Coherent Solutions

I am the Application Development Supervisor of Schreiber Foods

We are primarily a private label dairy manufacturing company

15+

Helped us redesign a custom application as we moved from Oracle Jet to React. This was originally a like-for-like replacement, but we took this as an opportunity to make specific design enhancements. We also needed BAs to help us draft requirements and work with developers to make progress. Additionally, we required QA testers to help catch certain defects before our limited pool of product owners did the final testing.

The scope of work was a set number of pages in the application to convert within the given timeline. They hit their original commitment, and we were pleased with their work, throughput, attention to detail, and the knowledge shared with our internal team. Therefore, we increased the scope of work to more pages and more responsibility.

Project Management was better than expected. They came in and leveled not only myself up, but other partners at our company by sharing best practices and a deeper level of understanding of how to use Jira with multiple teams in different time zones to all work towards common deliverables. We even asked for more Scrum Masters to come in and join our other agile teams to level them up and reduce internal resoucing conflicts and constraints.

Their ability to self manage and call out gaps, concerns, blockers, and their ability to give recomendations how to solve and manage. Here is the problem - here is what we can do to midagate it. This was shown throughout the project in a varity of ways from technical work all the way to people management.

Every request I have made for adjustments or changes, as well as any feedback I've offered, has been taken seriously and acted upon. At this point, there is nothing that stands out as needing last-minute changes; everything has been addressed appropriately.

I’m the CFO of a private company in the technology space.

We needed outsourced help for our engineering team, so we hired Coherent Solutions.

Coherent Solutions provides us with ongoing help in various areas of engineering. They work as part of our team, acting as a full-time part of our headcount. They do core software development, QA, front- and backend development, UI/UX designs, and customer support tasks. They primarily work remotely for us.

We’ve worked with 10–25 teammates from Coherent Solutions.

Our CEO knew some of Coherent Solutions' senior management.

We started working with them in July 2017, and the partnership is ongoing.

We’re impressed with the technical talent that Coherent Solutions has. They’ve contributed at a high level to our work, and we’ve always been happy with their talent level. Moreover, they’re cooperative — if the staff assigned to our account isn’t working out, they can make changes quickly to adjust to the situation.

I give them high marks for quality and timeliness. We have aggressive milestones, and the team cooperates with us to achieve those milestones. For tools, we use Jira to manage the project. We use Slack and email for communication.

They manage staff to work proactively and cooperatively with us. It feels that they’re an extension of our team as opposed to just being a contractor.

No, there aren’t any.

Work with the account manager assigned to work with your company. Be open and honest with that manager, and your experience will be great.

I am the CMO and Product Owner of a roofing software company

We offer software such as a premier instant roof estimation and lead generation platform for roofing contractors.

Referral

20-25

Our project has ranged from a B2C web application that allows homeowners to shop for a new roof online, to a B2B SaaS platform that leverages proprietary instant quoting technology. The platform includes dynamic embeddable tools and a pro portal with contact, product, market, and user management.

Over $2M annual reoccurring revenue from our SaaS platform in just the first year, with a steadily growing user base. After a few years of bootstrapping, we received investment from two entities, one of the largest distribution companies in the US and a highly respected private equity firm.

The project management has been extremely impressive, from a deliverability standpoint and communication. The team is a well-oiled machine — extremely efficient.

The level of expertise from UX/UI design, business requirements, development, quality assurance, infrastructure and project management. We've received praise from our industry for the platform we've built.

No

I’m the director of agile delivery at CleanChoice Energy, an energy provider that subsidizes electricity with clean sources of energy, such as wind and solar farms. In my position, I manage a team of three other Scrum leaders, and we host all the major ceremonies for our development teams and execute our quarterly planning.

We wanted to scale our development teams to support a couple of resource-invested technology projects, but we needed to do it in a less expensive way than hiring full-time employees. Thus, we decided to partner with Coherent Solutions.

