Flux IT

shareGRO is a tailored wealth management platform built on simple and powerful peer-to-peer sharing. I'm the COO at shareGRO.

We hired Flux IT for design and front-end development

Our goal is to release a beta into the market

We have worked with a few members on the team and like the rate we were paying for at the moment.

Flux IT provide two people a designer and front end developers where we have daily standups and bi-weekly demos.

Our tech team has about 5 developers using the scrum methodology.

We are still in development, but it has been great working with the Flux IT team.

Project management has been great. We used Jira and Slack to keep track of the project.

How easy it is to add more people to the team and response time.

We have been making a lot of improvements along the way and think we are on a solid path of how we develop technology

We’re introducing a social media and lifestyle commerce platform driven by AI. We want to allow online shoppers to buy desired products from a simple photo.

We needed iOS and Android app development.

We wanted to develop a minimum viable product within several months and launch thereafter.

I spent over half a year searching for the perfect development partner who understood our technology and could deliver on our vision.

Their full-stack mobile development included a backend service for payment processing, along with image recognition and several other AI dependencies.

They assembled a capable team that understood our development requirements.

We don’t have any metrics at this time as the development process is ongoing.

We hold weekly update meetings and correspond through email, Slack, and Asana. They’ve been very accommodating of our strict delivery deadlines.

They’ve responded quickly and they have the agility to make quick pivots.

No, we’re satisfied at this stage.

I am a digital media production supervisor for Cartoon Network.

We needed app maintenance and web development for our site, CN Anything.

It was selected based on their skills by the technology and infrastructure department at Turner.

They first worked on fixes and improvements for our app before moving into web development. Their work on the app included backend and UX, and they used that same backend and CMS for the website. Other services included QA and bug fixing.

Depending on the project, we would work with an account manager, a project manager or tech lead, an Android developer, an iOS developer, a backend developer, and a QA lead.

They delivered on time and helped us meet our goal when we launched the website.

They delivered on time and helped us meet our goal when we launched the website.

We communicated very well with all of the team, not just with the project manager. I thought that was a more effective way to work considering our time constraints. We met weekly, sometimes daily through Google Hangouts or Skype.

Their commitment to the project and the team. They worked more as a partner than a vendor and put their full effort into the project.

In the event that they switch teams, they need to document everything to help the transition.

I’m the COO of Relocation Insurance Group. We offer coverage for goods being transported within the US or internationally. We offer many different types of policies and needed systems to help issue and manage those policies.

Our aging policy issuance/management platform could no longer expand to meet the complex requirements of our new products. Because of this, we were forced to quote, issue, and manage coverages manually. Tracking sales channels, reporting, and claims management all suffered because we lacked a framework capable of handling all of our business needs.

Our goal was to design a framework that allowed us to offer new products quickly and integrate them into our reporting. We required a CRM with customizable integration points, and a rules/process engine to define custom behavior. Our focus was to design short project phases (each with 1 or more sprints) that could be iterated on, with deliverables that provided a revenue-generating solution at the end of each phase.

We were looking for a vendor with the necessary design, implementation, and maintenance knowledge to work with a system based heavily on a rules/process engine (Drools and jBPM). This company also had to be interested in our business as a whole, and not just with this single project.

Flux IT is responsible for the ongoing development and maintenance of our web platform framework, which is core to our business success. They worked with us on the initial project specification and scope and helped us identify metrics to track revenue growth as a result of each phase.

The team consists of a project manager (PM) and one full-time lead developer. If there’s a deadline or urgent issue, they'll add more people to deliver on time. Scaling up and down has been simple, and the PM has always accommodated our schedule and timing.

Post-launch, we’ve seen increased conversion rates and more customer attention paid to our products. The platform is more automated than we could have hoped, and it’s made our sales process more efficient. We've also gained better insights into performance through reporting enhancements and standard data models. The platform has helped us grow as a business. It’s become critical to our success.

Project managers were assigned at different stages of the initial development, and they’ve all been great to work with. The language barrier was a concern in the beginning, but their team hasn’t had a problem conversing with us or with any written responses. Collaboration feels natural, and I never worry I'm being misunderstood. I’ve gotten very comfortable speaking with the PM and developers, to the point where now I don’t even think about the language barrier because there is none. Developers and PM’s are always responsive on Google Hangouts, even outside normal work hours, and Trello is great for managing tasks and ongoing improvements.

Flux IT stands out because of the time they spent (and continue to spend) getting to know our business and anticipating development tasks that might have been left out of the initial specification. They’ve worked with us from the start, providing advice and estimations that were accurate and honest. They’re willing to meet and discuss the direction we want to go, all on their own dime, whereas other development houses I’ve worked with are quick to bill an hour for a 15-minute conversation.

I truthfully can't think of any areas I'd suggest they improve. They've done everything we asked and more while delivering on time and under budget. Their solutions and management are far better than those of any other development company we've worked with. They’ve been the perfect fit for our business.

IMS operates in Latin America and represents many major online platforms. We sell advertising space within the functionalities of those platforms, creating the market, looking for the market, and selling and dealing with payments as well.

We needed help developing our web platform.

We’ve developed a web-based platform to automate advertising campaign orders, incorporating LinkedIn, Twitter, and Spotify, and are working on adding Snapchat. It also includes a campaign management tool to track the campaigns and control them. We're thinking about adding other sophisticated campaign management tools. They used NodeJS, Mongo, and PHP for the frontend and Angular for the backend.

They assigned UX designers at first and then the developers later on. We had about five developers, a project manager, Joaquin (Business Developer, Flux IT), and Santiago (CEO, Flux IT).

We started working with another provider on this project and it was a big failure, so we looked elsewhere. During the decision process, we evaluated four candidates and found Flux IT understood the business and gave suggestions for UX and functionalities. They knew how to solve issues in the best possible way and seemed to be a solid company to work with.

We invested around $600,000.

The project started in August 2016, then we launched our beta version around January 2018.

Their interaction with us was good and we now have a functional product which works work with our internal processes. It interacts with APIs from other platforms. The product keeps evolving and we keep integrating it with other systems.

The communications were fluid and they were accessible. They’ve been flexible and were a solid company to work with. We worked with them within a limited timeframe and they delivered. The project evolved in its specifications and requirements and they were able to adapt to that.

Their UX skills. The product needed to be easy to use, intuitive, and its accessibility needed to be high. Their campaign building was great, as was their commitment, flexibility, and disposition.

There was a digital marketing learning curve, but there's nothing major to add in terms of areas for improvement.