team's excellent capabilities helped this disruptive idea and A1 quality product come to the market, ensuring client's and their customers’ satisfaction and continued collaboration in MedMatch’s future engagements.
Cutting-Edge Entertainment Solutions
The cutting edge of entertainment video and media solutions empowers both professionals and enthusiasts to achieve maximum control of light and video, bringing some of the most stunning visual pieces to life.
Their Story
Bandit is a company serving high-quality coffee and other products, per customers’ tastes, at a technology company's speed and innovation rate. The service is simple, fast, and reliable. But the company is further carefully observing their customers’ likes and dislikes to make their service fit their consumers like a glove.
Challenge
Having a good quality product is the first half of the road to customers’ satisfaction. The other half is creating an immersive experience around obtaining the product and connecting with customers. The same as their products, Bandit’s visual identity, and the app had to be of the highest quality. The app had to be fast, intuitive, easily navigated, bugless.
The team of senior iOS and back-end engineers and a senior UI/UX, fit to hold the task to this standard.
Overcoming the Challenge
The team started designing and developing the iOS app. With the team’s mindset that the app and the whole brand's visual design have to be on par with the company’s superior reputation, our team, together with Bandit’s core team, settled on redesigning the app and making the visual identity more consistent. The main tools used for the app's development were Swift, Node.js, and various Web technologies.
The app is currently available on both stores, Android, and iOS, with simple UX and the option for contactless payment integrated.
Benefit
The growing base of Bandit followers can now enjoy their fresh coffee cup without waiting in line at their own convenience. We continued our work with Bandit, making further improvements, implementing new ideas, and developing new features, creating a disruptive experience for true coffee lovers.
"We are more than happy with both the results of their work and the quality of their written code. We’re still working with BrightMarbles, satisfied with the team and their initiative." -
Jeff Hu, Head of Engineering, Bandit Coffee
Technology
NodeJS, Angular, Swift, Android
Boosting the Real-Estate Giant
Real-estate giant streamlines the management of their clientele base by integrating large sets of data
regarding corporate office space, in a B2B app, with an intuitive, clean, and modern UX and recognizable UI.
Their Story
Founded more than 160 years ago, developing, growing, and pushing the boundaries of the field made Savills recognized as one of the world's leading real estate service providers. With 600+ offices around the Globe, their expertise crosses the borders of more than 60 countries.
Challenge
The client needed a solution that would integrate a large set of data regarding corporate office space, a B2B software app, with an intuitive, clean and modern UX and recognizable UI.
The vast real estate data app had to organize and manage. It was crucial to develop robust and comprehensive search and filtering options while conforming to an existing API.
Overcoming the Challenge
With BrightMarbles spearheading the development, and our partner Innovative Brands handling the creative concept and the design side, a custom multi-level app, using React and NodeJS stacks together with Google API, was soon realized into an interactive real estate tool. Users could directly on a map see pinned office locations and all the relevant information regarding it. Using appropriate filters, they could search for sites using criteria relevant to them.
Benefits
This development process's result is a B2B web application, modern in its design, easily navigated with a vast set of filters, bringing forth an array of benefits from a real estate industry standpoint. Extensive data collections are being organized and displayed, enabling users to perform initial searches within Savills network of available properties, saving valuable time on all sides. Altho originally developed with the city of Utrecht in mind, the application was made to be, with just a few small tweaks, expanded to scope any city in the World.
"The team from BrightMarbels was a great unmissable asset in our growth. We could quickly scale our development team up and made the crunch time shorter by adding bright minds to the team."
SIMON KOOP Co-founder and Head of Design, Innovative Brands BV, The Netherlands
Technology
JavaScript, NodeJS, React
A New Vision Of Banking
Leveling up level client services for major financial and banking institutions with unique banking solutions using an architecture-led approach to underpin the program and manage change.
