NFQ Technologies

14/07/2026

Every new app starts with hundreds of questions. We were glad to help answer some of them through competitive research and conversations with future users before launch.

Congratulations to the JUDU team on bringing the new app to life! Every launch brings new answers - and a whole new set of questions worth exploring.

📱Kiek programėlių reikia vienai kelionei po Vilnių? Nuo šiandien – vienos!

Kelionių planavimas, viešojo transporto bilietai ir automobilio parkavimas – nuo šiol vienoje vietoje.

Tai reiškia mažiau programėlių, mažiau ieškojimo ir paprastesnes kasdienes keliones po Vilnių.

Jau dabar programėlėje galite:
🚌 įsigyti viešojo transporto bilietus;
🗺️ planuoti keliones realiuoju laiku;
🅿️ apmokėti automobilio stovėjimą;
💳 atsiskaityti „Google Pay“ ir „Apple Pay“.

Tai tik pradžia. Programėlę ir toliau tobulinsime, todėl kviečiame ne tik ja naudotis, bet ir pasidalinti savo pastebėjimais – kartu kurkime patogesnį miesto judumą.

📲 Atsisiųskite naująją JUDU programėlę jau šiandien: https://judu.lt/programele

10/07/2026

Six months ago, Norway’s 🇳🇴 Viking Row was a slightly awkward idea tested on a handful of fans before a friendly match against Switzerland. Since then, it has swept through Times Square, a PGA Tour crowd, and even the Norwegian Parliament - while blowing up on social media. Most importantly, it has helped inspire the team to their first ever quarterfinal appearance.

The Viking Row works because anyone can join in. And that’s the spirit behind the best fan platforms too: give people a reason to gather, not just a reason to scroll.

NFQ has helped Men In Blazers bring this approach to its over 4.5M followers. It offers 1,500+ shows and has clocked up 4.4B+ annual views, all pulled into a single ecosystem where content, live events, and community actually join up.

Norway fans have taken the Viking Row from the stadium to Times Square without missing a beat. Great fan brands should be able to do the same - show up anywhere their fans already are, not just on match day.

07/07/2026

Empty kilometres are one of those logistics problems that sound simple until you try to solve them at scale.

A truck travelling without cargo means lost margin, wasted time and unnecessary emissions. Reducing those “empty miles” is not just about finding any cargo — it is about finding the right cargo, at the right time, for the right truck, with the right commercial conditions.

This is the focus of an ongoing EU investment project implemented by NFQ together with SMK College of Applied Sciences: developing an automated route analysis and compatibility platform to help minimise empty miles and support more profitable, data-based logistics decisions.

The project builds on NFQ’s broader work in transport and logistics, including PALM — our logistics automation solution that helps companies automate route planning, fleet operations, driver-related processes and spot load evaluation using telematics data, financial modelling, data analysis and AI agents.

The total project value is €3,534,285, with €1,994,999 funded by the EU and €1,539,286 covered by the project implementer and partner. The project was launched in June 2024 and is planned to continue until October 10, 2026. It is implemented under the development programme’s progress instrument No. 05-001-01-05-07.

In short: fewer empty kilometres, better margins and smarter logistics operations.

01/07/2026

A support ticket walks into a hackathon…

…and a few hours later, Team 2 turns it into an AI-powered project support flow that can triage the issue, read the code, reproduce the bug, suggest the fix, and open the MR.
No pressure on the rest of us, obviously.

Last week, our team got together for the NFQ Build with AI Hackathon – an afternoon of experiments, demos, a bit of healthy chaos, and a lot of practical thinking about where AI can save time in everyday engineering work.

The winning idea was the AI Powered Project Support Platform – a concept focused on one very familiar problem: developers spending hours digging through tickets, logs, branches and repositories just to land a one-line fix.

Big congrats to the winners: Justinas Urbonavičius, Karolis Martusevičius, Mindaugas Čyžius, Aurimas Rimkus, Karolis Beliasas, Martyna Bikulčiūtė-Červokė, Linas Jurgelėnas, Dovydas Pačėsa, Paulius Jasas, and Matas Skarbalius 👏

And a huge thank you to everyone who joined, demoed, voted, challenged ideas, shared know-how, and kept the energy high!

Photos below – because building with AI still requires humans, questionable snack choices, and some dramatic pointing at screens.

30/06/2026

SaaS solutions are great when the problem is standard.

And many problems are standard: content management, payments, hosting, CRM, email tools. In most cases, there is no reason to rebuild what already works well.

But fan-facing digital products are different.

For sports and media organisations, web and mobile interfaces are often the main places where fans interact with the brand. That experience shapes how people discover content, follow events, buy merchandise, engage with sponsors, and come back again.

So the question is not only “which platform should we use?” It is: how much of this experience should we actually own?

A solution built for another league, another club, another sport or another type of rights holder will not automatically work for your audience. Fan behaviour is different. Commercial models are different. Content flows, sponsor needs are different.

