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Fleet operations platform for a European road-freight carrier
LogisticsSoftware Product Enhancement

Fleet operations platform for a European road-freight carrier

A freight carrier moving cargo across Europe was running a 200-truck operation on WhatsApp threads and scattered spreadsheets. Every dispatch, every delivery confirmation, every problem on the road lived in someone's phone — invisible the moment it mattered. Their back office ran on TransPAS Enterprise, a TMS plenty of carriers wrestle with daily.

We didn't replace it — we built the layer that finally made it feel effortless: drivers, planners, and support working from one live source of truth, without stopping a single delivery to get there.

~0trucks

Run from one platform

~0%less coordination time

Time spent coordinating each trip

0+years

A partnership, still going

Project deliverables

  • A driver app that turns every phone into a real-time reporting tool
  • One operations hub where planners see every shipment's status as it changes
  • A paperless document trail — delivery confirmations, terminal reports, photos — that used to live on paper and in inboxes
  • Issue reporting that routes road problems straight to the people who can fix them

Development approach

  • 3+ years, ongoing engagement
  • Embedded team + technical consulting
  • React, Node.js, Fastify, MySQL/MariaDB, Socket.io, Google Maps API
  • Built on top of TransPAS Enterprise TMS, continuous delivery
At-home lab-testing platform
IndustrialHealthcareLegacy Modernization

Rebuilding an at-home lab-testing platform for scale

A consumer-health company runs the whole testing journey online — order a test, get a kit in the mail, ship your sample to a lab, receive a digital report. But the frontend running all of it had aged into brittle legacy code: slow pages, tangled architecture, and onboarding that took new engineers weeks.

We came in to modernize it — and stayed to keep building. First we rebuilt the aging foundation, then we kept shipping the new features the old codebase could never have carried, all while the platform served a customer base growing faster every quarter.

growth in customer orders

Over our two years on the platform

0%more lab results processed

Over our two years on the platform

0%more new customers

Over our two years on the platform

Project deliverables

  • A modernized customer experience covering the full journey — order, kit, sample, report
  • A frontend fast enough that pages stopped costing the business customers
  • An architecture new engineers can learn in days, not weeks
  • New capabilities the legacy codebase could never have supported

Development approach

  • 2+ years, ongoing engagement
  • Embedded, leading the frontend team
  • TypeScript/React/Vite, PHP/Laravel, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS (Beanstalk, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, SES)
  • Legacy modernization first, then continuous feature delivery
AI legislative tracking for citizens and organisations
Civic TechLegalTechNew Product Development

AI legislative tracking for citizens and organisations

A U.S. congressional bill can run a thousand pages of language written to be unreadable. This client wanted to hand ordinary people — and the organisations watching specific bills — a way to actually understand what their government is doing.

We built the product: AI that turns legal density into plain English overnight, search fast enough to find one bill in years of backlog, and Slack alerts that drop the bills that matter into a client's workspace.

0+paying clients

By launch

~0 pppages per bill

Parsed by AI

0K+bills

Processed and indexed

Project deliverables

  • AI plain-language summaries that turn overnight legal dumps into readable briefs
  • Search fast enough to find one bill in years of backlog
  • A subscription gateway that turned the product into a business on day one
  • Slack alerts that push relevant bills straight to corporate clients

Development approach

  • 3–4 month engagement
  • Standalone delivery
  • Next.js/React/TypeScript, OpenAI + Grok + Gemini (admin-selectable), Firebase, Algolia, Stripe
  • Big-bang MVP, then continuous delivery
Frontend and SEO rebuild for an AI dream-analysis app
Consumer WellnessSoftware Product Enhancement

Frontend and SEO rebuild for an AI dream-analysis app

An AI app that interprets dreams was fighting three enemies at once: bugs, a dated design, and search engines that couldn't find it. They needed to move faster and grow cheaper.

We embedded, shipped a redesigned responsive frontend, and rebuilt the technical SEO foundation under a product that users clearly loved — the reviews were there, the discoverability wasn't.

0.0Mdownloads

On the platform we rebuilt

0.0Mdreams analysed

By users

Top 0Health & Fitness app

U.S. App Store ranking

Project deliverables

  • A redesigned, fully responsive frontend that killed the bugs users saw
  • An SEO foundation built to pull in organic traffic instead of paying for it
  • Automated user-data sync that took manual work off the team
  • Multi-language support to open the app to a global audience

Development approach

  • 2–3 month engagement
  • Embedded team
  • React/Next.js/Nest.js/TypeScript, Chakra UI, Framer Motion, i18next, Stripe, Amplitude
  • Continuous delivery
Back-office rebuild for a memorabilia auction house
EntertainmentMemorabiliaSoftware Product Enhancement

Back-office rebuild for a memorabilia auction house

An auction house was running its entire operation on a back office held together with tape and good intentions — aging, slow, and allergic to new features.

