Expansio

A Polish company in Poznań that builds mobile and web applications for clients, and also develops startups of its own. Client work is the larger part of the firm. Its mobile practice covers native iOS and Android apps, which the company says it has built for well-known brands with large user bases. Alongside those it builds responsive web applications that run in a browser, with React Native and PHP among its main technologies.

Mobile and web builds for large brands

The firm presents app development as its core trade. It says it has delivered several iOS and Android apps for world-famous brands and for thousands of users, and that a project can start from a client's own requirements. React Native gives it a route to both phone platforms, while PHP covers the server side of the browser applications it makes.

CodeAll, a chatbot that teaches coding with sensors

CodeAll is the firm's own product and the one it describes at most length. It is a chatbot that teaches programming by letting learners build a small intelligent environment out of wireless sensors. A learner talks to the chatbot, writes code on a phone and sees the result in the physical world, for example a light that switches on after a clap, a car parking sensor, or an intelligent fridge. The product was chosen for Google's Launchpad Start programme, where Expansio counts itself among ten startups picked in Poland, and it took part in the Swiss Kickstart accelerator in Zurich. The firm says the idea has been presented in South Africa, Switzerland, Spain and Rwanda and has won several awards, and that CodeAll was named among the top ten EdTech startups at the South Summit conference.

Enter the Game and the Volkswagen rollout

Enter the Game is a mobile game for corporate training. The firm says it ran at Volkswagen, where more than a thousand staff played for five weeks, earning points and awards while taking on the roles of executives running a factory on Mars in the year 2040. Its aim was to teach the principles of Factory 4.0. A later version is being developed with Ericsson and is meant to teach 5G networking. Because the game has an admin panel, a client can write its own storyline and adapt the scenario to a different industry.

An internal social app for a car plant

For Volkswagen's Poznań plant the firm built a communication app used by more than ten thousand people. Its editors post text, images and video, employees can like and comment on them, and a shared calendar lists company events in one place. It also holds a frequently asked questions section and connects to recruitment systems.

Machine learning inside research projects

Machine learning is not a separate line of business. The firm does it mainly inside research and development projects, such as a BigData Chatbot that answers questions by retrieving information from documents a client uploads. The firm describes that project as a work in progress.

Grants, awards and accelerator places

The firm lists several public and private recognitions. They include a distinction in the Poznań Leader of Entrepreneurship competition, a win at the second running of the Edulab contest, which named it the most promising educational startup in Poland, a grant from the Polish National Centre for Research and Development, and fourteenth place in the eighth edition of a competition ranking creative businesses. The Startup Spark programme backed the beacon product that was later deployed at Wielton, a European trailer maker, and an SME Instrument grant from the European Commission funded CodeAll.

Intellectual property and the team

The firm states that clients own all intellectual property rights in their project, including the source code. Its team combines software developers, hardware developers and designers. The office sits in the Poznań Science and Technology Park, where the firm says it has access to startup mentors and advisors. It describes itself as a teal organisation, meaning one built around its people, partners and clients.