How Plus8Soft’s founders turned 15 years of experience into an innovative team augmentation approach

Intro

Plus8Soft, a software development outsourcing and team augmentation company, was created in 2022 by expert entrepreneurs Evgeniy Zhdanov and Timur Iusubaliev. Combining over 20 years of experience with a fresh approach to scaling clients’ businesses, the company achieved significant growth in just three years.

As of today, Plus8Soft is a certified partner of Amazon, Google, and IBM and has successfully completed over 100 projects for clients across multiple industries — from a Mexico-focused AI-powered healthcare application to mental health and fitness solutions for audiences in the United States and the UAE.

The road to success

Before deciding to merge their businesses and establish Plus8Soft as one of the new highly demanded players in the market, Evgeniy Zhdanov and Timur Iusubaliev had already known each other for over a decade.

By that time, Timur, the company’s COO, had led multiple successful projects, building engineering teams, architecture, and scaling technical solutions. Evgeniy, Plus8Soft’s CEO, has founded and developed two digital marketing companies and has extensive experience launching tech products and consulting other businesses.

After Evgeniy completed his business education at Stanford Graduate School of Business, he realized that the current software development market is not functioning to its full potential due to outdated traditional approaches.

Most companies use outsourcing and IT team augmentation services to solve very specific tasks, without even attempting to integrate their partner teams into the larger picture. While both parties were generally satisfied with these terms, at the end of the day, there was a clear lack of ambition that resulted in multiple missed opportunities.

Modern companies are getting more and more complex, and the environment they exist in also changes at a rapid rate. A team that simply does its coding task without understanding the full scale of the company’s goals is going to inevitably miss key details that would make all the difference.

Evgeniy concluded that the clients require not just another team of engineers, but a strategic partner who knows their product as well as the market and understands how to achieve the client's business objectives. This is how Plus8Soft was born — a company that combines technological, product, and business expertise to not just solve the client’s current objectives, but create high-value-added solutions.

From the very beginning, Plus8Soft was built as an AI-first company. After all, both of its founders have significant experience with the technology: Evgeniy was already using artificial intelligence in his previous projects as early as 2012, while Timur was among the first to develop AI systems.

Plus8Soft’s unique vision enabled it to grow its revenue by over 100% each year. Today, the company actively participates in international competitions like EY Entrepreneur of the Year, IAOP Global Outsourcing 100, and the Financial Times FT1000, and looks forward to expanding its reach even further.

“More than 5 million people worldwide use our software, thanks to our unique approach. We quickly integrate highly skilled specialists into the client’s team at any stage of the project. This allows us to keep development costs low while maintaining a high standard of work, as our team consists of developers with many years of expertise,” says Evgeniy Zhdanov, CEO of Plus8Soft.

Plus8Soft’s team augmentation strategy

As Evgeniy notes, many clients believe that no one can understand their business as well as they do, so they are reluctant to even try consulting with external experts. However, practice proves this point of view to be wrong — Plus8Soft’s development team is experienced enough to act as full-scale consultants and come up with efficient product decisions.

“Working with Plus8Soft has been a game-changer for our company. Their talented team didn’t just bring technical expertise to the table; they became an extension of our own workforce, working hand in hand to design solutions. Plus8Soft genuinely cares about the outcome. This is evident in every interaction, line of code, and solution they deliver,” says Jenn Heil, CEO of Rya Health.

Evgeniy Zhdanov provides an example: Plus8Soft can reliably assemble a team of 20 highly skilled specialists for a project within one week, and this will end up being significantly cheaper and quicker than hiring individual experts through HR. The team will also be integrated into the project seamlessly and have a full understanding of the client’s business goals.

Achieving that is possible thanks to Plus8Soft’s workflow, consisting of several key stages.

• Defining requirements. An in-depth consultation session to clarify the client’s expectations. This phase ensures that selected specialists will fit the client’s team perfectly.
• Candidate matching and vetting. Plus8Soft chooses candidates from its global network in accordance with the client’s requirements.
• Client approval and onboarding. The client interviews, and selects the talent, while Plus8Soft ensures a smooth onboarding process.
• Continuous support. Plus8Soft provides ongoing support to guarantee that augmented team members remain productive in the long term.

Plus8Soft puts a huge emphasis on a personalized and agile approach to ensure maximum efficiency, enabling it to scale clients’ projects on time and optimize solutions in accordance with business growth. At the same time, open communication and complete transparency guarantee a realistic outlook and trust between partners.

Looking forward

Plus8Soft plans on broadening its horizons, scaling both its team and reach. The company is committed to expanding its services across more industries, planning to cover the majority of IT and AI development soon. Seeing how successful Plus8Soft was working with healthcare, fintech, banking, trading, SaaS, and other niches, it is expected to show similar results for multiple new clients in the future.