Vladislav Svetashkov, Founder and CEO at brezzlVerified Review
Posted on Dec 18, 2019
“Superb”
Superb
Ardas
SaaS & AI Development for Scaling Businesses
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Overview
About Ardas
Ardas is an AI-first software service provider helping post-PMF SaaS and B2B companies modernize their products and put AI into production. Since 2005, our team of 100+ engineers has built complex SaaS platforms through long-term dedicated teams.
Our core expertise:
- Custom SaaS development
- AI consulting and development
- Product modernization
- Dedicated engineering teams
How we work:
AI supports every stage of our delivery, from requirements to production monitoring, while a named engineer owns every change. We work closely with AWS and partner with EyePop.ai on computer vision. We are also working toward n8n Expert Partner status and an Anthropic partnership. Clients own 100% of their code and IP, with no vendor lock-in.
Where we’ve delivered:
- Logistics and transportation: freight and courier platforms, fleet and transportation management, real-time operations at scale
- Healthcare: clinical content platforms and AI assistants for medical professionals
- Martech: our founders built Stripo and Yespo, email design and customer data platforms used by Fortune 500 brands
Clients:
We work with product companies across the US, the UK, Scandinavia and Western Europe, including:
Transport Exchange Group · Bonnier Healthcare · NHI.no · Infinox · Cuboid Logic · Volubus · Flinqer · Airangel · Chess ICT · Karmaholic Media · Ad360 Media · BiggerWide · Cerri · PlayerU · GroupOS
Who we work best with:
Companies that already have a proven product but find that engineering capacity, legacy architecture or AI adoption is slowing growth. We step in with technical discovery, modernization or a dedicated senior team, helping clients ship faster with less technical risk.
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What clients say
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Review Summary
Clients describe Ardas as having a highly qualified development team with strong technical expertise and responsiveness. The team is noted for going above and beyond on projects and bringing substantial business acumen to engagements, ensuring solutions align with client business needs rather than just delivering code. Product ownership and professional involvement throughout custom software development are recurring strengths mentioned in feedback.
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What reviewers mention most
Aleksey Danchenko, Co-Founder at StripoVerified Review
Posted on Dec 16, 2019
“Custom Software Dev for Marketing Automation Platform”
Ardas provided custom development support for a marketing automation platform’s software. They used various technologies, including Angular, Javascript, and Laravel, to incorporate tools for users. We've been successfully outsourcing to Ardas our core application and website development for the last 7 years. We are very happy with the results.
Dmitry Kulaksyz, Product and Project Manager at Stripo.emailVerified Review
Posted on Dec 13, 2019
“Development team with exceptional expertise and responsiveness”
The team delivered excellent custom web and software products that were well received after the soft launch and continually attract positive feedback. They managed the work extremely smoothly, working in effective sprints and always meeting deadlines.
Aleks Mladenovic, Head Of Product Development at Transport Exchange GroupVerified Review
Posted on Dec 12, 2019
“Qualified team”
Ardas were tasked with the re-development of our mature SaaS application. They initially helped us with our new hosting architecture before working with us to re-design and develop all elements of the application. They continue to work on our ever-growing list of requirements. Our cooperation lasts for 6+ years. The team at Ardas are extremely skilled, they have an in-depth knowledge of existing technologies and programming languages. In addition, they continue to explore new options and as a result, we have a robust, resilient, fast and scalable enterprise-level application.
Daniel Altmann, Product Owner at cerri.com AGVerified Review
Posted on Dec 6, 2019
“Product Owner”
Good Provider for Outsourcing Development Services, always honest and reliable.
Focus
Service Focus of Ardas
How the team's effort is distributed across services.
Industries Focus
Client Focus
Medium Business75%
Large Business25%
The Positioning
AI Tools & Purpose
The stack the team uses to move faster.
Claude
Used for AI-assisted development, code review, ref
ChatGPT
Used for technical research, requirements analysis
Selected Work
Client Portfolio of Ardas
Where their work concentrates - by industry, budget, and timeline.
Project Industry
Fintech9%
Transportation & Logistics36%
Advertising & Marketing18%
Other Industries9%
Healthcare9%
Hospitality9%
Media9%
Major industry focus
Transportation & Logistics
Project Cost
Not Disclosed46%
$50001 to $10000036%
$100001 to $50000018%
Common project cost
Not Disclosed
Project Timeline
Not Disclosed46%
1 to 25 Weeks18%
51 to 100 Weeks36%
Typical timeline
Not Disclosed
Clients: 6
Bonnier HealthcareKarmaholic MediaPlayerUVolubusInfinoxTransport Exchange Group
Portfolios: 11
Executive Interview
Executive Interview of Ardas
Andrew Ryzhokhin
CEO
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Please introduce your company and give a brief about your role within the company?
