Scaling Up Coach for tech companies with ambition to become Unicorns!

If you're a busy founder of a fast-growing company, you probably:

- Worry whether you can maintain your current growth rate

- Would like to have more talented A Players on your team

- Hate monitoring everyone's work to ensure targets are met

- Have too many tasks on your plate which should be delegated anyway

- Wonder what to do to have full visibility into what's going on in the business


You might be all 5. You might just be 1.

Why does that matter?

If you:

- Grew your business vastly over the past few years
- Added new clients 
- Added new employees

But you began to realize that current management methods are no longer sufficient. 

Chances are your company's reached the next level of growth and needs new mechanisms to fight barriers to scale.

That’s where The Scaling Up Methodology™ comes in.

The Scaling Up Methodology™ was created for mid-market companies to overcome these challenges and set the basis for sustainable business growth. 

Here are 5 things founders of fast-growing companies have said working with a Scaling Up Coach helps them with:

1. To attract and grow talent
2. To stand out from the competition
3. To increase the valuation of the company
4. To regain time to work “on” instead of “in” the company
5. To create a culture of engagement and satisfaction among team members

Using the Scaling Up framework does all 5 of these and more.

But you don't have time to learn from your mistakes...

You're too busy doing other stuff like, I don't know, running your business.

So what happens now?

I'll implement Scaling Up with you.

I work with fast-growing tech companies with 200-600 employees on board with the ambition of becoming Unicorns! Founders of Forbes 30 under 30, EY Entrepreneur Of The Year, and market leaders in their industries.

That's how powerful Scaling Up is when you use it the right way.

So, your decision is this:

A - Do you want to sit and do nothing and wait for your competition to figure Scaling Up out?

or 

B - Do you want your bold vision to come true with less time and effort but with a bigger impact?

Take your time - let me know which one it is.

A or B.

If you decide B - scroll up to my featured section and click on the 'Scaling Up Application' to apply for me to help you with the Scaling Up framework.

You'll just need to answer a few quick questions, takes 3 mins.

Then I'll be in touch.

Speak soon.

Karol Popa - Scaling Up Coach

CEO, Artkai | Helping with Strategy, Design & End-to-End Development of Customer-centric digital products and services

I have over ten years in Software development, Marketing, and UX Design. My team's core focus is on AI, Enterprise applications, FinTech/BFSI (online banking, personal finance, insurance, trading), Web3, Crypto and NFT, B2B/B2C Marketplaces. 

Types of solutions: Web Applications, Mobile Applications, SaaS, Marketplaces, CRMs, ERPs.

Artkai blends research with profound engineering expertise and complex end-to-end development. As CX and UX experts, we add value to our client's products and services by building experiences that are effective, convenient, and demanded by their customers.

I am glad to share my personal experience and my team's experience, and happy to connect you with one of the best software engineering teams on the market.

Kos Chekanov

Legacy systems cost way more than most businesses and enterprises realize.

Not just financially - but in speed, scalability, and decision-making. 

Here are a few numbers proving my point:

- legacy systems have 30–50% higher maintenance costs 
- poor UX reduces adoption and productivity by up to 25%
- legacy systems are prone to 70%+ of vulnerabilities
- no integration with modern tools leads to lost efficiency

These numbers don’t come from abstract reports or theory.

They come from real modernization projects we’ve worked on - where hidden costs, slow delivery, and operational friction were holding businesses back.

So I’m curious: what limitation of legacy apps influences your business the most? 

Vote below. 

#modernization #innovation

Which legacy system limitation impacts your business the most at the moment?


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More than 70% of the software used by worldwide business giants was built more than 15 years ago 

So why do companies still rely on legacy solutions? Mostly because they: 

- fear of disrupting ongoing processes 
- lack internal expertise/resources to modernize
- have integration issues with existing tools
- don’t know how to approach modernization 

As a result, legacy solutions turn into a growth bottleneck instead of a business asset.

They slow down innovation, increase maintenance costs, limit scalability, and make every change riskier.

Modernization doesn’t mean “rip and replace.” 

With the right strategy, it can be iterative, safe, and aligned with business priorities.

