Our featured cases
Asteroid provides a wide range of first-class digital development and technology advisory services for ambitious customers building the digital future. Founded in 2021, we have had the privilege of serving already nearly 20 customers.
We serve customers across various industries ranging from AI-based logistics and financial services to retail and public services. Business-critical and societally meaningful projects make us tick.
We offer experience-backed insights and services to help our customers navigate digital development end-to-end. Agile or turnkey, ideation or execution, independent of platforms – your business goals are the primary driver for our solutions.
Read on to learn more about our customer cases.
CUSTOMER CASE
Last-mile deliveries solved by autonomous robots
International last-mile logistics pioneer
#logistics #ai #b2x #frontends
The Challenge
Our customer, a global leader in last-mile deliveries by autonomous robots, is pioneering the future of logistics.
They face unique challenges in their bid to revolutionize the industry and provide novel services – such as developing cutting-edge AI-driven navigation, overcoming various operational edge cases, and ensuring the ability to scale the business flexibly.
The Solution
By leveraging our technical expertise, we helped our customer to succeed. We focused on the development of user-friendly operative frontend applications that addressed specific challenges – including training new staff in growing markets and creating realistic simulations of real-world scenarios.
The end goal was to ensure smooth end-customer experiences even in the most challenging navigation cases.
The Results
Our customer’s business has experienced impressive growth and maturity, boasting millions of successful deliveries combined with ongoing learning to further refine their services.
At Asteroid, we’re honored to contribute to this pioneering journey, helping to shape the future of last-mile logistics with innovative technology and problem-solving capabilities.
CUSTOMER CASE
Savoring a seamless restaurant booking experience through digital innovation
Major Finnish retail and hospitality group
#customerexperience #hospitality #omnichannel #phygital #fullstack
The Challenge
Our customer, a group of diverse restaurant chains and hotels, wanted to stand out in a highly competitive digital landscape.
They understood that an exceptional digital experience can make all the difference for a restaurant and its guests – and that their existing web services needed a thorough refreshment to stay ahead of the competition.
The Solution
We started by building a modern web and mobile experience for discovering and exploring their restaurants and menus, with a strong focus on usability, information architecture, speed, and accessibility. This involved substantial improvements to frontend applications, integration architecture, data layers, and content management.
By listening to end-user needs, we streamlined the restaurant discovery and table booking process and merged digital and physical experiences through a mobile app renewal. This provided customers with new ways to access services at the venues, ensuring a seamless dining experience from start to finish.
The Results
Our customer now stands out from the competition by effortlessly blending digital and physical experiences.
The revamped services have been a great success, giving the restaurants and the group operations the means to cater to their end customers enjoyable dining experiences that begin well before arriving at the table.
CUSTOMER CASE
Enhancing the public transportation experience through user-friendly web and mobile apps
Public transport company
#transportation #b2c #datadrivendesign #fullstack #devops
The Challenge
Our customer, a public transport company, was looking to elevate their end customers’ travel experience by launching new digital products and services.
Their objectives included reducing customer service workload by enabling digital self-service access to their products. They also wanted to refine their web and mobile applications to provide reliable, engaging, and accessible services.
The Solution
We helped turn the customer’s goals into action and make the outcomes measurable through relevant business metrics. Our approach involved synergetic frontend technologies to develop user-centric web and mobile apps.
We modernized parts of the application architectures, streamlined DevOps practices, and bolstered cloud architecture and security to ensure seamless future development and delivery of exceptional end-user experiences.
We also contributed to the customer’s design system to improve the end-users’ experience and simplify development efforts across different channels, applications, and development teams.
The Results
Our work yielded significant improvements in self-service capabilities, customer service focus, sales, and conversion rates – all measurable and backed by real-world data.
CUSTOMER CASE
Technical due diligence of a mobile app being acquired
Payment services provider
#advisory #duediligence #mobiletech
The Challenge
Our customer, a payment services provider, was preparing for a strategic business acquisition involving the target company’s IPR. This included a mobile app that would have the potential to extend the customer’s key digital offering.
They needed to conduct an independent technology evaluation to fully understand the app’s further development potential. They also needed to understand the app’s licensing, quality, lifecycle and maintenance aspects – as well as any risks, dependencies, and requirements to be aware of.
The Solution
Asteroid reviewed the software using an established methodology consisting of interviews, static code analysis using automated tooling, and hands-on expert evaluation of the codebase, system architecture, and development practices.
The Results
Our review was done within the estimated timeline. We presented a report covering both the key qualitative and quantitative findings that enabled the customer to make an informed decision about moving forward with the acquisition.
“Many thanks for the review and report! We found your professionalism and the quality of the work remarkably high. Well done!”
Explore new digital frontiers with Asteroid
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Mika Tuoma
CEO, Co-Founder
mika.tuoma@asteroid.fi
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Eero Kurkela
CTO, Co-Founder
eero.kurkela@asteroid.fi
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Rasmus Lumiola
Chief Business Officer
rasmus.lumiola@asteroid.fi
+358 50 466 3396
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