About Misbar Company

MISBARcom established in 1997 by talented Iraqi programmers & IT professionals. Since then, they have built enterprise software & multiplatform applications that helped our clients better engage their customers & scale their business. Their understanding of the app market Place coupled with their brilliant designers and the extremely experienced app development team gives the best solution.

Last updated May 13, 2026

Services

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

Industries Served

Advertising & Marketing Insurance Healthcare Retail & E-commerce Manufacturing Legal Services Aerospace & Defense

Misbar Company Reviews

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Online store that our fulfilment and finance teams are as happy with as our customers are

Rupert Ashford / Director of eCommerce - Hargrove Retail PLC
Verified
Mar 27, 2026

Project summary: Our client portal had been built in 2017 and had not received meaningful investment since. Clients were contrasting it unfavourably with the portals of our competitors in pitches.

The technical quality of the final deliverable is the easiest thing to point to. The automated test coverage is thorough, the deployment pipeline is reliable, the documentation is genuinely useful rather than ceremonially produced. But the metric I keep returning to is the number of post-launch conversations we have not had to have. No incident calls at two in the morning. No emergency patches. No retrospective discussions about what went wrong. The absence of those events is the evidence I would show to someone considering this vendor.

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

Pipeline availability for kickoff required a few weeks of lead time — in hindsight that selection pressure means you are working with a team that is in demand for the right reasons

4.5
Overall
4.5
Quality
5.0
Schedule
4.5
Cost
5.0
Communication
Project TypeE-commerce Development
IndustryLegal Services
Project Cost$50,000 to $149,999
DurationMay 2025 – Feb 2026

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
Hargrove Retail PLC is an established Legal Services organisation headquartered in Manchester, UK. My role as Director of eCommerce 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?
Regulatory requirements in our Legal Services segment had changed and the compliance timeline was set by our regulator, not by us. The E-commerce Development changes required were significant enough to justify engaging a specialist partner rather than diverting our internal team from the product roadmap.
What services did the company provide for your project?
The core engagement was E-commerce Development 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?
Thoroughly and precisely. The requirements document they produced was detailed enough that our QA team used it directly to write acceptance criteria. Every user story had a defined business objective attached. Nothing was left to interpretation. That discipline in the requirements phase paid dividends throughout development and testing.
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?
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?
We went live four months ago. User adoption exceeded the target we had set by 23 percent in the first month. Support ticket volume has dropped measurably. The features we had deferred because the previous architecture made them prohibitively expensive to build are now in development. The platform they built has opened our roadmap.
What did you like most about working with this company?
The willingness to be direct. When our requirements were unclear they said so. When our priorities were contradictory they explained why. When a technical approach we had assumed was the right one turned out to have significant downsides, they told us before we had committed to it. That kind of intellectual honesty is what I look for in a long-term technology partner.
Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?
Yes, without reservation. I have already made two direct referrals within my Legal Services network — in both cases to peers facing E-commerce Development challenges similar to ours. I gave those referrals with confidence because I knew the experience I described was reproducible, not the result of exceptional circumstances on our engagement.

Cloud architecture that reduced our monthly infrastructure spend by over a third

Radosław Kowalczyk / Head of Development - Wisła Software Sp zoo
Verified
Feb 19, 2026

Project summary: The project had a board-facing delivery date tied to a strategic initiative. We needed a partner who would treat that date as their own, not ours.

The thing that retrospectively seems most significant is how little drama there was. Complex technology projects tend to accumulate incidents, escalations, and tense conversations. This one did not. Problems were surfaced before they became incidents. Scope changes were handled with process rather than conflict. Risks were managed rather than avoided. That level of maturity is rare in my experience and it made the delivery feel almost effortless from our side, which I know it was not from theirs.

PROS

Collaborative culture that made the team feel like a genuine extension of our organisation, strong asynchronous communication across time zones, zero-drama handling of the inevitable mid-project changes

