Valmax

Valmax has:

• 30+ experts
• 300 successfully launched projects
• 5+ years providing innovative design solutions
• 8 partners collaborating with Valmax for more than two years

The company's mission is to transform innovative business ideas into technical solutions through teamwork, mutual assistance, openness, freedom, and shared values.

Team and location

Valmax has roots in Ukraine, with team members working remotely across Ukraine, Europe, and the United States. Team members are also based in Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and Germany.

The management team includes Max Vielkov, Vlad Bahatskyi, Irina Kirilchuk, Valerii Neikov, and Irina Shevchenko.

Services include:

• Custom logo design
• Brand and style guides
• Logo animation
• Rebranding
• Brand assets
• Pitch deck design

Brand guidelines can cover typography, color palettes, imagery, tone of voice, patterns, graphics, iconography, and logo usage. Brand assets may include business cards, letterheads, social media covers, e-mail signatures, document templates, posters, product labels, and other branded materials.

Brand development process

1. Discovery and research: Understand the vision and objectives, research the market and target audience, and conduct discovery sessions.
2. Mood board: Establish the intended emotional tone and visual direction.
3. Logo concepts: Present logo concepts tailored to the brand vision and incorporate feedback into subsequent iterations.
4. Visual guidelines: Create a brand guideline document covering the rules for the visual identity.
5. Brand assets: Prepare and deliver five or more polished brand identity assets, tailored to the brand.

Valmax also integrates motion into branding through animated logos, intros, and website animations. Its wider expertise includes websites, UI/UX design, mobile design, and motion graphics, allowing brand identities to carry across digital platforms.

Services

Valmax provides services across branding, design, and development.

Branding

• Brand strategy
• Logo design
• Brand identity
• Brand guides and brand books
• Rebranding

Design

• Web design
• UI/UX design
• Mobile app design
• Graphic design and illustrations
• Motion and 3D design
• Pitch deck design

Development

• Corporate websites
• WOW websites with bold designs and animations
• No-code websites using solutions such as Webflow and Framer
• E-commerce websites
• MVPs for startups
• Custom web applications, including SaaS products, web platforms, and dashboards

Valmax can also handle software development for web and mobile applications. Depending on the project, the team can work as an end-to-end outsourcing partner or provide specialists through an outstaffing model.

Industries

Valmax works across industries including:

• AI and machine learning
• Web 3.0
• Real estate
• E-commerce
• Media
• IT and digital
• Startups
• Logistics

Industry-specific experience includes AI product websites and brand development, Web3 applications and DeFi platforms, property websites and management systems, e-commerce integrations, media platforms and subscriptions, and logistics systems such as TMS, WMS, fleet management, and driver applications.

Time and materials

Suitable for long-term projects with dynamic requirements, an incompletely defined scope, or a need to adjust scope and workload.

Fixed price

Suitable when requirements and deadlines are clear and the project has a limited scope. Valmax manages the product development lifecycle.

Subscription

Designed for smaller projects requiring a significant business investment. The project cost is paid monthly for a year, and Valmax provides a ready-made digital product.

Starting a project

A detailed technical specification is not required to begin. Valmax recommends a discovery phase to understand the business goals, analyze requirements and the market, and prepare a clear project plan. Clients provide their business goals, relevant information, vision, feedback, and approvals.

For branding projects, clients can submit a request or book a meeting. Valmax then provides a preliminary cost and timeline estimate and a project roadmap. After the Master Agreement and Statement of Work are signed and the initial payment is made, Valmax needs five business days to assemble the project team and plan the work.

Cost and client fit

Project cost depends on scope, functionality, design requirements, deadlines, and chosen technologies. Valmax works with startups and established companies; shared vision, aligned values, and clear project requirements are important.

Each project is assigned an experienced project manager. Valmax emphasizes communication, respect, honesty, transparency, research, attention to detail, and budget-conscious solutions.

Partner programs

• White Label Program: Design and development for agencies and IT companies under the partner's brand.
• Affiliate Program: Referrers receive a 10% commission for every client they refer to Valmax.

Contact

To discuss a project, email [email protected] or call +1 917 690 4360. Valmax also offers consultations and scheduled meetings.

Selected projects include:

• Monads: An award-winning website redesign for a consulting firm, translating complex enterprise expertise into a clear, human-centered digital identity.
• CARBO Tech: A rebrand and enterprise website with more than 50 custom pages, 3D visuals, a custom CMS, and product-first storytelling.
• Virtue Security: A secure, scalable website for a cybersecurity brand, featuring GSAP animations and a custom WordPress CMS.
• Digital Dunes: Branding and a bilingual website for a MENA game publisher, using falcon-inspired visuals and game-driven interactions.
• FutureTypes: An online magazine platform with subscriptions, e-commerce, and an editor's toolkit.
• FewOfUs: A luxury jewelry e-commerce experience built with Shopify.

Uprise Financial case study

For Uprise Financial, a financial advisory company in Perth, Australia, Valmax delivered a brand refresh, website redesign, animated custom illustrations, and a Financial Health Check tool. The project took three months.

The team created more than 30 unique illustrations and animated them across the site. The website was built on WordPress with minimal plugins to support page speed and SEO. Valmax also created a custom admin panel for new page creation and enhanced the site's security.

Recognition and client feedback

Valmax reports the following credentials and recognition:

• Upwork: 100% job success, Expert-Vetted Badge, and 4,000+ hours completed
• GoodFirms: 5.00 feedback rating and 18 reviews
• Clutch: 5.00 average rating, 90+ verified reviews, and recognition among the Top 1000 agencies on Clutch in 2024
• Behance: UI/UX Award Badge Winner and The InDesign Award

Clients have highlighted Valmax's WordPress expertise, flexibility, communication, independent project management, modern design, and user experience.