Understanding before building, ease as the goal: AI and custom software for mid-sized companies.

After five to seven weeks there is a first clickable version: not a mock-up, but the core of your product. Until then you see progress every week, because we work in short cycles and show every interim state. That way you notice early if something is heading in the wrong direction, and not at acceptance, when a correction gets expensive. Going live typically takes two to three months. Complex connections to existing systems can take longer, and we say so beforehand rather than afterwards. This pace is possible because two things come together: we only start once the use case is clear, and AI runs alongside our development, research and quality assurance. What we save in person-days we pass on in the schedule. What stays the same is the review: every result is signed off by a person from our team before it goes into your product.

You do, entirely. Source code, designs, access credentials and documentation become your property. We build on widely used open technologies rather than on a proprietary toolkit, so you can continue with another team at any time. Anyone who stays should do so out of conviction, not because of the contract.

Fixed price per project phase, transparently itemised: you know what the phase costs before we start. What is invoiced is an agreed result, not hours written down. If we need longer than expected, that changes nothing on your invoice. This is possible because AI runs alongside our development, research and quality assurance: the same work costs us a fraction of the person-days that conventional development budgets for. We pass that head start on, in the price as well as in the schedule. Extensions are estimated in advance and only implemented after your approval, and nobody bills you for open hours. We name concrete figures in the intro call, as soon as the scope is clear. A price list without knowing the project would be a number pulled out of the air. What a phase includes is in the quote, and what it does not include is in there too. Many projects are eligible for funding through the Digitalbonus Bayern, which reduces your own contribution by up to 50 percent of the eligible expenditure.

GDPR-compliant with a data processing agreement, and with hosting in the EU on request. Your data does not go into the training of AI models, and we rule that out contractually with the providers. Before we start, we jointly define which data a model is allowed to see at all, and everything else stays out. What the AI produces is reviewed by our specialists before it goes into your product. For the EU AI Act we classify at the start of the project which risk category your application falls into and record which transparency and documentation obligations follow from that. We document this classification in writing so that it is verifiable and does not have to be derived again at the next audit. Neither replaces legal advice: we build the application so that the obligations can be met, and we name where a legal assessment is needed. If you already have a data protection officer, we work with them rather than around them.

For us AI is not an add-on feature bolted on top. It is part of every step of the work: concept, code, content, quality assurance. That starts with your data and your content, which has to be structured so that a model can work with it at all. Every result is still signed off by our specialists, not by the machine. What counts for you is what comes out at the end: a first clickable version in five to seven weeks, noticeably fewer person-days, the same standard of care.

With the ones that have proven themselves at scale, rather than with home-made special routes: Vercel for delivery and operation, Cloudflare for network and security, Google Cloud for data and AI services, Stripe for payments, Brevo for sending email. Each of them is the standard in its field, so you can find other developers who can work with them at any time. Where your requirements call for it, everything runs in the EU.

Going live is not a goodbye. We operate, maintain and keep developing, on request with a fixed monthly capacity you can plan with. Your contacts stay the same people you had the intro call with. And if you want to take over operations yourself, we hand over code, documentation and access credentials in full.

For most applications in mid-sized companies, little, but not nothing. The obligation to ensure AI literacy has applied since 2 February 2025: anyone letting employees work with AI has to make sure they understand how to handle it. Certain practices have been prohibited since the same date, and since 2 August 2026 the obligations for high-risk systems apply. Assistants and automations of the kind we build are as a rule not high-risk systems, but they are subject to transparency obligations: people must be able to tell that they are talking to an AI. We carry out the classification at the start of the project and document it so that it is verifiable. The deadlines come from the official implementation overview for Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, and in case of doubt the text of the regulation governs. This does not replace legal advice, but it does provide the basis on which you can seek it. For the AI literacy obligation, a documented briefing of the team is usually enough, not a certified course.

Often yes. The Digitalbonus Bayern funds small companies (fewer than 50 employees, at most 10 million euros in revenue or balance sheet total) with up to 50 percent of the expenditure: up to 7,500 euros in the standard track, up to 30,000 euros in the plus track, from a project volume of 4,000 euros. Artificial intelligence is an explicitly named funding priority, while standard software and standard websites are excluded. There is no legal entitlement, and grants are made within the available budget. Important for your schedule: you submit the application yourself through your ELSTER business account, and you may only commission us once receipt of the application has been confirmed, because signing earlier costs you the funding. So talk to us before you apply. The programme runs until 31 December 2027.