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Overall Review Rating

4.8

Quality 4.6
Schedule 4.6
Cost 4.3
Willing to Refer 4.3

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Proficiency in SaaS and AI Projects

Stellarbase has demonstrated expertise in developing SaaS products with AI functionalities. Clients appreciated their ability to handle projects that require extracting and structuring market data and integrating LLMs.
Successful MVP Development

Stellarbase successfully developed and launched MVPs for clients, meeting technical requirements and delivering functional platforms. Clients appreciated their problem-solving skills and ability to deploy and debug effectively.
Eagerness to Learn and Passion for Development

Clients highlighted Stellarbase’s eagerness to learn and passion for product development, which contributed to a positive working relationship and successful project outcomes.
Constructive Feedback Implementation

Stellarbase has shown a willingness to listen to client feedback and make necessary adjustments. Clients observed improvements in their approach to asking for clarifications and maintaining better documentation over time.
Need for Improved Documentation and Transparency

One client noted a need for better documentation and transparency in the development process, suggesting that Stellarbase could improve by providing more structured and clear documentation, especially for senior-level projects.
Impressive Project Management

Stellarbase received commendations for their project management skills, including timely deliveries and effective remote working capabilities. Clients noted their quick response times and ability to manage tasks efficiently.

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AI Consulting
Less than $10,000
Apr. 2024 - Ongoing

4.5

Quality: 4.0

Schedule: 4.0

Cost: 3.0

Willing to Refer: 3.0

"We have made progress in improving the project."

Aug 12, 2024

CEO & Co-Founder, Partnerful Aps

Vlad Gidea

Information technology
Copenhagen, Denmark
1-10 Employees
Online Review
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Stellarbase has been hired by an IT company to build a proof of concept for an AI-based internal tool. The goal is to explore how they can extract and structure market data using the solution.

Stellarbase has made progress in improving the project. They've been more mindful in asking for clarifications and maintaining better documentation to avoid misunderstandings and ensure transparency. Their more structured approach and improved listening allow for a productive workflow. This review is an update by the client company. The original content is located below the new review.

The client submitted this review online.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO & Co-Founder of Partnerful Aps

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We're a SaaS product expanding our offering with genAI functionality. We primarily sale to mid-market companies, which prioritise compliance and stability.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Stellarbase to accomplish?

Create a PoC of a special project
Explore how we can extract and structure market data
We needed to move fast in order to learn if a potential pivot would be more lucrative, which also means we needed to give more autonomy to the contractor. This has led to some friction and unmet expectations, which undoubtedly have been a learning experience. We discussed the issue, and we have received some support to remedy the situation. At the same time, the genAI expectations from the customer can be higher and in part some of our disappointment is more reflective of the technology

SOLUTION

How did you find Stellarbase?

Referral

Why did you select Stellarbase over others?

Referred to me

How many teammates from Stellarbase were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.
StellarBase was contracted to build a proof of concept we called Radar. Radar aimed at being an internal tool at Partneful, and potentially a stand-alone service to handle a very specific task: understand what a company does (what product or service they provide) by looking at their landing page.

They were given complete freedom to choose the stack, the services and to prioritise as needed as long as we work within the product owner's needs.

What's the status of this engagement?

We have made progress in improving the project.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

How did your relationship with your partner evolve?

It has moved from being dismissive and uncommunicative to being a bit more willing to ask questions and clarifications to avoid misunderstandings.

In what ways can they improve?

More structure and better documentation (especially if one is aiming for a senior developer hourly rate)
More transparency in what is actually being developed and what is used as off-the-shelf services.
Improved listening to what the customer is looking for.

What advice do you have for clients with similar needs to yours?

To provide a clear list of tasks, to work together to estimate all of the tasks and ensure there is an agreement there. Especially if you're building in uncharted territory (as it is with the AI infra stuff) you can't have flexibility in the project breakdown.

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

N/A

What was your primary form of communication with Stellarbase?

Virtual Meeting

UPDATED REVIEW

This review was published on July 31, 2024.

Vlad Gidea
CEO & Co-Founder, Partnerful Aps

Information technology
Copenhagen, Denmark
1-10 Employees
Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
Less than $10,000

Project summary
Stellarbase was hired by an IT company to create a proof of concept for an AI project. This involved building an ideal partner profile and applying NLP to the unstructured data gathered.

Feedback summary
Stellarbase failed to deliver the project on time, and the final work delivered was unusable and riddled with significant quality issues. The team's poor understanding of the project's scope and lack of transparency soured the engagement.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO, Cofounder of Partnerful Aps

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Partnerful is a partner management solution enabling vendros to onboard and work with their channel partners.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Stellarbase to accomplish?

