endorsedOngoing

IT Staff Augmentation for Digital Legal Platform

Services Covered:

Staff Augmentation • Website Development • UI/UX Design

Industry

Legal

Duration

84 months

Budget

Confidential

Start Date

1 August 2019

Team Size

1-5 Employees

Engagement Model

Onshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

70/100

Good

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Client

Confidential

Switzerland

Project Summary

SapientPro acted as an extension of the client’s team to develop an MVP legal web platform using React, MongoDB and Node.js, with an emphasis on UX/UI optimization. The engagement is a staff augmentation arrangement that began in August 2019 and remains ongoing, and the client highlights SapientPro's cost-effectiveness and flexible, responsive delivery.

Key Challenges

Needed a flexible development team to provide resources on demand
Deliver an MVP with a minimal set of functionalities
Optimize UX/UI to simplify complex legal services
Implement forms, profiles, workflows and a dashboard
Integrate third-party APIs for live chat and payments

Project Deliverables

Legal web platform (MVP)
Forms and user profiles
Workflows and dashboard
Third-party integrations (live chat, payment)
Mobile app (published to app store)

Project Solution

SapientPro provided a flexible staff augmentation team—developers and managers—that built the client's MVP legal web platform using React, MongoDB and Node.js. The vendor implemented core features such as forms, user profiles, workflows and a dashboard, integrated third-party APIs for live chat and payment, and coordinated work via Slack and JIRA while supplementing the team as scheduling needs arose.

Project Outcome

Platform delivered and published online and on the app store
Platform is functioning smoothly and steadily gaining users
Cost savings compared to an in-house Swiss team (client estimated ~$400,000 vs ~$20,000/year)
Deadlines typically met and the vendor supplemented resources as needed

Platforms

Tech Stack

React.js
MongoDB
Node.js

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“Seeking creative solutions, the SapientPro team continues to consistently deliver. They’ve proven to be a cost-effective partner that delivers great work at a small fraction of the local price. They’re accommodating and flexible of specification changes, and have a great attitude all around.”
Anonymous
Managing Director
Date: 09/26/2019