Details
| Founded: | 2013 |
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| Hourly Rates: | $25 - $49 |
| Employees: | 10 - 49 |
| Avg. Project Cost: | $50,000+ |
| Ratings: |
4.1
6 Reviews
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Industries Served
About
DA-14 is a fast-growing mobile app development company that develops custom software for startups & small businesses globally. They develop compelling applications together with you. Their core view is that technology determines project success and they are dedicated to providing the best solution for each customer. They leverage their knowledge, experience, and ideas to develop their processes throughout quality driven development.
DA-14 Reviews
Execution matched the proposal on every dimension that actually mattered to us
Marc-Antoine Girard / VP of Innovation | May 22, 2026Five months post-launch, we're running at roughly double the transaction volume we'd specified in the original scope document, and the platform hasn't needed a single structural change to handle it. That's the real tell for whether a team designed for what you told them versus what you were actually going to need. We're now scoping a second phase and I expect this to be a multi-year relationship at this point.
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.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 4.0 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | POS System Development |
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| Project Cost: | Less than $10,000 |
| Project Duration: | Sep 2025 - Mar 2026 |
| Business Type: | Environmental Services |
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| Location: | Montreal, Canada |
Questions & Answers
The first CMS rollout where editors asked for more of it, not less
Étienne Marchand / CTO | Apr 10, 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
Our product thinking internally was solid, but our execution depth in this particular technical domain wasn't. We needed real specialists, not another generalist team.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 4.5 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | CMS Development |
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| Project Cost: | $150,000 to $499,999 |
| Project Duration: | May 2025 - Feb 2026 |
| Business Type: | Agriculture |
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| Location: | Ottawa, Canada |
Questions & Answers
Decisions that used to run on gut feel now run on a model we can actually explain
Airi Kobayashi / Head of Product Development | Mar 25, 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
Our funnel data made it obvious exactly where we were losing customers, and it wasn't subtle. We needed a platform capable of the experience our competitors were already delivering.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 3.5 Quality |
| 3.5 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | AI & Machine Learning |
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| Project Cost: | Less than $10,000 |
| Project Duration: | Sep 2025 - Jan 2026 |
| Business Type: | Retail & E-commerce |
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| Location: | Nagoya, Japan |
Questions & Answers
Headless setup finally let content and engineering ship independently of each other
Hamish Bellamy / GM of Technology | Feb 10, 2026Looking back, the thing that stands out most is how uneventful the whole project was. Technology projects of this size tend to generate their share of fire drills and awkward escalation calls. This one really didn't. Issues got flagged early enough that they never became incidents, scope changes went through an actual process instead of a tense phone call, and risks were tracked rather than just hoped away. That kind of quiet competence is unusual in my experience, and it made the whole thing feel easier on our end than I know it was on theirs.
Project summary
Our lean manufacturing push needed real-time OEE data at the line level, and our existing systems could only produce it through hours of manual spreadsheet work each week.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 4.0 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | E-commerce Development |
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| Project Cost: | $150,000 to $499,999 |
| Project Duration: | May 2025 - Jan 2026 |
| Business Type: | Manufacturing |
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| Location: | Melbourne, Australia |
Questions & Answers
Every conversion metric on the platform moved in the right direction after this redesign
Mahnoor Sheikh / Head of Technology | Feb 05, 2026Five months post-launch, we're running at roughly double the transaction volume we'd specified in the original scope document, and the platform hasn't needed a single structural change to handle it. That's the real tell for whether a team designed for what you told them versus what you were actually going to need. We're now scoping a second phase and I expect this to be a multi-year relationship at this point.
Project summary
First notice of loss was taking us three days on average against a market benchmark of under four hours. Automating that intake and triage step became the clear priority.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 3.5 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | UI/UX Design |
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| Project Cost: | $500,000+ |
| Project Duration: | Jun 2025 - Jan 2026 |
| Business Type: | Insurance |
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| Location: | Faisalabad, Pakistan |
Questions & Answers
Took us from on-prem to cloud-native on a timeline two other vendors called unrealistic
Griffin Ashcombe / Managing Director, Tech | Jan 22, 2026Looking back, the thing that stands out most is how uneventful the whole project was. Technology projects of this size tend to generate their share of fire drills and awkward escalation calls. This one really didn't. Issues got flagged early enough that they never became incidents, scope changes went through an actual process instead of a tense phone call, and risks were tracked rather than just hoped away. That kind of quiet competence is unusual in my experience, and it made the whole thing feel easier on our end than I know it was on theirs.
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.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 4.0 Quality |
| 3.5 Schedule |
| 4.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Cloud Services |
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| Project Cost: | $150,000 to $499,999 |
| Project Duration: | Apr 2025 - Nov 2025 |
| Business Type: | Events & Event Management |
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| Location: | San Francisco, USA |
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