Initially, we requested frontend developers to help us build a website, as well as backend developers to help us build APIs for that website. Therefore, Coherent Solutions first provided us with a project manager who acted almost as our recruiting partner. This person helped us interview the team members who would join the project to assess their background, expertise, and coding knowledge. When he found people who were suited for the role, he helped us onboard them.

We work with many developers from Coherent Solutions with different areas of expertise; all of our development teams have some form of Coherent Solutions’ support. Some teams have 1–2 engineers, while others are completely comprised of Coherent Solutions’ engineers.

Our CTO used to work with them at a prior company,

We’ve spent close to $1 million.

We started working together around June 2020, and our engagement is ongoing.

Thanks to Coherent Solutions, we’ve been able to get our MPP live; we wouldn’t have been able to do it without their support because it was a massive project. Moreover, the product they revamped created a new profit stream for us. Overall, we’ve gone from offering one product to three in a totally updated stack.

Coherent Solutions is incredibly reliable and responsive, and they always look to help us deliver projects. Additionally, they seem to be very passionate about the work we’re doing. I’ve seen a lot of effort from their engineers in trying to understand the business value they’re providing, and they’ve even celebrated how much impact their work is having.

The people at Coherent Solutions are very nice and passionate about what they do. One of my favorite things about working with them is that they create small development teams of 6–7 people, and we do a lot of work together every single day. Additionally, their approach has added a lot to our team culture because they’ve created a more fun working environment.

No, not really. Initially, we had a couple of issues understanding the background of the people they assigned to our projects because we didn’t have clear visibility into their resumes. However, once we asked them about that, they changed their process and made it more transparent, which was great.

Hire them! They have great talent, and they’ll be passionate about your company’s mission statement. Other than that, be prepared to work with a lot of really productive people.

I’m an executive at a contract for difference (CFD) derivatives trading platform.

Our company needed some help with web application development. We had been working with another development company, but we were looking to change.

Coherent Solutions has taken over our web application development. The version they inherited was working but not reliable. Therefore, they’ve helped us address many issues and bugs. The team has also handled third-party APIs for us to be able to function.

We currently work with a team of six people for the web application, and we have a similar-sized team for the crypto project.

I believe we found them through Google. We spoke to 3–4 different provider options; we had calls with senior management to discuss what they could do for us. In this process, we found Coherent Solutions’ team to be the most capable and the ones we were most impressed with. Additionally, we gravitated towards Eastern Europe because agencies there provide good quality. We also chose Coherent Solutions because our previous agency had a similar corporate structure.

We spend about $50,000 per month.

We started working with them in Q3 2020, and our engagement is still ongoing.

Coherent Solutions has helped improve the functionality and reliability of our application quite drastically. They've also improved our reliance on third-party platforms. Previously, when a third-party API went down, the system would crash and be unable to process deposits or receive applications. Now, the team has ensured that the app doesn't completely break when one element goes down. As a result, the wheels are still in motion when there's an issue, and we can still take clients.

We have quite an informal development process. Since my co-founder and I manage the web application project and don't come from a product management background, we tend to write the scope informally. We don't set hard deadlines, especially because we're chopping and changing tasks constantly. However, when we set a deadline, the team rarely goes over that date. Meanwhile, from a business requirements perspective, we both have a formal design process for the crypto project. Coherent Solutions have been relatively honest with the deadlines there, too.

Coherent Solutions' most impressive feature is their excellent problem-solving. There haven't been many things where they haven't been able to find an appropriate solution. For example, we have the challenge of being a 24/7 business, and because they're in Eastern Europe, no one is available if there's an issue in the middle of the night.

I can't think of anything they should be doing differently. The only criticism I can give them is that sometimes when we need extra people, it's difficult for them to find more resources. However, this isn't a reflection of their capabilities but of the market at the moment.

The structure Coherent Solutions provides really works for us, and they came to us with that solution. Therefore, they'd probably have a similar model for any new client.