We rebuilt it into something that scales: real-time tables spanning lots, products, auctions, consignors and shipments, all consistent enough that the team could finally run more auctions without more chaos.

More auctions run from the back office

Higher throughput, same team

−0%time to process each lot

Manual steps that used to drag

1 Day → minutesto prepare and launch an auction

Setup that used to take days

Project deliverables

  • A back office that lets the team run three times the auctions without growing headcount
  • Real-time data tables that stay consistent across every kind of listing
  • DocuSign, barcode scanning, and image processing built into the daily flow
  • A configurable foundation that bends to new auction types instead of breaking

Development approach

  • 2 years, ongoing engagement
  • Embedded team
  • Next.js/Redux/Mantine, NestJS/MySQL/Redis, AWS (S3, Lambda, Cognito, SES, CloudFront), Algolia, Elasticsearch, DocuSign
  • Continuous delivery with scheduled releases
Six production apps for a serial hospitality-tech founder
FoodTechB2B AutomationNew Product Development

Six production apps for a serial hospitality-tech founder

Some founders have one idea. This one had six — and needed a partner who could turn each into something real before the market moved on.

Over a year we became that partner, shipping six distinct production apps at a rhythm of roughly one every six weeks: an AI waiter that reads a menu to you, an invoice parser wired into corporate inboxes, a cross-platform supply app live in both app stores.

0products

Shipped in a year

~0 wksconcept to live app

Each

0.0×faster delivery

AI + a purpose-built MVP approach

Project deliverables

  • An AI digital waiter that turns a QR scan into personal menu recommendations
  • An invoice parser that reads corporate inboxes and does the data entry itself
  • A cross-platform B2B supply app, published to both app stores
  • An AI engine that writes and posts social content across channels

Development approach

  • ~1 year engagement
  • Standalone delivery
  • Next.js/Node.js/React Native/TypeScript, OpenAI, Gmail/Slack/LinkedIn/X APIs
  • Phased — one product every ~6 weeks
AI health & safety compliance platform for construction
ConstructionHealth & Safety ComplianceNew Product Development

AI health & safety compliance platform for construction

On a construction site, safety compliance is life-and-death paperwork — and historically it lived in binders, spreadsheets, and the memory of whoever did the last inspection.

This client wanted to drag it into software. We built the platform from scratch: dashboards that show compliance at a glance, AI that reviews safety documents and flags what a human would miss, and weather alerts that get ahead of site risk.

0construction firms

Onboarded (US & UK)

~0/monew projects

Loaded monthly

Hundredssafety docs

AI-reviewed monthly

Project deliverables

  • Dashboards that turn scattered compliance data into a single clear view
  • AI document review that catches safety gaps before they become incidents
  • A weather alert system that flags site risk before crews are exposed
  • Reporting that makes an audit a click instead of a scramble

Development approach

  • Ongoing engagement
  • New product development
  • React/TypeScript/NestJS/PostgreSQL, AWS, Google Cloud, Gemini AI
  • Continuous delivery
Marketing and conversion site for a satellite-imagery platform
Geospatial TechnologyNew Product Development

Marketing and conversion site for a satellite-imagery platform

Selling satellite intelligence to non-technical buyers is a translation problem: the product is brilliant and incomprehensible in equal measure.

This client needed a website that made a complex Earth-observation platform feel obvious — and turned that clarity into leads. We built the whole thing, in multiple languages, as the funnel feeding their sales pipeline.

0+pages

Launched

0markets/languages

Served

0buyer audiences

One funnel

Project deliverables

  • A marketing site that makes a hard technical product easy to say yes to
  • Product and industry pages that let buyers find themselves in the story
  • Demo-request and lead-capture flows wired straight into their sales pipeline
  • A multi-language foundation built to scale as they enter new markets

Development approach

  • 2+ years, ongoing engagement
  • Embedded in client's team
  • Next.js/TypeScript/Tailwind, next-intl, Contentful, HubSpot, Customer.io, Mailgun
  • Continuous delivery
Public engagement experience for a political-action platform
Civic TechSoftware Product Enhancement

Public engagement experience for a political-action platform

A political movement lives or dies on whether people actually sign, share, and come back.

