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Last updated May 13, 2026

Services

Mobile App Development Web Development Crypto Exchange Development

Industries Served

Energy & Utilities Mining & Metals Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology Construction Healthcare

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A technology investment that delivered returns ahead of the business case we approved

Erik Lindqvist / Chief Technology Officer - Nordic Cloud AB
Verified
Feb 10, 2026

Project summary: Integration between our clinic management system and our patient-facing app had been a recurring failure point. We needed an engineering partner who could own the integration layer end to end.

We had worked with three agencies before this engagement. The comparison is not flattering to the others. What distinguished this team was a systematic approach to understanding the problem before proposing a solution — something that sounds obvious and is practiced far less often than it should be. The delivery phase ran to schedule, the codebase is clean enough that our internal engineers made positive comments during handover review, and we have not logged a critical incident in five months of live operation. We intend to use them for our next phase of work.

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

4.0
Overall
4.0
Quality
4.5
Schedule
4.0
Cost
3.5
Communication
Project TypePOS System Development
IndustryHealthcare
Project Cost$150,000 to $499,999
DurationMar 2025 – Nov 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
Nordic Cloud AB operates in the Healthcare sector with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. In my role as Chief Technology Officer 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 Healthcare market but lacked the engineering depth internally to execute it. The POS System Development 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?
End-to-end POS System Development 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 Healthcare sector had used them for a comparable POS System Development engagement and their recommendation was unequivocal. Our own due diligence confirmed the pattern they described. The combination of domain knowledge, POS System Development depth, and demonstrated delivery discipline was the deciding factor.
How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?
Better than we managed ourselves going in. The workshops they facilitated surfaced assumptions we had not examined and exposed three requirements that were in direct conflict with each other. Resolving those before development began saved us what would certainly have been significant rework later in the project.
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?
Quantifying the impact precisely is complicated by other variables in our business, but the metrics we can attribute directly to the POS System Development 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?
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?
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 Healthcare sector looking for POS System Development expertise combined with genuine delivery discipline, I would put this team at the top of the evaluation list.

Zero-trust implementation that satisfied our enterprise client security questionnaire first pass

Elliot Thorne / Managing Director, Tech - Redwood Capital Advisors
Verified
Jan 09, 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

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

CONS

The quality of documentation they produce means our team needed to set aside dedicated review time to do it justice — a minor scheduling point rather than a genuine criticism

4.0
Overall
4.0
Quality
4.5
Schedule
3.5
Cost
4.0
Communication
Project TypeCybersecurity
IndustryPharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
Project Cost$150,000 to $499,999
DurationAug 2025 – Nov 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
I lead technology at Redwood Capital Advisors, a growth-stage Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology business based in San Francisco, USA. As Managing Director, Tech my remit spans product engineering, platform operations, and strategic vendor partnerships. We had reached an inflection point where our internal capacity was not sufficient to execute our roadmap at the pace our market required.
What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?
Regulatory requirements in our Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology segment had changed and the compliance timeline was set by our regulator, not by us. The Cybersecurity 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 Cybersecurity 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?
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 Cybersecurity approach and the evidence base they provided — reference projects in Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology 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?
Outstanding. The discipline around asynchronous communication was particularly effective given the time zones involved between San Francisco, USA and the delivery team. Written updates were specific and consistent, response times were same-day for anything that required a decision, and nothing fell through the cracks across a six-month engagement.
Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?
The project landed on time. The budget was managed within the agreed ceiling, which included one client-driven scope addition that was quoted fairly and handled without affecting the original delivery stream. The discipline around budget transparency throughout meant there was no surprise at invoice stage.
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 Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology network — in both cases to peers facing Cybersecurity 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 $25 - $49
Client Rating 4.3/5 (7 reviews)

Rating Breakdown

Quality
4.1
Schedule
4.5
Cost
4.4
Communication
4.3

FAQs

Has ninetyblack actually shipped a SaaS product before?
It's a common line of work for a company like ninetyblack — multi-tenant architecture, subscription billing hooked up properly, and cloud-native deployment built for a product meant to scale as a service rather than a one-off build. For context, its listed capabilities span Crypto Exchange Development, Web Development and Mobile App Development, and it reports a team size of 10 - 49 professionals.
What kinds of industries has ninetyblack actually built for?
ninetyblack has delivered projects across a range of different industries, including Mining & Metals, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology, Healthcare, Energy & Utilities and Construction.
Does ninetyblack only work locally, or take on clients elsewhere too?
ninetyblack isn't necessarily limited to one region and may take on clients across several countries, depending on market demand and business partnerships.
Is ninetyblack more of an offshore setup or a local team?
That depends on where ninetyblack 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 Mining & Metals, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology, Healthcare, Energy & Utilities and Construction, and its typical hourly rate is around $25 - $49.
Can I just hire developers from ninetyblack to sit alongside my own team?
Usually, yes — a dedicated developer arrangement is a common option with firms like ninetyblack, where you get engineers working exclusively on your project as an extension of your in-house team rather than as a separate outsourced unit. For context, its listed capabilities span Crypto Exchange Development, Web Development and Mobile App Development, and its typical hourly rate is around $25 - $49.
What should I expect to pay to work with ninetyblack?
What ninetyblack 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, ninetyblack's typical hourly rate is around $25 - $49, with an average project cost of $5000000+.
What's actually in ninetyblack's technical toolkit?
The exact stack shifts by project, but ninetyblack 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, its listed capabilities span Crypto Exchange Development, Web Development and Mobile App Development, and it reports a team size of 10 - 49 professionals.
What should I actually be looking at when comparing a company like ninetyblack to others?
When you're weighing up a software partner such as ninetyblack, 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, its listed capabilities span Crypto Exchange Development, Web Development and Mobile App Development, and it reports a team size of 10 - 49 professionals.
Would ninetyblack be a good fit for an early-stage startup?
Generally, yes — companies like ninetyblack 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, its listed capabilities span Crypto Exchange Development, Web Development and Mobile App Development, and its typical hourly rate is around $25 - $49.
What's the easiest way to actually get in touch with ninetyblack?
Most businesses reach ninetyblack 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, its listed capabilities span Crypto Exchange Development, Web Development and Mobile App Development, and its typical hourly rate is around $25 - $49.