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4.8/5 (7 reviews)
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TOM uses a deep knowledge of each client and their aims to protect them on their journey to innovate. They always try to understand your different company events and use technology purposefully to meet your requirements. They will listen to and work with you to know your business, clients, users, and industry to uncover compelling findings that form outcomes.

Last updated May 13, 2026

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

Industries Served

Mining & Metals Logistics & Supply Chain Travel & Hospitality Agriculture Energy & Utilities Media & Entertainment Events & Event Management

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Cross-platform delivery that felt native on every device from day one

Victoria Haines / Chief Product Officer - Solaris Media Group
Verified
Jan 27, 2026

Project summary: Our audience data was fragmented across eight tools with no single identity layer. Personalisation had become impossible without first solving the data foundation.

The project brief was ambitious and we had received proposals ranging from two to five times our eventual budget from other vendors. This team came back with a proposal that was commercially realistic and technically credible — and then delivered against it. That alignment between proposal and outcome is not something I take for granted. I have been on the other side of it enough times to know it requires both honesty in the sales process and discipline in delivery. We experienced both.

PROS

Production system that has performed as specified since go-live without remediation work, documentation thorough enough to support internal maintenance, knowledge transfer that left our team genuinely capable

CONS

We underestimated the input required from our subject matter experts during the requirements phase. The team flagged this early but our resource planning did not fully reflect it — our responsibility, not theirs

5.0
Overall
4.5
Quality
5.0
Schedule
5.0
Cost
5.0
Communication
Project TypeMobile App Development
IndustryMedia & Entertainment
Project Cost$500,000+
DurationJul 2025 – Oct 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
Solaris Media Group operates in the Media & Entertainment sector with headquarters in Los Angeles, USA. In my role as Chief Product 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?
Regulatory requirements in our Media & Entertainment segment had changed and the compliance timeline was set by our regulator, not by us. The Mobile App 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?
Primarily Mobile App Development, with adjacent work in solution architecture and quality assurance. They were responsible for the full build from requirements through to go-live, including integration with four existing systems in our technology landscape. The breadth they covered without requiring additional vendors was commercially and logistically valuable.
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?
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?
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?
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 Media & Entertainment sector looking for Mobile App Development expertise combined with genuine delivery discipline, I would put this team at the top of the evaluation list.

A partnership that began with a single project and earned a place on our preferred vendor list

Takashi Morimoto / Director of IT Strategy - Sakura Digital KK
Verified
Jan 13, 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

Senior-level engineering presence throughout the entire project, not just during the pitch, honest and commercially fair handling of scope changes, codebase that our internal team praised on review

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

4.5
Overall
5.0
Quality
5.0
Schedule
5.0
Cost
4.5
Communication
Project TypePOS System Development
IndustryEvents & Event Management
Project Cost$50,000 to $149,999
DurationMar 2025 – Oct 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
Sakura Digital KK is an established Events & Event Management organisation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. My role as Director of IT Strategy 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?
The immediate problem was that our POS System Development capability had become the bottleneck limiting our ability to grow. Every feature request, every new client requirement, every internal initiative was delayed by a platform that had been extended beyond its original design. We needed a rebuild, not a patch.
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?
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?
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. 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?
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 Events & Event Management sector looking for POS System Development expertise combined with genuine delivery discipline, I would put this team at the top of the evaluation list.

Company Info

Founded 2007
Employees 10 - 49
Hourly Rate $150 - $199
Client Rating 4.8/5 (7 reviews)

Rating Breakdown

Quality
4.8
Schedule
5.0
Cost
4.6
Communication
4.6

FAQs

What should I expect to pay to work with The Atom Group?
What The Atom Group 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, The Atom Group's typical hourly rate is around $150 - $199, with an average project cost of $10000+.
Will The Atom Group sign an NDA before we even discuss the project in detail?
Most professional shops, including The Atom Group, 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, it has experience across industries such as Energy & Utilities, Travel & Hospitality, Logistics & Supply Chain, Media & Entertainment, Agriculture and Mining & Metals, and it has been operating since 2007.
What's the easiest way to actually get in touch with The Atom Group?
Most businesses reach The Atom Group 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 Energy & Utilities, Travel & Hospitality, Logistics & Supply Chain, Media & Entertainment, Agriculture and Mining & Metals, and it reports a team size of 10 - 49 professionals.
What kind of software work does The Atom Group take on?
The Atom Group 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 Digital Strategy, Mobile App Development, UI-UX Design, Web Design and Web Development.
Has The Atom Group actually shipped a SaaS product before?
It's a common line of work for a company like The Atom Group — 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, it has served clients in USA, and it has been operating since 2007.
Is The Atom Group more of an offshore setup or a local team?
That depends on where The Atom Group 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 served clients in USA, and it has been operating since 2007.
What does The Atom Group's actual delivery process look like week to week?
The Atom Group 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 USA, and it has been operating since 2007.
Does The Atom Group only work locally, or take on clients elsewhere too?
The Atom Group isn't necessarily limited to one region and may take on clients across several countries, including USA, depending on market demand and business partnerships.
Can I just hire developers from The Atom Group to sit alongside my own team?
Usually, yes — a dedicated developer arrangement is a common option with firms like The Atom Group, 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 Energy & Utilities, Travel & Hospitality, Logistics & Supply Chain, Media & Entertainment, Agriculture and Mining & Metals, and its listed capabilities span Digital Strategy, Mobile App Development, UI-UX Design, Web Design and Web Development.

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