Our work powers digital services used by millions – making everyday life better and smarter.
We work with clients across a wide range of industries, including energy, financial services, gaming, logistics, manufacturing, retail, telecom, and the public sector. Business-critical challenges and projects with meaningful societal impact make us tick.
We offer experience-backed insights and services to help you navigate digital development end-to-end. Agile or turnkey, ideation or execution, independent of platforms – our solutions are always driven by your business goals.
Read on to learn more about our customer cases.
customer Case
Skäribot – using AI to solve the challenges of traveling in the archipelago
Municipality of Kemiönsaari
#GCP #GoogleCloudFunctions #GoogleCloudRun #OpenStreetMap #VectorSearch #VertexAI
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The Finnish archipelago’s beauty also comes with complexity: ferry and bus connections are essential but hard to keep track of without local knowledge. Tourists often feel lost or hesitant to explore due to unclear schedules or language barriers. Municipal staff spend a significant time answering repetitive travel-related questions. Local businesses struggle to get visibility unless visitors actively seek them out.
In spring 2025, the municipalities of Kemiönsaari and Parainen noticed a clear need for an always-available, multilingual AI assistant. This assistant would need to answer natural-language questions about ferries, buses, local events, attractions, and services – bringing real-time data together in one place. The goal was to make island life and travel easier for residents and visitors alike with a service that would be accessible through both web and public info displays in key harbors.
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Together with our client, we created Skäribot, a cloud-native service that combines conversational AI with trusted public data. Skäribot understands natural questions like “When’s the next ferry from Kasnäs?” and instantly responds with accurate, up-to-date answers – in Finnish, Swedish, or English.
Skäribot draws live transport data from DigiTraffic and Matka.fi and complements it with local content from municipal websites, the Kemiö Service Guide, and Business Finland’s DataHub. This way, users can easily find nearby events, attractions, and services – all from a single source. Available on touch-screen info kiosks in Kasnäs and Taalintehdas and online, Skäribot offers the same conversational experience for seniors, visitors, and locals.
Built on Google Cloud, the system uses Vertex AI for conversational understanding, Vector Search to retrieve relevant local context, and Cloud Functions to orchestrate real-time data flows. This modern, modular architecture ensures accuracy, low maintenance, and easy extensibility.
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Launched in June 2025, Skäribot makes trip planning in the archipelago noticeably smoother – from checking the next ferry to discovering what’s happening nearby. Users no longer need to browse multiple websites or timetables as clear answers are available instantly from a single source.
The benefits reach beyond convenience. Municipalities spend less time on routine inquiries, and local businesses gain visibility when their up-to-date information appears directly in Skäribot’s responses. Built on a scalable, cloud-based foundation, the service is cost-efficient and easy to maintain. As more people interact with Skäribot, it learns and improves, creating a virtuous cycle of better service through real-world use.
Our collaboration has created a scalable model that other archipelago municipalities can adopt. Skäribot is an example of smarter, more responsive public services across Finland’s coastal and island communities.
Read a longer article about the project in Finnish.
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"We are extremely satisfied with Asteroid’s expertise in helping us navigate the challenging technological landscape. We received all the expert guidance and sparring we needed to successfully adopt GenAI and cloud technologies to build our first conversational user interface."
– Julius uusikylä, project leadercustomer Case
How a business-critical cloud migration ensured a great customer experience
Oima
#CloudMigration #GCP #Healthcare #Terraform
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Oima focuses on simplifying the management of employment and assignment relationships in the care sector. They combine strong technological expertise and real-time data with deep knowledge of the care industry. The Oima service brings together the management of personal assistance, family, and informal care into a single platform, providing complete visibility into operations and allowing agile management that involves caregivers. At the time of writing (8/2025), Oima accounts for more than 800.000 hours of care delivered each month.
Key components of Oima's digital solutions needed to migrate from Telia Cloud 9 to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Ensuring a smooth cloud migration and continuity of services for Oima's customers was a business-critical goal. The existing hosting environment was scheduled for sunsetting, which introduced a strict deadline for completing the migration successfully.
Oima set out to find a partner who could help them tackle the migration challenge at hand while speeding up their internal GCP and Terraform expertise development. In the long term, their goal is to make the most out of the target platform's advanced capabilities in order to provide market-leading services to their end customers.