This client had the platform but not the loop — signing was clunky on mobile, sharing didn't track, and nobody could see what was working. We built and sharpened the public experience until the whole sign-share-track cycle closed, and every action became something you could measure and repeat.

0K+actions

On a single campaign

0K+active users

Engaged

~0%higher mobile sign-through

After the rebuild

Project deliverables

  • Petition pages and a mobile signing flow that actually converts on a phone
  • A vote-pledge flow that turns interest into commitment
  • Share tracking that finally shows which campaigns spread and why
  • A dashboard and leaderboard that make engagement visible and competitive

Development approach

  • ~3 months, ended
  • Embedded in client's team
  • Next.js/TypeScript/Tailwind, Spring Boot/Java 21/PostgreSQL, GCP, GA4, PostHog, GrowthBook
  • Continuous delivery
Real-time intelligence dashboard for the Middle East
Risk IntelligenceNew Product Development

Real-time intelligence dashboard for the Middle East

Intelligence teams don't lack data — they drown in it, scattered across a dozen tabs for aviation, shipping, cyber, markets, news.

This client wanted one screen that made the whole picture legible at a glance. In about two weeks, we built it from scratch: live feeds, 3D regional maps, and AI briefings pulled into a single dashboard that holds together even when the sources don't.

0 wksbuild time

From nothing to a working product

0+live feeds

In one interface

0+signals

Fused on one screen

Project deliverables

  • A single dashboard that replaces a dozen open tabs
  • 3D regional maps with tactical layers you can toggle
  • AI-generated briefings that summarize the noise into signal
  • Live feeds across aviation, shipping, cyber, markets, and news

Development approach

  • ~2 weeks, ended
  • Standalone delivery, built from scratch
  • Next.js/TypeScript/Tailwind, OpenAI-compatible LLM
  • Continuous delivery
Admin automation for a STEM education provider
EdTechSoftware Product Enhancement

Admin automation for a STEM education provider

A company that teaches kids to build real circuit boards was spending its days on something far less inspiring: manual paperwork. Every enrollment form, every course document, every parent notification was handled by hand — and the system they'd paid to fix it had stalled mid-build.

We picked it up, shipped the original scope, and over the next two years kept coming back to automate the parts still eating their week: document intake, class scheduling, and targeted parent messaging.

~0 hrsmanual hours saved

Per month

~0targeted messages

Sent per month

0+years

Partnership across 3 phases

Project deliverables

  • AI-powered PDF document parser, replacing manual data entry
  • Custom WhatsApp broadcasts — admins target specific classes, not just system notifications
  • Admin and teacher roles — teachers manage their own students and lesson schedules
  • Multi-course admin dashboards aggregating activity across programs

Development approach

  • 2+ years across three phases, paused between phases
  • Standalone delivery — took over a struggling project
  • React, Mantine, Redux, NestJS, MongoDB, Google & WhatsApp APIs, AWS, GitHub Actions
  • Phased, each phase scoped with the client
Unified workflow surface for a global mobility platform
Global MobilitySoftware Product Enhancement

Unified workflow surface for a global mobility platform

A company handling international relocations had outgrown its own product. The work that mattered — managing people, managing cases — was scattered across a dozen screens, and every new feature made the maze worse.

We rebuilt the core into one coherent surface, modernizing workflows that teams were actively using, in a shared codebase where a single wrong move breaks someone else's screen.

Zerodowntime

While rebuilding live

~0%fewer clicks

Through core workflows

~0Krelocations/year

Platform capacity

Project deliverables

  • One workspace for managing people and cases, replacing a scatter of screens
  • Editable workflows the team can adjust without an engineer
  • Data flows clean enough to trust across every client organization
  • A rebuild that held up while real users kept working through it

Development approach

  • 8 months, ended
  • Embedded in a large cross-functional team
  • TypeScript/Remix/Tailwind, Prisma/PostgreSQL, AWS, Playwright
  • Continuous delivery in small slices
Flight and hotel booking platform, built from scratch
TravelNew Product Development

Flight and hotel booking platform, built from scratch

The client's old travel platform was a dead end — obsolete code they'd already decided to throw away.

They wanted a modern booking experience built fresh: search flights and hotels, see them on a map, pay in any currency, done. We built the entire frontend from custom designs, wiring together flight aggregators, maps, and payments into one checkout that just works.