Their Story
NF Innova is an international company that provides financial institutions with unique banking solutions across various digital channels with the primary goal is to help organizations take charge of their Digital Growth with greater agility, using an architecture-led approach to underpin the program and manage change.
The Challenge
With a new vision of digital banking, NF Innova set off to build a unique, omnichannel B2B app. All channels: the Internet, smartphones, tablets, contact centers, ATMs were to work together to provide the best user experience, regardless of the device used.
When developing an app handling money transaction, the biggest challenge is security. The highest possible level of protection is a must; monitoring and following up the trends is non-negotiable.
This solution was to be uniquely customized for every business client and financial institution.
Overcoming the Challenge
BrightMarbles was involved in the development and customization of the app as an extended team. With the bigger team, holding high expertise in the field, without the need for recruitment, and therefore additional costs, the overall team was ready to tackle the problems and meet deadlines in a timely manner.
The bigger team also meant a more diverse experience, which ultimately resulted in better security, since it was easier to follow up on the trends, and exchange opinions.
Benefits
The end result was the omnichannel B2B digital banking app customized for several major financial and banking institutions seeking to level up their customer management service.
"BrightMarbles really put the tech in fintech. Thanks to a combination of top engineering talent and proven expertise in Finance & Banking, they aided us in bringing our Finovate 2020 Winning Digital Banking Solution to the market." -
Vasa Šegrt CEO, NF Innova,
New Frontier Group, Austria
Technology
Java, Android, Swift, .Net, JavaScript
Reviews
the project
Staff Augmentation for Cryptocurrency Platform
“BrightMarbles has been part of our company’s success and everything we’ve done on the technology side.”
the reviewer
the review
A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I’m a department head for a cryptocurrency platform. We provide cryptocurrency brokerage services for European citizens, and we have a strong presence in the Dutch market.
What challenge were you trying to address with BrightMarbles?
We wanted to strengthen our development team by hiring more developers and QA engineers, so we partnered with BrightMarbles for staff augmentation purposes.
What is the scope of their involvement?
BrightMarbles has been an integral part of our development team. Their resources usually assist our internal teammates in building new products and expanding on existing ones. In some cases, they also build products from scratch. For example, they’ve developed an entire mobile app for us by themselves using PHP, Flutter, and C# as the technology stack. In addition to that, BrightMarbles provides maintenance services to keep our software and its infrastructure up to date.
What is the team composition?
We work with about 12 people from BrightMarbles, including developers, QA engineers, scrum masters, DevOps engineers, and software architects.
How did you come to work with BrightMarbles?
Our CTO and BrightMarbles’ founders knew each other because they worked together in the past.
What is the status of the engagement?
We started working together in 2019, and our engagement is ongoing.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
BrightMarbles has been part of our company’s success and everything we’ve done on the technology side. Thanks to them, we’ve been able to release new products and features that work well.
How did BrightMarbles perform from a project management standpoint?
BrightMarbles’ developers usually respond very well to our needs and are highly collaborative. They’re an integral part of our team, delivering tasks on time and answering quickly. We communicate via Microsoft Teams.
What did you find most impressive about them?
BrightMarbles delivers quality code and understands our needs. Overall, they’re great partners.
Are there any areas they could improve?
I have no constructive feedback for BrightMarbles; everything has been fine.
Any advice for potential customers?
Be clear on what you want your business to achieve.
the project
Digital Health App for Medical Device Manufacturer
"It looked like they'd read our minds in terms of what was needed."
the reviewer
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I am Chief Medical Officer of Medical Device manufacturer based in Boston
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles?
We needed development of digital health app that would communicate with our medical device to capture relevant data, send them to cloud based platform and provide backend dashboard and reporting functionality
How did you select this vendor?
We have searched for companies experienced in digital health app development and interviewed 3 of them. The key selection criteria were agility, proven record in digital health and willingness to communicate effectively to meet tight deadlines.
Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.
