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Leobit Wins Five Gold and One Silver Stevie® Awards at the 2026 International Business Awards®

Inna Fishchuk, Market Data Analyst

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Leobit Wins Five Gold and One Silver Stevie® Awards at the 2026 International Business Awards®
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Lviv, Ukraine, September 2026 – Leobit, a .NET, AI, and web application development company, has won five Gold Stevie® Awards and one Silver Stevie® Award at the 23rd Annual International Business Awards® (IBAs). The company received recognition in the Technology Team of the Year, Best Business Technology Pivot, Computer Services Medium-size, and Legal Solution categories. In addition, Oleksa Stelmakh, CEO and Founder of Leobit, was recognized in the AI Leader of the Year and Best Entrepreneur – Computer Services categories. This is the third consecutive year Leobit has been honored at the IBAs, following Silver Stevie Awards for Customer Service Department of the Year in 2024 and 2025.

The International Business Awards are the world’s premier business awards program. All individuals and organizations worldwide, public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small, are eligible to submit nominations. The 2026 IBAs received entries from organizations in 82 nations and territories. More than 3,400 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories.

“The 2026 International Business Awards winners represent the very best in business achievement from organizations of all sizes and across virtually every industry,” said Stevie Awards President Maggie Miller. “This year’s winners have demonstrated exceptional innovation, leadership, resilience, and results in a highly competitive global field. We congratulate every Stevie Award winner and look forward to celebrating their achievements together in Paris on October 28.”

More than 200 business professionals worldwide served as judges on nine specialized committees to evaluate Stevie Award nominations. No fewer than five judges reviewed and rated each entry on a 1-10 scale, and winners were determined by judges’ average scores during the independent judging process in June and July.

Several judging committees reviewed Leobit’s nominations, whose members included executives and senior professionals from organizations such as Google, IBM, PwC, SAP America Inc, and Amazon.

“Six Stevie Awards in one year reflect the work and transformation of the entire Leobit team. Two years ago, we made AI Transformation a strategic priority, applying AI across our internal operations and bringing the same mindset to the products and solutions we build for our customers. Today, this includes transforming business processes and adopting an AI-native SDLC to rethink how software is designed, built, and delivered. Our focus has always been on measurable impact — greater efficiency, faster growth, stronger client partnerships, and better software products. These awards validate the results of that transformation and belong to our entire team and to the customers who trusted us to innovate and grow together.”

Oleksa_Stelmakh_CEO_and_Founder_of_Leobit

Oleksa Stelmakh

CEO and Founder of Leobit

Gold Stevie Award: Technology Team of the Year

Leobit’s engineering team received the Gold Stevie Award as Technology Team of the Year for its AI-driven software delivery model that embeds AI into the entire delivery process and helps customers bring their products to market faster.

Leobit also introduced an AI-Native SDLC that embeds AI across the entire delivery process, helping customers bring products to market faster while maintaining engineering quality and security. AI supports work across requirements, design, engineering, testing, release, and project management. It enables development teams to increase productivity, improve software quality, and shorten time-to-market, with full human oversight of every release.

Certified expertise stands behind this delivery model: the team includes Anthropic Claude Certified Architects, and a growing number of Leobit specialists hold AI certifications, alongside the company’s Microsoft Solutions Partner designations for Data & AI and Digital & App Innovation.

“Exceptional, end-to-end AI-driven transformation with strong, consistent quantitative impact across engineering, sales, and client delivery. The use of internal AI agents tied to measurable business outcomes, combined with clear scalability and client success stories, makes this a standout submission. The results are highly credible, well-structured, and clearly demonstrate industry-leading innovation.”

“Leobit’s team demonstrates a strong commitment to innovation by integrating AI into software delivery processes and client solutions. The combination of technical expertise and global collaboration is impressive.”

“Leobit presents a credible, well-executed, and measurable AI transformation. Its greatest strength is not any single AI tool but the systematic integration of AI into nearly every business function, supported by a culture of continuous experimentation and practical delivery.”

Judges' comments

Gold Stevie Award: Best Business Technology Pivot

Leobit received the Gold Stevie Award for Best Business Technology Pivot for embedding AI to daily operations across every business function. Over the past year, the company added AI agents in sales, marketing, HR, finance, project management, and software delivery, and introduced an AI-native software development lifecycle to accelerate customer software delivery.

“Outstanding and highly compelling AI transformation story with strong, quantified impact across internal operations and client delivery. The combination of internal AI agents, engineering acceleration, and measurable business outcomes is exceptionally well structured. Clear evidence of scalability, innovation, and real commercial value makes this a top-tier submission.”

“This application shows effective use of training and well-developed solutions integrating available technologies to identify opportunities and deliver excellent results. Brilliant work!”

