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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.

~225trucks

Run from one platform

~40%less coordination time

Time spent coordinating each trip

3+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.

8×growth in customer orders

Over our two years on the platform

77%more lab results processed

Over our two years on the platform

66%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.

100+paying clients

By launch

~1,000 pppages per bill

Parsed by AI

10K+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.

1.6Mdownloads

On the platform we rebuilt

2.5Mdreams analysed

By users

Top 50Health & 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.

3×More auctions run from the back office

Higher throughput, same team

−60%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.

6products

Shipped in a year

~6 wksconcept to live app

Each

2.4×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.

11construction firms

Onboarded (US & UK)

~50/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.

50+pages

Launched

7markets/languages

Served

4buyer 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.

40K+actions

On a single campaign

5K+active users

Engaged

~15%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.

2 wksbuild time

From nothing to a working product

20+live feeds

In one interface

50+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.

~200 hrsmanual hours saved

Per month

~8,000targeted messages

Sent per month

2+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

~50%fewer clicks

Through core workflows

~10Krelocations/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.

4 wksbuild time

To a live booking platform

2-in-1flights + hotels

One checkout

+35%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.

5 → 1steps

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.

~3 wksbuild time

From brief to launched product

Zerore-encoding

Audio plays as mastered

3platforms

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

~90%less time per recipe

Developed

8×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

~50%faster load times

After the rebuild

100%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
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