Lexis Solutions

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Marketing Manager of Whilli

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Automotive startup with focus on car products and services.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Lexis Solutions to accomplish?

We hired Lexis Solutions with the primary objective of conducting comprehensive market research in the automotive service industry in Bulgaria. Our goals were to identify potential clients such as mechanics, spare part dealers, and vehicle inspection garages (MOT test stations) and to gain insights into our competition.

We sought their expertise in data scraping and analysis to gather a detailed understanding of the market landscape and identify strategic opportunities for our phone app, which offers various services for car owners, including a centralized platform for managing licensing and other cars’ legal or maintenance work.

SOLUTION

How did you find Lexis Solutions?

Referral

Why did you select Lexis Solutions over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget
• Company values aligned

What was the size of Lexis Solutions’s team?

1 Employee

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

The scope of work for Lexis Solutions involved helping us conduct extensive market research in the automotive service industry, with their focus being on data scraping and analysis. The key deliverable was the business data collection they compiled for us. Lexis Solutions was tasked with gathering comprehensive data on relevant businesses in the country and classifying it by multiple metrics.

We were unsure how to guarantee the accuracy of the data we got, and we gladly learned from them that they could reliably extract it from Google Maps. This was enough of a mark of quality for us, and they proceeded with the scraping. In the end, we did multiple iterations of data scraping to identify what we really needed and filter out to keep the data as lean and relevant as possible.

With the end list of business data, we also scraped each business’s user reviews. The developer from Lexis Solutions helped us also classify it by the following criteria: region, town, neighborhood, business category, review score, number of reviews, business offices

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

In general, because of the relatively limited scope of the project, we had 2 measurable outcomes that guided us forward:

• Complete Data Set: The collected data after multiple iterations of scraping on a large number of relevant businesses in the country.
• Client Segmentation: Based on the collected data, Lexis Solutions effectively segmented potential clients into specific categories, enabling us to prioritize our marketing efforts and tailor our messaging for each segment.

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

Lexis Solutions' project management was generally effective, ensuring the successful completion of the requirements. They dedicated one expert with whom we continued our day-to-day communication. He was able to deliver items on time and was highly responsive to our needs throughout the engagement.

What was your primary form of communication with Lexis Solutions?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

We were impressed by their customer-centric approach. Lexis Solutions maintained a consistent contact throughout the project, ensuring our objectives were clearly understood and prioritized. They were always available to address our questions and concerns and provided practical support.

Rather than adopting a one-size-fits-all approach, Lexis Solutions tailored their data collection and analysis strategies to align with our specific goals and industry context. This customized approach resulted in more targeted and actionable insights that have been instrumental in refining our business strategy.

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

While Lexis Solutions delivered great results and support throughout the project, there are a couple of areas where they could potentially improve in future engagements:

• Data Visualization: While the data analysis and insights were of high quality, incorporating more data visualization elements such as graphs, charts, and infographics in their reports would have made the information more accessible and easier to understand for stakeholders not deeply involved in the study.
• Training and Knowledge Transfer: Lexis Solutions could have offered a training session or provided additional resources to help our team better understand the data scraping and analysis techniques used in the project. This would enable us to utilize the data collected more effectively and make informed decisions in the future.

Despite these areas for improvement, Lexis Solutions' overall performance was impressive, and their expertise significantly contributed to the success of our market research project. We would gladly work with them again and recommend their services to others.

BACKGROUND

I'm a non-executive director at a company providing remote navigation audit and support to the merchant shipping industry.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

To or what projects/services did your company hire Lexis Solutions, and what were your goals?

A project to design and build a portal for clients to login and view data collected from audits of their vessels, as well as to compare that data with anonomised benchmark values calculated from a pool of multiple clients' data.

SOLUTION

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

The vendor impressed with their enthusiasm for the project and proposed timeline, which aligned with our business need.

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

The project involved identifying the framework for a database, building that database, building a data entry mechanism, generating statistics from the data, building an interface to display the statistics and providing a login page for clients and admin users.

