Aionys

I’m the managing director at Brash Product Development Inc. We’re a full-service product development firm that helps companies execute their ideas. That could be creating products from scratch or redeveloping their existing ones. Our main focus is in medical products, consumer electronics, and app and web development. We’ve hired them to support our mobile and web app development for our clients. The work varies from client to client, but Aionys is responsible for developing iOS, Android, and web apps according to our customers’ ask. So far, we’ve done about 5–6 large projects with them, many of which are ongoing. They’re capable of simpler projects, like building a patient portal for a medical record, as well as complex solutions such as asset tracking. The latter required us to work with them in the backend so that we could track the specific beacons that our client had set up. We typically communicate through their project leads, but there are also other developers and designers in our Slack channel. We met them while working with a mutual client and saw that their work was top-notch. The communication was really good, too, so we reached out to them to see if they were open to collaborating on other client projects. We’ve spent close to $80,000–$100,000, working on an hourly basis. Our clients are very happy with all of the projects we’ve worked on together, which speaks to both our efforts and Aionys’ insights. They’re able to understand what’s useful to our clients and address their needs without pushing the project budget up through unnecessary add-ins. As far as managing projects, they’re pretty accurate. The team sticks to deadlines and always stay within their quotes. If there are any delays, it’s typically on the client's side. It’s their communication. I’ve worked with a few companies that are hard to keep track of, or it was difficult to communicate ideas with them. But that’s not the case with Aionys. It’s easy to reach out to them—they’re on our Slack channels, and we’re able to go back-and-forth about our clients’ needs to get things changed right away. It can be a bit difficult understanding who is working on our projects because everything is facilitated through a project lead. That doesn’t affect our work much, but it’s sometimes helpful for our junior designers and engineers to reach out to their junior staff so that we aren’t always talking through project leads. The big thing is just having clarity on what your expectations. Be descriptive, know what you can and can’t do, and just be open to what you’re trying to develop with their team. They’ll definitely give you a lot of insight into what’s useful and feasible as far as the product goes.

I'm the Head of Development in a firm advising central banks, IFIs, and corporates. We needed a UI/UX designer and an Angular developer for a new project. We discussed the main purpose of the Dashboard and set up the objectives for the designer and the Angular developer. The designer prepared the wireframes in Figma, and the Angular developer implemented those, linking them to the back-end developed by our team. There were two people involved—the UI/UX designer and the Angular developer. The project costs were predictable and stayed within the target range. The quality of the deliverables was good, and the timing of the deliveries aligned with our plan. We mostly communicated via Telegram and Skype. Responses were timely, and the whole process was smooth. The Aionys team had no issues using our GitLab tracker and TeamCity CI/CD jobs. Their flexibility and willingness to adapt to client needs were commendable.