We had initial meeting so they understand the project scope and gather our initial ideas. Shortly after they've came back with their initial proposal providing several design and workflow options. After short collaborative work we have selected the final design and functionality and they've promptly jumped on work. MVP has been delivered in surprisingly short time and we were very satisfied. Before reaching final product we had few extra request which they have willingly integrated on the go.
How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?
I am not sure about exact titles but they provided in total 10+ team members for this project, including: UX/UI developers, Designers, Backend developers...
Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
Our external partners we have been developing this app for have been really impressed by design and functionality of final product as well as with a speed of development! We have shared it with other potential customers and have received only positive feedback and following up with few more projects on back of it.
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
In one word - perfect. Very proactive team to the level that I did not have to send a single email or make a single call to check where the project was. Everything has been delivered before or on time, as agreed.
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
It was obvious that their level of experience is second to none. It looked like they'd read our minds in terms of what was needed. It seemed they always had super quality people ready to jump and support the project.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
None. Definitely none!
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Custom Solutions for Software Company
"They were very professional, accurate, transparent, and proactive."
the reviewer
the review
The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I'm company CEO we are doing business in Switzerland, Germany and UK and have 3 development locations in Europe
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles, and what were your goals?
We tried to develop this solution by our own efforts and we failed. With BrightMarbles we cooperate in all software development lifecycle from solution design, architectural setup, development, quality assurance and devops.
How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?
On that way we realised that we need strong partner who has proven track record in delivery of complex solutions. Recommendations I got from my business network reassure me that BrgihtMarbles is company who can meet our high standards and deliver by attracting the best talents on market. Among other providers BrightMarbles shown as the most competent and efficient provider.
Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.
Scope was delivery of whole solution from design solution, architectural setup, software development, testing and maintaining all environments. Product was developed using .NET core, C++, react.js, elasticsearch and Azure cloud.
Focus was on high performance 20k records per second with 3% CPU load with maximum 180k records per second with 20% CPU load. We worked agile with 2 weeks sprints.
How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?
Team was consist of system architect, Technical lead, 3 backend developers, 2 frontend, UI&UX designer, 3 quality engineers, 2 DevOps and delivery manager
Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?
We managed to meet all important milestones, even they were new in business domain they managed to understand and deliver business value we expected. I have to mention that achieved performance was impressive!
Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.
They were very professional, accurate, transparent, and proactive. From tools we used Jira, Confluence, teams and emails.
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
Very motivated and professional team which makes a big difference on project. Whole way I had a feeling that team had full ownership on the project.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
Not that I'm aware.
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Web App Development for Software Engineering Company
"They are hardworking people and experienced engineers."
the reviewer
the review
The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I am the CEO of a software engineering company. We operate at 4 physical locations and have more than 50 experienced engineers with strong educational backgrounds.
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles?
We cooperate with BrightMarbles on multiple projects. We use their professional services for creating production-ready, complex, and mission-critical enterprise solutions. We use their experience, consultancy, and services in the field of software engineering.
How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?
Before we got in touch we heard about their occupation and the quality of their service. After some time we got in touch and started the first negotiations about possible cooperation. Soon after we have started the first project.
Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.
The project is within the Healthcare industry for our end client in the USA. We have started at the project after the MVP phase and then we engaged BrightMarbles to help us in project organization and in frontend development.
Our two teams work together like a charm and the client is happy. We managed to develop a production-ready system out of MVP and nowadays we still develop and maintain it.
How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?
Their CEO was heavily involved at the beginning in order to set everything up correctly. Afterward, CTO joined us with 3 software engineers. Nowadays two teams work as one with the client. CEO and CTO were always there when we needed structural things to discuss and we know they are quickly and always available as escalation posints if needed.
Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
We pushed the system towards production together and that was done with success. End-users use the application and the client's business continues to grow.
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
As stated previously we find BrightMarbles personnel as our internal one. We noticed their personnel is trained to work in the service provider model.