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

We had regular contact with a single point of contact who was the lead for the vendor.  He was able to coordinate repsonse to queries and involve other team members as necessary.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The vendor worked with us to refine the outcomes as project evolved.  The final product met all our objectives.

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

Communication was primarily by email with regular video calls.  Response to email was always with 24 hours and video calls were always hosted at a time to suit us.  Communciation with the vendor was excellent in all regards.

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

We were impressed with the vendor's willingness to understand not just our data presentation needs but also the nature of our business.  The vendor was keen to suggest modifications to our original vision and possible future expansion of the product based on their experience of developing similar products, which could be of significant interest to us.

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

Overall we were impressed with the level of communication, willingness to adapt and flexibility in working to our timeline.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work as an art-director, designing websites, koncept-development, identies and creating marketing material for my clients.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

I hired Lexis Solution to take my approved design and create a usable wordpress template for me, so I could build pages with my client.

SOLUTION

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

A good friend and former workbuddy told me to use these guys, so I chose them, also to see how they did, and if I could use them on bigger projects in the future.

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

I did a project description, prepared all the design-files in .Sketch and delivered all screens that needed to be created in wordpress. We had a briefing meeting, where I went through everything. Within a short time the dev. created all the pages, following the design thoroughly, and made a walkthrough with me on the flow and animations while briefing me up on how to use the modules and elements, so I could create extra pages with my client. A well done delivery.

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

Since it was a small project, I only worked with a PM and a DEV. It worked perfect, since this project didn´t require a whole bunch of people.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our customer was very satisfied with the outcome. This website had to play together with their new visual identity we have been working on, and then they had to be able to build on the pages themselves.

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

Direct contact through Whatsapp, on a weekly basis ... worked perfect for kind of project.

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

A fast and professional delivery with a Wordpress theme, easy to work with and to create the content ourselves.

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

Floating soft launch made it work fine, since we, while publishing and learning the works around the modules, minor bugs was fixed on the run.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO of FranceVerif.fr , an AI based tool predicting scams and protecting consumers

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We needed a company to support our mobile app revamp as we had a limited bandwidth to do it with our current team, so we searched for a good candidate to compliment our team and provide mobile app developers quickly

SOLUTION

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

We had a few important factors for selecting, 2 key ones being lead time and pricing, Lexis made a great proposal on both points, we then ran a proof-of-concept with a few shortlisted company and Lexis provided the best results so we selected them to lead this project

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

the main project was the launch of the v2 of our mobile app which was quite an important and complex project, our mobile app has a lot of moving parts as well as many users, so we needed to make significant changes to the app without breaking the actual logic for users. Key deliverables were new iOS and Android app, with 4 key features each (security scanning, price comparison, coupons/cashback, user authentication)

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

we had 2 developers and 1 qa from Lexis working on this project

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

in a little under 3 months Lexis delivered great and functioning new apps, there were very few bugs in the builds they prepared and when discovered it was fixed quickly, our users have been happy with the new version

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

very reactive and available, they adjusted to our project management style and used our PM tool (clickup) as well as integrated into our slack for faster exchanges with me and our main dev team. Communication was super fluid and deadlines were respected, even when it required extra efforts to publish things on time, they were always ready to help.

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

We were impressed with their good communication, short lead time, and quality of the deliverables.

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

honestly everything went great and we were thrilled with the cooperation, we would rework with Lexis with pleasure when the need arises again

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a professor in Paris France and I teacher Physics and Chemistry.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

The project was to built a data base for my students and also an association of many professors across France to exchange knowledge and to be able to find them quickly with keywords, theme, ...

SOLUTION

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

I selected the vendor because of word and mouth and the deciding factor was how fast Lexis Solution understood our needs.

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

We wanted to be able to build a data base using google workspace and letting teacher upload their work, class, cases with a minimum amount of informations and a fast way for any user to find them back. First we needed to build the structure and also being able to make it grow. Each file could be at different places in the google workspace. The idea was that you could find anything anywhere and everywhere. The goal was successful. Behind the scene was mainly Google app Script.

