Our Cooperation Models at a Glance
What is the best way to partner with us? Depending on the scale of your project and your current needs, you can choose from the most common cooperation models our current clients pick for their software development. If you need more details with approximate cost estimation for each model, please contact us and we will be glad to get your matter resolved.
Our Cooperations
Discover our collaboration models
Fixed Price
Consider a fixed-price contract if your project is short-term and small scale while its scope, requirements, and deadlines can be clearly defined.
Fixed-price Model
Project Size: Small to medium
Duration: 1-3 months
Have a short-time project and expect a fixed cost for the ordered IT services?
Consider a fixed-price contract that would perfectly suit your needs if you already have a clearly defined scope and technical requirements.
Pluses
- Fixed budget for your project
- Clearly established terms and requirements
- Transparent goals and deadlines
- Little supervision is needed
- The release date is determined in advance
Minuses
- Inflexibility in case requirements change
- Thorough planning and estimation are needed
- Additional expenses and agreements will be incurred in case of changes
Common Stages of a Fixed-Price Project
- Project initiation (up to 7 days)
- Scope definition and agreement (up to 20 days)
- Team assembly and planning (up to 6 days)
- Design and prototyping (up to 24 days)
- Development and testing (up to 60 days)
- Delivery and closure (up to 10 days)
Time and Material
Benefit from greater flexibility throughout the SDLC being charged only for the time spent and resources allocated for your project.
Тime and Material (T&M)
Project Size: Medium to large
Duration: mid-term / long-term
If you value flexibility over a fixed budget and the size of your project suggests hardly predictable requirements, then the T&M cooperation model is what you need. As the name suggests, you will be charged only for the time spent and resources allocated for your project.
Pluses
- Maximum flexibility and adjustability if your objectives and priorities change
- No risk of overestimation and overpaying for the redundant services
- The product can be further tailored to your changing business needs
- Agile approach, iterative development, and close cooperation with a client
- Greater control of the product quality and its iterations
- Charged only for spent hours for the product development and used resources
Minuses
- Lack of fixed budget for the project
- Hard to predict the release date
Common Stages of a T&M Project
- Project initiation
- Planning and proposal
- Team assembly
- Development and implementation
- Monitoring and control
- Project closure
Dedicated Team
Get the entire product development process under your control having a dedicated team of professionals to match the scale of your project.
Dedicated Team
Project Size: Medium to large, enterprise-level
Duration: Long-term
Running short of skilled experts to match the scope and scale of your project? Opt for a dedicated team of experts whose skills and expertise can fill in the gaps of your in-house team and give a boost to your product development.
Pluses
- Profound technical expertise to cover complex tasks and projects
- Complete commitment and accountability of a dedicated team
- A client gets full control of all the team’s activities, deadlines, development approaches, and methodology
- The team’s adaptability to the changing project scope, requirements, workflows, or the growing scale
- Extension of an in-house team with high-qualified professionals
- Cross-industry experience of global dedicated experts
- Budget’s predictability due to the fixed monthly payments and agreed service costs
Minuses
- The need to participate in recruitment and team management
- More involvement is needed in the development process
- Schedule coordination if team members are in different time zones
Research and Development (R&D)
Before committing all your resources to the project with such emerging technologies as AI, big data, etc., it’s always better to research and validate the new black.
Research and Development (R&D)
Project Size: Medium to large
Duration: mid-term / long-term
Looking for creative minds who can deliver an innovative solution through strategic planning, thorough research, and testing? Our R&D team can help you innovate with a focus on IoT, sensors, embedded development, AI, Machine Learning, computer vision, big data, predictive analytics, and other advanced emerging technologies. Experiment budget-wise by testing hypotheses and mitigating possible risks.
Opportunities
- Extended technological expertise and capabilities
- Ability to create cutting-edge solutions based on state-of-the-art technologies
- Business processes automation with expertise in a range of technologies (Java, PHP, NodeJS, React Native, React, REST API, etc.)
