«We expected to get an order form. Instead the analyst came back and said a form would not solve the problem, and explained why. We argued for a week, then agreed. If they had built what we asked for, we would have been rebuilding it six months later.»Read the case study
Progress is a development studio. Since 2018 we have built websites, web applications, mobile apps and bots. Our oldest running project is 5 years old and still evolving without a ground-up rebuild.
- years in business
- 8
- projects delivered
- 84
- people on staff
- 11
- clients
- 52
since 2018
18 still under maintenance
no subcontracting
21 came back for a second project
StroyMarketSupply chain
DoverieHealthcare
AlfaLeasingFinance
VysotaReal estate
PolusRetail
ExpressLineLogistics
BreviE-commerce
Severny BankFinance
TechmashManufacturing
LamixManufacturing
AtletSport
PryanostRestaurants
Orbita-AgroAgriculture
Vector-TTelecom
01 — Services
What we do
- 01Websites & landing pagesCorporate sites, catalogues and campaign pages built to collect enquiries rather than just exist.
- 02Web applications & SaaSCustomer portals, internal systems, marketplaces — anything where the user has a login.
- 03Mobile applicationsiOS and Android. We ship to the App Store and Google Play and stay on after release.
- 04ChatbotsTelegram and WhatsApp: order taking, first-line support, internal tools for staff.
- 05Design & UXInterface architecture, design systems, and audits of things that work but work badly.
- 06Maintenance & developmentWe take on our own projects and other people's code. We work out what is there and put it in order.
02 — Work
Selected projects
03 — How we work
6 rules we don't bend
01
We argue at the estimate, not mid-project
If we think you are asking for something that will not solve your problem, we say so before the contract is signed. Four of the projects in our portfolio changed direction at exactly that point. Agreeing to everything and then rebuilding at the client's expense is not how we work.
02
Our own team, no subcontracting
11 people on staff. We do not take projects we cannot deliver ourselves, and we do not resell the work to freelancers. If something falls outside what we do, we say so and recommend colleagues.
03
We build on an open stack
Next.js, PostgreSQL, Go — everything we work with is open and widely used. We have no proprietary CMS or framework that would leave you unable to hire anyone else. Changing contractor is a hiring question, not a matter of buying a technology back from us.
04
Fixed estimates, stage by stage
The estimate is broken down by stage and we do not exceed it unless the requirements changed. When you add something new, we price it separately and show you before the work starts, not on the invoice afterwards.
05
Documentation written as we go
Not in the last week before handover. The data schema, API documentation and deployment instructions exist from the moment the first code does. Because of that, handing a project to your team takes days rather than months.
06
Success is a project that never needed rewriting
Our oldest running project is 5 years old and still being developed without a ground-up rebuild. That is the horizon we design against, not the delivery date.
04 — Process
How a project runs
- 011–2 days
Enquiry and first call
We reply within one business day. The first call runs 40–60 minutes: what the problem is, what you have already tried, what the constraints on time and budget are.
- 021–3 weeks
Discovery and specification
The analyst meets the people who will actually use the product, not only the person who signs off on it. We map the current process, document scenarios and draw the data schema.
- 032–6 weeks
Architecture and design
Black-and-white wireframes first, because changes are cheapest there. Once the structure is agreed, visual design and a design system covering loading, error and empty states.
- 044–20 weeks
Development
Two-week sprints. Each ends with a demo call and an updated staging environment you have access to.
- 051–3 weeks
Testing and acceptance
We test complete scenarios rather than individual features. On larger projects that includes load testing and migrating real data into staging.
- 06ongoing
Launch and maintenance
We deploy to production and set up monitoring, backups and error tracking. Everything found in the first month after launch is fixed free of charge.
05 — Team
11 people on staff
No subcontracting. We name the people on your project, by name, before the contract is signed.
Igor Novak
Founder, Managing Partner
Alexey Shumilov
Technical Director
Evgenia Polyakova
Art Director
Dmitry Basov
Head of Mobile
Natalia Korneeva
Lead Analyst
Pavel Ermakov
Senior Front-end Engineer
06 — Testimonials
What clients say
«The Apple review work deserves a mention. We were rejected twice and I was sure we were stuck for months. The Progress team simply assembled the paperwork and got through, with no extra invoice.»Read the case study
«Going mobile-only felt like a risk — in our heads, training means a computer and a classroom. It is now 92 % mobile, which settles the question of who was right.»Read the case study
«The real change: the sales team stopped spending its day on "is it still available". People arrive already knowing which apartment they want.»Read the case study
07 — Questions
Frequently asked
Websites from $5,000, web applications from $20,000, mobile apps from $24,000, bots from $2,800. We cannot give an exact figure before talking: estimates are driven less by page count than by the number of roles and the complexity of integrations. After the first call you get a range; after discovery, a fixed stage-by-stage estimate.
08 — Writing
Notes from the work
09 — Contact
Let's talk about your project
Describe the problem in a couple of sentences. We'll reply within one business day and suggest a time to talk.
- Phone
- +7 (988) 823-70-86
- Hours
- Mon–Fri, 10:00–19:00 (UTC+3)