Judges' comments

Gold Stevie Award: Computer Services - Medium-size

Leobit received the Gold Stevie Award in the Computer Services – Medium-size business category for its company-wide AI transformation, covering client solutions, internal operations, and the software development lifecycle. The company has successfully embedded AI across every business function.

“An extraordinary example of resilient and forward-thinking leadership, Oleksa Stelmakh has brilliantly turned global disruption into a masterclass in AI innovation and elite operational excellence!”

“Leobit demonstrates outstanding performance across multiple dimensions, including revenue growth, market expansion, client retention, and employee satisfaction. The company’s strategic adoption of AI agents to accelerate software delivery and improve operational efficiency reflects a forward-looking mindset and positions it well for continued competitive advantage. These achievements suggest a well-managed organization with a strong focus on both innovation and execution. The company’s success is further reinforced by recognition across multiple respected industry benchmarks, providing credible external validation of its performance.”

Judges' comments

Gold Stevie Award: Legal Solution

Leobit received the Gold Stevie Award in the Legal Solution category for modernizing a legacy legal platform that serves hundreds of legal organizations and thousands of legal professionals nationwide. Leobit’s team reengineered the system, which had been in use for decades, and built new modules, including AI-powered document processing, on Microsoft Azure.

“A highly impactful legal technology modernization that delivers measurable improvements in prosecutorial efficiency, evidence management, and accessibility at significant scale. Strong AI capabilities, rapid user growth, nationwide adoption, and quantifiable operational gains demonstrate exceptional innovation and real-world public sector impact.”

“Impressive scale and impact. Leobit modernized mission-critical prosecutor systems with huge measurable gains in speed, adoption, and accessibility. Excellent execution on a genuinely important public sector problem.”

Judges' comments

Gold Stevie Award: Best Entrepreneur - Computer Services

Founder and CEO Oleksa Stelmakh received the Gold Stevie Award in the Best Entrepreneur – Computer Services category. In 2024, he set an AI-first course for Leobit, starting in R&D and extending it across every function through new policies, processes, and competencies. By early 2026, over 80% of the workforce had been upskilled in AI tools.

“Leobit delivers a well-rounded nomination, showcasing solid business growth, successful adoption of AI and high customer satisfaction. They have earned plenty of recognition from independent sources, which adds credibility. Their organization-wide transformation through AI is especially noteworthy.”

“An excellent submission. Leobit is a transformational company with a wide array of services. Copious industry awards as well as clear evidence that employee morale is high and it is viewed as a very positive place to work. From a business standpoint, a revenue increase of 49% since 2024 is fantastic. This is a company taking the latest tech in its stride, as evidenced by its incorporation of AI. Leobit is expanding yet maintaining and often improving CSAT scores across the board, proving that growth does not have to mean a weakening of mission focus or slippage of standards. Well done.”

Judges' comments

Silver Stevie Award: AI Leader of the Year

Oleksa Stelmakh, Founder and CEO of Leobit, received the Silver Stevie Award as AI Leader of the Year for leading the company’s shift to an AI-first operating model and its expansion into corporate LLM, AI agent, and multi-agent system development for customers.

“This is a highly compelling and well-substantiated leadership and innovation narrative, clearly linking the CEO’s vision to measurable AI transformation outcomes. The AI Employee suite, R&D pipeline, and SDLC productivity gains are strong, concrete, and consistently reinforced with credible metrics and external validation. The combination of internal execution, client impact, and industry recognition makes this a standout submission with clear strategic coherence and scalability.”

“Oleksa Stelmakh’s Leobit first AI Employee concept is immaculate. Excellent quality work with clear logic and flawless presentation.”

Judges' comments

Leobit helps companies adopt AI at every stage, from a Discovery Phase that identifies where AI delivers measurable value, to AI/ML and generative AI development, agentic AI development, and corporate LLM development. For companies running on aging systems, Leobit’s software reengineering and modernization services provide the path the award-winning legal technology platform followed: assessment, phased migration to the cloud, and AI capabilities built into the modernized product.

Earlier this year, Leobit was shortlisted in four categories at the Computing Cloud Excellence Awards 2026, including Best Use of AI in the Cloud, and named a finalist in the 2025/26 Cloud Awards.

About Leobit
Leobit is a .NET, AI, and web application development provider serving technology companies and startups in the US, EU, and beyond. The company specializes in custom software development across .NET, Angular, React, Vue.js, iOS, Android, Azure, and modern cloud ecosystems. Leobit maintains a representative office in Austin, TX (USA) and development centers in Lviv (Ukraine), Tallinn (Estonia), Kraków (Poland), and London (UK).

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in nine programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, and the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 nominations each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.