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Feedback Summary

Responsive and insightful, Leaware is using their client’s time and resources well. They provide remarkable services with their ability to conduct critical assessments. They’re skilled, adaptable, and helpful, and they work independently throughout the partnership.

Project Summary

Picking up from another vendor, Leaware is redeveloping a financial firm’s site which allows end-users to borrow money from other stakeholders. The team applies optimizations on both the front- and backend.

Background

Introduce your business and what you do there.

We’re a fintech startup, and we’re trying to provide person-to-person borrowing services. We’re currently targeting users in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway within half a year or a year. The good thing about us is that we’re not a bank, and we don’t touch people’s money — essentially, we’re just a meeting place for people with financial needs and financial abilities.

Opportunity / Challenge

What challenge were you trying to address with Leaware?

I used to work on our website during my free time, but we were getting quite delayed. Our progress wasn’t enough, so we decided to hire another company to help us push the deliverables we needed and to provide the manpower that would accomplish our goal.

A previous company did the initial version of our site with a frontend React setup, but it didn’t work well. Some of our other managers also thought the initial layout wasn’t designed the way they wanted. As a result, we engaged with Leaware.

Solution

What was the scope of their involvement?

Leaware took over the site project, and we’ve chosen Lukasz (Full Stack .NET Developer) to speed things up. He’s mainly in charge of frontend development and partially, backend development too.

Lukasz has taken over all the old code and made optimizations on the layout and the design parts of our platform. He has removed all the unpleasant things, and he’s now putting the finishing touches. Essentially, the software has been completed, and we’re about to end the partnership in a month or so.

 

What is the team composition?

We only work with Lukasz, and we’ve been working with him for about six months now.

 

How did you come to work with Leaware?

One of our managers worked with another Polish company before, and we wanted to do business with them. However, they didn’t have the manpower that we needed. They led us to Leaware, and they told us they could make our project happen.

 

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent $40,000–$45,000.

 

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in September 2021, and it’s ongoing.

Results & Feedback

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement? 

There’s a big difference between how they work and how they’re taught to think. They’re not scared to ask questions and verify if we want to pursue our ideas. Sometimes, people just say yes to everything and end up losing their client’s time and resources.

Leaware lets us see things from their perspective, and they work around whatever issue we have. We appreciate that they deeply understand their tasks at hand and perform critical assessments of the specifications we need.

We don’t have anything measurable right now because we haven’t done anything to be visible. However, we’re positive that any loan service will be approached by people like it’s nobody’s business.

 

How did Leaware perform from a project management standpoint?

We communicate on Skype every day, and we go back and forth almost like we’re in the same office. We also do the project management on our own, but it’s been very limited.

 

What did you find most impressive about them?

The resources that they have available have been important to us. We wanted somebody who’s well-versed in React and .NET, and they’ve given us that. Overall, we’re quite pleased with our partnership.

Lukasz’s capability to adapt has also been impressive. We’ve had some pressures due to the deadline, but he has always stepped up to meet our needs. I’ve seen Lukasz as an employee more than a consultant to our company.

 

Are there any areas they could improve?

It would’ve been cool to have a bit more of a contact person to run with. They gave us one, but we’ve never used it. However, maybe they should’ve been more proactive on that part.

 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

If you’re going to use two more resources from Leaware, you need to do some project management either through Scrum or other similar methodologies. We’re already aiming for the same plan next time and hopefully, we’ll have a close team to keep our momentum going — make our own little unit that will be available at all hours.

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      Germany, Belgium
      +49 24023893009
      ask@leaware.com

      United Kingdom
      +44 2081900354
      ask@leaware.com

      Denmark
      +45 21671778
      ask@leaware.com

      Poland
      +48 223781522
      ask@leaware.com

      Serbia
      +38 1653980110
      +38 163332268
      ask@leaware.com

      Lea sp. z o.o. z siedzibą w Toruniu, ul. Włocławska 167, 87-100 Toruń, wpisana do rejestru przedsiębiorców prowadzonego przez Sąd Rejonowy w Toruniu, VII Wydział Gospodarczy Krajowego
      Rejestru Sądowego pod nr KRS 835659, NIP 9522205303, wysokość kapitału zakładowego: 5 000 zł