Unicorn IT Services logo

An engineeringteam for theambitious workyou’re planning.

Unicorn IT Services is a product engineering studio in Bucharest, Romania. We build custom software, AI, cloud and data platforms for companies that need serious engineering without the overhead of hiring in-house.

Start a projectSee our work
50+
Projects shipped
16
People on the team
6
Cities
2019
Founded
Trusted by
World Bank
UiPath
OMD
PointHR
Basware
Brinel
World Bank
UiPath
OMD
PointHR
Basware
Brinel
World Bank
UiPath
OMD
PointHR
Basware
Brinel
World Bank
UiPath
OMD
PointHR
Basware
Brinel
MINES Paris
CEO Clubs
Acada
Anais
PlantAnApp
Attiva
MINES Paris
CEO Clubs
Acada
Anais
PlantAnApp
Attiva
MINES Paris
CEO Clubs
Acada
Anais
PlantAnApp
Attiva
MINES Paris
CEO Clubs
Acada
Anais
PlantAnApp
Attiva
01Services

What we do

Four practice areas, one team. We build, ship, and operate.

  • 01

    Custom software

    Web and mobile applications built for scale. From MVPs that raise a seed round to enterprise platforms handling hundreds of thousands of users.

    Deliverables
    • Product strategy
    • Design system
    • Front-end + back-end
    • QA & release
  • 02

    AI & automation

    LLM integrations, RPA, document processing. We take repetitive workflows and rebuild them around models, without the science project.

    Deliverables
    • AI pilots
    • Workflow automation
    • Chat & agent tooling
    • Evaluations
  • 03

    Cloud & architecture

    Secure, observable infrastructure. We audit, migrate, and operate cloud systems that stay up, and stay affordable, under real load.

    Deliverables
    • Architecture review
    • Cloud migration
    • CI/CD
    • Observability
  • 04

    Data platforms

    Pipelines, search, analytics. We design data layers that your product, your BI team, and your future ML team can all live in.

    Deliverables
    • Schema design
    • ETL pipelines
    • Search & analytics
    • Reporting

Not sure which of these you need? That is the first conversation.

Book a scoping call
02Work

A few things we've built.

Selected work across SaaS, AI, fintech, civic tech and commerce, including the internal platforms we can't screenshot.

Featured · Since 2023

PointHR

HR SaaS · Enterprise

End-to-end HR management for US companies. We lead engineering, cloud, and release.

.NET CoreAzureReact
Visit live site
PointHR screenshot
  • 2024QubitAI WhatsApp assistant

    A conversational AI assistant that lives inside WhatsApp Business, with agent-style tools.

    PythonNext.jsLLM
    Visit live site
  • 2024Tressori SpaceMarketplace

    A luxury resale marketplace with dynamic pricing, escrow and authentication workflows.

    Next.jsStripePostgres
    Visit live site
  • 2024CodurilePenale.roLegal intelligence SaaS

    A subscription platform for Romanian legal professionals with search and annotation.

    ReactDjango
    Visit live site
  • 2024MOPIndustrial commerce

    3D product configurator and sales platform for a niche industrial manufacturer.

    LaravelThree.js
    Visit live site
  • OngoingCEO ClubsCRM · Membership platform

    The platform behind an invite-only executive community: memberships, events, polls and feedback forms, with attendee check-in by facial recognition and a cross-platform members app.

    .NET 7Next.js 13React 18React Native+3
    Visit live site
  • 2024KaneHospitality

    Fine-dining site and reservation flow for a Bucharest restaurant.

    ReactWordPress
    Visit live site
  • 2024ABC InsuranceFinTech · Brokerage

    A corporate insurance brokerage platform with quote, policy and claims workflows.

    ReactASP.NET
    Visit live site
  • OngoingCivicAppGovTech · Civic platform

    A civic platform connecting Romanian towns with their residents: official alerts, citizen reports, local news and a verified business directory, all run from a role-scoped town hall dashboard.

