Do you have an idea for a product but you do not know where to start from? Have your company created one or more products and failed to make a hit? Have you been losing money trying to create the next MVP tech app, product or idea?
Altar.io is here for you.
Altar.io has helped many startups, as well as established corporations realize their product needs. It has helped companies move from ideas to top-notch products. Here are 10 things that you can learn about the company.
1. Altar.io is more than just a software house. It helps clients rapidly create digital products with lasting impact. It brings a truly agile approach to product innovation and software development with a proven methodology delivered by experienced startup founders and a talented team of top developers, UX designers and project managers.
Altar.io is composed of an extended team working together to turn client visions into reality. The company goes beyond providing a standard IT service. It acts as a partner that challenges clients' product decisions to help them achieve greater results. This passion to deliver excellent results for clients is matched by Altar.io's utmost professionalism and dedication in a way that clients would like to strengthen collaborations in the future.
2. Co-founders Andre, Daniel, Joao, and Paolo began Altar.io in September 2015. Despite coming from very different backgrounds and having very different experiences, they all had one thing in common: founders themselves, they each knew very well the pains founders go through and strategy needed to build and scale a digital product. The name, Altar is a symbol of that required elevation and that is the spirit they bring to all of their projects.
3. Altar.io's experienced team builds applications with fast and timely delivery. This is made possible by a structured process and Seed program, a purpose-agnostic app that focuses on a group of basic components (common in the vast majority of applications) which, when combined, will be used as the foundation of a project. In this way, projects automatically enjoy 50% code completion even in the first phase.
The team will then focus on developing the CORE, composed of custom functionalities and all interfaces. This list of necessary functionalities includes email services, signup with email/social networks, recovery of passwords, stakeholder roles, email validation fluxes, and payments flux.
4. Before moving to design and tech implementation, Altar.io has various sessions with founders or managers to ensure their team completely understands the business, product and tech requirements. This is critical to their success as it avoids miscommunication and execution issues at a later stage. Through this process, Altar.io can effectively deliver the product the client wants.
Towards the end of this phase, the client will receive a complete list of user stories, the BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation), information architecture, architecture memorandum and UX of key screens. When the client approves, only then will the team move on with the design and development phases.
5. 10kStartup is a program inside Altar.io where very simple ideas are turned into working products (UXUI + development) in one month for a 10k EUR budget.
It's programmed for giving back to the startup community from which they came. And by keeping at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, Altar.io believes all of its clients will see great benefits.
Obviously, this can't be applied to all ideas out there. The emphasis is to challenge founders to be lean, agile and fast while spending the smallest budget to validate an idea, moving all the "nice-to-have" features to later versions of the product.
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6. Working with both established corporates and early startups, Altar.io extrapolates the advantages that both can offer.
For enterprises, Altar.io's focused entrepreneurial approach to product development means it can help test and release new product ideas quickly and in a way that can be scaled once proven. Its experience working with startups means it's always in tune with the latest digital trends and technologies, bringing out-of-the-box thinking to help enterprises achieve their vision in the most efficient and effective way.
For startups, Altar.io has an excellent track record of helping new businesses rapidly develop product ideas into an "MVP". Not only do startups get to go to market quickly within the budget, they also benefit from Altar.io's experience working with larger enterprises with insight into consumer and technology trends, creation of scalable solutions, and quality assurance standards required for institutions like banks and large retailers.
7. Altar.io's work and satisfaction of its clients speaks for itself.
Apiax
Apiax is a Swiss startup that operates in the Regulation Technology market and serves major Banks an API to seamlessly adapt to always-changing financial regulations.
Altar.io helped Apiax shape its MVP, an AI system that embeds knowledge of financial lawyers through an easy-to-use interface, building a decision tree connected to its core module that, with machine learning help, is translated into an API directly serving front-office roles inside the bank.
In 12 months, Apiax went from idea to product deployment, secured a seed round of $1.5 million, closed a strategic partnership with EY, PwC, Temenos and they're currently raising their Series A to take them global. They also won the Swiss Fintech Awards 2019 for Early Stage Startup of the Year.
AlixPartners
"Altar.io has some of the most interesting and future-ready FinTech initiatives with a clear focus to provide solutions that are relevant, critical and pragmatic in nature. With a number of "use cases" designed and implemented across most financial services functions, they are certainly a "one to watch" with interesting synapses to support the transformation of this most global (but also fairly traditional) industry."
Claudio Scardovi, Global Co-Head of FIG. AlixPartners
8. Altar.io is a prominent actor in the open-source scene. After bringing to life the LoopBack SDK Builder (that will explore your LoopBack Application and automatically build everything you need to start writing your Angular Applications - from Interfaces and Models to API Services and Real-time communications), they got invited by IBM to be an external advisor on the new release of the Loopback Technology. They're also the company behind Angulartics, an analytics library with more than 80,000 downloads per month.
9. Fun fact! Clients have an option to go on a "co-founders retreat" in the product kickoff phase. It's an intense week with the founders in Lisbon at Altar.io premises, where structural decisions are made. It's a great chance to meet and engage with the team in person. You will also have some off-time together since you'll be in Lisbon, a land of explorers, surf, great food, sunny weather, and Web Summits.
10. Although Altar.io is based in London, Lisbon, and Milan, it works with projects on a Global Scale with a majority of these in Western Europe and the United States.
If you have an idea that needs to come to fruition, reach out to Altar.io and reap the benefits.