So I’m curious which modernization risks matter most to you?

Vote in the poll below. 



#modernization #innovation #business #enterprise #techtrends

What’s your biggest concern when modernizing your legacy software?


If you ask me what affects product adoption, user engagement, and your sales

My answer would be - first-class product design. 

Forrester and McKinsey studied the business value of UX and discovered that companies investing in product design achieve:

- 27% increase in conversion rates
- 55% boost in customer retention
- up to 40% increase in sales 

So never underestimate the influence of good UX design. 

Companies of all sizes approached my team with requests for an audit and redesign of their products. 

We worked on products of different complexity, fixed usability, integrated new features, and created design systems. 

And the outcomes of these product makeovers were remarkable, like in the statistics above. 

And what would you redesign in your product to make it a game-changer? 

Vote and leave your comments below. 


#redesign #innovation #modernization

What do you consider improving in your product in the first place?

Every year, my team modernizes 5+ diverse products and always starts with a high-end audit. 

We know firsthand that products that go through our UX audit see:

- up to 60% improvement in user retention
- 30–45% fewer usability issues post-launch
- up to 25% reduced development costs 
- 0 wasted resources on building unnecessary features

UX audit is a game-changer that businesses shouldn’t skip if they do not want to miss these strategic benefits. 

It is the first and most important step in moving your product forward. 

And to perform an effective UX audit, you need to have a proven approach and set of exercises. 

In this expert blog post, we share our best practices: https://lnkd.in/d_fTkpv3

Check it out right away - it also contains success stories of our clients. 

And DM me if you need any help with your product audit. 


#redesign #innovation #modernization

Open article: How to Perform UX Audit of a Digital Product: Best Practices | Artkai 🚀 by artkai.io

How to Perform UX Audit of a Digital Product: Best Practices | Artkai 🚀

There are 3 categories of challenges businesses face while modernizing their legacy apps: 

- business-related challenges
- issues caused by technical debt 
- major implementation risks 

My team specializes in legacy app modernization and is ready to share some proven strategies to solve these challenges.

We know firsthand how to turn modernization into a controlled, predictable process.

So our team prepared an expert post in which we:

- break down modernization challenges 
- explain how to tackle them step by step
- share our best practices and one client’s success story

Check out this post right away:  https://lnkd.in/dRqn7mMA

And DM me if you need an expert consultation. 

#modernization #innovation

Here is what enterprises and SMBs expect to get after legacy app modernization: 

- productivity growth by up to 45%
- 2x more loyal clients 
- great CX leading to 3x higher conversions
- at least 35% decrease in maintenance costs 

And their expectations are totally right. 

Legacy app modernization transforms businesses on so many levels.

It reshapes how companies work, how customers interact with the product, and how fast businesses can adapt to market changes. 

Modernization doesn’t just fix legacy issues - it unlocks real business value. 

And we have 5 incredible examples showcasing it. 

Just take a look at the carousel to see what our clients achieved. 

And don’t hesitate to DM me if you need an expert consultation. 


#modernization #innovation #techtrends

5 legacy app modernization cases 

Every product redesign starts with a different kind of audit.

That’s because products have diverse issues - with adoption, usability, performance, conversions, or scalability. 

So, depending on product issues, we choose what kind of audit to perform: 

- UX RESEARCH: diving into users’ needs to make product more user-centered 
- USABILITY AUDIT: finding usability issues to simplify the user journey 
- ACCESSIBILITY AUDIT: checking if your product meets standards and is usable by everyone
- PERFORMANCE AUDIT: looking for speed and performance issues to design first-class UX
- VISUAL DESIGN AUDIT: assessing the design to make it more visually pleasing and intuitive 
- ARCHITECTURE AUDIT: evaluating infrastructure and identifying scalability issues 
- CRO AUDIT: finding all conversion blockers to optimize key touchpoints 

Audit helps us to understand what to fix, optimize, or rebuild.

It is the key step to enhancing your product without wasting time or budget.

Ready to perform it? 

Then DM me and let’s discuss. 


#redesign #modernization #innovation

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