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Lakat LTD
The UltimateCreative BusinessIn Market
Websites and mobile applications development.
What we do
Design, development
and promotion
Development
Lakat is a premier custom software development and quality assurance company delivering complex world-class software solutions on a variety of technology platforms to clients.
Website promotion
With a keen understanding of what's happening in the digital landscape, we leverage the power of marketing platforms to connect audiences with contagious content worth sharing & spreading, cross-channel and touchpoint.
Let's take your Business to next level
We're west coast change-makers, in a complex world. The brands we support are positioned to be purposeful and powerful while also fluid and free-forming.
Hire usHow we work
Our work process
01/ 05
Concept
Setting goals and objectives of the site.
Plan
Creation, study of the technical task (TOR) for the development of the site.
Design
Prototyping and website design layout creation.
Development
Layout, programming, filling content, testing.
Quality check
Delivery of the finished project to the client.
How can Lakat help
We deliver end-to-end software development, quality assurance and support solutions to clients ranging from world-class companies to startups in all stages of funding.
Custom software design and development
Assessment, roadmap and software architecture design.
Mobile application development
Our team is comprised of top-tier android and IOS software engineers.
Software quality assurance and testing
With our flexible engagement models, we help our clients speed up time to market.
Software maintenance and support
We take the long view of our relationship.
Selected work
Our projects
A look at how we turn briefs into products people use — from mobile apps to platforms and storefronts.
01Mobile app
Nomo
A personal-finance app that makes budgeting effortless — real-time spending insights, instant peer-to-peer payments and bank-grade security, shipped for iOS and Android from a single codebase.
- 99.8%
- Crash-free sessions
- 90%
- Shared codebase
- −0.4s
- Cold start
- React Native
- Node.js
- Stripe
02SaaS platform
Orbit
A real-time fleet-management platform: live vehicle tracking on an interactive map, automated dispatch and role-based dashboards that replaced a tangle of spreadsheets for the operations team.
- 120ms
- Live update latency
- 99.9%
- Uptime
- 1.1s
- Median load
- Next.js
- PostgreSQL
- WebSockets
03E-commerce
Selva
A headless storefront for a sustainable-fashion label — a fast, editorial shopping experience with a custom checkout and a CMS the team actually enjoys using. Rebuilt for speed, and it shows.
- 0.8s
- Load time (LCP)
- 100
- Lighthouse score
- −60%
- Page weight
- Astro
- Shopify
- Tailwind
Our team
A small team that works on your project directly — no layers in between, no handovers to someone you have never spoken to.
Olena Kovalchuk
Frontend Developer
Interfaces that stay fast on a mid-range phone.
Dmytro Melnyk
Backend Developer
APIs, data models and everything behind the screen.
Marta Nowak
Product Designer
From first sketch to a design system that holds.
Artem Tkachenko
QA Engineer
Finds what breaks before your customers do.
Lucas Ferreira
Mobile Developer
Native Android and iOS, shipped and maintained.
Sofia Ricci
SEO Specialist
Makes the work visible in search and analytics.
Client stories
What clients say
“Lakat rebuilt our platform from the ground up and shipped ahead of schedule. The jump in speed and polish was obvious from day one.”
Marcus Feldman
Founder & CEO
“They treated our product like their own. Every detail was considered, and the design system they left us with keeps paying off months later.”
Elena Sokolova
Head of Product
“Our organic traffic doubled within two quarters. They fixed the technical foundations no one else had bothered to look at.”
James Whitfield
Marketing Director
“Clear communication, zero drama, and a team that actually delivers what it promises. Rare, and genuinely refreshing.”
Priya Nair
Operations Lead
“The engineering quality is genuinely high — clean architecture, thorough testing. We inherited a codebase we are happy to build on.”
Thomas Berg
Chief Technology Officer
“Our checkout conversion jumped after the redesign. They understood our customers better than we expected them to.”
Clara Almeida
E-commerce Manager
Rates & engagement
How we price
No packages, no line items you did not ask for. We agree on how we work together first — the rate follows from who ends up on the project.
Fixed scope
You know what needs building.
We write the specification, quote it once and deliver against milestones. The number stops moving when the scope does.
Billed by milestone
Dedicated team
The product keeps moving.
Named specialists work with you for an agreed number of days each month. Priorities can change between sprints without renegotiating a contract.
Billed monthly, per specialist
Support & growth
It is live and needs looking after.
An agreed pool of hours a month covers fixes, updates, monitoring and the small changes that keep a site earning.
Billed monthly, unused hours discussed
Hourly rates by discipline
The basis every estimate above is built from · USD
| Discipline | Rate range, USD per hour | |
|---|---|---|
| Cybersecurity engineering | $120–180/ hr | |
| Project management | $70–110/ hr | |
| Back-end development | $65–100/ hr | |
| Front-end development | $60–95/ hr | |
| UI/UX design | $55–90/ hr | |
| QA engineering | $55–85/ hr | |
| SMM projects | $40–70/ hr | |
$0$50$100$150$200 |
Where a project lands inside a range depends on seniority and complexity. Fixed-scope work is quoted as a total rather than by the hour — these rates are what that total is built from.
Journal
From the studio
Common questions
The things clients ask us before signing. If yours is not here, write to us — a short answer costs nothing.
How long does a project take?
A landing page usually takes two to three weeks, a corporate website four to eight, a custom application longer. The estimate is fixed after the first two steps of our process — concept and specification — because that is the point where the scope stops moving.
How do you price the work?
Every service on the price list has a range, and where your project lands inside it depends on the number of pages and screens, the integrations you need and how much of the content is ready. Small, well-defined tasks can be fixed-price; longer engagements are usually billed per sprint.
What do you need from me to start?
A description of the business goal, examples of what you like and dislike, and whoever on your side will make decisions. Texts, photos and access to hosting can come later — we will tell you exactly what is needed and when.
Can you take over a project someone else started?
Yes. We start with an audit of the existing code and infrastructure and come back with what can be kept, what has to be rewritten and what it will cost. If a rebuild turns out cheaper than the rescue, we will say so.
Do you build mobile apps as well as websites?
Yes — native Android and iOS. Whether an app is the right answer at all is worth discussing first: for a lot of tasks a good mobile web version costs less and reaches more people.
What happens after launch?
Bugs that come from our work are fixed at our expense. Beyond that we offer maintenance and support — updates, backups, monitoring and small changes — either monthly or by request. Nothing is compulsory: the site is yours and you can maintain it elsewhere.
Who owns the code and the design?
You do, once the work is paid for — sources, design files and accounts included. We keep no locks: no proprietary CMS you can only host with us, no hidden dependencies.
Do you also handle promotion, or only development?
Both. Technical SEO — speed, markup, indexing — is part of every build. Ongoing promotion, content and analytics are a separate service, and it makes sense to plan it before the site is built rather than after.
Do you work with clients outside the UK?
Yes. Lakat LTD is registered in London and works remotely with clients in other countries. We agree on a couple of hours of overlap for calls and keep everything else in writing.
Contacts
Let's start
a project
From you — business, from us — software development.
Email
support@lakat.netAddress
Suite 17039 43 Bedford Street,
London, England, WC2E 9HA