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Oima partnered with Asteroid due to our solid experience with similar cases in the past, and our commitment to help Oima succeed with their unique needs.
Already before agreeing on the partnership and kicking off the main migration project, we promptly arranged a few mini workshops. In the workshops, we analyzed the starting point, goals, and constraints in order to draft a target architecture and project approach. We used our systematic, experience-backed migration strategy blueprint to speed up the efforts while tailoring it to Oima's specific context.
Next, we laid out a more detailed migration plan and worked on the project in close collaboration with Oima’s specialists and business stakeholders. The selected migration strategy used re-platforming, lift-and-shifting, and retaining of the services – while considering the risks and constraints at hand and prioritizing efforts for the highest possible impact. Additionally, we created a future development roadmap to make the most out of GCP in the long term.
The target architecture was based on GCP (e.g., Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Cloud Pub/Sub), Terraform, GitHub, and AWS for certain parts of the existing architecture tactically scoped out of the initial migration phase, for example, Route53.
The collaboration model used agile methodology, with close collaboration taking place continuously so that the customer was always front and center.
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We completed the migration successfully while following a strict schedule with resource constraints. We also ensured high availability of the service throughout the live deployments, which allowed Oima’s customers to focus on their important care work without interruptions.
According to the migration strategy, the target systems were re-hosted and partially modernized, taking advantage of GCP's cloud-native capabilities to make the service smoother and more efficient to operate.
Through close collaboration with Asteroid, Oima became self-sufficient in developing and operating custom digital services on GCP. To ensure success beyond the migration, we equipped Oima with a prioritized future development backlog. Our goal is to be a trusted technology partner who is able to continue the collaboration whenever the need arises.
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The project was a success, and we’ll be happy to rely on Asteroid also for our future needs.
– Pauli Heikkinen, CTOcustomer Case
Modernizing a real estate ERP to improve security and reduce technical debt
Pandia
#CustomERP #B2B #RealEstate #TechnicalDebt #Refactoring #Security #ISO27001
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Pandia, a forward-thinking real estate management software company based in Finland, was developing a specialized ERP system tailored to the property sector.
While their internal software development team focused on delivering new features, they needed support to tackle technical debt to make future development less complex and costly. They also needed to implement ISO 27001 security standards and address vulnerabilities in their software supply chain.
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We helped Pandia assemble a team of full-stack developers dedicated to address these critical technical challenges, freeing up their in-house team to focus on core product development and business objectives.
Working as part of their existing team, we brought deep expertise to modernize and future-proof their technology stack, which is based on React, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Through close collaboration, we helped ensure the system was scalable, secure, and equipped to support both current operations and future growth.
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With our support, Pandia successfully paid down technical debt, resolved security issues, and advanced toward ISO 27001 compliance – all while continuing to deliver on their business and product goals.
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Creating an effective restaurant booking experience with digital innovation
Major Finnish retail and hospitality group
#Customerexperience #Hospitality #Omnichannel #Phygital #Fullstack
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Our client, 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 refresh to stay ahead of the competition.
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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 better dining experience from start to finish.
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Our client now stands out from the competition by effortlessly blending digital and physical experiences.
The revamped services have been a great success. The restaurants and the group operations now have the means to cater to their end customers’ enjoyable dining experiences that begin well before arriving at the table.
Read a longer article about the project in Finnish.
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How a next-generation psychometric testing solution unlocked growth potential
Leading international psychometric services provider
#GCP #Cloud #Go #NextJS #Psychology
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Our client, a leading psychometric services provider, set out to build a next-generation digital solution to make their assessment offering even better.
The goal was to further improve the quality of their services, gain a competitive advantage in the market of digital assessment solutions, and simplify operations while ensuring the utmost security and reliability.
Novel challenges like this are often fuzzy at first. The first steps in tackling them involve understanding, elaborating, and organizing them into manageable and actionable pieces.
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We helped our client clarify the path toward their goals and define a matching team structure and prospective team members to embark on that journey. Establishing a multidisciplinary team with good collaboration across complementary roles is a well-known recipe for success.
As a joint team, we built a modern cloud-based technical solution focused on a platform capable of orchestrating modern technologies – ensuring high performance and scalability while maintaining stringent reliability and security standards. We created a service-oriented system design in order to support integration with multiple systems and real-time data processing. The platform was built as the backbone for a suite of cutting-edge end-user applications serving a global user base.