- Improved mobile and web development with a chosen tech stack that perfectly fits your product needs
- Enhanced and well-informed decision-making
Common Stages
- Ideation
- Basic and applied research
- Validation (Proof of Concept)
- Prototyping
- Development
- Launch
- Improvement
Proof of Concept (PoC) Development
Start with PoC of your software product to test potential success of your idea and exclude possible development and implementation risks. This would also allow selecting the most suitable tech stack to ensure the solution works as intended.
Proof of Concept (PoC) Development
Project Size: Medium to large/enterprise-level
Duration: From 2-3 days to a few months
Want to test your idea before putting large investments in full-scale software product development? Have a trial run of your project by conducting Proof of Concept. It allows checking the feasibility of your idea, how it will work in the real-world conditions, what risks, restraints, benefits and pitfalls you should expect on the way.
Opportunities
- Ability to foresee the success of your idea and overall software development project
- Selecting the most suitable technologies and tools to develop and implement the solution
- Exact estimation and validation of product scope, duration, resources needed, and its budget
- Minimizing financial risks and ability to predict and reduce possible expenses
- Faster time-to-market of a product supported by a proven concept
Common Stages
- Requirements analysis and the concept research
- Defining the project scope, budget, and timeline
- Selecting a technology stack that fits your business needs and requirements
- PoC design and development
- Product demo
- Roadmap for further implementation
MVP Development
Check the viability of your product in real-life conditions by releasing a minimal viable product. This way you will see how users react to its functionality and what other features can be added and improved.
MVP Development
Project Size: Medium to large/enterprise-level
Duration: From a few weeks to months
If you want to know exactly how your target audience reacts to your product when it’s live and need the user feedback, then a minimal viable product (MVP) is just the thing. Unlike PoC, you can test the product with its minimal features literally in the market.
Opportunities
- Test the idea of your product in real life
- Getting valuable users’ input to improve the essential set of features
- Ability to prioritize features of your product that resonate the most with your target audience
- Faster product release and its further optimization
- Higher software development cost savings
- A perfectly aligned product with customer expectations
Common Stages
- Discovery (business requirements analysis and ideation)
- Choosing MVP functionality
- Selecting a tech stack
- MVP high-level architecture design
- Identifying the project scope, methodology, deliverables, timeline, etc.
- MVP development
- MVP testing
- MVP development
Fixed-price Model
Project Size: Small to medium
Duration: 1-3 months
Have a short-time project and expect a fixed cost for the ordered IT services?
Consider a fixed-price contract that would perfectly suit your needs if you already have a clearly defined scope and technical requirements.
Pluses
- Fixed budget for your project
- Clearly established terms and requirements
- Transparent goals and deadlines
- Little supervision is needed
- The release date is determined in advance
Minuses
- Inflexibility in case requirements change
- Thorough planning and estimation are needed
- Additional expenses and agreements will be incurred in case of changes
Common Stages of a Fixed-Price Project
- Project initiation (up to 7 days)
- Scope definition and agreement (up to 20 days)
- Team assembly and planning (up to 6 days)
- Design and prototyping (up to 24 days)
- Development and testing (up to 60 days)
- Delivery and closure (up to 10 days)
Тime and Material (T&M)
Project Size: Medium to large
Duration: mid-term / long-term
If you value flexibility over a fixed budget and the size of your project suggests hardly predictable requirements, then the T&M cooperation model is what you need. As the name suggests, you will be charged only for the time spent and resources allocated for your project.
