Scaling from MVP to a double Unicorn valued at $2+billion
With an ambitious goal to change the payments sector, particularly in the "Buy Now, Pay Later" (BNPL) arena, Philip Belamant founded Zilch at the beginning of 2018. BNPL enables customers to spread payments for online purchases over time. As a payment option for online customers, e-commerce companies frequently provide this on their checkout page.
Challenge
Philip and the Zilch team recognised the enormous potential for developing a competitive BNPL solution in the payments sector.
The challenge was to:
- Find a tech team to take over the job immediately
- Build a scalable tech team within the specified budget
- Recognise the gaps in the product and address it before delivery
- Find a partner to manage the team for the entire product cycle
- Zilch had a ruggedly ambitious goal of completing complex API integrations within a single month. Anything longer than that was essentially a gamble in terms of the survival of the company. Then came the turning point, when Philip and his team were introduced to Deployflow
.. they assembled a dedicated workforce, enabling us to transform our vision into reality. Their seamless team-building and thorough knowledge transfer have been instrumental in bringing our product to life..
Solution
We decided to implement Terraform to automate AWS infrastructure developments.
Together with Bitbucket pipelines and Octopus deployment, we optimised the delivery process which ultimately allowed for the remote teams to deliver faster, despite their geographical distances.
- Deployed a dedicated team of experts to work exclusively for Zilch
- Scalable, elastic tech team for addressing future requirements
- Constant QA checks before product delivery
- Delivery of complex API integrations within the specified time frame
Impact
The results for this client were great and meant they could pick up their development speed once more and help deliver to market faster:
It gave them the ability to adapt quickly to challenges from suppliers and external vendors
Adjust the platform to meet the security requirements with no repetitiveness
- Enabled them to set up new environments quickly, that match the master
- Any future changes can be instantly replicated across environments, removing issues and delays
1 month
for complex API integrations
2x faster
environment setup through automation
100%
adaptability to supplier and vendor challenges post-launch