0 wksbuild time

To a live booking platform

0-in-0flights + hotels

One checkout

+0%booking rate

Client booking rate in the first two months

Project deliverables

  • A booking experience that searches flights and hotels in one place
  • Interactive maps that put every option on the map, literally
  • Multi-currency checkout wired to real flight and hotel aggregators
  • A greenfield frontend built to carry the business's first real revenue

Development approach

  • 3–5 weeks
  • Standalone delivery
  • Next.js/TypeScript/MUI, Zustand, TanStack Query, Stripe, Swiper, Google Maps
  • Big-bang launch
AI-guided contract workflow platform
LegalTechNew Product Development

AI-guided contract workflow platform

Getting a contract signed usually means a scavenger hunt across email, PDFs, and someone's memory of who still needs to approve it.

This client wanted one place for the whole journey — create, route, review, sign, store. We built it, launched it to production, and made the messy part — getting the right humans to act in the right order — feel automatic.

0 → 0steps

Whole contract journey in one place

Hours → minutesturnaround

From draft to signed

Zerothird-party tools

Needed

Project deliverables

  • An AI chat that sets up a contract and assigns who does what
  • A signing flow with real signature capture and stamped, stored copies
  • A task inbox so nobody wonders whose turn it is
  • Reminders and audit-style records that keep the whole thing accountable

Development approach

  • 2–3 months
  • Standalone delivery
  • TypeScript/React/Vite/Tailwind/shadcn, Supabase (Auth, Postgres, Storage, Edge Functions), Deno, OpenAI, React PDF
  • Production launch then continuous hardening
Audio storage and sharing platform for musicians
Music TechNew Product Development

Audio storage and sharing platform for musicians

Musicians live with a dumb problem: the tools for storing and sharing their own music were never built for audio. Files get re-encoded, playback stutters between tracks, sharing means a login wall.

This client wanted something better — clean, artist-owned, no AI scraping, no ads. We built the whole product, from authenticated collections to subscription tiers, in a matter of weeks.

~0 wksbuild time

From brief to launched product

Zerore-encoding

Audio plays as mastered

0platforms

Web, iOS, Android

Project deliverables

  • Collections that let artists organize masters, demos, and beats in one place
  • Sharing with real control — passwords, expiry dates, download on or off
  • Collaborative collections for bands and co-writers
  • Subscription tiers wired to storage, so the product pays for itself

Development approach

  • ~1 month
  • Embedded team
  • React/TypeScript/Chakra UI, AWS, Stripe
  • Continuous delivery
AI recipe formulation for enterprise food manufacturers
FoodTechNew Product Development

AI recipe formulation for enterprise food manufacturers

Creating a new food product is slow, expensive guesswork — food scientists and chefs burn days iterating formulations by hand, one batch at a time.

This client wanted to collapse that cycle with AI. We built the platform from nothing: an AI wizard that turns a brief into a working formulation in about an hour, wrapped in the dashboards and data tooling enterprise food teams need to trust it.

Days → 1 hrformulation time

To produce a new formulation

~0%less time per recipe

Developed

faster cycle

Product-development cycle

Project deliverables

  • An AI wizard that turns a plain brief into a costed, nutrition-aware formulation
  • Dashboards that let food teams compare recipes on cost and nutrition at a glance
  • Data tables built to hold an enterprise's entire recipe and ingredient library
  • A frontend that keeps AI-generated data clean and trustworthy

Development approach

  • 5 months
  • Embedded team
  • Next.js/TypeScript/MUI, Python, Firebase, Docker, Chart.js
  • Phased continuous delivery
UI rebuild for a DJ booking platform
EntertainmentEventsSoftware Product Enhancement

UI rebuild for a DJ booking platform

A booking platform for DJs and event managers had turned into its own worst enemy: a bloated, sluggish interface stacked on heavy UI components that made every screen slower and every new feature harder to add.

Users felt the drag; the team felt the maintenance pain. We tore out the weight and rebuilt the interface on a lighter, faster foundation — turning hours of booking admin into minutes, without losing a single workflow.

Hours → minutesbooking management time

To manage a booking

~0%faster load times

After the rebuild

0%legacy UI replaced

Zero workflows lost

Project deliverables

  • An interactive booking and scheduling calendar built for DJs and event managers
  • A management dashboard that pulls booking statuses and flows into one view
  • Streamlined booking forms with instant validation, rebuilt for speed
  • A complete UI refactor — heavy components swapped for lightweight, accessible ones

Development approach

  • 1.5 months
  • Standalone delivery
  • React.js, Radix UI, TypeScript/JavaScript, CSS/Sass
  • Big-bang launch
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Alex Vasylchenko
Founder, This Is Software

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