Humanitarian Logistics Platform

THE SITUATION

Stravika OÜ was building Merelink - a logistics coordination platform for humanitarian NGOs operating in active conflict zones. The platform needed to function reliably across Ukraine, Sudan, the DRC, and Somalia: environments where connectivity is intermittent, conditions change without warning, and a system outage carries real operational consequence.

The technical requirements were unforgiving. The system had to work offline, sync cleanly when connectivity returned, and deploy simultaneously across web, iOS, and Android - all within a sub-three-month window. There was no margin for architectural shortcuts.

WHAT KONTORVA DELIVERED

Kontorva assumed full engineering ownership of the Merelink platform. We did not augment an existing team or provide resource capacity - we were the engineering function, responsible for every architectural decision and every line of delivered code.

The central architectural decision was offline-first design: building the system to function without a reliable connection as its baseline, with synchronisation as a secondary behaviour when connectivity was present. This inverts the typical development assumption and requires significantly more rigour in data consistency, state management, and conflict resolution logic.

We delivered cross-platform simultaneously - web, iOS, and Android - using shared codebase strategies that preserved development velocity without compromising platform integrity. Real-time sync and data consistency layers were built to handle the specific conditions of crisis-zone deployment, not idealised network environments.

TECHNOLOGIES

React

Node.js

Firebase

Cross-platform mobile (iOS & Android)

Offline-first architecture

Real-time data synchronisation

OUTCOME

“Working with Kontorva has been an outstanding experience. Their team was fast, professional, and highly collaborative throughout the entire process. In just under three months, we successfully launched version one of our app across web, iOS, and Android platforms. Their technical expertise and commitment to quality made it possible to bring our vision to life quickly and efficiently.”

- Joseph Oluoch Randiki, Stravika OÜ

WHY THIS MATTERS

Every organisation operating across borders faces a version of the same problem Stravika did: systems that perform in controlled environments and degrade when conditions change. The engineering discipline required to build for real-world complexity - not ideal conditions - is the same whether the environment is a conflict zone or a cross-border SaaS expansion across the Nordic-Baltic corridor.