Ankorstore&#8217;s marketplace, connecting over 30,000 brands with 300,000 retailers across 33 European countries, had an ambitious product roadmap that in-house hiring couldn&#8217;t keep pace with. Bringing developers on directly was too slow for how fast the company needed to move, so Ankorstore turned to a nearshore partner to extend its engineering team without the usual hiring lag.
Sigma Software&#8217;s dedicated team integrated payment systems including Stripe, PayPal and SEPA alongside roughly 20 shipping carriers such as FedEx, DHL and Royal Mail, and cut third-party translation tool costs by 30% through a new solution. On the delivery side, the team restructured Ankorstore&#8217;s monolith architecture into separated front-end and back-end components, migrated the Home page to Nuxt 3 with server-side rendering, and isolated the E2E testing module to simplify test creation across both the monolith and smaller projects.
&#8220;The team&#8217;s flexibility and willingness to get things done are unique, distinguishing them from other providers. Moreover, they have a great sense of ownership,&#8221; said Nikita Vershinin, VP of Engineering at Ankorstore.
The redesigned Home page and a full overhaul of brand landing pages drove an 80% increase in retailer signups, while DevOps cost optimisation work, including migrating non-production clusters to Spot Preemptible instances, cut infrastructure costs by 70% in that area. The engagement has continued since 2022, growing to a 12-18 FTE team supporting Ankorstore&#8217;s ongoing product growth.

Ankorstore Lifts Retailer Signups 80% After a Home Page Redesign Across 300K Retailers

Soyaka wanted to build an AI-powered fashion e-commerce app that could aggregate products from multiple retail websites into a single platform, letting shoppers search by image and shop an entire look instantly instead of browsing one store at a time. That meant solving two hard problems together: real-time data crawling across many separate retailer sites, and image-based search accurate enough to match a photo to specific, purchasable products.
Concetto Labs built the app in Flutter, pairing it with AI technology and data crawler features that pull product information from multiple sites simultaneously. Image-based search lets users snap a photo and get matching products back, with filters for fashion style preferences like hijab, plus size, and men&#8217;s formal wear, all surfaced through a personalised feed rather than a generic search results page.
&#8220;They have worked with us in a very productive, supportive, and collaborative manner ever since day one,&#8221; said Sonat Yalcinkaya, Founder &#038; CEO of Soyaka.
The app launched as Shox, letting users photograph fashion looks, share them, and earn affiliate revenue when others shop from those posts. That turned Shox into a multi-revenue-stream platform: passive income for the influencers driving traffic, and organic sales growth for Soyaka from the shoppable content itself.

Shox Turns Fashion Screenshots into a Shoppable, Multi-Site Search Engine

Najm Wallet&#8217;s founder had five business days to demonstrate a working custodial crypto-fiat wallet to VARA, the UAE&#8217;s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, to secure a path onto its sandbox licence. The bar VARA set was specific and unforgiving: a live product, not a presentation, including an on-chain settlement the regulator could independently verify on a block explorer in real time.
Hashorn put a two-engineer pod on the build alongside a QA lead and project manager, delivering an MVP with phone-OTP authentication, KYC integration through Sumsub, Fireblocks custodial wallet provisioning, AED card on-ramp functionality, and cryptographic receipt generation for every transaction. Given the zero-margin timeline, the team maintained strict risk management throughout, producing three fallback signed builds and running full dress rehearsals before demo day rather than trusting a single build to work first time.
&#8220;We had five days and a regulator. Hashorn didn&#8217;t blink. By Friday morning we were sending real AED-to-USDC transfers on stage. That demo unlocked our entire roadmap with VARA,&#8221; said Khalid Al-Mansouri, Founder of Najm Wallet.
The live AED-to-USDC transfer settled in 11 seconds on stage with zero critical defects, and the on-chain proof gave VARA exactly the verification it needed. The regulator confirmed the sandbox licence path that same afternoon, and Najm Wallet raised its pre-seed round two weeks later on the strength of that demo.

Najm Wallet Settles a Live Crypto Transfer on Stage to Unlock a UAE Regulatory Sandbox

AkzoNobel&#8217;s corporate events suffered from fragmented guest communication. Information was scattered across emails and PDFs, travel updates arrived late or got lost entirely, and there was no centralised system for managing itineraries or documents across an event&#8217;s guest list.
QuantumXL developed an AI-powered mobile application built around personalised guest dashboards, real-time travel information integration, consolidated event itineraries and secure document delivery. Automated travel coordination, tailored push notifications and predictive disruption handling were built in to keep guests informed without manual chasing.
&#8220;They really listened to the brief and delivered above and beyond. The solution they created was a beautiful, easy to use app, which demonstrated their professionalism and quick understanding of our needs,&#8221; said Tina Waller, Events Manager at AkzoNobel.
The app achieved adoption rates above 95%, turning event coordination from a manual, fragmented process into something centralised and seamless. Pressure on internal teams eased significantly, and guest satisfaction improved through the proactive, personalised communication the app now handles automatically.

AkzoNobel Hits 95% Adoption on an App That Replaced Its Fragmented Event Communications

Microsoft wanted to move businesses beyond static product demos into genuinely immersive AR/VR experiences, but that meant blending several AI tools, voice interaction, gesture recognition, computer vision and personalised recommendations, into a single interface that could scale across many different organisations without breaking on performance or security.
QuantumXL built an intelligent framework on Azure that combined all of those AI capabilities into one reusable, adaptable platform, designed to run across mobile, web and headset environments so the same underlying build could support very different use cases across industries.
&#8220;The team were always willing to work hard on this project,&#8221; said Imogen Venn, Account Director at Microsoft.
Engagement metrics improved by 70%, and more than 250 UK businesses participated in the programme built on the platform. The finished solution was delivered bug-fixed and within budget, giving participating businesses a way to move past static demos into live, immersive experiences that actually drove engagement.

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