About The Creative Momentum

The Creative Momentum is a full-service creative agency specializing in custom web design, web development, UI/UX, and software development. Their clients range from entrepreneurs to Fortune 100 companies in a wide range of industries. Their team has over 15+ years of experience in their areas of expertise. The Creative Momentum has been recognized as a thought leader in the industry with numerous awards.

Last updated May 13, 2026

Services

Mobile App Development Web Development VR App Development AR App Development Custom Software Development Enterprise App Modernization Crypto Exchange Development Smart Contracts Audits

Industries Served

Financial Services Healthcare Agriculture Media & Entertainment Energy & Utilities Advertising & Marketing Government & Public Sector

The Creative Momentum Reviews

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

Siobhan Gallagher / Chief Technology Officer - Northumbria FinTech Ltd
Verified
Feb 16, 2026

Project summary: Multi-touch attribution across our media mix had become the most-requested capability from every client in our portfolio. We could not deliver it without rebuilding our data layer.

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

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

5.0
Overall
5.0
Quality
5.0
Schedule
5.0
Cost
5.0
Communication
Project TypeE-commerce Development
IndustryAdvertising & Marketing
Project Cost$150,000 to $499,999
DurationJul 2025 – Jan 2026

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
As Chief Technology Officer at Northumbria FinTech Ltd I oversee technology investment and delivery across our Advertising & Marketing operations in Edinburgh, UK. 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?
The immediate problem was that our E-commerce 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?
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?
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 E-commerce Development approach and the evidence base they provided — reference projects in Advertising & Marketing 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?
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 Edinburgh, UK 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 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. 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 E-commerce Development programme in the Advertising & Marketing space and will deliver against a serious brief, this is the team.

Headless commerce architecture that gave our content and marketing teams genuine independence

Priya Chandrasekaran / VP of Data & AI - Wavefront Analytics Inc
Verified
Jan 27, 2026

Project summary: Cross-agency data sharing had been blocked by incompatible systems for four years. A secure integration platform was the prerequisite for every transformation initiative in our roadmap.

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

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

4.5
Overall
5.0
Quality
5.0
Schedule
4.5
Cost
4.5
Communication
Project TypeE-commerce Development
IndustryGovernment & Public Sector
Project Cost$50,000 to $149,999
DurationFeb 2025 – Dec 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
As VP of Data & AI at Wavefront Analytics Inc I oversee technology investment and delivery across our Government & Public Sector operations in Seattle, USA. 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?
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?
The scope covered the full E-commerce Development 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?
A trusted peer in the Government & Public Sector sector had used them for a comparable E-commerce Development engagement and their recommendation was unequivocal. Our own due diligence confirmed the pattern they described. The combination of domain knowledge, E-commerce Development depth, and demonstrated delivery discipline was the deciding factor.
How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?
Extremely well, in part because they had relevant Government & Public Sector 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 Seattle, 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?
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?
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, without reservation. I have already made two direct referrals within my Government & Public Sector 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.

Implementation delivered with the discipline, documentation, and change management it required

Kelsey Drummond / Director of Digital Health - Crestline Health Partners
Verified
Jan 08, 2026

Project summary: Our trading platform had been extended incrementally for seven years. Latency was degrading, technical debt was compounding, and a clean rebuild was no longer optional.

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

5.0
Overall
5.0
Quality
5.0
Schedule
5.0
Cost
5.0
Communication
Project TypeERP Development
IndustryFinancial Services
Project Cost$50,000 to $149,999
DurationJul 2025 – Dec 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
As Director of Digital Health at Crestline Health Partners I oversee technology investment and delivery across our Financial Services operations in Houston, USA. 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?
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 ERP 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?
Extremely well, in part because they had relevant Financial Services 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?
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?
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?
Quantifying the impact precisely is complicated by other variables in our business, but the metrics we can attribute directly to the ERP 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 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 ERP Development programme in the Financial Services space and will deliver against a serious brief, this is the team.

Company Info

Founded 2012
Employees 10 - 49
Hourly Rate $150 - $199
Client Rating 4.8/5 (8 reviews)

Rating Breakdown

Quality
4.9
Schedule
4.8
Cost
4.9
Communication
4.7

FAQs

Is The Creative Momentum more of an offshore setup or a local team?
That depends on where The Creative Momentum 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 Smart Contracts Audits, Crypto Exchange Development, Enterprise App Modernization, Custom Software Development and VR App Development, and it has been operating since 2012.
Does The Creative Momentum actually build with AI, or just talk about it?
Plenty of modern software teams, The Creative Momentum 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 Smart Contracts Audits, Crypto Exchange Development, Enterprise App Modernization, Custom Software Development and VR App Development, and it has experience across industries such as Media & Entertainment, Advertising & Marketing, Healthcare, Financial Services, Agriculture and Energy & Utilities.
Has The Creative Momentum actually shipped a SaaS product before?
It's a common line of work for a company like The Creative Momentum — 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 experience across industries such as Media & Entertainment, Advertising & Marketing, Healthcare, Financial Services, Agriculture and Energy & Utilities, and its listed capabilities span Smart Contracts Audits, Crypto Exchange Development, Enterprise App Modernization, Custom Software Development and VR App Development.
Can The Creative Momentum take on an old, outdated system rather than starting from scratch?
Modernizing legacy software is usually within scope for a firm like The Creative Momentum — re-platforming, refactoring old code, and moving things onto current frameworks or cloud infrastructure without necessarily rebuilding everything from zero. For context, its listed capabilities span Smart Contracts Audits, Crypto Exchange Development, Enterprise App Modernization, Custom Software Development and VR App Development, and it reports a team size of 10 - 49 professionals.
What kinds of industries has The Creative Momentum actually built for?
The Creative Momentum has delivered projects across a range of different industries, including Media & Entertainment, Advertising & Marketing, Healthcare, Financial Services, Agriculture and Energy & Utilities.
How do I actually get a real proposal out of The Creative Momentum instead of a generic reply?
The most reliable route is giving The Creative Momentum 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 Media & Entertainment, Advertising & Marketing, Healthcare, Financial Services, Agriculture and Energy & Utilities, and its average project cost is reported at $10000+.
What are the actual contract options if I want to work with The Creative Momentum?
Most companies structured like The Creative Momentum 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, its listed capabilities span Smart Contracts Audits, Crypto Exchange Development, Enterprise App Modernization, Custom Software Development and VR App Development, and it has been operating since 2012.
What should I actually be looking at when comparing a company like The Creative Momentum to others?
When you're weighing up a software partner such as The Creative Momentum, 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 Smart Contracts Audits, Crypto Exchange Development, Enterprise App Modernization, Custom Software Development and VR App Development, and its average project cost is reported at $10000+.
What does The Creative Momentum's actual delivery process look like week to week?
The Creative Momentum 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 Smart Contracts Audits, Crypto Exchange Development, Enterprise App Modernization, Custom Software Development and VR App Development, and its typical hourly rate is around $150 - $199.
What kind of software work does The Creative Momentum take on?
The Creative Momentum 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 Smart Contracts Audits, Crypto Exchange Development, Enterprise App Modernization, Custom Software Development and VR App Development.