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
They are hardworking people and experienced engineers. Their leaders and directors are people to whom you can openly talk and make fair agreements without too many games and words in between the lines.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
Project management is challenging when you have a system in production. Developing new features and maintaining the existing is a hard job and this is where they can gain more experience.
the project
Frontend Dev Support for Software Dev Agency
"They were extremely flexible, and they delivered everything on time."
the reviewer
the review
The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I am the CEO of a global talent platform where we connecting top tier software development companies to our fortune 500 partners.
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles, and what were your goals?
We contracted bright marbles as we needed a highly Senior frontend team to be able to work with our channel partner and end client concurrently.
How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?
We selected the vendor based on their ability to attract top technical talent, how quickly they could provide talent and ultimately how they trained and educated their team to bridge the gap between hard technical skills but also the required soft skills to manage the various stakeholders involved in the project.
Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.
The scope was to deliver a strong technical lead proficient in React but also adept in .Net. In addition we needed them to hit the ground running but also build the necessary knowledge transfer to scale up additional resources.
How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?
We worked with 4 people all together. Their CEO and CTO were onboard as the caliber of the project was quite high and it was a complex team build. In addition we worked closely with their head of engagement and technical recruitment lead.
Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?
Their resources earned us a lot of praise. They delivered exactly what we asked and were extremely flexible with so unforeseen out-of-scope tasks arose. Their selection of talent and speed at which they delivered them cemented them as one of our elite partners.
Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.
They were extremely flexible, and they delivered everything on time.
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
Their team was able to go big picture quite easily but also get extremely tactical at the same time. I really appreciated how all of the individual team members were aligned on their core vision and mission of the company, which to me was, always taking care of the client, focusing on deliverables and providing expert advice when necessary. I felt like we had a partner not so much a vendor.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
I mean, they delivered across the board, but if I was forced to give some advice on improvement, I would say to let future partners know of the extra services they provide upfront. Halfway through the engagement, I realized I could have used some of their cybersecurity services if I would have known.
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Staff Augmentation for Digital Agency
"Their willingness to learn constantly is commendable."
the reviewer
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I'm Technical Director at a Digital agency of close to 300 people. We primarily focus on custom mobile & web development and design.
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles?
Our company is growing rapidly, and we're having a hard time upscaling our internal development teams for new projects in our sales pipeline. BrightMarbles came in like a savior to increase our delivery capabilities toward our clients.
How did you select this agency and what were the deciding factors?
Last year we started an outbound campaign, focusing on agencies from Europe who would be the best fit for us (both technical and cultural fit) for cooperation through a staff augmentation model. One of the companies we've talked with suggested reaching out to BrightMarbles. After reviewing their Clutch profile, we decided to give it a try. Our deciding factors were customers' level of satisfaction, Clutch ratings and reviews, and a list of reference projects.
Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.
Our projects are usually long-term, where we're cooperating with our clients in a dedicated team model. This gives us the flexibility to have overall control over the project in design, development, QA, growth...
Work is usually organized in a 2-weeks sprint, where we're focusing on developing new features or improving the overall user experience. Key deliverables are usually measured on each sprint, where we are both trying to deliver the features defined on the sprint planning sessions.
Up to this point, we mainly were cooperating on backend & native mobile development (Rails, Android), but we're hoping to expand this further in the next couple of months.
Describe the recruitment process in detail.
We typically send them an overview of the skill sets we need for a specific project, and they respond if they have suitable candidates. From there, we do a short interview to see who's a good fit for our team before signing them on.
Can you share any outcomes from the engagement that demonstrate progress or success?
It’s hard to put direct metrics on their success since they change from project to project. Usually, the most important thing for us is that our clients and our internal development teams are happy. Each quarter, we conduct satisfaction surveys on their work, and they are usually performing at 4.7 out of five. Our clients are delighted with the work BrigthMarbles has done.
