Your own business software — free prototype in 5 business days
You're paying month after month for software that isn't yours. krafteq builds custom business software for your shop — fixed price by scope, optional annual subscription per software for EU hosting (first year included), code belongs to you. Built in Leverkusen, Germany — for trades and small businesses across the Rhineland and all of Germany.
- Prototype in 5 business days
- Fixed price by scope for your v1
- Optional annual subscription per software for EU hosting (first year included)
How it worksThree steps to your own software
No long sales process, no open consulting bill. You see working software in a week and know upfront what the finished v1 will cost.
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Submit a request
You describe your business and the workflows that should become digital. The form takes five minutes — industry, headcount, desired features, optional free text. We get back to you within 24 hours with a concrete plan.
Free and non-binding. No sales pressure, no newsletter spam.
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Prototype in 5 business days
krafteq builds a working prototype of your one or two most important workflows. Hosted on Krafteq Cloud, with logins for you and one or two others, with realistic sample data tailored to your trade. We walk through the prototype together and discuss the next version.
You see your own software in action — before paying a cent.
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V1 in under 4 weeks
You decide at your own pace. If you want to move forward, you receive a binding fixed-price offer for your v1 — amount agreed transparently after the prototype, depending on scope. We develop in 1- to 2-week sprints with demos. Source code in the client repository from sprint 1.
Fixed price instead of hourly billing. Code belongs to you. Krafteq Cloud hosting as an optional annual subscription per software (first year included).
What you getFour building blocks — in every Krafteq package
Every Krafteq project delivers not just your bespoke software, but the complete stack around it. Standardized, secure, scalable — enterprise quality, economically viable for small businesses.
Your own business software
Tailored to your business and your real workflows — no 80 percent unused features, no missing 20 percent. Source code in the client repository from sprint 1, fixed price by scope, fully documented.
Krafteq Cloud — hosting as an optional subscription
Managed hosting on servers in Germany (EU fallback available) as an optional annual subscription per software, first year included. Optional — self-hosting on your own server or with your IT provider is equally supported. Includes: security patches, daily backups, monitoring, Krafteq support, maintenance, GDPR-compliant operation with DPA, TLS, your own domain. No subscription trap, cancel anytime with 30-day data export.
Customer & document portal
A central web interface for your relationship with krafteq: project status, contracts and DPAs, tickets, releases, invoices, backup status. End of scattered email threads — everything in one place, accessible anytime.
IAM & security from day 1
Central logins, multi-factor authentication, roles, audit trail, tenant isolation — built on Keycloak (open source, EU-hosted). Optional single sign-on against Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. Security that solo-developer agencies simply can't deliver.
Who we build forTrades and small businesses — from 1 employee
We focus on businesses with 1–20 employees that have outgrown standard subscription software or never fit it. Our first marketing focus in 2026 is German trades — but the same building blocks work for medical practices, salons, restaurants and small retailers.
Plumbing, heating, HVAC
Job management, maintenance contracts, mobile site documentation, GAEB and DATANORM interfaces — tuned to plumbing/heating workflows.
Electrical
Project costing, materials, e-invoicing, time tracking per site, handover protocols — for electrical contractors.
Painting
Take-offs and quotes, job execution, interim and final invoices, photo documentation — built for painting businesses.
Carpentry
Bills of materials, dimensions, material purchasing, workshop orders, delivery tracking — from order to installation.
Roofing
On-site take-offs, material disposition, weather-aware scheduling, maintenance and repair jobs — mobile-first.
Other trades and segments
Metalwork, framing, tile-laying, landscaping, auto repair, restaurants, medical practices, salons, small retailers — wherever standard subscription software doesn't fit and a one-off fixed price plus an optional annual hosting subscription per software (first year included) is economically viable.
Comparisonkrafteq vs. plancraft, ToolTime, HERO & co.
The established subscription-software vendors are solid software — for standard businesses, with standard processes, against a standard fee. For businesses with their own workflows or a desire to own the code, the calculation looks different.
| krafteq Custom Software | plancraft / ToolTime / HERO | TAIFUN / Bosch OfficeOn | |
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| Model | Fixed price + hosting | Subscription | Subscription |
| 5-year total cost (under 10 employees, with add-ons) | Save €6,000–16,000 vs. subscription software | €9,000–18,000 | €9,000–15,000 |
| Code ownership | Yes — in client repository from sprint 1 | No | No |
| Data export | Anytime, self-service in the portal | Limited | Limited |
| Adaptation to your workflows | 100% tailor-made | Standard configuration, limited adaptation | Standard configuration, limited adaptation |
| Location | Leverkusen (NRW), personal contact | Hamburg, Berlin, Hanover — remote | Various |
| EU data residency | Guaranteed (Germany) | Variable — partly US backend | Variable |
| Vendor lock-in | None — standard containers, portable | High | High |
TrustWith the diligence of a German engineering partner
krafteq is a German GmbH based in Leverkusen. We've served enterprise clients in industry and manufacturing for years — and we bring those engineering standards into the small-business stack.
krafteq GmbH, Leverkusen
German company based in Leverkusen, NRW. Personal contact instead of a call center. On-site meetings possible; fully remote also works.
ISO 27001 in progress
Information security management system in the gap-analysis phase, target Q1 2027. Already in place: code review on every change, automated pipelines, secrets management with HashiCorp Vault, SBOM generation.
EU hosting & GDPR by design
Krafteq Cloud runs on servers in Germany (EU fallback available) — no US CLOUD Act risk. Standardized data processing agreement (DPA) available, encryption in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest, tenant isolation per client.
Built by Senior Engineers
Every specialist brings at least 10 years of professional experience — internal assessments, clear Krafteq standards.
“We build for small businesses with the same diligence we owe enterprise clients — just at a different scale. AI-assisted development has changed the rules of the game: custom software is finally economical for 10-person businesses. We pass that leverage on to our clients — as a fixed price, with code ownership, and no subscription trap.”
FAQFrequently asked questions
Not a small business? Krafteq also serves SME and Enterprise.
SRE/DevOps, QA Engineering, cloud cost optimization, legacy-to-cloud, Managed Squads, DevSecOps and CRA Compliance — with Senior Engineers who have delivered in enterprise projects. Production-first, ownership instead of ticket processing.
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Book a 30–60 minute initial conversation. You describe your situation, we give an honest assessment — even if the answer is: subscription software X is a better fit for you. No sales call, no obligation.
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