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About Monterail

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Main markets

Industries

• Western Europe

  (Germany, the United Kingdom,       and Switzerland)

• Middle East and South Africa

• the United States

• Fintech

• Retail
• Medtech

• HRtech

• Proptech

You can count on us to translate technological expertise into understandable and actionable advice on your product.

We’ll help you build an app from scratch, from idea to release and further, with technology suited for the project. We’ll deliver a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) as soon as possible to push it out to the users and gather their feedback.

You will receive a thorough analysis of your existing product with insight into what needs to be improved and how we’ll do it.
 

We’ll help you achieve your business objectives ensuring delivery on time and within budget with a strategy tailored to the project’s development. We’ll provide you with our technological excellence, ensuring top-edge quality and performance during the app’s maintenance or improvement.

Team extension

Working with
existing teams

Working as an extended team, i.e. team augmentation, is something we have processes and quality checks for.

Depending on the need, we can become a part of your existing team, or perform the role of an outside CTO.

We’ll take care of appropriate communication, knowledge transfer, and project delivery.

Rate card

Team Augmentation

Cooperation terms

• Minimum contract period - N/A; we can work on 2-4 weeks' projects if needed and when the timeline is clear upfront

• Notice period - any change in the team should be confirmed 14 days in advance

• Terms of settlement - we work on a Time & Materials basis

Fintech Platform

mFP is a set of interconnected modules
for a modern, AI-capable Fintech innovations:

Core
banking

Acquiring

AML/KYC

Fraud
prevention

Card
issuing

Mobile App

Web App

REST API

SoftPOS

Client’s business case

Core
banking

Acquiring

AML/KYC

Fraud
prevention

Card
issuing

Mobile App

Web App

REST API

Monterail integration layer

mFP allowed us to create off-the-shelf products
that can be easily white-labeled or highly customized:

Allowing for an even faster product delivery.

Integrates a mobile application with a payment card (Mastercard/VISA) compatible with Apple and Google systems.

Included is a multi-currency virtual account, which is connected to Forex transactions.

In-app customer onboarding process – online application processing coupled with face ID verification.

Supports wallet top-up/funding transfers through the use of payment cards or alternative payment methods (PayPal, Paysafecard, cryptocurrencies).

E-commerce platform based on REST API, facilitating seamless integration between online merchants and acquirers (payment service providers).

Supports a wide array of payment methods including VISA, MasterCard, Open Banking transfers, PayPal, and others.

Compatible with: Magento, Prestashop, WooCommerce

Backoffice capabilities include:

Compatible with: Magento, Prestashop, WooCommerce.

Online fraud detection support.

Support for 3DS TRA exceptions – Transaction Risk Analysis.

Card-on-File (COF) tokenization in a network tokenization model

• Merchant parameterization

• Fee calculation and settlement report generation

• Reconciliation of settlements with payment providers (VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, etc.)

• White-label paywall model offering customizable design and responsive styles.

Fintech experience

We’ve built 30+
fintech products

Build a secure fintech app within budget and on time to make your financial services safer and more efficient. As a technology partner that shares your vision, we’ll help you develop a functional app - from the initial concept to an easy-to-maintain product ready to revolutionize the financial markets.

Lending

Clients have been turning to applications that eliminate the need to apply to banks or credit unions for loans. Digitize the process, speed up the lending decision process, and stay ahead of your competition.

Investment

Build secure, functional, and user- friendly software that combines advanced data analytics with tools that provide control, complex overview, and easy management of your users’ investment asset performance.

Personal finance

Help your users manage their finances better with tools and services providing advice, budgeting help, and assisted management of personal income, expenses, and savings.

Payments and
money transfers

Secure payment processing without the use of traditional banks or other third parties is becoming increasingly popular. Your users will appreciate online international money transfer software that makes the process faster and less costly.

Online banking is becoming a standard fintech service for many financial institutions. There is still a lot of room for improvement in the online banking experience, which you can tackle with advanced technologies like AI, facial recognition, or chatbots.

Insurance

Build cutting edge, modern insurance software and reach new customer segments. Use solutions such as advanced analytics and real-time data streaming to manage risk and offer new solutions to insurance providers and end-users.

Ways of working

Ways of Working

Monitoring and Performance Management

• We have multiple layers of monitoring and performance assessment

1. Project Manager (PM) – Each project is assigned a Project Manager responsible for:

   • Managing timesheets, invoices, and operational communication with the client.

   • Gathering feedback from the client and their team.

   • Passing this feedback to Delivery Managers and Engineering Managers.

2. Delivery Managers & Engineering Managers (EMs) – They are responsible for:

   • Communicating feedback to developers and taking necessary actions if required.

   • Conducting 1-on-1 meetings with team members to discuss project-related topics.

3. Technical Meetings – As a standard, we hold:

   • Dev Meetings – Monthly sessions where teams discuss technical challenges, improvements, and updates.