I’m a co-founder and CEO at Ardas - a SaaS centric development, support and go-to-market shop for more than 15 years.
What was the idea behind starting this organization?
Four developers joined forces to work on a few enterprise data analysis software and outsourcing projects. After a number of successes, Ardas was established in 2005 with a focus on database design, data analysis and processing solutions, business process optimization.
What is your company’s business model–in house team or third party vendors/ outsourcing?
We are more than 190 in house engineers now and we plan to have 35% growth this year. In addition, we are expecting to launch two more startups with our UK partners this year.
How is your business model beneficial from a value addition perspective to the clients compared to other companies' models?
We are not a body shop. Our principle of cooperation is different - we create fully dedicated teams for each project, we aim to bring customer ideas in the best possible way, that is why we provide business consulting service to define what will work in the project. We design data and the entire infrastructure to optimally meet the needs of a real situation without unnecessary bells and whistles.
Despite the fact that sometimes our dear customers bring ready-made mockups, which definitely simplify our work, we still prepare our own detailed workflow plan including all the nuances of behavior and make it convenient for users.
Despite the fact that sometimes our dear customers bring ready-made mockups, which definitely simplify our work, we still prepare our own detailed workflow plan including all the nuances of behavior and make it convenient for users.
What industries do you generally cater to? Are your customers repetitive?
Ardas mainly focus on Fintech, Healthcare and Logistic medium and large-sized enterprises, but ready to help promising projects of any size.
We value the stability and long-lasting working relationships, which is why the team of experts within our company is constantly growing, which enables us to give our full attention to each client.
We value the stability and long-lasting working relationships, which is why the team of experts within our company is constantly growing, which enables us to give our full attention to each client.
Mention the objectives or the parameters critical in determining the time frame of developing software.
Certainly, first of all, we evaluate the business priorities, budget and needs of the product for assessing the development time.
It takes us 2 weeks to perform a functional and technical analysis, based on this we can guarantee the implementation of tasks in a strictly limited time. We are very attentive to this reputational aspect.
It takes us 2 weeks to perform a functional and technical analysis, based on this we can guarantee the implementation of tasks in a strictly limited time. We are very attentive to this reputational aspect.
How much effort in terms of time goes into developing the front end and back end of software?
It fully depends on the complexity of each project. The main thing is what we want to achieve, right?
What are the key parameters to be considered before selecting the right framework for developing software?
In the first place we need to set business goals and how could we archive them better with our solution. Choosing a framework depends on many factors. But we can highlight main from them such as usage context, license, maintainability, documentation, and community.
Which languages & frameworks do you prefer to use in the development of software?
Based on many years of experience in developing the most diverse projects and tasks, our team came to the conclusion that the following technologies will be most appropriate for our customers: Java 5-10, .NET Framework, PHP 5-7, JavaScript, and all the kinds of mobile technologies.
What are the key factors that you consider before deciding the cost of the software?
To provide a ballpark time & cost estimation along with expected project release date our team reviews business processes and understand business needs, brainstorms with stakeholders, studies documentation, conducts contextual research and works on the initial feature list as the first step.
What kind of payment structure do you follow to bill your clients? Is it Pay per Feature, Fixed Cost, Pay per Milestone (could be in phases, months, versions, etc.)
Our project team conducts a series of interviews to determine the priority tasks of the project and the best ways to implement them. After that, we offer one of the ways of cooperation: a fixed payment for the implementation of the task, an hourly payment for a specialist, or the monthly rental cost of a dedicated team.
Do you take in projects which meet your basic budget requirement? If yes, what is the minimum requirement? If no, on what minimum budget you have worked for?
Our specialists can start from our special fixed-price offer - Product Design Phase, whose goal is to define a project feature list and estimate the development effort. The cost starts from $5,000 and lasts 3-5 weeks.
What is the price range (min and max) of the projects that you catered to in 2019?
The least invasive changes in the project cost one of our clients $10,000, and the maintenance of a huge logistic system - more than $500,000.
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Offices where Ardas operates.
