Apadmi

I’m the head of communications at The Big Life group, a nonprofit organization.

One arm of our organization is street paper, sold by people experiencing homelessness or poverty. We produce a magazine these people can sell on the streets and earn an income. Before the COVID-19 pandemic and then exacerbated by it, we saw a reduction in the revenue for our street vendors.

Apadmi has developed a mobile app for us. They've built an iOS and an Android version. The app is free to download and has a subscription option that contains the same information we'd put in the street paper, allowing us to monetize it. Currently, they provide maintenance and hosting and do ongoing development work.

The team composition has varied at different times. We have a consistent account manager and have worked with a team of designers and developers. At the highest point, we've worked with around six teammates from Apadmi.

We found them through a referral. We went through a competitive process and considered three regionally-based companies that had been referred to us by an organization specializing in connecting nonprofits with technology companies. Ultimately, we chose Apadmi.

We’ve invested around £130,000 (approximately $147,000 USD).

We started working together in June 2020, and they delivered the app in September 2021. Our engagement is still ongoing.

We’ve had around 1,000 downloads in the first year, which met and even exceeded our expectations. Our rating is four stars on both the App Store and the Google Play Store. Additionally, we’ve shared 1,000 stories through the app for people who might not have heard those stories otherwise, which is a real success for us.

We use Basecamp for project management and communication, which has worked well for us. Other than that, we’ve had weekly Zoom meetings at critical development stages. In terms of the budget, the team has recognized the challenges and constraints we face as a nonprofit and our minimal scope for things to go out of budget.

I appreciate that Apadmi has really engaged with the purpose of the product. From the designers to the developers to the senior team, it isn’t purely a technical project for them; they want to understand the social good it can do. That engagement has been really important for us because we want to make every decision with the people we want to support at its heart. The fact that the team is coming from that perspective has made a difference; they’re a great team to work with.

They’ve had some internal changes that have been unavoidable and have occasionally caused things to fall between people. For example, we could have a conversation with somebody about a development we’re considering, and then that person leaves the project, and development needs to restart. Other than that, we’ve had an overwhelmingly positive experience.

My advice would be to treat Apadmi as an extension of your own team and engage them in not just the technical development but also with why you want to do things in a particular way. They’re engaged on a deeper level with us, which has probably improved the quality of their work. The team has made suggestions and decisions from our same frame of reference.

I’m the digital product owner at Domino’s Pizza Group, a food retailer.

We had an existing iOS and Android mobile app that had become dated, and we wanted to create brand new apps.

Apadmi has developed an iOS and Android mobile app for us that tkaes the offerings of our old app to a new level. They’ve provided their expertise in design, development, and testing. The app allows our customers to order food. After the app’s delivery, we’ve kept them engaged for feature delivery and release.

I have direct contact with Apadmi’s development team, designers, and testers.

They were already our partners when I joined the project. Initially, the project went out to tender, and Apadmi was chosen.

We started working together in October 2020, and the engagement is ongoing.

Apadmi’s first key deliverable was our launch date, and they were able to meet the March 2021 deadline. Since then, we’ve defined a delivery and release period, and the team has successfully met all our releases.

They’re timely and stick to the budget. We work through a sprint schedule, and Apadmi has deliverables within any given period. As for communication, we use Google Meet and Microsoft Teams.

Apadmi has a high level of expertise in the mobile app space — they’re exactly what we need. Their level of detail is exceptional, and they’re fully engaged and supportive of the project. We appreciate that they work in a very close partnership with us.

No, there’s nothing they need to improve I can pinpoint.

My advice is to trust Apadmi and their expertise.

I’m the IT procurement manager at a telecommunications company.

We wanted them to design and create an app for us.

Apadmi has created the app for us. The main purpose of the app is to sell telecommunication products. They’ve developed it for iOS and Android. We initially told them what we wanted. They did a discovery phase and scoped everything out. They showed us what they could do, and then they created it.

We’re in contact with the project manager and the developers.

One of the product owners saw what they did for another client. We felt it suited us and was similar to what we were doing.

The cost will be about £1 million (approximately $1.2 million USD).

The partnership began in January 2022, and it’s ongoing.