Code Quality Assurance

Generally we are adhering to following principles

1. Automated Tools – Projects use linters and other automated checks.

2. Code Reviews – Every code change undergoes a review process, as described in our Code Review Guidelines.

3. Vue Dev Meetings – Conducted monthly by senior developers or Engineering Managers to share best practices and guidelines.

4. Project kickoffs - every project have assigned Architect or Engineering Manager who check all the standards what we have and following checklist

Development best practices

Quality code

• Linting: We enforce coding standards using ESLint integrated with TypeScript and Prettier to maintain code quality and consistency.

• Every task in the development process undergoes a thorough code review.

• End-to-end testing is performed with Cypress or Playwright to ensure application functionality.

Testing portocols

• Once a task is merged into the main or develop branch depending on the project stage or setup manual testing is conducted by our QA team.

• QA testers verify business logic, ensure compliance with design specifications, and check for any new bugs introduced by the recent changes.

• Regular regression testing is conducted to maintain the stability of the application.

Code documentation

• Technical documentation accompanies code delivery to enhance maintainability and understandability.

• Comprehensive README files are maintained for each project, outlining setup, development, and deployment instructions.

Monterail's development approach emphasizes delivering high-quality, secure, and well-documented code through a structured methodology and advanced testing protocols.

CI/CD

• Pipelines are configured to run automated tests, lint checks, and build processes for every pull request.

• Deployment processes are automated to AWS environments (or other), ensuring reliable and repeatable deployments.

• Environments are set up for both staging and production, with deployments triggered upon successful pipeline completion.

Product design & AI capabilities

Product Design

Discovery

Discovery process is tailored for both startup and enterprise clients. It helps to identify key business needs and transform them into solutions. 

Workshops

Our product teams help facilitate workshops over the duration of our projects. This helps to keep backlogs full of meaningful and valuable work.

Business Analysis

Our business Analyst team is supporting the development teams by creating functional specification and documentation. 

Product design was in Monterail DNA from the very beginning, creating a unique value of optimizing development spent against user value created.

Product Design - Highlights

Discovery

Corporate workshops

Continuous product design

A discovery workshop to prototype optimized UX/UI

Over 10 years of partnership

Product discovery meets AI

Our genAI

Proofs of Concept

Automated translations with great context

A custom ChatGPT prompt for a client struggling with multilingual translations and related context accuracy. Amazingly, the solution surpassed the performance of off-the-shelf solutions like DeepL.

Assessing business risk in
5 seconds

A business analysis tool for assessing risk in software development projects. By feeding it with historical data and client context, it can accurately identify potential challenges – which can then be addressed swiftly.

Instant feedback insights

A tool for an automated sentiment analysis of employee comments from various sources – such as feedback or reports. With its help, organizations can gain valuable insights – that are meaningful and actionable.

As the use of generative AI in business continues to be a strong trend, we have already managed to deliver several tailored solutions for our clients.

A few more examples follow on the next slides.

Massive-scale personalized
content generation solution

AI-driven solution that revolutionizes content delivery, achieving a remarkable 35% increase in customer
retention through personalized, informative content. 

Fintech

Governmental disaster
communication saving lives through AI capabilities

The U.S. government alerts citizens to impending natural disasters via text, while our solution enhances this with two-way communication, offering precise guidance and life-saving support, including therapy, for those affected.

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Implementation
- case studies

Here’s how your journey may look like

Check the success stories from our clients to learn more about how we work with fintech startups and larger organizations.

We can help you get from an initial concept, through wireframes and UX/UI designs, prototyping, and testing, to a working product with thousands of users.

Across-border investment
and financial advisory platform

DealGlobe is fintech’s first cross-border M&A deals platform, providing investment and buy-side & sellside financial advisory services. The app connects businesses seeking investment and partnership opportunities, bridging the gap between Chinese and European markets involved in business spanning the entire globe.

Sneak peek into the project

The client needed a tool capable of big-data analytics and ensuring that the data behind the service is properly and clearly presented within the web interface.

In order to quickly gather insights about the markets and the potential users’ needs, we followed the progression of iteration results to react quickly. We designed the product from scratch, including the app’s road map and architecture, custom dashboard, and UX.

As a result of our cooperation was a working prototype, ready to be demoed to investors and first clients. After the release, DealGlobe became a leading advisor and investor in the fintech industry. A year later they announced a £1 million worth of Angel funds to help further the company’s development and growth.

Great product and design thinking

Monterail provided some great product and design thinking and then built us a solid MVP. It was very useful to be working with someone who would bring their own ideas to the table and challenge our thinking rather than just building to a specification.

A finance management
platform for data visualization

CashDeck is a personal wealth management tool for accountants, financial planners, and mortgage brokers. With more than 4.4 million accounts across Australia and New Zealand, they needed a fully integrated way to view all of their assets such as bank accounts, loans, mortgages, shares, superannuation, and credit cards.

