Kickstarting a small startup with design on a budget
Smartbeam is an online platform that helps with the tendering process in the construction business. It’s a tool for general contractors, subcontractors and architects to manage their procurement process in a smart manner.
Smartbeam approached us at the end of 2017. They had parts of their platform designed but were struggling to get a good user experience.
In a lean manner, we designed key parts of the platform to provide a base for further development.
Since Smartbeam is a pre-funding startup, we kept things lean and cost-efficient during the process. We minimized the number of hours worked on the project for maximum results. In practice this meant co-design with the Smartbeam team in Figma, using a framework like Bootstrap from the technical side, and relying on pre-made templates for HTML e-mails. This kept the project’s budget under control while delivering a lot of value for money.
This strategy helped Smartbeam through an early phase; the team went on to raise nearly €1M to continue growing.
Mono understood the pain of our users very well and managed to turn very complicated workflows into a very simple and user friendly application. They were very creative and helped us to build solid foundations for our web application.
