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| Founded: | 2010 |
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| Hourly Rates: | $50 - $99 |
| Employees: | 50 - 249 |
| Avg. Project Cost: | $5,000,000+ |
| Ratings: |
4.2
6 Reviews
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Dufrain Reviews
Technically sharp, commercially sensible, and genuinely easy to work with throughout
Rodrigo Cardoso / VP of Technology | May 22, 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
Our client portal hadn't been touched since it launched years earlier, and clients had started comparing it unfavorably to competitors' portals in live pitches.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 4.5 Quality |
| 4.5 Schedule |
| 4.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Embedded Systems Development |
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| Project Cost: | $10,000 to $49,999 |
| Project Duration: | Sep 2025 - Mar 2026 |
| Business Type: | Legal Services |
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| Location: | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Questions & Answers
Editorial team adopted this without escalating a single support ticket
Soo-Ah Yoon / Director of Platform | May 10, 2026We had proposals in hand ranging from roughly half to well over double what we eventually paid this team. What set their proposal apart wasn't the price — it was that the number matched what they actually delivered, almost line for line. I've been burned before by proposals that were really just opening offers in a negotiation that continues throughout the project. That wasn't the case here, and I don't say that lightly.
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.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 4.0 Quality |
| 3.5 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | CMS Development |
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| Project Cost: | Less than $10,000 |
| Project Duration: | Nov 2025 - Feb 2026 |
| Business Type: | Nonprofit & NGO |
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| Location: | Daegu, South Korea |
Questions & Answers
Makes you wonder why we tolerated the previous site's load times for as long as we did
Kenji Watanabe / Director of IT Strategy | Apr 30, 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
Cross-agency data sharing had been stuck for years because of incompatible systems. A secure integration layer was the prerequisite for nearly everything else on our roadmap.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 5.0 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Web Development |
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| Project Cost: | $500,000+ |
| Project Duration: | Aug 2025 - Mar 2026 |
| Business Type: | Government & Public Sector |
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| Location: | Yokohama, Japan |
Questions & Answers
Multi-region uptime has held above 99.9 percent since the day we went live
Margaux Lefèvre / Head of Digital Products | Apr 25, 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
Multi-touch attribution across our media mix was the single most requested capability from clients across our whole portfolio, and we couldn't deliver it without rebuilding the data layer underneath.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 4.0 Quality |
| 4.5 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Cloud Services |
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| Project Cost: | $150,000 to $499,999 |
| Project Duration: | May 2025 - Feb 2026 |
| Business Type: | Advertising & Marketing |
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| Location: | Nice, France |
Questions & Answers
The return on this investment outpaced the business case we originally approved
Reem Al-Ghamdi / VP of Engineering | Apr 24, 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
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 |
| 4.0 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Low-Code / No-Code Development |
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| Project Cost: | $150,000 to $499,999 |
| Project Duration: | Jun 2025 - Feb 2026 |
| Business Type: | Nonprofit & NGO |
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| Location: | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
Questions & Answers
Execution matched the proposal on every dimension that actually mattered to us
Bianca Alvarado / Chief Product Officer | Jan 10, 2026The easiest thing to praise is the technical output itself — solid test coverage, a deployment pipeline that just works, documentation that people actually reference instead of ignoring. But what I keep coming back to is the number of conversations we haven't had to have since launch. No 2am incident calls. No emergency patches. No post-mortems about what went sideways. That absence is really the whole pitch, if you ask me.
Project summary
Expanding internationally meant we suddenly needed multi-currency, multi-language, and multi-warehouse support that our existing platform simply wasn't architected for.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 3.5 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Embedded Systems Development |
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| Project Cost: | Less than $10,000 |
| Project Duration: | Feb 2025 - Nov 2025 |
| Business Type: | Retail & E-commerce |
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| Location: | San Diego, USA |
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