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4.2/5 (7 reviews)
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Realnets, established in 1998 is a Chicago based company that focuses on sustained support and long-term relationships. They pride themselves on always being there when you need a helping hand and knowing our craft better than anyone else. They integrate with your teams to know your industry needs and then develop the roadmap for your custom software solution.

Last updated May 13, 2026

Services

Mobile App Development Web Development VR App Development AR App Development Custom Software Development Enterprise App Modernization Chat Bots & AI Development Supply Chain Blockchain Ethereum Blockchain

Industries Served

Retail & E-commerce Government & Public Sector Construction Food & Beverage Telecommunications Advertising & Marketing

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Smart contract implementation rigorous enough to satisfy both our legal and security teams

Shreya Krishnaswamy / VP of Product - Luminar Tech Pvt Ltd
Verified
Feb 17, 2026

Project summary: Our campaign management workflow had grown to involve twelve different tools and significant manual reconciliation. The inefficiency was affecting both speed and accuracy.

Six months after go-live our platform is processing three times the transaction volume we specified in the original brief. The architecture choices made during discovery accommodated that growth without remediation work. That is the difference between a team that designs for what you tell them and a team that designs for what you are likely to need. We are in conversation about a Phase 2 engagement and I expect to be using this partnership for several years.

PROS

Architectural decisions designed for longevity rather than just the current brief, thorough automated test coverage, post-launch stability that validated every technical choice made during discovery

CONS

The engagement was priced at the quality level rather than the budget level. We evaluated the alternatives and concluded that the delta was a reasonable premium for the reduction in delivery risk

4.0
Overall
4.5
Quality
4.0
Schedule
4.0
Cost
4.0
Communication
Project TypeBlockchain Development
IndustryAdvertising & Marketing
Project Cost$150,000 to $499,999
DurationJun 2025 – Jan 2026

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
As VP of Product at Luminar Tech Pvt Ltd I oversee technology investment and delivery across our Advertising & Marketing operations in Hyderabad, India. 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 Blockchain Development 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 Blockchain 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?
Extremely well, in part because they had relevant Advertising & Marketing experience that reduced the context-setting overhead significantly. They understood the domain vocabulary, asked the right questions, and translated business requirements into technical specifications with a fidelity that meant the development phase had very few clarification cycles.
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 Hyderabad, India 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?
Yes. I had privately built a contingency expectation into my planning given the project complexity and the number of integrations involved. None of that contingency was needed. The delivery landed on the agreed date and the final invoice matched the approved budget to within a fraction of a percent. That outcome is rarer than the industry acknowledges.
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 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?
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 Blockchain Development programme in the Advertising & Marketing space and will deliver against a serious brief, this is the team.

Managed IT that made our internal teams forget infrastructure was something they once worried about

Priya Chandrasekaran / VP of Data & AI - Wavefront Analytics Inc
Verified
Feb 14, 2026

Project summary: Time-to-market for new tariff structures had become a direct competitive disadvantage. Our product configuration layer was the bottleneck and it needed to be modernised as a priority.

Our stakeholder group included board members, clinical leads, compliance officers, and end users — each with different technical literacy and different success criteria. This team navigated that stakeholder landscape as well as any vendor I have seen. They adjusted their communication register depending on the audience without losing the substance. They managed expectations honestly throughout. And they delivered a system that each group can point to as meeting their requirements. That breadth is genuinely uncommon.

