Introduce your business and what you do there.
I’m the co-founder and CEO of Dataflik. We provide marketing data to real estate investors and agents. We predict what homes will sell off-market to investors and when to sell on-market with an agent. Therefore, agents can use this to generate more listings.
What challenge were you trying to address with NineTwoThree Studio?
As a startup, we couldn’t afford a CTO, so we needed to scale our development staff.
What was the scope of their involvement?
NineTwoThree Studio has built our UI, our dashboard, and all our algorithmic models for real estate agents. They work on full stack development on the UX/UI side, machine learning, and data science. Our largest projects are between 2,000–3,000 hours.
Our internal team works on prototyping, and NineTwoThree Studio implements the automation and architecture of our company. They primarily use Figma for the UI. The development stack is a combination of 6–7 languages, including AWS, React, and SQL.
What is the team composition?
We work with eight teammates: Paul (CTO), Andrew (CEO), a project manager, a QA engineer, two full stack developers, and two machine-learning software engineers.
How did you come to work with NineTwoThree Studio?
I found them from a PPC ad.
How much have you invested with them?
We’ve spent about $350,000.
What is the status of this engagement?
We started working with them in March 2022, and our partnership is ongoing.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
Thanks to the algorithm that NineTwoThree Studio has helped us construct, we predict accurately about 60%–70% of home sales. We’re one of the top five companies in the industry. We’re pretty happy with that, and it gets better every month.
How did NineTwoThree Studio perform from a project management standpoint?
NineTwoThree Studio has been great. They’re pretty integrated into our daily staff meetings and work. Before them, we had a satellite office and a lot of overseas development. However, the language barriers were too rough, and communication was poor, so we swapped agencies.
We use Slack for our daily conversations and a combination of Google Meet and Zoom for our video calls. Additionally, we use monday.com for project management.
What did you find most impressive about them?
The biggest difference marker is their knowledge. The team that supports and executes the implementation has vast knowledge and experience. Moreover, the founding staff is a treasure trove of insight, and everyone is incredibly strong at implementation.
Are there any areas they could improve?
No, I don’t want to touch anything. If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.
Do you have any advice for potential customers?
Outline exactly what you need in thorough detail and take notes of everything. If they understand your vision well, they can add a lot of value.
