We weave the systems you already use into one dashboard that adds up. Or we build one from scratch, made to measure. No pricey box. No loose ends. Just calm on Monday morning.
Whether you run a bakery, an installation company or a sports hall, most small businesses are stuck between two unattractive options: a chaos of loose tools or a pricey software box you have to squeeze your business into.
We don't build software for software's sake. Sometimes we connect the systems you already have and weave them into one clear dashboard. Sometimes we build a complete custom system from scratch, from route planning to freight calculation. Just like a patchwork quilt: loose pieces, one warm whole.
Three tabs open, one Excel file missing, and nobody knows which version is the latest.
The pieces talk to each other. Numbers add up by themselves. You get back to what you're good at.
Sometimes it's one concrete piece: a key plan for the sports hall, digital job sheets. Sometimes it's a complete route planning system or freight calculation for the whole fleet. Small or complex: we build exactly what your business needs, made to measure and affordable.
We still collect our hours on paper.
Digital time tracking that adds up right away. Filled in on the phone, automatically in your overview.
Custom time trackingI want a digital key plan for my sports hall.
A clear overview of who holds which key or access: issued, returned, replaced. No more loose spreadsheets.
Key & access managementOur job sheets still run on pen and paper.
Filled in on the phone, the client signs on screen, and the sheet lands straight in your admin. No more notes lost in the van.
Digital job sheetsOur bookings live in a mailbox and a notebook.
Your own simple booking system that fits your venue. No mega-platform, just what you need.
Booking & reservationsMy stock levels live in my head.
A clear overview that keeps itself up to date, with a heads-up when something runs low. Works from the shop floor.
Inventory managementI keep missing inspection and maintenance dates.
Automatic reminders, right on time: inspections, maintenance, contract dates. By mail, by app, or both.
Smart remindersWe still plan our routes by hand every morning.
A complete route planning system: stops, order and driving times calculated automatically. For one van or the whole fleet.
Custom route planningHow much freight actually fits in the truck today?
Custom freight and volume calculation: m³, weight and load metres straight from your orders, per trip.
Freight & volume calculationInvoicing eats an evening every week.
Invoices that fill themselves: hours, job sheets and stock come together in one invoice. You check and send.
Automatic invoicingFrom a local key plan to a complete route planning system: chances are we can build it.
Just tell us, and we'll have a look together.
We start with the one knot you want untangled right now. Small, affordable, done quickly.
Want more later? Then we weave the loose pieces into one complete, custom-made dashboard. Or we build the whole system from scratch. No mandatory big box up front.
No forty-page proposal. Just a short route from coffee to an overview that adds up.
An hour together, your story, your hassle. We take notes, you keep the coffee warm.
Hippie & Fox · togetherWe take your existing systems and cut out exactly the right pieces. Fast, sharp, no ballast.
The Fox · the fixerThe pieces are woven into one warm, clear whole that fits your people and your rhythm.
The Hippie · the weaverWe set it up, explain it, and stay reachable. No lock-in, no surprise in your inbox.
You & your team · every MondayThis is for everyday small business. No 200 employees, no IT department, just work that adds up. A few faces we already recognise:
Stock, orders, recipes and hours: finally one place, even during the morning rush.
Job sheets from the phone, planning on the laptop, invoices that add up at the end of the day.
Bookings, keys, maintenance and user groups, no longer spread across three notebooks and a mailbox.
Three generations, four systems, and nobody knows where the latest client list lives. We bring calm.
Stock, purchasing, sales orders and couriers in one overview, without anyone having to babysit a software suite.
Appointments, files and hours that find each other neatly, without squeezing into a big healthcare platform.
Six statements. Tick what you recognise · nobody's watching.
You do business with people, not with a box. There are two of us, and that's no accident. The contrast is exactly where the magic lives.
The fixer · sharp & fast
Quick creative thinker, knows the people, knows the way. Finds the right pieces in your existing systems and cuts them razor-sharp to size.
The weaver · calm & soul
Calm rhythm, flow, 70s soul. Weaves the loose pieces into something warm and human that works for your team, not for the software.
Calm and speed. Soul and smarts.
That contrast. That's what you get.
Custom work sounds expensive. It used to be. We have organised the way it gets built so tightly that it is now within reach for the bakery, the installer and the family business around the corner. You pay for what you need, and not a euro for what you will never use.
“Start small, end big.
We will not saddle you with a platform.”
If the first piece is not what we agreed on together, the invoice goes in the bin. No small print.
Honest answers, no small print.
No. Nine times out of ten we take what is already there: your bookkeeping, your webshop, your inventory tool, your planning. And we make them talk to each other. We only cut away what is genuinely in the way.
No. What we build for you is yours. We write it down so another builder can pick it up too. We don't build cages.
And: we're happy to keep maintaining it, but only because you want us to, never because you have to.
A single problem (like digital job sheets or a key plan): usually 2 to 6 weeks. A complete dashboard bringing several pieces together: 2 to 4 months. We are honest about what is feasible. Always.
No. We talk in plain language. If we explain something and you don't get it, we explain it again, because our explanation wasn't good enough. No jargon, no IT secret language.
A concrete problem (think digital job sheets, a key plan or automatic inspection reminders) starts from roughly a few thousand euros, one-off. No fixed price on the site, because no two businesses are the same. But: after the first chat you simply hear what it costs. No 30-page proposal.
We'd love that. Many clients start with the one piece they're stuck on right now. Does it work? Then we grow along, piece by piece, until your dashboard stands. No mandatory big leap up front.
Mostly. We like to come by in person for the first coffee. After that a lot can happen remotely, but for a good conversation a kitchen table is unbeatable.
A no-strings chat of about an hour, at your table or ours. You tell us what's going wrong, we listen, and afterwards you'll know exactly whether we can mean something to each other. No sales pitch.
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Two people at a kitchen table with too many post-its and good coffee. Not a salesperson, not a chatbot.
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