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

I was the only one in charge of the project.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project has now grown very big with over 25000 documents and the plateform is robust. We are very happy.

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

Meeting were scheduled, work was done in between. It was very easy to speak. It was like a ping pong.

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

I found how they would reply to our needs fast and were also very helpful in giving us solutions to problems we didn't see yet.

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

Yes sometimes it was hard to follow as they work very fast and I couldn't understand all the new features. I told them to go slower on the technology and programming they used.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

StaffSquared.com provides Absence Management Software to SMB customers across the UK. StaffSquared is an established brand in the UK, and our team acquired the business in 2021. As Managing Partner on the team, I reviewed many software development partners before selecting Lexis Solutions.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

StaffSquared is build on the classic Microsoft stack in a SaaS environment. Lexis Solutions was able to bring skilled developers to the project to deliver on the following; database administration, middleware/platform development, front end UI work, and API integration efforts.

SOLUTION

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

Lexis Solutions was able to quickly understand our project scope and help us define the timelines and deliverables to the project. They were flexible and professional. And they had strong references for similar types of projects.

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

Staffsquared is built on the Microsoft stack including: Azure, .NET, Entity Framework, Hangfire, Javascript, MySQL.

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

The team started with two positions and has grown to four. We are considering further growth and are certain that Lexis can manage this as our development partner.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The StaffSquared.com platform has grown in terms of features, functionality, partnership integrations, and mobile app integration. We are now able to quickly respond to bugs, updates, and centralization of services, increasing our ability to scale for the marketplace.

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

Timelines are estimated based on the current sprint. We communicate back and forth around QA / testing and make updates as needed.

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

We had a difficult situation where the platform performance impacted all clients. Lexis Solutions is able to rapidly resolve the problem and update the platform to resolve and remove the issue. Customers were very pleased with the rapid response.

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

We have been very pleased working with Lexis and do not have any areas of improvement.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am Business Development Manager and Product Owner at a marketing company with 50+ headcount. We are moving fast from an agency type of business to a SaaS company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

As a startup, we have high requirements for our operations software to be simple to use and deliver robust results. This is why we decided to develop a 100% custom-made CRM.

SOLUTION

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

We were introduced to Lexis Solutions through our CPO, who has collaborated successfully on previous projects.

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

Initially, we had a different team working on an early version of the system, which we we not entirely happy with. We decided to completely revamp and expand it with a new tech partner. We worked with Lexis Solutions on a continuous basis for Web development, CRM development with custom order flow, sales pipeline development including task management and lead acquisition. Additionally, advanced BI insights had to be developed to track sales efforts. For the development, the team employed the most modern and robust technologies, such as React, Node.js, GraphQL, Docker & Kubernetes.

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

We had the pleasure to work with 4 full-stack specialists on a full-time basis (3 senior devs and 1 mid-level dev)

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The impact on our business results through the developed solutions have been immense. The developed CRM formed the basis for the scalability of our business model. We were able to increase sales by +210% compared to last year.

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

Lexis Solutions was 100% available to us at any time via Slack, Linear, Figma and GitHub. Daily stand-ups helped a lot to steer projects in the right direction.

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

If I would be able to choose one significant strength of Lexis Solutions, then it would be their high flexibility. Whether it was a sudden switch in objectives or tight deadlines, Lexis Solutions always delivered on time and in quality. Their skill to really dive deep into customer requirements and vision needs be mentioned positively, as well.

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

To be honest, we are very lucky with our decision to work together with Lexis Solutions and looking forward to succeeding in future projects.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the managing partner of Kreston Bulmar - an accounting and business consulting company that I started 25 years ago.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We greatly value the knowledge we have accumulated in the company for the past 25 years and we have been dedicating time for knowledge sharing every month for the past few years. This practices get us great results and we wanted to bring it to the next level.

We wanted to create a platform in which everybody in the company authors documents which are linked to articles of legal acts and that everybody in the company can access. This way the employees at Kreston Bulmar can solve their everyday challenges quicker and grow faster as professionals.