    .NET 10PostgreSQLReactReact Native+2
    Visit live site
  • OngoingArtizanalE-commerce · Apparel

    A festival-wear storefront printed in Romania, with a custom Shopify theme, a headless Hydrogen build and an internal tool for curating each drop.

    ShopifyHydrogenLiquidNode.js+2
    Visit live site

…and more.

Ask about our full portfolio
03Process

How we work.

Four phases, weekly shipping. You see progress on the first Friday.

  1. 01

    Discover

    What we build, and why.

  2. 02

    Architect

    A plan, not a guess.

  3. 03

    Build

    Ship weekly, not quarterly.

  4. 04

    Scale

    Run it in production.

Your first Friday could be next week.

Start a project
04Stack

Things we build with.

01 · Frontend
  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • React Native
  • Flutter
  • Tailwind
02 · Backend
  • .NET Core
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Django
  • Laravel
03 · Data
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • ElasticSearch
  • Redis
  • Snowflake
  • dbt
04 · Cloud & AI
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • OpenAI
  • LangChain
05Clients & partners

Who we work with.

World Bank
UiPath
OMD
PointHR
Basware
Brinel
MINES Paris
CEO Clubs
Acada
Anais
PlantAnApp
Attiva
06Reach

Clients across six cities.

We are based in Bucharest and ship for clients across Europe and North America.

44.45° N · 26.08° E
Home base

Bucharest

Romania

Our engineering hub. End-to-end delivery ships from here.

  • 01BucharestRomaniaOur engineering hub. End-to-end delivery ships from here.
  • 02AustinTexas · USAPointHR: a long-running HR SaaS engagement for US enterprises.
  • 03ParisFranceWorld Bank and MINES ParisTech: research and public sector platforms.
  • 04MilanItalyATTIVA: an HR platform with automated CV intake and admin tooling.
  • 05MonacoMonacoMOP: a 3D configurator and commerce for niche industrial goods.
  • 06BrusselsBelgiumWorkflow automation and bespoke integrations for EU clients.
07Team

16 people. One pod.

Engineers, strategists, automation specialists. Most have shipped together for years.

Laur Neagu, CEO & Founder
Leadership

Laur Neagu

CEO & Founder

  • 01Laur NeaguLeadership
  • 02Mihai MaximDelivery
  • 03Gabriel RaduGrowth
  • 04Mihai AnghelinEngineering
  • 05Marius MircioagaEngineering
  • 06Alexandru PeraEngineering
  • 07Cristi MarinescuEngineering
  • 08Cosmin CioporEngineering
  • 09Georgiana IlieEngineering
  • 10Rareș FloreaEngineering
  • 11Luca ConstantinEngineering
  • 12Florin CăluianEngineering
  • 13Mihăiță SălăvăstruAutomation
  • 14Cătălin PopaAutomation
  • 15Alexandra GrigorescuGrowth
  • 16Elena NeaguFinance

Outside the repo.

The same people, away from the pull requests: after hours in Bucharest, at Innovation Labs, at the workbench and, now and then, on stage.

  • Seven members of the Unicorn IT Services team sitting around a café table on a Bucharest street
    After hours in Bucharest.
  • Three members of the Unicorn IT Services team in front of the Innovation Labs backdrop
    At Innovation Labs.
  • A black 3D-printed plate with the Unicorn IT Services logo and name, screwed onto a hardware build on a workbench
    Our badge, 3D printed for a hardware build.
  • Laur Neagu of Unicorn IT Services speaking into a microphone on stage in front of a Forbes Romania backdrop
    Laur Neagu on stage at a Forbes Romania event.

We are always talking to good engineers.

Send us your CV
08Testimonials

In their own words.

