Home Top Developers Blog Write For Us Write a Review Sign In Create Account Request a Quote

DGTL.Technology

Write a Review Claim this Company
4.2/5 (7 reviews)
+64204332222 hi@dgtl.im Visit Website

About DGTL.Technology

DGTL Technology is a New Zealand owned app design agency and development consultancy with long years of experience in providing solutions to small to medium enterprises and tech startups. They improve lives by mobile app design & mobile app development technology. Their digital marketing strategy goes away a beautiful looking website, online analytics and many Likes on a social post.

Last updated May 13, 2026

Services

Mobile App Development Web Development UI-UX Design Custom Software Development Web Design Digital Strategy

Industries Served

Retail & E-commerce Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology Environmental Services Financial Services Mining & Metals Insurance

DGTL.Technology Reviews

Write a Review

Architecture review that saved us from a vendor decision we would have regretted for years

Bilal Chaudhry / Co-Founder & CTO - Indus Software House
Verified
Jan 18, 2026

Project summary: Regulatory submission timelines required a document management platform that could handle version control, access permissions, and audit trails at a scale our existing tools were not designed for.

We gave this team an aggressive timeline, a technically complex scope, and a client-side project team that was stretched thin and not always available at the speed the engagement required. They absorbed all of that gracefully. Where they needed input they were precise about what they needed and when. Where they could proceed independently they did. The result was a delivery that landed on time despite the constraints on our side, which I regard as evidence of genuine professional maturity.

PROS

Delivery timeline that proved achievable rather than optimistic, estimation accuracy that reflected real analysis rather than competitive bidding, scope discipline that prevented the feature creep we had experienced before

CONS

Their discovery process is more rigorous than we were accustomed to and required more preparation from our side than we had initially allocated — but the quality of what followed justified every hour of it

4.0
Overall
3.5
Quality
4.0
Schedule
4.5
Cost
3.5
Communication
Project TypeIT Consulting
IndustryPharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
Project Cost$50,000 to $149,999
DurationApr 2025 – Nov 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
As Co-Founder & CTO at Indus Software House I oversee technology investment and delivery across our Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology operations in Islamabad, Pakistan. We are a commercially focused business and our technology choices are always evaluated in terms of their direct contribution to business outcomes rather than technical elegance alone.
What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?
A competitive threat had accelerated our roadmap. We had planned a significant IT Consulting investment for the following year. External pressure moved that timeline forward by six months and required us to find an external partner rather than attempting to build internally in the time available.
What services did the company provide for your project?
End-to-end IT Consulting delivery with particular depth in the integration and data migration components, which were the highest-risk elements of the programme. They supplemented this with a dedicated QA resource throughout development and a documented runbook for our operations team at handover.
Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?
A trusted peer in the Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology sector had used them for a comparable IT Consulting engagement and their recommendation was unequivocal. Our own due diligence confirmed the pattern they described. The combination of domain knowledge, IT Consulting depth, and demonstrated delivery discipline was the deciding factor.
How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?
Comprehensively. The discovery phase they ran was more thorough than anything we had experienced with previous vendors. They challenged requirements that were vague or contradictory, proposed alternatives where our initial thinking was limiting, and produced a functional specification that our internal stakeholders agreed was the clearest articulation of the product they had seen written down.
How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?
Communication was proactive, timely, and appropriately calibrated. Technical updates for the engineering audience, executive summaries for the steering group, risk flags with proposed mitigations rather than just problem statements. The fortnightly sprint reviews gave our stakeholders visibility without requiring them to attend every working session.
Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?
Yes to both. There was a single sprint where a dependency on a third-party API introduced a one-week delay. The team identified it three weeks in advance, presented two mitigation options, and we agreed on an approach that recovered the schedule within the same sprint cycle. That level of foresight is what separates good project management from reactive problem management.
What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?
Quantifying the impact precisely is complicated by other variables in our business, but the metrics we can attribute directly to the IT Consulting work are meaningful: session duration up, conversion rate up, error rate down, and our NPS for the digital touchpoint has improved by eleven points. Our account managers report that the new capability is coming up positively in client conversations.
What did you like most about working with this company?
Their instinct for keeping the business objective visible throughout technical decision-making. I have worked with technically excellent teams who lose the strategic thread as complexity increases. This team maintained a clear connection between every architectural choice and the outcome we had agreed to achieve. That orientation made the trade-off conversations significantly easier.
Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?
Yes. I would add the context that this is not the cheapest option in the market and they are selective about the engagements they take on. If your primary criterion is price, there are alternatives. If you want a technology partner who can be trusted with a complex IT Consulting programme in the Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology space and will deliver against a serious brief, this is the team.