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
The workflow is usually set up in a way we do the project management from our side and have direct communication with their developers. We're using the standard set of tools here, like Slack and Zoom. Their developers fit well into our organizations and deliver all requirements without missing a deadline. If a deadline was moved, it was primarily due to the clients' own restrictions.
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
Their willingness to learn constantly is commendable. We're an agile company that regularly works with new technologies or is experimenting with new platforms processes. Also, we must have a partner who can accommodate our often hectic schedule. The requirements and scheduling plans are changing daily, and BrightMarbles was always responsive to the changes.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
No, I'm pleased with the way they perform. It's a joy to cooperate with them, and I always enjoy our talks with their CEO. Boris is an incredible person, and I'm looking forward to building our partnership even more. It's a great relationship.
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Mobile App Development for Dating Platform
"The quality and experience of developers are able to provide relatively new frameworks, even with limited people."
the reviewer
the review
The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I am the CFO and Lead Front-end developer of a dating app based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles, and what were your goals?
We needed more development power for various features on the mobile Flutter app. We had various projects which were valided and designed which needed to be implemented. The secondary goal was to have a second opinion on many of the code architecture and improve the app generally.
How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?
We searched to hire an app developer ourselves but had a hard time finding people with enough experience/quality. We had a recommendation from a fellow startup founder who had gone through the process of finding one of the intermediaries for software engineers. We decided to work with BrightMarbles because we were happy with the quality and price which could be offered.
How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?
We have had 2 employees who worked with our own teams on various tasks assigned to them on the sprint. One was a senior back-end development in Go and one medior front-end development in Flutter.
Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?
The quality of the developers met the expectations, the BrightMarbles team was quick in following up on our feedback on performance.
Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.
The BrightMarbles team was quick in following up on our feedback on performance. We would based on our preferences quickly check in with them whenever needed.
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
The quality and experience of developers are able to provide relatively new frameworks, even with limited people.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
The speed at which we were given a good enough quality developer could have been higher sometimes, especially compared to their promises. But overall we were happy with their efforts and updates on this.
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Development Staff Augmentation for IT Services Company
"They were highly engaged, and we were highly satisfied with their work."
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A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I’m the director at Saga d.o.o. Beograd, an IT company. We provide relationship and communication platforms, and we’re dedicated to providing AI-based solutions.
What challenge were you trying to address with BrightMarbles?
We wanted to create software development kits (SDKs) and channels to easily integrate our smart AI assistant into any native mobile app. That way, our AI platform would able to support each and every channel. Once we realized that we also had to support virtual assistants (VAs) on the mobile apps, we struggled because we didn’t have an internal team. As a result, we hired BrightMarbles.
What was the scope of their involvement?
BrightMarbles developed mobile SDK components for iOS and Android. They ensured that the SDK components would be able to support all the features such as support voice messages and short text messages based on our documentation in any social media platform.
They also developed our APIs, and they developed functions such as integrating a small Facebook Messenger inside the mobile app. The whole project was pretty complex because the app needed to support many different media such as action buttons, voice messages, and more. We gave them very strict features set, and we guided them through the project. Based on the documents we created, they conducted beta testing.
What is the team composition?
Two Android developers and two iOS developers worked on our project.
How did you come to work with BrightMarbles?
I contacted them based on good recommendations from other companies around — they said they were very skilled engineers.
How much have you invested with them?
We spent over $50,000.
What is the status of this engagement?
Our partnership ran from November 2020–March 2021.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
BrightMarbles delivered bug-free components for both platforms, and those components were able to support chats. From the first delivery of their team, they produced an acceptable level of quality. The team met our expectations, and they did exactly what we asked from them. Overall, we didn’t have any misunderstandings regarding our expectations.
How did BrightMarbles perform from a project management standpoint?
They worked using an agile approach, and they showed a very high level of dedication to the project. The BrightMarbles team delivered within the planned timeline and they showed that they want to provide good quality work.
