prodct is a technology consulting firm that doesn't stop at strategy. We were founded by operators who'd sat on the buyer side — burned by decks that never shipped, by pilots that never scaled, by consultants who mistook slides for delivery. We built the firm we wished had shown up for us back then.
In 2018, I founded the company after watching too many programs fail at the same handover — not because the strategy was wrong, but because the consultancy that wrote it never had to ship it.
I'd been a founder, a product lead, and an operator building my own software. I'd seen the pattern from the buyer side: the best firms in the room diagnosing problems they'd never have to fix. Slides after slides. Then the partners present, the engagement winds down, and the team that has to actually deliver is left alone with a roadmap and a tracking sheet.
Around the same time I met an experienced data architect, and an entrepreneur — later my co-shareholder — who'd spent years building tech across the full value chain. We'd all seen the same thing. Strategy and solution: done. Delivery: next. And that's exactly where most consultancies stop working.
So we built one. The bet: if we organized senior operators into four specialized units — each deep enough to win on its own, all four wired together — we could cover the full arc from discovery to live product without the baton drops that kill most enterprise programs. No pyramids. No offshore backroom. No "the junior will pick it up from here."
Eight years in, the bet held. We're ~60 people, still senior-only, still based in Essen, still running programs we could have pitched as strategy decks — except we ship them instead.
Every engagement is staffed with people who've shipped this before. Median tenure on our projects is 14+ years. We do not sell junior hours billed at senior rates. There is no offshore team you'll discover in month three.
Every statement of work names the KPI, the target delta, and the
measurement window — before the first line of code. If we miss,
that's on us, not the spec. We'd rather lose a deal than sell a
deliverable list we already know won't move the number.
Every feature we build answers a CFO question: what would this be worth, and when? We've killed more scope in discovery than we've shipped. The best project we run in a given year is usually the one we talked a client out of.
Every AI system, data pipeline, and customer touchpoint we build is lawful on day one. prodct [Elements] owns the governance pattern; the other units inherit it. We've never had to retrofit a compliance story after go-live.
Every engagement has an end date. We hire toward redundancy: docs as we go, pairing on every commit, runbooks before hypercare ends. If your team can't run what we built without us in the room, we haven't done our job.
The CRM and the ERP disagree about which customers exist. The MVP you funded is a feature, not a product. The AI pilot is working because three people are doing QA in a spreadsheet. We say it on day one, in the room, on the record.
No kickoff before a working ticket. No workshop before a running environment. Strategy docs come after we've proven we can ship something — however small — in the first two weeks. That's how we earn the scope conversation.
Replatforming, personalization, loyalty. We build the systems customers actually touch.
Concept → live product. MVPs, AI agents, micro-apps. Concept paper on Monday, staging on Friday.
Common data models, governance, integration. We fix the foundation first, then the thing on top actually works.
Advisory, workshops, shadowing, coaching. Taught by operators who build and ship — not trainers who teach.
// Founder · Managing Director
// Lead · [Elements] + /skills
Product & commerce background. Shipped 40+ platform programs before founding prodct. Still writes the hard SOWs himself.
// Lead · [Labs] + [CX]
Engineer-founder who sold an AI product in 2021, joined as partner the week after the earn-out closed. Turns concept papers into production systems.
We'd rather go short-staffed than drop the bar. Here are the four gates every candidate — senior or partner — has to clear before we make the offer.
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prodct GmbH
Bismarckstr. 5
45128 Essen, DE
// hello@prodct.group
For discovery and cutover, we embed locally. Rest of the
engagement runs from Essen + your Slack.
// avg. 2 days / week on-site, 3 remote
Remote-first for discovery + ongoing delivery.
Travel on agreed sprints. Reach on request.
// async-capable engagement model
30 minutes. A senior partner from the relevant unit. No sales, no forms in triplicate — we'll tell you within the call whether we're a fit.