From the very start on we realized this is a product we can sell to other professionals and we have taken many steps to make BALANS.bg into a purchasable service.

SOLUTION

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

Lexis Solutions was brought to our attention by a close friend. By that time we had already received a proposition from another company yet we took the time and met with Emil and Milush from Lexis Solutions.

During our first meeting we clicked and spent the next 2 weeks in full-day brainstorms that lead to a new, broadened vision of what balans.bg should look like. Lexis Solutions proved to be not only executers, but partners that could give ideas and enrich the product. You cannot buy this attitude so even before receiving a competitive pricing we had stopped onto them.

Describe the engagement and overall scope of work in detail, including the stages of the partnership and any software or documents used.

balans.bg proved to be a very dynamic project. The initial specification was created after the first 2 weeks of non-stop meetings, discussions and brainstorming were over. We started the implementation phase right after that and work in milestones until this day. We would meet 2-3 times per week and discuss how the project is progressing and also discuss any ideas that may have came up. We do make little changes often and Emil have proven very flexible in implementing them.

Describe their billing or cost structure.

We agree on milestones and a time frame in which the features of the milestone should be ready. Payments are made monthly depending on how much hours they have worked.

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

We work with 3 people - 1 full-time, 1 part-time and 1 that is currently part-time but was full-time for the bigger part of the project.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the engagement or general feedback about the services?

The project is unique with nothing of the sort on the market. We did not believe it could be done as we imagined it - with all the complexity of links between resources and the actual parsing of all those different types of legal acts. But we did it and that's what's most impressive. The general feedback would be that Emil, Milush and Stefan made what seemed impossible possible.

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

We are in a non-stop communication with Emil. We meet every other day in person and exchange emails for weekly updates and ongoing questions. Emil is responsible for the whole system and I synchronize my expectations of when milestones will be ready with him.

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

As I already described Lexis Solutions completed a project that we thought improbable to successfully implement. Rather that focusing on the problems they thought of solutions and made it happen. That being said their availability and willingness to communicate are also at the highest levels we have seen.

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

A few times milestones were postponed due to over-communication. This happened as new features were added to the milestones on-the-go. It is sometimes better to call new implementations off so we go on schedule. It would be OK if in these situations Emil prioritizes the current tasks and leave the new features for the next milestone.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a shareholder and managing director. We deliver custom software solutions to clients in Europe and the Middle East and specialize in the areas of marketing, information security and healthcare.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Lexis Solutions LTD, and what were your goals?

Our goal was to create a software application for customer feedback analysis and more specifically text and sentiment analysis. We hired Lexis Solutions to develop the application end to end for the requirements gathering to delivery and deployment.

The business value of the application is the extraction of topics and improvement areas, sentiment and emotion out of text messages, posts on social media and verbatims from customer satisfaction surveys to provide an indication on how our customers' products and services are being perceived and what the end customer feedback or pain points are.

SOLUTION

How did you select Lexis Solutions LTD and what were the deciding factors?

We have reached out to a variety of companies we've met before. Lexis Solutions pitched to the company in the past. We went through our due diligence and looked at cost-effectiveness and how together we would work well.

Then we did a technical review of the engineers themselves to ensure that our technical specifications can be met. They gave us a really great impression of being professional and thorough.

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

We work in 2-week sprints, so there is no initial full project scope but broadly speaking the scope of the work was to collect requirements together with our team, describe them in user stories and estimate them, prioritize and plan each sprint accordingly.

There were also at certain stages customer releases with major functionalities and these milestones were met on time. The scope of the work included also testing, Dev Ops, integration and deployment. After the final stages of the product are released Lexis will also support the application through an SLA with us.

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

We worked with four developers in total. Two of them were engaged with the front-end work, one with the backend and another one who was more focused on building the API.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We partner closely with Lexis Solutions, whose team members support the members of our team. They easily plugged into our meeting rhythm and communication process quickly, so they really felt like a part of the team. They worked hard if we had deadlines to reach in their iterative process.

