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Groundspeed

We build software that makes your business easier to run.

Our focus: web and business software for small and mid-sized companies. Internal tools, portals and integrations with existing systems — plus AI where it genuinely simplifies work.

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years of experience in software development
15years of experience in software development
point of contact from idea to day-to-day operation
1point of contact from idea to day-to-day operation
industries, from manufacturing and logistics to real estate
6industries, from manufacturing and logistics to real estate

Experience from projects in

  • Manufacturing
  • Logistics
  • Energy
  • Retail & e-commerce
  • Real estate
  • Sports & associations

Services

Five things we are genuinely good at

We keep our offering deliberately narrow. We have been building software for business operations for over a decade — anything else we happily refer elsewhere.

01

Web and business software

Software that fits the way you work — not the other way round. We design and build internal tools, portals and web applications across the full stack, from the data model to the interface, and see them through into day-to-day operation.

  • Internal tools and line-of-business applications that replace spreadsheets and isolated solutions
  • Customer and partner portals, e.g. for requests, documents and billing
  • Backends in PHP (Symfony, Laravel), TypeScript (NestJS) and Python (FastAPI, Django), frontends with Angular, React and Next.js
  • Native iOS apps in Swift and SwiftUI, where an app is genuinely needed
  • Interfaces designed around the people who use them every day
02

AI for your workflows

We use AI where it saves real time in everyday work: documents, requests and repetitive tasks. Clear boundaries, traceable results, and a human always in the loop.

  • Extract and classify documents automatically, e.g. invoices, receipts and contracts
  • Triage incoming requests by email or form and prepare replies
  • Automate recurring processes with agentic workflows
  • Privacy-conscious, e.g. with models and processing inside the EU
  • Introduce AI workflows to your own engineering team
03

Integration & modernisation

Your systems should talk to each other, and the old application should keep running while something better takes shape. We connect existing software and modernise grown applications step by step, without a big bang.

  • Integration with ERP, CRM, accounting and banking, e.g. via APIs, webhooks or the DATEV interface
  • Automated data reconciliation instead of maintaining the same data twice
  • Modernising grown PHP applications in stages, while they keep running
  • Code and architecture audits with a prioritised action plan
04

Operations & continuous delivery

Launch is the beginning, not the finish line. We stay on as a reliable point of contact — with fixed monthly capacity, agreed response times and a backlog we prioritise together.

  • Fixed monthly capacity instead of vague timesheets
  • Monitoring, error tracking and regular security updates
  • Documentation that keeps operations independent of any one person
  • Continuous improvement based on real-world usage
  • Quarterly review: what worked, what do we drop?
05

Data, analytics & advisory

We help turn existing data into decisions and support companies in developing their business model digitally — backed by a background in statistics and empirical research, not just software.

  • Dashboards and reports that bring together key figures from several systems
  • Data analysis and data science with Python and R: spot patterns, evaluate trends, build forecasts
  • Support in digitalising and evolving business models
  • Technical advice and a second opinion before investments or rebuilds

Solutions

What we build for companies

Typical projects from the day-to-day of small and mid-sized companies. Each of them can start small and grow with your needs.

Customer portals & self-service

Customers handle requests, documents, appointments and billing themselves, around the clock and without a phone call.

CRM & customer contact

A lean CRM that fits your sales process, or a clean integration with the system you already use.

Customer communication in one place

Requests via email, forms, SMS or WhatsApp land in one system; AI triages them and drafts replies.

Feedback & tickets

Capture, route and analyse feedback, complaints and support cases in a structured way instead of losing them in an inbox.

Staff, shift & appointment planning

Rotas, availability and appointments with clear rules and deadlines, without spreadsheet chaos and endless back-and-forth.

Property & real estate management

Tenancies, service charge statements, documents and tickets for landlords and property managers, including accounting and banking.

Quotes, invoices & receipts

From quote to bookkeeping: extract receipts with AI, reconcile payments automatically and hand everything over to DATEV.

Dashboards & reporting

Key figures from scattered systems in one place, presented clearly, so decisions rest on data rather than gut feeling.

