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“At Nexilo, we believe every business deserves the power of AI—whether you're just starting or scaling fast. My team and I are here to support your vision and help you move forward with confidence.”
Challenge
- PCI DSS certification and FCA approval, ensuring full regulatory compliance
- Ultra-low latency transactions under 250 milliseconds, delivering a seamless user experience.
- Successful integration of multiple third-party APIs, including GPS, Xero, and CashFlows
Building a betting platform is not just a technical challenge — it’s a trust challenge.
Wager needed to launch a product that could handle real‑money wagering, support social interactions, and scale as adoption grew, all while remaining simple enough for everyday users.
The challenges were layered:
- Translating prediction‑market mechanics into a consumer‑friendly experience
- Building an MVP quickly enough to validate the idea with real users
- Supporting real‑money transactions with reliability and performance
- Designing a platform that could evolve as the business model matured
This was a product that needed to work technically — and feel right socially.
Key Objectives
- Build and launch a functional MVP for social betting
- Enable real‑money, friend‑to‑friend wagering
- Validate product–market fit through live usage
- Scale the platform as adoption and funding increased
- Build a product credible enough to support acquisition
Solution
Innovify partnered closely with the Wager founders, acting as an extended product and engineering team throughout the journey.
MVP Product Design & Build
We helped translate the founding vision into a working MVP, focusing on core betting mechanics, social flows, and usability.
Prediction & Wagering Mechanics
The platform was built to support real‑money wagers and prediction‑style interactions, ensuring reliability and clarity for users.
Iterative Scaling
As traction grew and funding was raised, the product evolved through continuous iteration — refining features, improving performance, and supporting growth.
Founder‑Led Collaboration
The engagement was deeply hands‑on, with Innovify working directly with the founders as priorities shifted from validation to scale.
Results
- PCI DSS certification and FCA approval, ensuring full regulatory compliance
- Ultra-low latency transactions under 250 milliseconds, delivering a seamless user experience.
- Successful integration of multiple third-party APIs, including GPS, Xero, and CashFlows
Wager launched its MVP, validated the concept with real users, raised approximately £500K in funding, scaled the platform, and achieved a successful acquisition within two years.
The product Innovify helped build became central to that journey — not just as technology, but as proof of vision, execution, and market readiness. The Wager founders later publicly acknowledged Innovify’s role in helping turn an early idea into a tangible, fundable, and acquirable business.
Founder Validation
In reflecting on the journey from idea to acquisition, Wager’s co-founder publicly acknowledged Innovify as the development partner that helped turn an early concept into a working product at its most critical stage. That recognition was shared in a personal Medium article detailing the lessons learned while building Wager from the ground up.
Read the full story here: https://medium.com/@WagerLeo/the-ten-things-i-wished-i-knew-before-starting-a-business-68a3479a4a76
