For 14 years we've worked with banks, fintechs, payments, and crypto teams whose products had to scale faster than their structure. From PrivatBank in 2011 to monobank in 2017 to today.
How we got here
Viacheslav Bushtruk founded the practice in 2009. The early work was contract engineering for Bigtincan in Australia and government applications. Not glamorous. But it taught us how to think about products at scale — and how to own them when no one else does.
PrivatBank came to us at the end of 2011 — Ukraine's largest retail bank. We've worked with them ever since. 14 years. 20+ projects across consumer banking, business banking, and internal tooling.
This is where Alty stopped being a contract engineering shop and started being something else.
The co-founders of monobank came from PrivatBank. They knew us. They asked us to build the product before they had a design team.
We designed the entire first version — UI, UX, the patterns that became the foundation for what monobank looks like today. monobank reached 8M+ users. The app won a Red Dot Award for Best Design.
Most importantly: this was the first engagement where we weren't executing specifications. We were defining them. That changed how we work.
We've always built for clients the way we'd build for ourselves. That principle decided which problems we'd take on, and which we'd walk away from.
Case studyThe neobank we designed before it had a design team
Case studyThe biggest retail bank in Ukraine.
14 years of partnership. 30+ projects
Case studyBanking transformation for one of the largest West African banks
What we known for
Most banking products don't fail because of technology. They fail when strategy, design, engineering, and decisions stop talking to each other.
We come in at that point. Not at the idea stage, where the work is brainstorming. Not at maintenance, where the work is execution. In between, when the product has outgrown its original structure.
This is a separate discipline. It needs an owner who holds all the decisions together. That's what we do.
Alty's designs helped grow the app's active users and improve its rating on app stores.
Zakir Khanmammadov, KapitalBank, Azerbaijan
We don't see their whole kitchen; we only see the results, and I like that.
Askar Mailyubayev, Halyk Bank, Kazakhstan
We have been collaborating with the Alty team since 2010 and firmly believe they are the best in the market. Their unmatched expertise was the primary reason we chose them to design Monobank back in 2017.
Co-founder, monobank, Ukraine
What drives us
From the first engagement we took on, we wanted to influence the business, not just deliver tasks.
Treating every product as our own is the defining principle behind how we engage and what we walk away from.
We're not building for spec. We're building for the outcome.
How we operate
One senior lead owns your product from entry point to outcome
They coordinate across disciplines, so you don't have to manage the gaps.
One senior lead owns your product from entry point to outcome
They coordinate across disciplines, so you don't have to manage the gaps.
Part of the team in our Kyiv office, 2025
50+ designers, engineers, and strategists. Distributed across Ukraine and Portugal. We work in product-team configuration — one senior lead per engagement, no matrixed accountability.
Most of these came from work that started before they were nominated
Red dot winner
iF Design Award
Indigo Award
The people who make decisions about what we take on, how we deliver it, and what we walk away from.
The people who make decisions about what we take on, how we deliver it, and what we walk away from.