Data engineering quality that will support our growth for years without a rebuild

Zara Hussain / Head of Technology - Ravi Digital Agency
Verified
Jan 07, 2026

Project summary: Our actuarial models had outgrown the reporting infrastructure feeding them. Data latency was introducing risk into pricing decisions that the business had decided it could no longer accept.

The integration layer was the part of the project I was most concerned about going in. Our system landscape is complex, several of the upstream APIs we relied on were poorly documented, and two third-party vendors had a history of unpredictable response times on integration questions. This team managed all of that. They documented what the upstream vendors could not, built resilience into the integration architecture where the upstream behaviour was unreliable, and delivered a solution that works as specified in production. I could not have asked for more.

PROS

Deep domain knowledge that reduced the discovery overhead significantly, proactive risk identification before issues became incidents, delivery cadence that our stakeholders found reassuring

CONS

Time zone coordination required some deliberate overlap management from both sides in the first couple of sprints, after which we had an efficient async rhythm that worked for the whole project

4.0
Overall
4.5
Quality
4.0
Schedule
4.0
Cost
4.5
Communication
Project TypeData & Analytics
IndustryInsurance
Project Cost$50,000 to $149,999
DurationJul 2025 – Oct 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
Ravi Digital Agency is an established Insurance organisation headquartered in Lahore, Pakistan. My role as Head of Technology covers both strategic planning and operational technology delivery. We maintain high standards for our vendors because our clients hold us to high standards — a bar we expect our partners to meet.
What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?
A competitive threat had accelerated our roadmap. We had planned a significant Data & Analytics investment for the following year. External pressure moved that timeline forward by six months and required us to find an external partner rather than attempting to build internally in the time available.
What services did the company provide for your project?
The core engagement was Data & Analytics delivery, though their scope expanded to include technical consultancy during discovery that materially improved our requirements. They also took ownership of the third-party integration workstream that had been a coordination challenge in previous projects, removing that complexity from our internal team entirely.
Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?
The quality of the questions they asked during the briefing process was the first indicator. Vendors who ask precise questions in the sales phase tend to apply the same rigour during delivery. That hypothesis proved accurate. The technical proposal was substantive, the team structure was senior throughout, and the pricing was transparent.
How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?
Comprehensively. The discovery phase they ran was more thorough than anything we had experienced with previous vendors. They challenged requirements that were vague or contradictory, proposed alternatives where our initial thinking was limiting, and produced a functional specification that our internal stakeholders agreed was the clearest articulation of the product they had seen written down.
How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?
Professional and efficient. The project manager maintained a clear view of the critical path at all times and communicated changes to it transparently. The one significant scope adjustment we made mid-project was handled through a clean change request process — fairly priced, clearly documented, and absorbed without disrupting the overall timeline.
Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?
On time and within the approved budget. The estimation accuracy was notable — they had broken the work down in sufficient detail during discovery that their forecast proved reliable throughout, rather than being a number that shifted with every change in scope. We received one change request and it was for scope we had introduced ourselves.
What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?
The ROI case we presented to our board was conservative by design. Current performance against the financial model suggests we will hit the projected payback point in under twelve months against an eighteen-month target. The operational efficiency gains in particular have exceeded the model, in part because the quality of the data the new platform generates supports decisions that the previous system could not.
What did you like most about working with this company?
The continuity of the team. The engineers who participated in the discovery sessions were the engineers who built the system. That consistency of institutional knowledge across a six-month project has a value that is difficult to quantify but easy to notice when it is absent. Every conversation built on the previous ones.
Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?
Unreservedly. We are in active scoping conversations for a second engagement and I expect this to develop into a multi-year partnership. For any organisation in the Insurance sector looking for Data & Analytics expertise combined with genuine delivery discipline, I would put this team at the top of the evaluation list.