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

4.5
Overall
4.0
Quality
4.5
Schedule
4.5
Cost
4.0
Communication
Project TypeCloud Services
IndustryAerospace & Defense
Project Cost$50,000 to $149,999
DurationMar 2025 – Nov 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
Wisła Software Sp zoo operates in the Aerospace & Defense sector with headquarters in Warsaw, Poland. In my role as Head of Development I am accountable for the full technology agenda — infrastructure, product, and vendor relationships. We are a commercially driven organisation and every technology decision is evaluated against a clear business case before it is approved.
What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?
We had a defined product vision for our next phase of growth in the Aerospace & Defense market but lacked the engineering depth internally to execute it. The Cloud Services requirements in particular required specialist experience that we could not realistically recruit for on the timeline our business plan required.
What services did the company provide for your project?
The scope covered the full Cloud Services lifecycle: discovery and requirements definition, solution architecture, iterative development across twelve sprints, integration testing, performance validation, production deployment, and a structured four-week hypercare period. They also provided system documentation and a knowledge transfer programme for our internal team.
Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?
We ran a structured shortlisting process across five vendors. The technical evaluation eliminated two immediately. Of the remaining three, this team's proposal was differentiated by the specificity of their Cloud Services approach and the evidence base they provided — reference projects in Aerospace & Defense contexts, not generic case studies. The reference calls confirmed a track record that the proposal had described accurately.
How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?
Thoroughly and precisely. The requirements document they produced was detailed enough that our QA team used it directly to write acceptance criteria. Every user story had a defined business objective attached. Nothing was left to interpretation. That discipline in the requirements phase paid dividends throughout development and testing.
How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?
The project management framework was the most structured I have experienced with an external vendor. Sprint planning was tight, acceptance criteria were specific, retrospectives were honest and acted on. The project manager treated the shared backlog as a live document and the risk register as an operational tool rather than a compliance artefact. I never had to ask for a status update.
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?
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 post-launch behaviour. Some vendors consider go-live to be the end of their professional obligation. This team treated it as the transition to a different kind of engagement. The hypercare period was substantive, the documentation was thorough and genuinely useful, and they checked in proactively at the thirty-day and ninety-day marks to review production metrics with us.
Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?
Yes, without reservation. I have already made two direct referrals within my Aerospace & Defense network — in both cases to peers facing Cloud Services challenges similar to ours. I gave those referrals with confidence because I knew the experience I described was reproducible, not the result of exceptional circumstances on our engagement.

Company Info

Founded 1997
Employees 10 - 49
Hourly Rate $100 - $149
Client Rating 4.5/5 (7 reviews)

Rating Breakdown

Quality
4.4
Schedule
4.8
Cost
4.7
Communication
4.5

FAQs

What's actually in Misbar Company's technical toolkit?
The exact stack shifts by project, but Misbar Company commonly works across things like React, Angular, Vue.js, Node.js, Python, .NET, Java, PHP, Flutter, React Native, native iOS and Android, and cloud platforms like AWS and Azure. For context, it has experience across industries such as Insurance, Manufacturing, Advertising & Marketing, Retail & E-commerce, Healthcare and Legal Services, and it reports a team size of 10 - 49 professionals.
What kind of software work does Misbar Company take on?
Misbar Company 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, Mobile App Development, UI-UX Design, Web Design and Web Development.
What's the easiest way to actually get in touch with Misbar Company?
Most businesses reach Misbar Company through its website, a direct email, or a contact form — any of which works for discussing what you need, booking an initial conversation, or asking for a rough estimate. For context, it has experience across industries such as Insurance, Manufacturing, Advertising & Marketing, Retail & E-commerce, Healthcare and Legal Services, and its listed capabilities span Custom Software Development, Mobile App Development, UI-UX Design, Web Design and Web Development.
Does Misbar Company only work locally, or take on clients elsewhere too?
Misbar Company isn't necessarily limited to one region and may take on clients across several countries, including Iraq, depending on market demand and business partnerships.
What makes Misbar Company worth considering over other options?
What tends to set Misbar Company 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 1997, the company has built a track record of delivering projects across various industries.
Is Misbar Company more of an offshore setup or a local team?
That depends on where Misbar Company is based and who they primarily serve — some firms like this operate fully offshore, some are local-first, and plenty run a hybrid model that mixes both. For context, it has experience across industries such as Insurance, Manufacturing, Advertising & Marketing, Retail & E-commerce, Healthcare and Legal Services, and it has been operating since 1997.
Will Misbar Company sign an NDA before we even discuss the project in detail?
Most professional shops, including Misbar Company, expect to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement before getting into specifics — it's a fairly standard ask and a reasonable one to make before sharing anything sensitive. For context, its listed capabilities span Custom Software Development, Mobile App Development, UI-UX Design, Web Design and Web Development, and its average project cost is reported at $5000000+.
What should I actually be looking at when comparing a company like Misbar Company to others?
When you're weighing up a software partner such as Misbar Company, it's worth looking past the pitch and checking the portfolio, what past clients say, relevant industry background, technical range, how they communicate, pricing structure, project management style, and what support looks like after launch. For context, it has served clients in Iraq, and it has been operating since 1997.
What kinds of industries has Misbar Company actually built for?
Misbar Company has delivered projects across a range of different industries, including Insurance, Manufacturing, Advertising & Marketing, Retail & E-commerce, Healthcare and Legal Services.