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| Founded: | 2003 |
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| Hourly Rates: | N/A |
| Employees: | N/A |
| Avg. Project Cost: | $10,000+ |
| Ratings: |
4.4
6 Reviews
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About
Activate Design is a creative graphic design & development company. The company believes in picking up the doors from the crowd, that is enthusiastic to work in team and shoulders teams responsibility. They remain a small, graceful group of professionals who listen to their clients and keep their costs well below their opponents. It is one of the best mobile app development company.
Activate Design Reviews
The rebuilt site went from something we apologized for to something our sales team leads with
Julian Ashworth / Head of Digital Strategy | Jun 07, 2026Going in, the integration work was what worried me most. Our systems landscape is messy, a couple of the third-party APIs we depend on are barely documented, and one of those vendors has a well-earned reputation for slow, inconsistent support. This team absorbed all of that. They documented what the upstream providers wouldn't, built in resilience wherever the upstream behavior was flaky, and shipped something that has worked exactly as specified since go-live. I genuinely couldn't have asked for more on that front.
Project summary
Our internal engineering capacity was fully committed to keeping existing systems running, with no room for a build of this size. An outside partner with the right depth was really our only option.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 5.0 Quality |
| 4.5 Schedule |
| 4.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Web Development |
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| Project Cost: | $500,000+ |
| Project Duration: | Nov 2025 - May 2026 |
| Business Type: | Sports & Fitness |
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| Location: | London, UK |
Questions & Answers
Started as a single project and earned a permanent spot on our preferred vendor list
Ritika Bhattacharya / VP of Product | May 19, 2026This was our fourth agency in three years, and I say that with some embarrassment. Every previous engagement had looked promising on paper and fallen apart somewhere in delivery. What was different here was the sequencing: they spent real time understanding the actual problem before proposing anything, rather than pattern-matching to a solution they already knew how to sell. The build ran to schedule, our own engineers had genuinely positive things to say during handover, and four months into live operation we haven't had a single critical incident. We're already talking about the next phase with them.
Project summary
A previous project had worked fine in staging and fallen apart in production. We approached vendor selection this time with a lot more scrutiny as a direct result.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 4.5 Quality |
| 4.5 Schedule |
| 4.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Low-Code / No-Code Development |
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| Project Cost: | $10,000 to $49,999 |
| Project Duration: | May 2025 - Feb 2026 |
| Business Type: | Agriculture |
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| Location: | Ahmedabad, India |
Questions & Answers
Polish level on the app has generated unprompted compliments from our own customers
Margaux Lefèvre / Head of Digital Products | Mar 28, 2026Our stakeholder list for this project included board members, operations leads, compliance, and end users, all with wildly different levels of technical fluency and different definitions of success. Managing that mix well is genuinely hard, and this team did it better than any vendor we've worked with. They shifted register depending on who they were talking to without ever dumbing down the substance, kept expectations honest the whole way through, and delivered something each group could point to as meeting their own bar. That range is rare.
Project summary
Our internal engineering capacity was fully committed to keeping existing systems running, with no room for a build of this size. An outside partner with the right depth was really our only option.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 4.0 Quality |
| 5.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Mobile App Development |
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| Project Cost: | $10,000 to $49,999 |
| Project Duration: | Mar 2025 - Jan 2026 |
| Business Type: | Mining & Metals |
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| Location: | Nice, France |
Questions & Answers
Our distributed team has effectively adopted the virtual space as its default meeting room
Nicolas Fontaine / Directeur Technique | Mar 23, 2026We handed this team an aggressive deadline, a genuinely complicated scope, and a client-side team on our end that was stretched thin and slow to respond at times. They handled all of it without complaint. When they needed something from us they asked precisely and on time. When they didn't, they just kept moving. The project still landed on schedule despite our side being the weaker link for a good chunk of it, which tells you something about how they operate under pressure.
Project summary
This project had a board-facing deadline tied to a wider strategic push. We needed a partner who'd treat that date like it was their own problem, not just ours.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 5.0 Quality |
| 5.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | AR/VR Development |
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| Project Cost: | $500,000+ |
| Project Duration: | Jun 2025 - Dec 2025 |
| Business Type: | Aerospace & Defense |
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| Location: | Lyon, France |
Questions & Answers
Solved a trust problem between our partners that we'd been arguing about for three years
Sameer Kapoor / Chief Data Officer | Mar 01, 2026What actually moved the needle wasn't their ability to follow a spec — any competent team can do that. It was their willingness to push back when a requirement didn't make sense, explain clearly why, and help us decide on something better instead. That extra layer of judgment took the final product past what we'd actually asked for and closer to what we genuinely needed, which isn't always the same thing.
Project summary
Unplanned downtime had become our biggest single cost line, and our own data suggested predictive maintenance could fix most of it — if we had the infrastructure to act on the signal.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 4.5 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Blockchain Development |
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| Project Cost: | $500,000+ |
| Project Duration: | Apr 2025 - Dec 2025 |
| Business Type: | Manufacturing |
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| Location: | Gurugram, India |
Questions & Answers
Finally translated our infrastructure needs into terms our CFO could actually approve
Aoibhinn Molloy / Director of Product | Jan 20, 2026I went into this engagement genuinely skeptical. A previous vendor had left us with a system that technically worked but that nobody trusted, and I wasn't interested in repeating that experience. This team earned trust the slow way — solid discovery documentation, technical proposals that held up under scrutiny, sprints that landed when promised, and ultimately a production system that has simply behaved. I don't open conversations about them with caveats anymore.
Project summary
New open banking rules meant our API layer needed rebuilding from scratch, with compliance designed in from the start rather than patched on afterward.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 4.5 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | IT Consulting |
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| Project Cost: | $50,000 to $149,999 |
| Project Duration: | Mar 2025 - Dec 2025 |
| Business Type: | Financial Services |
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| Location: | Galway, Ireland |
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