Company Info

Founded 2015
Employees 10 - 49
Hourly Rate $25 - $49
Client Rating 4.2/5 (7 reviews)

Rating Breakdown

Quality
4.2
Schedule
4.3
Cost
4.2
Communication
4.2

FAQs

What should I expect to pay to work with DGTL.Technology?
What DGTL.Technology charges comes down to a handful of variables — how complex the project is, the number of development hours involved, the tech stack required, team size, and which engagement model you pick. Based on available data, DGTL.Technology's typical hourly rate is around $25 - $49, with an average project cost of $50000+.
What kind of software work does DGTL.Technology take on?
DGTL.Technology typically covers the standard range of software development work — mobile apps, web platforms, custom internal tools, UI/UX design, cloud infrastructure, AI integrations, and larger enterprise builds. Its core focus areas include Custom Software Development, Digital Strategy, Mobile App Development, UI-UX Design and Web Design.
Does DGTL.Technology only work locally, or take on clients elsewhere too?
DGTL.Technology isn't necessarily limited to one region and may take on clients across several countries, including New-zealand, depending on market demand and business partnerships.
What happens with DGTL.Technology after the project actually launches?
Like most established software teams, DGTL.Technology typically sticks around post-launch for ongoing maintenance — bug fixes, performance tuning, security patching, new feature work, and general technical support. For context, it has served clients in New-zealand, and its typical hourly rate is around $25 - $49.
What does DGTL.Technology's actual delivery process look like week to week?
DGTL.Technology generally runs something close to a standard structured process — requirements gathering, UI/UX design, development in agile sprints, QA testing along the way, deployment, and support once it's live. For context, it has served clients in New-zealand, and it has experience across industries such as Retail & E-commerce, Mining & Metals, Environmental Services, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology, Insurance and Financial Services.
What makes DGTL.Technology worth considering over other options?
What tends to set DGTL.Technology apart usually comes down to some mix of technical depth, relevant industry experience, how clients describe working with them, their development approach, communication habits, and whether they can actually deliver something that scales. Founded in 2015, the company has built a track record of delivering projects across various industries.
What are the actual contract options if I want to work with DGTL.Technology?
Most companies structured like DGTL.Technology give you a choice between a fixed-price contract, a dedicated team arrangement, or time-and-materials billing, so you can pick whichever lines up with your budget and how well-defined your scope already is. For context, it has served clients in New-zealand, and it reports a team size of 10 - 49 professionals.
Would DGTL.Technology be a good fit for an early-stage startup?
Generally, yes — companies like DGTL.Technology tend to work well with startups because of what they typically offer: MVP builds, product strategy input, architecture that can scale later, and dedicated teams that keep costs manageable while still moving fast. For context, it has served clients in New-zealand, and it reports a team size of 10 - 49 professionals.
How do I actually get a real proposal out of DGTL.Technology instead of a generic reply?
The most reliable route is giving DGTL.Technology a clear, specific brief up front — through their website form, a direct email, or a call — since a vague ask tends to get a vague answer back, while a concrete one usually gets a proper estimate. For context, it has experience across industries such as Retail & E-commerce, Mining & Metals, Environmental Services, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology, Insurance and Financial Services, and its typical hourly rate is around $25 - $49.

Similar Companies

Nearby Companies