SmartCat is named a Top AI Development Company in Serbia! Here at SmartCat, we know it can be taxing for a new company to try to keep up with the latest AI technologies while managing other crucial business processes. That is exactly why you

Our vision is our destination. Our mission is what we’re going to do on our way there. And our values are how we want to get to that destination.

Building a Data Science/Engineering company from scratch was quite a journey so far! Our Co-Founder & CEO Nenad Bozic shared challenges, lessons learned and insights from SmartCat in guest post at Digital Knights blog.

When we decided to open up the SmartCat, we had already gained various experience working mostly for outsourcing web development companies. At first, we tried to apply the same processes and steps to build data science solutions...

“That will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired” is what, in my opinion, is the main problem of the management approach that is to this day dominating the corporate scene.

Instead of questioning the obvious, we asked ourselves: “how come there is no ‘paternity leave’ in the corporate world?”

Disclaimer: This blog post contains a tasty dose of profanities. Some may call use of curse words unprofessional, and 90% of the time they would be right, however, this blog post and this company value of SmartCat is about being real..

Life’s too short! Do it right or don’t do it at all. Aim to impress.

Why did we organize this meeting? Why do I have to write the minutes of meeting after each call? It is important to know why are we doing things we do - we need to have an end goal and acceptance within us to make us want to do things we do. This is why the second of SmartCat company values is:

When we decided to start our own company, back in 2015, the first thing we did as founders of SmartCat was define our company values.

Spoiler Alert: This article is not technology-focused. It’s people-focused.

This was our third Craft Conference, the place to be if you are connected to IT and want to be a better professional. The main topic of the conference, as always, was the art of craftsmanship. I

It was late one Wednesday evening, 8:30 pm. We were pulling long hours before the big date - project deadline. Things weren’t going according to plan and to make things worse I had not been aware of it until a week or less before the deadline.

I walked through the awakening downtown of Novi Sad. It was early. People with their briefcases and laptop bags, rushing to work. A sunny day was breaking on the rooftop of the cathedral - a real treat in a period of predominant cloudiness.

We wanted to share why we want to do what we do and why we think this is the future of IT. The number of internet users is constantly growing and what strikes us even more is the fact that 90% of all data in the world today has been created in the last 2 years only.