There is a reason why companies like Spotify or Uber do not rent their core user experience from a generic SaaS vendor. Their apps and interfaces are where they test, learn, differentiate and grow.

Sports should not be an exception.

Of course, not every organisation needs to build everything itself. Smaller teams may be better served by SaaS platforms that help them move quickly without adding too much complexity.

But for large clubs, leagues, rights holders and media businesses, owned digital products become a strategic asset. They give more control over the roadmap, the data, the fan relationship and the long-term continuity of the product. And with AI making software development faster and more efficient, custom no longer has to mean slow, heavy or unrealistic. It becomes easier to build unique websites and mobile apps around specific audience needs – and keep improving them over time.

This is the kind of thinking behind our work with sports and media organisations, including EuroLeague Basketball, Premier League Productions and Men In Blazers Media Network.

Use proven tools where the problem is standard. Own the parts where the fan experience, business model and competitive advantage are yours.

More in the comments.

09/06/2026

The World Cup will flood football media with attention. But attention is not the same as loyalty.

Fans may arrive through a highlight, a podcast, a live show, a social clip, a newsletter or a last-minute “where should I watch the game?” search. The real question for sports media brands is: what happens after that first click?

For Men In Blazers Media Network – the largest independent soccer media company in North America – this was more than a nice-to-have.

With 4.5M+ followers across platforms, 1,500+ shows produced and 4.4B+ views generated per year, MiBMN already had the reach. What it needed was a home pitch.

Working with NFQ, Men in Blazers built a centralised digital platform that brings content, shows, live event guidance and commerce into one ecosystem – helping fans discover more, stay longer and move naturally from content to community to merchandise.

The constraint? It had to be built and launched in one month.
So we kept the playbook simple: Storyblok for flexible content management, Shopify for seamless commerce, Next.js and Vercel for a fast, lightweight front end.

The result: one place where fans can move from a clip to a show, from a guest to another episode, from a live event to merchandise – without the journey breaking between channels.

See how we built it – full case study in the comments.

04/06/2026

What does it take to run a co-living business beyond nice interiors and shared spaces?

Quite a lot, actually.

For Liv_in Vilnius, the model covers more than 400 apartments across two locations, with flexible rental periods, shared facilities, extra services, payments, resident communication, smart door access, utility data and business reporting all in the mix.

In other words: a great resident experience needs a solid operational system behind it.

Together with Liv_in Vilnius, built a business management platform that connects the core parts of their co-living operations:

🔸 an admin system for reservations, contracts, pricing, payments, services and reporting
🔸 a self-service portal where residents can manage contracts, invoices, extensions and extra services
🔸 a mobile app for door access, notifications and quick communication with the administration
🔸 integrations with smart door systems and utility meters
🔸 a multi-instance architecture that helped bring a second location into the system faster and more efficiently

The result is one system supporting day-to-day operations across hundreds of apartments - from pricing and occupancy to resident self-service and business analytics.

And almost seven years later, the solution is still growing with the business.

20/05/2026

In e-commerce, twelve years is enough time to see what lasts.

NFQ has been working with Omnisend for nearly 12 years - as one of their earliest partners, and as a close observer of how the platform has evolved over time.

Now that partnership has received further recognition: is one of Omnisend’s five Strategic Partners worldwide.

As Matas Pocius, Head of NFQ.email, says: "Omnisend has stayed fast, adaptive and innovative throughout. They move early - including with AI - but always with practical value in mind. As one of their earliest partners, we’ve seen firsthand how that approach helps e-commerce businesses build stronger customer relationships, improve retention and turn email into a meaningful growth channel."

Recognition matters. Lasting value matters more.

14/05/2026

What does it take to make AI useful in education?

Not just another generic tool, but something teachers can actually use to plan and prepare lessons.

Together with Dubysos Aukštupis School, we built an AI-powered lesson planning tool that helps teachers create more personalised lesson plans faster – using class, student and curriculum context.

The solution also gives the school access to reporting and insights that help track student progress, spot changes in performance and identify where additional attention may be needed.

This is one example of how we apply AI to real organisational and user needs – in ways that are practical, context-aware and built to support better decisions.

See the full case study in the comments.

29/04/2026

Most automation projects make the same mistake: they copy the process as it already exists and call it transformation.

We start one step earlier.

As Evelina Milė, Head of Product & Innovation at NFQ, puts it, we start by breaking the process apart – separating the steps that create value from the ones that only add friction. Then we rebuild the sequence with one goal in mind: shortening lead time from problem to solution.

A few examples:
1 - In healthcare, the goal is not to mirror how administrators work today. It is to move a patient from referral to appointment faster, while involving people only where their judgment is actually needed.

2 - In logistics, the goal is not to make operators click through the same workflow faster. It is to reduce manual coordination, flag exceptions early, and trigger the next action automatically.

That is why we do not treat every process step as something to preserve.

Some steps should be automated.
Some should stay human.
Some should be eliminated altogether.

That is the difference between digitising a workflow and actually improving it.

Looking to reduce friction across your processes? Get in touch!