Create a PoC of a special project
Explore how we can extract and structure market data

SOLUTION

How did you find Stellarbase?

Referral

Why did you select Stellarbase over others?

Referred to me

How many teammates from Stellarbase were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

StellarBase was contracted to build a proof of concept we called Radar. Radar aimed at being an internal tool at Partneful, and potentially a stand-alone service to handle a very specific task: understand what a company does (what product or service they provide) by looking at their landing page.
From the beginning we asked for:

integrating an existing company firmographic data source (so we can first test the ability to deliver results when only taking into account company firmographic data)
building an "Ideal Partner Profile" (which is a selection of search criteria to run the search periodically against)
crawling and applying NLP to the unstructured data gathered, in order to build company profiles which can show us potential partnerships
how would such a service work with partnerful's webapp

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We have set the project up in Azure Boards, and briefly later in linear. We have agreed that only work selected for the sprint should be done. The sprint length was 2 weeks, to take into account the part-time nature of the work done.

Unfortunately we just couldn't seem to understand each other, because the work agreed upon either was not delivered or was delivered with significant quality issues. We learned after a few sprints that the developer hasn't even implemented what we requested initially, and has jumped straight with playing with AI tools and writing prompts to OpenAI.
What is even more infuriating was that we spent weeks explaining that this Ideal Partner Profile and the type of terminology used is not accidental and is a terminology used in our industry, only to keep seeing really a lack of comprehension and experience. Oh, we were charged for a "senior fullstack dev with AI skills" and we feel we barely got a bootcamp frontend guy with some free AI tools.

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

From our side, we realised that tasks provided at an epic-level are to broad and we need to be much more specific because leaving the senior consultant with room for interpretation would be faced with push-back and apathy. We changed to work on a week by week basis with a 30min catchup, and 1-2 tasks at a time. This way we can ensure theres no more "room for misunderstandings" which seemed to be a thing by this point.

The work was never fully delivered, and still remains unusable after 3 months of work. We have wasted our time, energy and budget on a bad collaboration. Which happens, we get it. We weren't born yesterday, even if Stellarbase seems to think so. But it is midly infuriating when you are being asked to leave a review about it :)

What was your primary form of communication with Stellarbase?

Virtual Meeting

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

The ability to stay silent and leave people with the impression that you understand what people around are talking about, when in reality you're just aimlessly playing around with other people's time and money.

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

We have received invoice before even seeing a commit to the repository, we have asked time and time again that we agree on the work delivered and not just be sent an invoice.
Suggestions for improvement would be to look a bit more carefully at what it means to work with clients in general. We know we're Stellarbase's second customer, but if this is the way forward, we will definitely be their last.

STAR RATINGS
Overall rating: 2
We will protect ourselves from such interactions in the future, lesson learned.

Quality: 2
Joining meetings to demo from local machine even after asked repeatedly to push to the repo. Radio silence for weeks only to come back to "miunderstandings" which when working in an agile fashion with clearly described user stories should never ever be the case.

Cost: 2
We were charged a senior rate, even when we met during a startup accelerator program in person. But we never received any work that a senior would deliver. The proof is first of all in how the documentation and explanations for various components just sound like a student.

Schedule: 1
Just 2 weeks ago we agreed to meet every friday for a short 30min to catchup, and the next week we got an email that the guy's travelling so we can't talk. No, we failed to meet with someone who is literally across the bridge in Sweden.

Willing to refer: 1
Stellarbase needs a lot of growing up to do.

RATINGS

4.5

AI Development Custom Software Development Web Development
Chatbots & Conversational AI
+4
Confidential
May 2024 - Ongoing

5.0

Quality: 5.0

Schedule: 5.0

Cost: 5.0

Willing to Refer: 5.0

"Stellarbase demonstrates a great range of knowledge, fast problem-solving skills, and commitment to end results!"

Jul 9, 2024

Co-Founder, Pelonia

Fred Abrahamson

Information technology
Stockholm, Sweden
1-10 Employees
Online Review

Stellarbase is building an MVP for an AI-driven security review company, managing structure, deployment, and API integration. The team aims to deliver a ready-to-use product that's easy to iterate and expand.

Stellarbase has successfully delivered tested, functional features and ensures the work is available in Linear, enabling the client to follow the progress. The team showcases a wide range of knowledge and fast problem-solving skills and posts regular updates and questions in Slack to avoid delays.

The client submitted this review online.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Co-Founder of Pelonia

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

At Pelonia, we are at the forefront of a revolutionary shift in how security reviews and assessments are conducted. By leveraging AI and LLMs we are striving to automate the repetitive and labor-intensive parts of security reviews for everyone.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Stellarbase to accomplish?