5.0
“They operate like our in-house team. We trust them with the parts of the product nobody else can see.”
Product Lead
PointHR
5.0
“Delivered what we scoped at four months in under four weeks, and it still runs today without a single rewrite.”
Founder
Tressori Space
5.0
“They pushed back on the parts of our spec that were wrong. That is what you actually want from an engineering partner.”
Head of Digital
OMD

Sound like the team you need?

Start a project
09FAQ

Asked on the first call.

What buyers ask us before a project starts, answered plainly.

  1. What does Unicorn IT Services do?

    Unicorn IT Services is a product engineering studio in Bucharest, Romania. We design, build and run custom software across four practice areas: web and mobile applications, AI and automation, cloud architecture and data platforms. One team covers the whole path, from the first scoping call to production support, for companies that need serious engineering without hiring it in-house.

  2. Where are you based, and do you work with clients abroad?

    Our only office is in Bucharest, Romania. We ship for clients across Europe and North America, with work so far for clients in Bucharest, Austin, Paris, Milan, Monaco and Brussels. Our longest-running engagement is PointHR, an HR platform for US companies, where we have led engineering, cloud and releases since 2023.

  3. What kind of projects do you take on?

    SaaS products, AI tools, fintech, civic tech and commerce. Recent examples include CivicApp, a civic platform that connects Romanian towns with their residents; BClaims, an insurance claims system that covers the full lifecycle from first notification to payment; and Tressori Space, a luxury resale marketplace with escrow and authentication. Many of the 50+ projects we have shipped are internal platforms that run behind client networks.

  4. How does a project start, and how soon will we see progress?

    With a scoping call about your goals, users, constraints and technical risks. We then design the system, choose the stack and agree a roadmap and budget with your team before any production code is written. Delivery runs in two-week sprints with reviewed code, automated tests and a live staging environment from week one, so you see working software on the first Friday.

  5. Do you build AI and automation?

    Yes. It is one of our four practice areas, and the team includes dedicated RPA engineers. We have built LLM-powered document extraction (Unicorn-OCR), a natural language to SQL tool that runs fully on-premise, vehicle damage assessment from 3D camera recordings (InsureAI) and a WhatsApp assistant with agent-style tools (Qubit). Work starts with a pilot and evaluations, so a model earns its place before it reaches production.

  6. Can you work under NDA, on-premise or inside our network?

    Yes. A large part of our work is never public: an insurance claims platform behind a client network, medical claim document processing inside a client VPN, a TV media planning platform on a private deployment and a natural language to SQL tool running fully on-premise. Those projects appear on this page as drawn plates, because there is nothing we are allowed to screenshot.

  7. Can you take over or run an existing product?

    Yes. The last phase of every engagement is running the product in production: cloud and observability, on-call coverage, incremental feature work and a quarterly architecture review. Some of the systems we look after have been live for years, such as Primento, a book metadata and ONIX distribution engine for publishers that has been running since 2018.

  8. Which technologies do you use?

    We choose the stack per project and explain the trade-offs. Most of our products pair .NET, Node.js or Python back ends with React or Next.js front ends, React Native or Flutter on mobile, PostgreSQL, SQL Server or MySQL for data, and Azure or AWS with Docker in production. AI work uses OpenAI models and open-weight models served through Ollama.

  9. How big is the team, and who leads it?

    Sixteen people: full-stack and back-end engineers, RPA engineers, a project manager, business development, marketing and finance. Most have shipped together for years. The studio is led by its founder and CEO, Laur Neagu, who holds a PhD in computer science and lectures at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, POLITEHNICA Bucharest.

10Contact

Let's talk.

Tell us what
you’re building.
we’d love to help
you ship it.

Start a projectQuick question
Email
laur.neagu@unicorn-tech.org
Phone
(+40) 729 09 01 68
Office
Șoseaua Nicolae Titulescu 1, Block A7, Floor 10, Bucharest44.45° N · 26.08° E
Hours
Mon–Fri · 9:00–18:00 EET
Response time
Within one business day