PROS

Commercially transparent throughout — no hidden assumptions, no bill shock at the end, change requests that were fair and clearly explained rather than used as a margin-recovery mechanism

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
4.5
Schedule
4.5
Cost
4.5
Communication
Project TypeIT Managed Services
IndustryTelecommunications
Project Cost$10,000 to $49,999
DurationMar 2025 – Nov 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
I lead technology at Wavefront Analytics Inc, a growth-stage Telecommunications business based in Seattle, USA. As VP of Data & AI 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?
Our platform had been maintained by a previous vendor for three years and the accumulated technical debt had reached a point where delivery velocity had dropped to a fraction of what it should have been. We needed fresh engineering expertise and a structured plan to address the underlying issues.
What services did the company provide for your project?
End-to-end IT Managed Services 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?
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 IT Managed Services approach and the evidence base they provided — reference projects in Telecommunications 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?
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?
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 most direct measure is the performance of the system in production. In the five months since go-live we have had zero P1 incidents, our page performance scores have improved across every Core Web Vitals metric, and two enterprise clients who had cited our previous platform limitations during contract negotiations have since renewed without that objection arising.
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 Telecommunications sector looking for IT Managed Services expertise combined with genuine delivery discipline, I would put this team at the top of the evaluation list.

Company Info

Founded 1998
Employees 10 - 49
Hourly Rate $100 - $149
Client Rating 4.2/5 (7 reviews)

Rating Breakdown

Quality
4.2
Schedule
4.3
Cost
4.1
Communication
4.0

FAQs

Will Realnets sign an NDA before we even discuss the project in detail?
Most professional shops, including Realnets, 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 Enterprise App Modernization, Chat Bots & AI Development, Ethereum Blockchain, Custom Software Development and VR App Development, and it has experience across industries such as Government & Public Sector, Construction, Telecommunications, Retail & E-commerce, Food & Beverage and Advertising & Marketing.
What are the actual contract options if I want to work with Realnets?
Most companies structured like Realnets 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 experience across industries such as Government & Public Sector, Construction, Telecommunications, Retail & E-commerce, Food & Beverage and Advertising & Marketing, and its listed capabilities span Enterprise App Modernization, Chat Bots & AI Development, Ethereum Blockchain, Custom Software Development and VR App Development.
Is Realnets more of an offshore setup or a local team?
That depends on where Realnets 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, its listed capabilities span Enterprise App Modernization, Chat Bots & AI Development, Ethereum Blockchain, Custom Software Development and VR App Development, and it has experience across industries such as Government & Public Sector, Construction, Telecommunications, Retail & E-commerce, Food & Beverage and Advertising & Marketing.
How do I actually get a real proposal out of Realnets instead of a generic reply?
The most reliable route is giving Realnets 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 Government & Public Sector, Construction, Telecommunications, Retail & E-commerce, Food & Beverage and Advertising & Marketing, and it has been operating since 1998.
What does Realnets's actual delivery process look like week to week?
Realnets 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, its listed capabilities span Enterprise App Modernization, Chat Bots & AI Development, Ethereum Blockchain, Custom Software Development and VR App Development, and it has experience across industries such as Government & Public Sector, Construction, Telecommunications, Retail & E-commerce, Food & Beverage and Advertising & Marketing.
What kind of software work does Realnets take on?
Realnets 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 Enterprise App Modernization, Chat Bots & AI Development, Ethereum Blockchain, Custom Software Development and VR App Development.
Does Realnets actually build with AI, or just talk about it?
Plenty of modern software teams, Realnets included, now build real AI and machine learning features — chatbots, predictive models, computer vision, and automation that goes beyond simple rule-based scripts. For context, its listed capabilities span Enterprise App Modernization, Chat Bots & AI Development, Ethereum Blockchain, Custom Software Development and VR App Development, and it reports a team size of 10 - 49 professionals.
What makes Realnets worth considering over other options?
What tends to set Realnets 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 1998, the company has built a track record of delivering projects across various industries.
Can I just hire developers from Realnets to sit alongside my own team?
Usually, yes — a dedicated developer arrangement is a common option with firms like Realnets, 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, it has experience across industries such as Government & Public Sector, Construction, Telecommunications, Retail & E-commerce, Food & Beverage and Advertising & Marketing, and it has been operating since 1998.
What kinds of industries has Realnets actually built for?
Realnets has delivered projects across a range of different industries, including Government & Public Sector, Construction, Telecommunications, Retail & E-commerce, Food & Beverage and Advertising & Marketing.

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