Pluses
- Maximum flexibility and adjustability if your objectives and priorities change
- No risk of overestimation and overpaying for the redundant services
- The product can be further tailored to your changing business needs
- Agile approach, iterative development, and close cooperation with a client
- Greater control of the product quality and its iterations
- Charged only for spent hours for the product development and used resources
Minuses
- Lack of fixed budget for the project
- Hard to predict the release date
Common Stages of a T&M Project
- Project initiation
- Planning and proposal
- Team assembly
- Development and implementation
- Monitoring and control
- Project closure
Dedicated Team
Project Size: Medium to large, enterprise-level
Duration: Long-term
Running short of skilled experts to match the scope and scale of your project? Opt for a dedicated team of experts whose skills and expertise can fill in the gaps of your in-house team and give a boost to your product development.
Pluses
- Profound technical expertise to cover complex tasks and projects
- Complete commitment and accountability of a dedicated team
- A client gets full control of all the team’s activities, deadlines, development approaches, and methodology
- The team’s adaptability to the changing project scope, requirements, workflows, or the growing scale
- Extension of an in-house team with high-qualified professionals
- Cross-industry experience of global dedicated experts
- Budget’s predictability due to the fixed monthly payments and agreed service costs
Minuses
- The need to participate in recruitment and team management
- More involvement is needed in the development process
- Schedule coordination if team members are in different time zones
Research and Development (R&D)
Project Size: Medium to large
Duration: mid-term / long-term
Looking for creative minds who can deliver an innovative solution through strategic planning, thorough research, and testing? Our R&D team can help you innovate with a focus on IoT, sensors, embedded development, AI, Machine Learning, computer vision, big data, predictive analytics, and other advanced emerging technologies. Experiment budget-wise by testing hypotheses and mitigating possible risks.
Opportunities
- Extended technological expertise and capabilities
- Ability to create cutting-edge solutions based on state-of-the-art technologies
- Business processes automation with expertise in a range of technologies (Java, PHP, NodeJS, React Native, React, REST API, etc.)
- Improved mobile and web development with a chosen tech stack that perfectly fits your product needs
- Enhanced and well-informed decision-making
Common Stages
- Ideation
- Basic and applied research
- Validation (Proof of Concept)
- Prototyping
- Development
- Launch
- Improvement
Proof of Concept (PoC) Development
Project Size: Medium to large/enterprise-level
Duration: From 2-3 days to a few months
Want to test your idea before putting large investments in full-scale software product development? Have a trial run of your project by conducting Proof of Concept. It allows checking the feasibility of your idea, how it will work in the real-world conditions, what risks, restraints, benefits and pitfalls you should expect on the way.
Opportunities
- Ability to foresee the success of your idea and overall software development project
- Selecting the most suitable technologies and tools to develop and implement the solution
- Exact estimation and validation of product scope, duration, resources needed, and its budget
- Minimizing financial risks and ability to predict and reduce possible expenses
- Faster time-to-market of a product supported by a proven concept
Common Stages
- Requirements analysis and the concept research
- Defining the project scope, budget, and timeline
- Selecting a technology stack that fits your business needs and requirements
- PoC design and development
- Product demo
- Roadmap for further implementation
MVP Development
Project Size: Medium to large/enterprise-level
Duration: From a few weeks to months
If you want to know exactly how your target audience reacts to your product when it’s live and need the user feedback, then a minimal viable product (MVP) is just the thing. Unlike PoC, you can test the product with its minimal features literally in the market.
Opportunities
- Test the idea of your product in real life
- Getting valuable users’ input to improve the essential set of features
- Ability to prioritize features of your product that resonate the most with your target audience
- Faster product release and its further optimization
- Higher software development cost savings
- A perfectly aligned product with customer expectations
Common Stages
- Discovery (business requirements analysis and ideation)
- Choosing MVP functionality
- Selecting a tech stack
- MVP high-level architecture design
- Identifying the project scope, methodology, deliverables, timeline, etc.
- MVP development
- MVP testing
What type of cooperation would you choose?
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Benefit from greater flexibility throughout the SDLC being charged only for the time spent and resources allocated for your project.
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Benefit from greater flexibility throughout the SDLC being charged only for the time spent and resources allocated for your project.
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