We communicated via email and phone calls. We also used Microsoft Teams. Overall, they were highly engaged, and we were highly satisfied with their work.
What did you find most impressive about them?
They had a great attitude, and they did their job properly. We appreciated that they had a high level of seniority in their business. Whenever we asked for something, they instantly replied to us — they were responsive.
Are there any areas they could improve?
I had a couple of bad experiences with other outsourcing companies, but my experience with BrightMarbles had been great. For smaller companies, it might be important for the team to provide guidance to the company. This wasn’t our case but if it is, they need to make sure they have the ability to do so. Additionally, they didn’t have a product portfolio, but maybe they could create one and show it to others.
Do you have any advice for potential customers?
Clarify your requests and document everything. I’d recommend BrightMarbles to anybody who needs a mobile development outsourced team.
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iOS & Android Dev for Software Company
"Honestly, they were fantastic. We couldn't have worked any better together."
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I’m the CEO of a travel mobile app.
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles, and what were your goals?
I wanted to find a development partner to handle the whole build of my project: back end infrastructure and iOS/ Android front end.
How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?
They came as a warm recommendation from a friend who also used them to develop his mobile app. They seemed very professional, friendly and came in at a more than reasonable price.
Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.
After a couple of discovery meetings, I was presented with a plan (Heroku for the back end, flutter for the front end). The team and I worked in Scrum Sprints with clear deliverables each step of the way. We had daily standups and weekly demos.
How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?
The number of engineers working on the project varied throughout. They were incredibly flexible and staffed the project based needs. Most engineers were quite senior and self directed. It was a pleasure to work with them.
Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?
The app was released (roughly) on time. It works like a charm and they really went the extra mile to make sure it looked fantastic. Along the way, they kept making recommendations for improvements and took the time to clearly outline trade offs.
Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.
Clear communication all the way through, via Slack, video conference and the Jira board. I never felt blindsided or that I didn’t know what people were working on.
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
The CEO is the most genuine and friendly person, and it really reflects on the rest of the team. I have very rarely worked with people who feel as much like true partners as the BrightMarbles team.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
Honestly, they were fantastic. We couldn't have worked any better together.
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Mobile App Dev for Healthcare Company
"They are very good at coding and giving solutions."
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I am the CTO of a startup that provides an online healthcare service in the form of medical consultations via app. We serve thousands of customers through the help of dozens of remote practitioners.
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles?
Our Android and iOS native apps long needed maintenance and improvements. We lacked the engineering power to go through the effort so we asked BrightMarbles to upgrade the apps to the modern days and develop additional new features.
What were your goals for this project?
Upgrade the apps to current state of the art and implement two new features.
How did you select BrightMarbles?
I already collaborated we their sister company, Vega IT, in the past while working at another startup. They suggested BrightMarbles as the perfect partners for our needs and after a satisfying first meeting and quote, we went for it.
Describe the project in detail.
After a couple of meeting we met the actual engineers that would be working on our codebase and set up all the necessary tasks and information sharing. Collaboration and communication was excellent.
What was the team composition?
We had assigned two software engineers, the first on iOS quite senior and the second a little less senior. I managed them as my resources, as part o my team, for 4 weeks with almost daily meetings and good communication.
Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
Both native apps are now up to date, stable and will be good for the next year, while our customer and collaborators will enjoy the new functionalities.
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
I managed directly the two resources, via Skype, with daily meetings and a task tracker to describe and distribute the work. Also keeping an eye on software changes and code quality via central code repository on GitLab. No issues with language at all, they all spoke fluent english.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
Above average seniority and expertise, I personally learn a lot from the engineers and the hourly rate was good considered my past experiences.
Are there any areas for improvement?
Nothing worth noting here. Just an overall good work and good impression.
BrightMarbles has played an instrumental role in the client’s success, allowing them to deliver new and functional products and features on time. The team is highly responsive and collaborative, using MS Teams for communication. Moreover, they’re very understanding and deliver quality work.