Arcanys

I’m the founder and CEO Duet Inc., a software company. We’re an early-stage startup based in Silicon Valley.

The most important thing in an early-stage software startup is the engineering talent. In the US, engineering costs have been rising for the last few years, and there are a lot of cost pressures. We reached out to Arcanys to staff our project full-time.

Arcanys is our remote engineering team. They’re building an extended development team for us. They recruit local engineers in the Philippines and train them to staff various client projects. Team members are assigned to projects based on their skill set and the client’s requirements. Typically companies go to them for engineering support, and they find the talent in their trained pools and staff the projects. They act as staffing agent for clients like us who want to build a remote team.

We have two backend engineers and one frontend. Soon, we’ll add one QA and one scrum master.

It was through a referral. The managing director of our accelerator used Arcanys before — he highly recommended them. We then met with Arcanys virtually a couple of times and were impressed with their offerings. We started with one engineer for a few months and then expanded to five later.

We pay the agency every month, and we plan to spend $200,000 with them this year.

We started working together in May 2021, and our relationship is ongoing.

We look to maximize the value and outcome of our engineering investment. Arcanys delivers on that front - high value over cost in terms of quality and efficiency. We’re very happy with Arcanys. They're our trusted technical partner.

In our case, we manage our own project. We manage the our own engineers and the Arcanys engineers on our project all together in the same way. We have weekly meetings and daily updates using zoom, slack and a couple of other communication and collaboration tools. Arcanys’ team is pretty easy to work with. Overall, it has been working well without any major issues.

What Arcanys has impressed me the most is their training and support. They not only recruit the engineers, but have their architect-level senior engineers from Europe and the US work as trainers to train their engineers in the Philippines to follow the software development framework and processes that are mostly used in the US or Europe. It makes a big difference because their engineers can pickup the project quickly and dovetail with our team nicely.

No, we’re very happy with them so far.

Arcanys has been growing fast because of the high demand. If you're interested in working with them, I'd recommend to reach out early as it may take time to find and train the right talents for your project. It's also in their best interest to make sure that you have the right person.

I am the CEO & Co-Founder of Trove

Trove powers on-demand corporate gifting technology for brands.

Referral

2-5 Employees

Arcanys supports our team with the build of a multi-tenancy B2B software solution - Trove. We work with a fabulous team of software developers, UX/UI, project manager and support team.

Build and rollout of Trove technology within designated timeframe. Successful onboarding of multiple customers and retention of those customers.

The project and it's deliverables were always on time and exceeded our expectations. The team are very impressive, think outside the square and went above and beyond our expectations.

What impressed us most about Arcanys is the combination of senior technical expertise and genuine ownership. They don't just build; they think about long-term architecture, proactively maintain and document everything, and have great coordination between their team and ours. It really feels like a true extension of our team rather than an outsourced vendor.

Any areas for improvement were really shared learnings between both teams. Early on, we had some open questions around scope, tech stack, and resource availability that took a few iterations to nail down. Arcanys were always responsive and collaborative through those moments, so it was more about us all getting better at setting up the engagement structure from day one.

I am the Business Development Manager of Pivotal Business Technology

We provide Digital Asset Management software, solutions and consulting. We focus on the Cultural and Government Sector

Online Search

2-5 Employees

Build a modern client-side, frontend web application . This will replace the legacy PHP user interface, except for the admin pages.The objective is to enhance this to deliver a modern, WCAG 2.1 AA-compliant Single Page Application (SPA) interface for ResourceSpace, replacing the legacy PHP/jQuery UI for 90% of end-user workflows.

Fully functional app interface integrated with the existing Resourcespace backend

We are very happy with the Project Management provided by Arcanys, they are easy to work with and very efficient.

The consistency of the communication and the quality of the work, they have been very easy to work with and we have been impressed with the results.

I am the Founder & CEO of Kyri

Women's health tech and hardware

Outreach through accelerator

6-10 Employees

Arcanys came on board in 2024, and we have seen exponential changes to our tech stack since our partnership. They have provided FE/BE dev teams, where we have:

Project management is run in house, with help from Scrum Master from Arcanys. We say this each week, but we'd be lost without our Scrum Master.

The model of operating served us exceptionally well when we were in a period of raising for the company. Aside from that being a perfect fit, we love the fact that Arcanys takes the health of their employees so seriously and has things like an Arcanys gym for staff.

Honestly, no; and I don't say this because I'm writing a postitive review. Arcanys is always looking for ways they can improve their operations and systems. Their founders are a fantastic support, and our company wouldn't have survived a rebuild year without them.

I’m the cloud development team lead at medium-sized Swiss startup. We provide innovative digital signage solutions, enabling businesses to engage audiences and tell their stories through advanced display technology.

We initially hired Arcanys to implement a cloud-based visual communication and digital signage solution designed to help businesses manage content on their screens easily and remotely.

Arcanys has been developing our flagship product to help users create and manage their digital content, content players, and screens. The team has also extended the scope to a family of products to serve larger customers with divided functions, like managing hardware fleets, content, schedules, permissions, and integrations. Arcanys has covered end-to-end development, including UI/UX design, frontend development, backend development hosted on AWS, and manual and automated QA.

We’ve worked with 6–10 teammates from Arcanys.

We started working together in January 2018, and the engagement is ongoing.

Arcanys has rolled out the products, audience, and revenue. We’ve also received positive feedback from hundreds of happy customers and tens of thousands of players managed via our solution.

We manage the project internally, but Arcanys has been responsive and collaborative during the development process.

I’m very happy with the quality of Arcanys’ engineers and the work they’re producing. The team’s accountability and constant learning demonstrate very good results, as well as great adaptability to new technologies and processes. Overall, I’m impressed with the level of maturity and expertise of their engineers and their ability to act on feedback and change.

Given the maturity path from 0 to 1 and from 1 to N, the project has been staffed with appropriate personnel for the respective maturity phase.