Pieoneers

I have used Pieoneers for two major projects over the years, the first being a native iPad / iOS application (social) and the second being a SaaS platform (flowmail.com). With both projects, they were professional, prompt and worked as part of the team to solve problems, provide suggestions and develop a top notch user experience.

We worked with Pieoneers on the planning and development of Pledge Circle, our new digital marketplace for the K-12 segment. After four months of collaboration, we truly have complete confidence in Pieoneers and can highly recommend them. 

Having Pieoneers on board is especially valuable to us, as we do not have any technical founders on our team. For us, Pieoneers has been a trusted partner, acting as our CTO and engineering department.

Initially, we selected Pieoneers because of their focus on web, mobile web, and mobile app development. In the new digital age, as an innovative enterprise, we preferred to focus on mobile first strategy.

Working with our US team, Pieoneers has now built us an extensive Game Plan, based on discovery meetings and Google Ventures’ Sprint process. During this phase, Pieoneers created a prototype of our platform, a strategic system architecture, and a technology strategy. 

Throughout the whole process, working with Pieoneers has been fantastic. We loved the Sprint process, particularly the critical drilling down into user stories during prototyping, and the testing stage to validate the concept—before investing time and money in full development.

Needless to say, the scope of this project was substantial. Together, we tackled everything from confirming initial computer logic, architecture, and diagrams for a new graphical user interface (GUI) patent, to carrying out all phases of development planning up to funding and execution. 

Pieoneers rose to the challenge, helping us with integration and back-end planning, mobile UI/UX, web UI/UX prototypes, AWS cloud architecture, visual interface, logo, and brand design, product strategy planning, payment systems, and software as a service (SaaS) tools. 

The global team at Pieoneers can ramp up development talent as needed to execute project goals, with worldwide resources at their fingertips. They have a deep understanding of digital marketplace development, for all devices and operating systems, including iOS and Android.

Ultimately, Pieoneers are fully equipped to lead the development of a scalable startup vision like ours and were key in developing our tech stack, key frameworks, and our total architecture plan. They provided immense support and advice throughout, aiding our own internal development.

In terms of results, our work with Pieoneers has helped us develop our product strategy, build better pitch decks, apply for patents, and successfully seek investment and strategic partnerships. I cannot recommend Pieoneers highly enough for your web and mobile development needs.

Pieoneers developed a detailed plan to rebuild our system, expanding its capabilities and including all the upgrades and improvements from the current system. There were detailed in all of their work, making sure to not miss features etc of the current system.

We had a problematic/under maintained Django application that needed some care. We didn't have the in-house skills or capacity to do the work. Some web searching led us to Pieoneers. Why did we go with Pieoneers? They were easy to engage with, had the right skills, offered a good price, and had a local presence. The project went more or less to plan... The good: it got done reasonably to budget and schedule expectations - the assigned developer was quite good. The bad: We were surprised to send payments to Olena's house. But, it was in the middle of the pandemic! The unexpected: The developer was in Ukraine. We thought we were engaging a local resource. For sure we would have been hesitant to got straight to Ukraine ourselves. All in all a good experience! Bill Gordon, Bright Health