Sneak peek into the project

The app had to be functional both for financial asset owners and advisors. More so, it had to be ready for future updates.

We decided to wrap all services in a core UI and extract it to a shared gem so that the upcoming updates for both the dashboard and push services would happen seamlessly and in a coordinated way. For data visualization and illustrating fluctuations, we decided to choose D3.

The result of the development process is a completely secure, fully encrypted financial platform that serves as a meta-dashboard for managing financial accounts. The size and weight of the financial market it serves proves the success of CashDeck, making it a staple tool for many of Australia’s largest financial institutions, including major banks.

A data-focused investment
platform that removes bias

Uncap - Unconventional Capital is bringing investment opportunities to early-stage companies in Sub-saharan Africa by connecting investors with local business owners. To make sure that the process of financing is as fair as possible, they leverage a unique, data-based process of screening applicants.

Sneak peek into the project

Uncap had an expertly-documented idea for the project that outlined the rules and requirements of processing the applications, choosing the most promising ones, applying data-focused screening, and for managing the investment rounds (both from the investor and the business-owner perspective).

We conducted a workshop that allowed us to define what exactly should be done in the first place and establish the milestones for the project. During the development process, we discovered edge cases and restraints that allowed us to finetune the product. After 8 months, Uncap received a product that was ready to collect and process funding applications. Using the platform, Uncap was able to secure over 4,500 applications in the first round of funding. Currently, they’re getting ready to release another round of application collection.

Comprehensive platform

We worked with Monterail to develop a comprehensive platform that powers the entirety of Uncap’s operations — from the application process, through the evaluation and due diligence to portfolio support & performance monitoring.

A non-profit fundraising
platform

GiveDirectly is the largest nonprofit that lets donors send money directly to the people most affected by poverty. The recipients can then choose for themselves how to spend that money. So far, over 300 million dollars have been sent into the hands of over 700,000 people in need.

Sneak peek into the project

The goal of the project was to increase the conversion rate by creating an easy, intuitive, mobile-friendly experience for donors interested in sending money directly to specific causes.

We needed to create a seamless user experience that would make it simple to make a donation from any device, using various payment methods including credit cards, checks, and cryptocurrencies.

Another goal was improving accessibility - the platform had to be accessible from mobile, tablet, and desktop devices, and all major browsers. To achieve the project goals quickly and effectively, we chose Vue.js for frontend development as the client’s engineering team was already familiar with Vue.

Fundraising platform

After a rigorous vetting process we choose Monterail as our implementation partner for our new donate experience. We were impressed by their detailed scoping and estimation process which ultimately led to the project being completed under budget. Monterail provided both high-quality engineering and project management throughout the project. We were particularly pleased by their focus on product reliability and enthusiasm in writing exhaustive automated tests. They have been a valued partner who we continue to work with both for product maintenance and new projects.

A community-focused
platform for NFT fans

Our client is a “Collect-2-Earn” platform that helps artists, celebrities, and brands enter the NFT space. They’ve expanded their network and ways of bringing value to the community. Their product range include unique drops of collectibles, an advertising billboard, and a community-focused platform.

Sneak peek into the project

The project included tackling the current challenges and limitations of the NFT market that was really fragmented. The client came to us with a multi-layered plan that started with creating dedicated websites for releasing limited collections of NFTs.

The new designs of the social application were ready, however the client needed Vue.js experts to build a highly interactive application, with the smart contract to enable staking.

We started the cooperation from a thorough understanding of the business model and most important aspects of web3 development. During our 6-month long cooperation, the client received four products: two dedicated websites for unique NFT drops, the first NFT curated billboard, and community-focused platform for fans.

NFT marketplace

Monterail was able to adapt rapidly to the Web3 requirements and build a solid platform in co-creation with our product team.

A web application for leading
cryptocurrency exchange

ZebPay is one of the fastest-growing and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, headquartered in Singapore. With an established presence and 5+ million users in India, Australia, and Singapore, the company continues rapid expansion across the continents.

Sneak peek into the project

With the rapidly growing number of transactions, the number of users, and the ever-changing price of cryptocurrencies, the team at ZebPay had to ensure that their web application would be performing flawlessly and can handle all of these.

In the initial stage of this project, our teams worked closely and focused on preparing documentation that could be then used to build new features and revamp the web application.

The result of our collaboration is a rebuilt application written in React. The product has a modern look and feel, with its main goal of increasing the number of ZebPay users who access their wallets this way. The new version was successfully launched in November 2022.

Cryptocurrency exchange

We’re really happy with the code’s quality that has been given to us. At ZebPay, the goal is to hire A+ people, and we don’t want to compromise on quality when we hire developers, so the process usually takes some time. Monterail met our expectations right away - we got the people who were really trying to understand us.

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