Elay De Beer, CEO at BUFFVerified Review
Posted on Nov 14, 2019
“Fulcrum rocks!”
Have been working with the team for over a year now, it has been a pleasure, in term of delivery, quality, meeting deadlines and communication, highly recomnded!
Fulcrum
Award-Winning Design & Development Partner
Overview
About Fulcrum
Fulcrum is an AI-powered product engineering company from Kyiv, Ukraine.
We help startups, scale-ups, and mid-market companies build, scale, modernize, and automate software products — faster, more cost-effectively, and in a hyper-scalable way.
MLP Builder — AI-Powered MVP Development. We're an MVP development company that ships production-grade products in 4–10 weeks at fixed prices ($20–85K). 50+ reusable components, AI-accelerated development, automated testing, and post-launch support included. Best for funded founders and teams that need to move to a product that actually scales.
24/7 AI-Augmented Dedicated Team. Our dedicated development team combines senior engineers with agentic AI workflows and proprietary setup for 3–5x the throughput of a traditional team. Full-stack AI development services — frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure, QA. Best for companies that need to hire AI developers as an embedded extension of their team.
Legacy Modernization. We specialize in legacy application modernization using AI to accelerate rewrites by 60–70%. Application modernization services that cut traditional timelines in half — monolith to microservices, legacy stacks to React/Next.js/Node.js, on-prem to AWS/GCP. Best for companies where aging software blocks growth and AI adoption.
Agentic AI Systems. We build autonomous AI agent systems — multi-agent architectures with human-in-the-loop oversight for real business processes. Custom AI solutions from support automation to operations orchestration.
100+ products built. from 0 to IPO. 4.9 Clutch rating. 50+ engineers. 7+ years. Transparent pricing, named teams, value-packed from the first call.
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Review Summary
Clients consistently praise Fulcrum for strong communication, reliable project management, and on-time delivery across design and development work. The team is noted for high-quality output, rigorous testing and code standards, and flexibility in adapting to client needs—particularly valued by startups. Professionalism, technical expertise in React Native and web development, and a collaborative approach that makes clients feel supported are recurring strengths.
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Ken Vinner, CEO at Sync.aiVerified Review
Posted on Mar 20, 2020
“Excellent experience”
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Posted on Sep 28, 2021
“Understanding and communication is the best part of them!”
Understanding and communication is the best part of them!
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Focus
Service Focus of Fulcrum
How the team's effort is distributed across services.
Industries Focus
Client Focus
Small Business60%
Medium Business40%
The Positioning
AI Tools & Purpose
The stack the team uses to move faster.
Cursor
An AI-native code editor
Claude
For agentic coding & shared context
GitHub Copilot
AI assistant that suggests and writes code inline.
Greptile
AI reviews entire codebases for bugs and logic.
Devin
Autonomous AI agent
Windsurf
AI coding agent for collaborative, agentic develop
Selected Work
Client Portfolio of Fulcrum
Where their work concentrates - by industry, budget, and timeline.
Project Industry
Transportation & Logistics4%
Gaming4%
Entertainment9%
Social13%
Productivity4%
Other13%
Fintech9%
Education13%
Business Services4%
Automotive4%
Healthcare13%
eCommerce4%
Media4%
Major industry focus
Social
Project Cost
$0 to $100004%
$50001 to $10000017%
$10001 to $5000052%
$100001 to $50000017%
$500000+4%
Not Disclosed4%
Common project cost
$10001 to $50000
Project Timeline
1 to 25 Weeks87%
26 to 50 Weeks13%
Typical timeline
1 to 25 Weeks
Clients: 8
Zuri FertilityMerecedes-Benz UkraineBlossBUFFBritish American TobaccoflipMDProgressiveQuickTouch
Portfolios: 23
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Executive Interview
Executive Interview of Fulcrum
Ihor Prokopenko
CEO & Co-Founder
Kindly share your feedback on how Goodfirms has been doing so far in increasing your visibility among potential clients.