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Our client unlocked substantial growth potential with the rollout of the new platform, positioning themselves to maintain market leadership for years to come.
Through close collaboration, their internal technical expertise grew significantly, helping them to become more self-sufficient in the future development of their services. The new platform allows increasingly rapid and continuous advancements to the services – benefiting various end customers and users across healthcare, education, and business.
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Modernizing an e-commerce platform for better user experience and conversions
Leading Nordic retailer
#E-commerce #Modernization #Serverless #AWS
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Our client, a leading Nordic retailer with a long-standing e-commerce platform, recognized the need to modernize their digital infrastructure.
While the existing system had served the business well, it was becoming increasingly complex to scale, maintain, and adapt to changing customer expectations. To stay ahead, the company set its sights on a modern, flexible architecture that could support faster innovation and continued growth.
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We worked together to shape a pragmatic modernization strategy focused on incremental value delivery. Taking on the tech lead role, we guided the gradual re-architecture of legacy features into cloud-native, serverless microservices with a modern front-end.
A/B testing ensured measurable impact before full rollout. We also introduced modern DevOps practices, test automation, and observability, laying the groundwork for continuous delivery and operational excellence.
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The modernized platform delivered immediate business impact, outperforming the legacy system in A/B tests across conversion, revenue, and user experience.
With improved reliability and scalability, the development team could shift from firefighting to feature delivery, accelerating time-to-market and unlocking long-term agility.
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Using autonomous robots to solve the big challenge of last-mile deliveries
International last-mile logistics pioneer
#Logistics #AI #B2X #Frontends
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Our client, 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.
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By leveraging our technical expertise, we helped our client 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.
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Our client’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.
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Making the public transit experience better with user-friendly apps
Public transport company
#Transportation #B2C #Datadrivendesign #Fullstack #Devops
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Our client, 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.
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We helped turn the client’s goals into action and make the outcomes measurable through relevant business metrics. Our approach involved smart use of 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 easier future development and delivery of exceptional end-user experiences.
We also contributed to the client’s design system to improve the end-users’ experience and simplify development efforts across different channels, applications, and development teams.
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Our work yielded significant improvements in self-service capabilities, customer service focus, sales, and conversion rates – all measurable and backed by real-world data.
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Providing transparent and easy access to government data with a digital channel
Finnish government agency
#Publicsector #Fullstack #Modernfrontend #Privatecloud #Searchengine #Datamigration
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Transparent and easy access to information is one of the cornerstones of public administration in Finland.
Our client, a government agency, wanted to develop a web service aimed at consolidating and sharing their research and statistical materials, alongside blogs, analyses, and other selected data.
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To effectively address this multifaceted challenge, we jointly tendered for the project with our close, complementary partners.
Asteroid’s contributions included development roadmapping, application architecture design, feature development, and supporting the client in adopting modern best practices such as test automation.Our role was primarily focused on front-end development, using technologies such as React, and integrating it with the Liferay DXP. Additionally, we contributed to backend integrations involving ElasticSearch and deployment workflows leveraging OpenShift.
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Our client now benefits from an advanced research and statistical data search platform that takes advantage of modern front-end technologies in a private cloud environment.
The enhanced search service empowers users with a modern, intuitive experience – making it easier than ever to access the right information quickly and efficiently.
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Getting critical insights into a mobile app with smart technical due diligence
Payment services provider
#Advisory #Duediligence #Mobiletech
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Our client, 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 client’s key digital offering.
To fully assess the app’s development potential, they needed to conduct an independent technology evaluation. This included gaining insight into its licensing, quality, lifecycle, and maintenance aspects – as well as identifying any risks, dependencies, and requirements to be aware of.
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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.
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Our review was done within the estimated timeline. We presented a report covering both the key qualitative and quantitative findings that allowed the client to make an informed decision about moving forward with the acquisition.
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Many thanks for the review and report! We found your professionalism and the quality of the work remarkably high. Well done!
– Our CLIENT, the CTOExplore 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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Sami Talpiainen
Chief Commercial Officer
sami.talpiainen@asteroid.fi
+358 40 550 3969
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