Creactive, a company working out of the Czech Republic, is one of many Assembla subscribers working in a language other than English.

The company works on projects in Assembla and sells the applications' services to customers who speak Czech, Polish, Slovak and English. They create e-shops, portals and content management systems and present them to clients like sports companies and clothing retailers.

Creactive began five years ago. Founder Adam Kurzok graduated with a law degree, but he'd dabbled in online business, and what he really felt like working on was, as he puts it, "a really good start-up."

He started Creactive with a graphic designer friend, and at first, that's what the company did - straightforward design. The new webdesign studio adopted the slogan "Where pixels make love." But Creactive expanded its scope and started advising fims using Kurzok's e-commerce knowledge. It then moved on to creating its own applications for other companies.

It was in creating these applications that Creactive needed project management help. The company first used simple wikis to work on group projects, but they ran into the usual problems of wiki collaboration. Then, a year ago, they came to us.

"Assembla connects crucial things for every project and is a great time-saver," says Kurzok. "It enables one person to have the overview of his project, documentation and back-up in one place."

The company now makes applications for clients while working on its own projects at the same time. Like Project Lunchtime, Creactive's catalog of nearly a thousand Czech restaurants' menus. Over 4,000 people visit the site daily to decide where to eat. The site features a tool that lets restaurants promote themselves, and Kurzok plans to expand the service to let customers book reservations and order food online.

Creactive makes its projects in Assembla, and clients sometimes view them as watchers, such as when e-shop users submit tickets with the support tool.  "Our basic philosophy is to make thing easier yet more effective," says Kurzok. "Assembla helps us this way."