Digitalising business models

Working out together which processes can be digitalised, where new digital offerings could emerge and which of them actually pay off.

Process

How a project runs with us

No waterfall, no agile theatre. Four phases, each with a tangible result — and after every phase you can walk away with something useful in hand.

  1. 013 – 5 days

    Frame it

    Before writing a line of code we make sure we understand the problem. We talk to the people who will actually use the thing, look at the existing systems and write down what success concretely means. Often this is where it turns out the cheapest solution is a different one than planned — and we say so.

    A document with the target picture, risks, an architecture sketch and a defensible estimate.

  2. 021 – 2 weeks

    Prototype

    We build the riskiest part first, not the easiest. You get something clickable that tests the project's central assumption. For AI features we already test against your real documents and cases here, to see whether the results are reliable enough before building a product around them.

    A working prototype on real data, plus an honest read on what holds up and what does not.

  3. 032-week cycles

    Build

    We ship to a staging environment every two weeks, open to you at any time. Each cycle ends with working software, not a status report. You follow progress on a shared board and always know where the budget stands.

    A usable build every two weeks, test coverage on the critical paths and a current budget status.

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    Operate

    After launch we hand over properly: documentation, a handover workshop, access to everything. If you want, we stay on with fixed capacity and keep building. If your team takes over, we make sure it works without us.

    Documentation, a handover workshop, monitoring — and an operating model that fits your team.

Principles

What we hold to

A handful of convictions formed over years. They explain reasonably well why working with us is occasionally uncomfortable and usually productive.

AI is a tool, not the point

We work AI-first, which means we genuinely check whether a model solves a problem better than code. Often the answer is yes, and then we build it. Sometimes the answer is no, and we say so — even when the AI project would have been the larger contract.

We build for the day after launch

Software is maintained for far longer than it is written. So we favour boring, well-documented technology, write tests for the paths that hurt, and leave behind code someone else can pick up.

One point of contact, no handoffs

You talk to the people who actually build the product. No relay from sales to a project manager to a team you have never met. That caps how big we can get — which is precisely the point.

Transparency, especially when it stings

Budget status, risks, misjudgements: you hear about them as they happen, not in the closing report. We have yet to see a project where bad news improved by being held back.

Technology

What we work with

We pick boring, well-documented technology wherever we can, and new tools only where they buy something real. This is not a certificate collection — it is what actually runs here day to day.

Frontend & apps
TypeScriptAngularReactNext.jsTailwind CSSSwiftSwiftUI
Design
FigmaDesign tokensStorybookPrototyping
Backend & data
PHPSymfonyLaravelNestJSPythonFastAPIDjangoGraphQLMySQLPostgreSQLElasticsearch
AI
OpenAI APIClaude APIMCPAgentic developmentAI-assisted testing
Infrastructure
DockerAWSGoogle CloudGitLab CIGitHub Actions
Quality & operations
PHPUnitJestPlaywrightCypressSentryXCTest

Working together

Three ways to start

Which model fits usually becomes clear in the first conversation. After that, you receive a binding quote.

Framing & advisory

1 week

For work where it is not yet settled what should be built — or whether software and AI are worth it at all. You end up with a defensible target picture, an architecture sketch and an estimate you can work with internally — even if you build it with someone else afterwards.

  • Conversations and analysis of your processes
  • Potential for digitalisation and AI
  • Architecture sketch and effort estimate
  • Risk register
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Product development

from 6 weeks

The usual case. We build your software — web application, portal or internal tool — in two-week cycles and you see a usable build after each one. Billed either as a fixed price per increment or time-and-materials with an agreed ceiling.

  • Two-week cycles, each ending in something usable
  • Staging environment from day one
  • Tests on the critical paths
  • Handover workshop included
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Retained capacity

cancel monthly

For software under continuous development. You book a fixed number of days per month and we prioritise together. No ticket ping-pong and no long-term lock-in.

  • Fixed days per month, prioritised together
  • Committed response times
  • Maintenance, updates and security patches
  • Quarterly review
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Contact

Tell us what you are planning

A short description is enough. We reply within one working day and tell you honestly whether we are the right fit — and if not, we usually know someone who is.

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