«Our manager used to run the entire wholesale business by phone and email, by hand. Now he just confirms orders the customer placed themselves.»Read the case study
Development studio · since 2018
We buildmarketplaces, portalsand mobile apps
Progress studio. Since 2018 we have built web services and mobile apps for logistics, healthcare, education and retail.
- years in business
- 8
- projects delivered
- 84
- people on staff
- 11
- clients
- 52
since 2018
18 still under maintenance
21 came back for a second project
Services
What we do
- Websites & landing pagesCorporate sites, catalogues and campaign pages built to collect enquiries rather than just exist.
- Web applications & SaaSCustomer portals, internal systems, marketplaces — anything where the user has a login.
- Mobile applicationsiOS and Android. We ship to the App Store and Google Play and stay on after release.
- ChatbotsTelegram and WhatsApp: order taking, first-line support, internal tools for staff.
- Design & UXInterface architecture, design systems, and audits of things that work but work badly.
- Maintenance & developmentWe take on our own projects and other people's code. We work out what is there and put it in order.
Work
Selected projects
How we work
4 rules we don't bend
We flag a different approach during estimation
If the problem is better solved another way than you asked for, we say so before the contract is signed. That is what happened with StroyMarket: they wanted to keep three separate catalogues for SEO, we pushed for one and mapped the redirects. Rankings held, and the cart finally worked across categories.
Fixed estimates, stage by stage
Each stage is priced before it begins. New requirements are quoted separately and agreed before any work starts.
We build on an open stack
Next.js, PostgreSQL, Go — everything we work with is open and widely used. We have no proprietary CMS or framework, so changing contractor is a hiring question.
Documentation is written alongside the code
The data schema, API documentation and deployment instructions appear with the first commit. That makes handing a project to your team a matter of days.
Process
How a project runs
- 1–2 days
Enquiry and first call
We reply within one business day. The first call runs 40–60 minutes: what the problem is, what you have already tried, what the constraints on time and budget are.
- 1–3 weeks
Discovery and specification
The analyst meets the people who will be in the system every day: operators, managers, accounts. We map the current process, document scenarios and draw the data schema.
- 2–6 weeks
Architecture and design
Black-and-white wireframes first, because changes are cheapest there. Once the structure is agreed, visual design and a design system covering loading, error and empty states.
- 4–20 weeks
Development
Two-week sprints. Each ends with a demo call and an updated staging environment you have access to.
- 1–3 weeks
Testing and acceptance
We test complete scenarios, from sign-in to result. On larger projects that includes load testing and migrating real data into staging.
- ongoing
Launch and maintenance
We deploy to production and set up monitoring, backups and error tracking. Everything found in the first month after launch is fixed free of charge.
Team
11 people on staff
No subcontracting. We name the people on your project, by name, before the contract is signed.
Adam Kiev
Founder, Managing Partner
Alexey Shumilov
Technical Director
Evgenia Polyakova
Art Director
Pavel Ermakov
Senior Front-end Engineer
Svetlana Yurchenko
Senior Project Manager
Natalia Korneeva
Lead Analyst
Testimonials
What clients say
«We did not expect older patients to use the app. It turned out the thing that mattered to them was not having to call and wait on the line.»Read the case study
«We were afraid of the migration. Customers did not notice any difference, and tutors started marking several times faster.»Read the case study
«The office used to spend two hours at the end of each shift keying data in. Now the courier closes the delivery note on the spot and we just read the summary.»Read the case study
Questions
FAQ
Websites from $550, web applications from $3,900, mobile apps from $4,500, bots from $350. We cannot give an exact figure before talking: estimates are driven less by page count than by the number of roles and the complexity of integrations. After the first call you get a range; after discovery, a fixed stage-by-stage estimate.
Contact
Let's talk about your project
Describe the problem in a couple of sentences. We'll reply within one business day and suggest a time to talk.
- Phone
- +7 (988) 823-70-86
- Hours
- Mon–Fri, 10:00–19:00 (UTC+3)