Modo is a paid UK data analytics platform for the alternative energy industry. With a paid subscription, Modo provides B2B customers with extensive metrics.
From various API sources and tracking systems, the platform collects everything businesses need to manage energy resources and assets, including news, benchmarks, and information on market leaders.
Our client wants to enable energy businesses in the UK to get extensive expert information from a single convenient source.
Initially, our team was assigned the high-level task of developing a data intelligence platform. For the MVP, we needed to create a website with user registration, a home page with a news portal, and several sections with analytics, calculations, and charts. All these charts had to be beautiful and readable. We also needed to integrate with a third-party API that provides data about the energy market.
At the planning stage, our team included a business analyst (BA), project manager (PM), backend developer, solution architect, and designer, all of whom collected project requirements. We also held workshops with our client in our office to brainstorm ideas. During these meetings, Modo representatives sketched a concept to show us their vision of the functionality.
Since we had a project manager, business analyst, backend developer, solution architect, designer, and quality assurance engineer working with Modo since the planning stage, our team got to understand our clients well and was able to efficiently interact with them. Excellent communication and an atmosphere of mutual understanding ensured great results!
Team members who joined the project later noted that they were comfortable working on the project because the clients clearly understood what they wanted and the project was easy to understand due to high-quality code.
The Modo team is proactive — developers, designers, and business analysts offer ideas for the project’s development in addition to implementing what the clients want.
At different stages of development, we used different project management methodologies. We created the Modo MVP according to the waterfall methodology, implementing absolutely all functionality planned. For versions two through four, we worked with an Agile methodology. For version five, we are working in the format of daily interactions with the client.
The client has appreciated our speed and flexibility most of all, which is one of the reasons he gave us a maximum Net Promoter Score rating of 10.
National Grid ESO
BM Reports for the “Optics” insights
Google Maps integration for the ModoMap
Payment processor “Stripe”
Emails sender AWS SES
Energy Storage
Customer support: Intercom
Epex Spot API
For the MVP version of Modo, we implemented all plans, met the deadlines and budget, and avoided major errors and bugs at launch.
We are now continuing to develop the product without any pauses or problems in our cooperation. Our client’s successful startup currently has around 10 regular customers in the United Kingdom.
In 2021, Modo is planning to increase the breadth of its offering and expand the depth of analysis provided. The team is aiming at bringing more B2B customers to the platform, engaging them, and delivering more value. The current phase of development aims to bring more data to the platform:
We are not only adding new features but also improving and expanding the current ones. Soon, we are going to give wider access to the Modo dataset via an API and via the platform interface to allow customers to access energy market insights more comfortably and more easily.
Our clients are proactive participants in the development process, and it was important for them to have personal contact with the Empeek team at the start. Before the pandemic, we spent a lot of time with them in our office discussing and planning the project. Our team is on fire with the project and is 100% involved in it.
Such close interaction is ideal when working with technology startups. We appreciate that from the very start of this journey, we have been on the same page with our clients about how the work should be done. As soon as it’s safe to do so, we look forward to flying to our clients again and hosting them in our office.
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