Launch a MVP to validate with customers.

SOLUTION

How did you find Stellarbase?

Referral

Why did you select Stellarbase over others?

High ratings
Great culture fit
Referred to me

How many teammates from Stellarbase were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

Stellarbase is helping us create a MVP of our SaaS product that enables companies to better work with their secruity, privacy and compliance and showcasing it to their potential customers. The delivery will be a product ready to be used by our first customers that is easy and fast to iterate on and expand. Delivery includes milestones ranging from:

Setting up the basic structure
Deployment
Tools
Implementing APIs
Delivering features

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Delivery of tested and functional features.

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

The planned and completed work is available in detail in Linear where we can follow the progress between check-in meetings. They are great at posting updates and questions in Slack along they way so we always know the status and avoid blockers or delays.

What was your primary form of communication with Stellarbase?

Virtual Meeting
Email or Messaging App

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

Stellarbase demonstrates a great range of knowledge, fast problem-solving skills, and commitment to end results!

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

None that I can think of at the moment.

RATINGS

5.0

Custom Software Development
$50,000 to $199,999
Dec. 2023 - Ongoing

5.0

Quality: 5.0

Schedule: 5.0

Cost: 5.0

Willing to Refer: 5.0

"They perfectly fit our startup culture with their flexibility and ability to learn fast."

Feb 11, 2024

CTO, Precode AB

Teppo Hudsson

Other industries
Stockholm, Sweden
1-10 Employees
Online Review
Verified

Stellarbase has developed a SaaS application for a SaaS company.

Stellarbase has completed all weekly tasks. Despite working 100% remotely, their team manages the project well and responds to the client within hours. Their flexibility perfectly fits the client's startup culture. Moreover, they're fast learners and communicate well via email and online meetings.

The client submitted this review online.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of Precode AB.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We develop an online SaaS tool that includes LLM integrations. With that, we automate the specification process of projects.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Stellarbase to accomplish?

Lead development
Develop software to reach specific business goals

SOLUTION

How did you find Stellarbase?

Mutual work

Why did you select Stellarbase over others?

Close to my geographic location
Pricing fit our budget
Great culture fit
Good value for cost
Company values aligned

How many teammates from Stellarbase were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

Develop custom SaaS software to be launch-ready.
Develop the software in a 100% remote manner, with 100% flexibility in used hours.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Completed tasks each week

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

Stellar project management
Perfectly fit for our startup culture
Respond time in hours

What was your primary form of communication with Stellarbase?

Virtual Meeting
Email or Messaging App

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

They perfectly fit our startup culture with their flexibility and ability to learn fast.

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

Both of us could improve the communication and details in the planning. Some testing could be beneficial as well.

RATINGS

5.0

Custom Software Development Other Application Development Web Development
Amazon Application Development Framework
+5
$10,000 to $49,999
July - Nov. 2021

4.5

Quality: 4.5

Schedule: 4.5

Cost: 4.0

Willing to Refer: 4.0

"Their entrepreneurial mindset was impressive."

Feb 7, 2024

Founder & Product Owner, Social E-Commerce Platform

Anonymous

Consumer products & services
Stockholm, Sweden
1-10 Employees
Online Review
Verified

A social e-commerce platform hired Stellarbase to develop their MVP based on their UX/UI designs and technical requirements. The team developed, deployed, and debugged the MVP.

Stellarbase’s successfully launched a functional platform in the client's production environment. The team delivered items on time and was easy to work with. They communicated via virtual meetings, emails, and messages. Their eagerness to learn, passion, and problem-solving skills were remarkable.

The client submitted this review online.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Founder, product owner of a consumer products & services company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Provide an online platform for social e-commerce, enabling people to shop the styles and product recommendations of their favorite influencers

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Stellarbase to accomplish?

Build mvp

SOLUTION

How did you find Stellarbase?

Referral

Why did you select Stellarbase over others?

Close to my geographic location
Pricing fit our budget
Great culture fit
Good value for cost
Referred to me

How many teammates from Stellarbase were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

Plan and build our MVP based on UX / UI design and basic technical trequirements.
Development, build Deploy, solve bugs

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Seeing the platform live and functioning in our production environment

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

Yes, as I recall there was no issue what so ever, Stefan delivered on time and was easy to work with despite being quite junior at the time

What was your primary form of communication with Stellarbase?

Virtual Meeting
Email or Messaging App

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

We loved Stefan’s eager to learn and his passion for product development in combination with solving problems. Their entrepreneurial mindset was impressive.

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

Not that I can recall, we worked together a few years back.

RATINGS

4.5

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Einar Hansens Esplanad 20A Malmö, Sweden 211 77

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