The work has been excellent. If we want to work with another third party, they do it in a completely different way. They’re slick and professional, getting the most out of the shortest time. They aren’t traditional; they’re way better. Apadmi’s team is genuinely creative and detailed, not just with the output but their delivery and the relationships between them. They act as part of the project team and are always on-site. Overall, we haven’t had bugs — everything has been brilliant.

They work in an agile way. When it comes to project management, staying on budget, and meeting deadlines, they’ve been fantastic. If there’s a problem, they work with us and sort it out, which is absolutely brilliant.

They’ve been great and compared to other IT providers. Apadmi genuinely works in an agile and different way.

We don’t have anything yet; it’s actually getting better. Initially, we had a particular team member who didn’t have the energy we needed, but they took that feedback and replaced that person immediately. I don’t have anything negative to say.

Engage them early on. They have prominent clients, so they’ve learned a lot through those experiences. All in all, allow them to share their expertise rather than just telling them what you want.

I’m the managing director of Event UK, a small company that acts like a payment bureau for the hospitality industry. We pay workers on behalf of our clients.

Despite being in business for around 25 years, we realized that we hadn't spent much money on IT infrastructure. We were falling behind our competitors, so we were looking for a partner to help us go fully digital. At the time, we hired a company that didn’t perform as we had expected; it was an expensive learning curve, so we decided to find someone else.

Apadmi has been helping us develop the two mobile apps we needed. Initially, we explained our situation to them, and they told us that they would definitely develop both as native apps. Still, they originally committed to developing the one we needed to communicate with what we already had.

Initially, we worked with a sales representative from Apadmi. Since then, we’ve worked with lead designers, UI/UX specialists, an account manager, and several other team leaders.

When we were looking for a new partner to work with, we went to Clutch and found around eight different companies — one in New York, a couple in England, one in Scotland, and a few others across Europe — including Apadmi. After interviewing them all and explaining our project, we decided to hire Apadmi.

The first app cost £250,000 (approximately $298,000 USD), and the second one will have a similar total cost. We’ve also spent about £50,000 (approximately $60,000 USD) on other small projects, and we’ve asked them to redo our website. Thus, we’ll spend a little under £600,000 (approximately $715,000 USD) in total.

We started working together at the beginning of January 2022, and our collaboration is ongoing.

Apadmi has made big promises and kept them. We haven’t launched our apps yet, but I’m sure they will revolutionize the way we operate. Our business is one of those businesses that has hardly survived the pandemic, and we probably wouldn’t survive for much longer without investing in technology. Thanks to this project, we will have a future, leveraging a phenomenal product that will supercharge our business. We’ve shown our product to venture capitalists and potential clients, and everyone has been impressed with what we have; they’re sure that what we’re doing will be a success.

Apadmi’s project management has been fantastic and faultless. They’re exceptionally responsive and communicative, and I never feel rushed by them. From the start, they allowed us to cherry-pick their team, which has provided great value to our project because the quality of their team is fantastic. My team works really well with them, and we like everyone. We use Figma and Slack to communicate and share designs.

Initially, we were looking for a very responsive team that understood and cared about what we needed and would go at our pace; Apadmi has ticked every box in that regard.

I can’t think of anything Apadmi could improve on — they’ve done a great job.

I’m the head of technology for the digital customer experience at The Very Group, a digital retailer based in the UK.

We needed help with mobile app development.

We’ve been through two main engagements with Apadmi. The first project was bolstering our team because we found it difficult to hire mobile skills. Part of that engagement was also to help us create a test automation suite for changes we were making to the application. Then the second engagement helped us deliver a new loyalty proposition to the market.

In the first engagement, we worked with two engineers and two testers. The second process was a larger team with eight people; it was a mix of engineers, a product owner, and a project manager.

I had a previous engagement with them when I was at a different company.

We've spent £350,000 (approximately $456,300 USD) with them so far.

We started working together in August 2021, and the engagement is ongoing.

The feedback is all positive; they’ve been an easy and professional partner. They’re also responsive to our needs and adaptive — it was easy for them to come in and work within our team and culture. Overall, they've been able to produce good results.

Project management is good; they give good updates and visibility to their progress and have supported us in an interim capacity. We're happy with how they manage everything.

Their expertise in mobile app development is outstanding.

I don't think there's anything they can improve on — we’ve been happy with how they’ve performed.