Web App for African Legal Industry

Client LOCATION

Brussels,
Belgium

Tech Stack

Ruby on Rails, AWS, PostgreSQL, Nuxt.js, Vue.js

Team

3 Backend Developers
2 QA Engineers

Our Team developed a web app for the Belgium based startup that act like legal bridge between Africa and Europe. It creates an easy door for companies to know the different regulations, and stay informed on the ever-changing legal regulations in Africa Continent .

Client
Challenges

Afriwise is an web platform focused on the African legal sector. Its main goal is to provide simple and affordable access to legal information, with a constantly-growing database.

Founder knew what the fast and effective solution would be, however, him and his legal team lacked the software knowledge to create this platform. The concept was clear, but they needed the tools and a team to help them design it and build it.

After contacting over many developing companies, AwesomeHive Team was selected. We took the wheel and prepared a workshop that would adjust to the client’s expectations, using an MVP approach with a flexible scope, while communicating the ideas with little-to-no technical language.

Key challenges of the project included:

Build an MVP product to fit a defined budget
Establishing a large and flexible database that allows continuous expansion
Create a product for a non-tech audience, with intuitive UX that facilitates access to information.

Solution &
Result

After our discovery workshop, where we agreed on the design and scope, this web platform was built from scratch with Ruby on Rails for the back end, and Vue.js for the frontend.

Since the MVP product was delivered, Afriwise has grown, updated, and maintained over the last years; big features are still being introduced as new ideas come afloat.

This is how we made it happen:

Organized a workshop to agree on a flexible scope and translate the client’s idea into tangible deliverables.
Creating a user-friendly design for non-tech-savvy users
Picking robust technologies that were a perfect fit for the task

Since then, Comany became the first platform of its kind, uniting Africa and Europe in a legal ecosystem, offering a unique solution based on a collaborative model, that has joined more than 100 law firms and 3000+ local experts listed in the database. It’s now the go-to legal database for big companies on a daily basis.