agileful

I’m the VP of engineering at CollectClub. We’re a financial technology software for sports clubs. We facilitate the collection of membership fees for any organization, primarily sports but we’re now moving into other areas. We handle full communication and integrations of payments and payout.

We hired them to increase capacity. We wanted to enable some of our developers to concentrate in other areas so agileful could take over. Also, we needed them to be involved with the building of an MVP for a new product.

We had a couple of developers dedicated to the backend. There were also two developers who worked on the frontend, one focusing more on the HTML and CSS side and the other on JavaScript and singe page application. The solution was building connections to accounting software that was an add-on to our main product.

We operate a remote development team based throughout Europe. One of our developers is based in Berlin. He went to a local Ruby meetup, met Sajad (CEO & Founder), and they got to talking. At that same time, we had been looking for people through our normal channels and thought we’d give agileful a try. This was the first time we attempted to outsource and take people on board that we weren’t interviewing directly.

At any one time, we worked with four individuals. There was one changeover because the project didn’t really fit.

time. It’s hard to put a number on that. It took them three months to build something fully functional, and it probably would’ve taken us 5–6 months ourselves. They provided people who were at the same level or above of our internal team members at a much-reduced cost. One of the developers had a tremendously high caliber in terms of quality in Elixir; they were probably equal with our best developer. Another developer was a jack of all trades. They had the right technical skills balanced with a great amount of product awareness; those skills together are quite rare.

Project management was good. Whenever the rubber hit the road, they pulled out all of the stops. They did a great job of following up on their estimations and keeping me in the loop in terms of communication and going above and beyond to meet expectations.

The attitude of their team members is streets ahead of the attitude toward work here in Europe and in the states, where I’ve worked as well. We were able to spell out tasks clearly so agileful could get on with many issues. When they finished work ahead of schedule, they wouldn’t sit around and do nothing. They’d get in touch and ask for more work, that was really refreshing.

No, there aren’t any areas that need improvement. In the beginning, the office was too noisy, but that was resolved. agileful follows orders very well, but the orders have to come. They worked with us to make sure things were right and to ensure all my concerns were dealt with.

I’m the product owner of a digital marketing company. We focus on email marketing and providing AI solution around that.

We needed help in developing a custom software solution for our company to build new ML models to enhance the efficiency and scalability.

They answered our RFP and were responsive through the initial process. We decided to hire them because it was very difficult to find internal resources on the market with the right skill set, so we considered getting an external partner to scale up ourselves as a startup company.

agileful has been doing custom software development for our machine-learning product for our email marketing tasks. Regarding technologies, they host everything in the AWS infrastructure and also work on Node.js, Python, PyTorch, SPARC, TensorFlow, PostgreSQL, and API gateway. We also work collaboratively on the platform’s frontend using Figma. In addition to that, they also do updates and maintenance to our software.

1 ML Engineer 1 Backend developer 1 Frontend Developer

We’re delighted with their work; thanks to them, the quality of our services increased by 50% upwards, which is very important from a machine-learning perspective. Overall, we’re progressing and adding new stuff to our product, which helps us enhance the quality of our deliveries, we’re 100% satisfied with their services, and they’ve exceeded our expectations.

Project management is good; we work in a scrum environment, and we’ve had no issues with their staff. Regarding tools, we use Jira to manage the processes and Office 365 for communication and meetings, communication is perfectly fine.

Their contribution to our project is outstanding, even though they’re an external team, they feel like a part of our company. In addition, they add new knowledge and values to our company, which we appreciate.

I don’t think there’s anything they can improve on, I’m very happy with them, so I wouldn’t change anything.