They staffed us with the right people at the right times. When new people were introduced to the development, it was always a seamless transition. Generally, we operate in sprints, and Lexis Solutions team members contribute to the deliverables as any other team member would.

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

We are pleased with this aspect. We organized weekly calls where the entire project team was present to review the project and discuss all design elements and their implications on the development. Then, we mostly used Slack as a day-to-day channel. The CEO also checked in on us periodically to make sure everything was going well.

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

Lexis Solutions takes care of the developers. They invoke the feeling of loving what they're doing. The developers are not only creative but motivated. Nothing was ever too much trouble, and they were never too busy, despite increasing as a company. Their team was available readily.

The four people that worked on the project were very dedicated. If a particular skill was needed on a project, they could find someone to do it within two weeks. We could feel that they knew the work inside and out.

They certainly weren’t spread too thin on too many projects, and that positively impacted the overall quality of the deliverable. They offered not only the best quality but also the best communication.

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

I don't have a particular major improvement point to mention here. Of course there are always ways a collaboration can be improved. In this particular project we could have done more intermediate releases to our customers to get feedback faster on new development.

Although the overhead was in the end much less then we expected such an approach would have made our progress somewhat faster. This would have benefitted the project overall but wasn't the sole responsibility of Lexis.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I co-own an umbrella company that builds online businesses, predominantly in the SaaS & affiliate space.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Lexis Solutions LTD, and what were your goals?

For one of our projects we wanted to test a concept that is quite established in the US (affiliate website focussed on curation of funny/original/humorous products and gadgets) and see whether or not this is something that could also work in Germany. In addition,

I was very keen on testing out a new headless CMS infrastructure, so we thought this is a low-risk project with which to gain better understanding of a (to us) new tech stack for future projects down the road.

SOLUTION

How did you select Lexis Solutions LTD and what were the deciding factors?

I screened numerous candidates on freelancer marketplaces (fiverr and upwork) and conducted interviews with a few select ones. Top of the list in terms of deciding whom to trust was 1) smarts & fast understanding and 2) communication. Generally, I don't really mind if a developer is not a 10 year veteran for certain programming languages.

More important to me is the willingness to learn fast, execute cleanly and communicate concisely. I do want to emphasize "communication skills", because this is somewhat of rare trait amongst great developers, and I feel like I really hit a home run with Bilyal/ Lexis Solutions.

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

We provided Lexis Solutions with 90% ready designs in Figma and I started work on how to best model the content in Contentful (headless CMS) so that we could hit the ground running. Having never worked with Contentful, though, Bilyal supported in developing a streamlined yet flexible content model structure. We then uploaded a 50 or so dummy products so that we could test categorization, filters, pagination, lists, etc.

Once the groundwork was in place, it was all about execution, and Bilyal was very fast in developing a 80%+ version of the website using a GatsbyJS/ React/ Contentful stack. We fine-tuned thereafter and added a number of additional requirements (such as cookie notifications, analytics, custom mailchimp integration, social sharing, etc).

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

I worked exclusively with Bilyal Mestanov, who I believe is a co-founder of Lexis Solutions.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Bilyal did a great job - the website looks fantastic and has been up and running for weeks without issues or bugs. Now it's up to my team to add content to the site and generate some traffic (mostly social) in the upcoming months. More importantly, we're partnering with Lexis Solutions on further projects using same tech stack, e.g. in building a headless e-commerce store.

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

We mostly used Trello to coordinate tasks - if there were any follow-up questions we'd discuss via whatapp or a quick call. As I said earlier, communication was very smooth and efficient, and we managed to execute the project without any delays to our planned timelines.

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

While I have some limited experience with web development, I am still dependent on developers' clear communication along the way so that projects are successful and we're not developing a product in silos/ in parallel (which has happened in the past). With Bilyal, I feel that we were aligned at all times, and that saved us weeks/months in development work. Also, they were approachable and provided quick feedback at all times which we certainly didn't expect.