I would say that we have not yet observed some really dramatic influence of Goodfirms on increasing visibility among our potential clients. Yet, I believe that Goodfirms is a great channel to raise awareness about the company and illustrate our expertise and reputation of a reliable outsourcing partner.
Please introduce your company and give a brief about your role within the company?
I’m a Co-Founder and CEO at Fulcrum. Fulcrum is an offshore, in-house agency. We build mobile & web apps that win users’ hearts.
What was the idea behind starting this organization?
For me, outsourcing is not just about a good price, but also about deeper expertise. It’s about one common purpose - to achieve success.
I believe that in future outsourcing will be based on sharing both risks and results. I see it as a way to find your technical partner that wants and does the best for your business: finds a perfect team, offers top-notch solutions and supports you till your full success.
That’s what I founded Fulcrum for. We help entrepreneurs achieve their goals. By always being there for them. By having all the technical issues on us. Simply by becoming a reliable technical partner, who cares about their product 24/7.
I believe that in future outsourcing will be based on sharing both risks and results. I see it as a way to find your technical partner that wants and does the best for your business: finds a perfect team, offers top-notch solutions and supports you till your full success.
That’s what I founded Fulcrum for. We help entrepreneurs achieve their goals. By always being there for them. By having all the technical issues on us. Simply by becoming a reliable technical partner, who cares about their product 24/7.
What are your company’s business model–in house team or third party vendors/ outsourcing?
Fulcrum is an outsourcing software development company. We’re offshore, in-house agency.
How is your business model beneficial from a value addition perspective to the clients compared to other companies' models?
As I’ve already mentioned, outsourcing is the best suitable option for many companies and startups which need a reliable and experienced technical partner. It’s much more about efficiency and the most optimal expertise/cost ratio. Outsourcing allows companies to solve their business problems with the help of experienced specialists. I also believe that outsourcing model will become even more widespread in future, since in its core will be the responsibility for both client’s success and risks.
What industries do you generally cater to? Are your customers repetitive? If yes, what ratio of clients has been repetitive to you?
Industries we usually cater to include business automatization, streaming (video processing), on-demand delivery, high-load systems, cloud solutions, gaming, cybersecurity, marketplaces, and social networks. We also thinking about entering healthcare industry, since under the load of current challenges it requires new IT solutions. Our customers are repetitive. To be more precise, our ratio of repetitive clients is 80%.
Mention the objectives or the parameters critical in determining the time frame of developing a mobile app.
App’s functionality. We do the mind-map, estimation to see how long the project will take.
How much effort in terms of time goes into developing the front end and back end of a mobile app?
All depends on the app. It’s really hard to tell you some time period on spot.
What are the key parameters to be considered before selecting the right platform for a mobile application?
Industry, user portrait, the place where the app is used (at home, on the road, e.g).
Which platform do you suggest your clients to begin with when they approach you with an idea (Android or iOS) and why?
We recommend cross-platform apps.
Android or iOS, Native or Hybrid — which platform is best to use to build your app? What are your recommendations?
Hybrid is better since the development process is faster.
What are the key factors that you consider before deciding the cost of a mobile application?
We mainly consider the scope of work required to provide a certain service, deadlines and time cost of the Fulcrum specialists involved.
What kind of payment structure do you follow to bill your clients? Is it Pay per Feature, Fixed Cost, Pay per Milestone (could be in phases, months, versions etc.)
In Fulcrum, we offer 32 main payment models:
1. Fixed price. Client pays a set price for the project.
2. Time & Material. The team works on an hourly rate.
1. Fixed price. Client pays a set price for the project.
2. Time & Material. The team works on an hourly rate.
Do you take in projects which meet your basic budget requirement? If yes, what is the minimum requirement? If no, on what minimum budget you have worked for?
We’re working on the projects starting for $5,000+.
What is the price range (min and max) of the projects that you catered to in 2019?
In 2019, the price range of projects was $5K-100K.
Which business model do you suggest to your clients enabling them to generate revenue from mobile applications? Why?
One more time I would stress that outsourcing seems to be the most optimal model right now and in the future. It provides business with a reliable technical partner who offers their expertise 24/7.
Where we are
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Offices where Fulcrum operates.
